I live only 15 miles from NYC, but very very rarely go there. I was unaware of this promotion mainly b/c I don’t watch TV not visit these landmarks. But, whoa in reading what was going on there and I guess in other locations. I’m sure these people saw it as a promotion for their show, but I agree with author they unwittingly are conveying a strong spiritual message of our times. Is it a coincidence that while the dragon was being promoted in NYC and around the world that in a little Bosnia village Our Lady who battles the dragon was appearing everyday and praying for peace? I think not https://mycharisma.com/propheticrevival/the-sign-of-the-devil-has-appeared-in-new-york-city/
Very astute observation, definitely inspired IMO. Also in the first book of the bible, Genesis, the prophecy of God in 3:15 places the Woman next to satan textually. In the last book, revelation, the Woman is next to satan again in 12:1-4 textually. So having them appear, side by side in real life like this is very biblical. Especially when on the dragon side it says "all must choose". Our Lady also constantly tells us in Medjugorje us we must choose for Jesus as well.
I just noticed something interesting. In genesis 3:15 there are different versions. In most bible versions it doesn't say "she shall crush your head" but rather "he shall crush your head". https://biblehub.com/genesis/3-15.htm
There is a very interesting observation that Johnathan Cahn makes where he says that people often don't know what they are doing and why they are doing it. An example of this is in Matthew 27:27-29, when Jesus was crowned with thorns and had a purple robe put upon him. They didn't realize this was the advanced coronation of Jesus to take the throne.
That’s interesting and I wonder how the translations could be so different? I believe the Vulgate translation read “she”.
I found an answer regarding this. It's not either or. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-woman-the-seed-the-serpent
What a sad state of affairs for the German Catholic Church. It’s also quite strange to me that if you belong to the Church you lay a tax. And when you leave, you dont but you are excommunicated. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/more-than-400000-leave-church-in/comments
That makes no sense whatsoever.......How is "render unto Caesar......" interpreted under such a state as this?
I pray Jonathan Cahn is correct in what he says about people not knowing what they are doing. There was a similar type of event in Ottawa back in 2017 involving the beautiful Cathedral of Notre Dame. To me, and many others, it was just horrific. But who am I to judge... https://www.catholicregister.org/it...nares-ottawa-archbishop-in-web-of-controversy
How odd, I'd never looked at the Greek before. Genesis 3:15 : καὶ ἔχθραν θήσω ἀνὰ μέσον σου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσοντῆς γυναικὸς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σπέρματός σουκαὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σπέρματος αὐτῆς αὐτός σουτηρήσει κεφαλήν καὶ σὺ τηρήσεις αὐτοῦπτέρναν The αὐτός is making it clear that it's the seed, and the Vulgate makes it clear that it's the woman by using ipsa. Inimicitias ponam inter te et mulierem, et semen tuum et semen illius : ipsa conteret caput tuum, et tu insidiaberis calcaneo ejus. I guess they're equivalent statements when you think of Mary as theotokos, but I wouldn't expect to see the translations emphasizing different things.
15- I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel [Genesis 3:15] [15] "She shall crush": Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's head.
It's unsurprising that there is so much heresy and chaos in a national Church that essentially seems founded upon simony.
Satan's greatest strength is money and power, which ultimately results in pride. All this distances man from God. The church tax is well thought out so that the Church can be financed from it, the construction of other Churches, soup kitchens, hospitals, kindergartens, as well as, of course, priests' salaries, which is not bad. But, like everything where there is money, it gradually hardens hearts and becomes a center of worship instead of serving the needy, people and God. Along with the growth of the standards of the entire population, especially technology and medicine and the hedonistic society, there is a decline in faith, and if the pastors are weak in faith and are led after otherworldly things, the Church is failing and will be left without that money. I can say how it was in our country under communism. In addition to mass murdering and imprisoning priests, over 600 priests and monks were killed out of a population of 3.5 million after WW2, and hundreds of them must have been imprisoned. Of course, the church was separated from the state, religious education was thrown out of schools and was held in churches, nuns were thrown out of hospitals and kindergartens, all property was confiscated, etc. Priests lived on the alms of the people. Our priest, I'm talking about the 1950s and 1960s, even had two cows and some land that he rented out. Authentic Christ, poverty and service to people were seen in them. You could not be a member of the communist party and be a believer because you would be expelled immediately, and your voting rights would be taken away, which meant the loss of absolutely everything, as if you did not exist in society and your passport would be taken away. Such a Church is attractive to people because it proclaims God, is not afraid of poverty, suffering or death. To associate with priests, you were immediately on the list as an enemy of the people, and that was not very pleasant. Even if you look only at the 20th century, you had Saint Padre Pio, Saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić, I already mentioned Anta Antić here, in the USA Solanus Casey, in Canada Brother Andre Bessette... There were others, but they were monks with mystical gifts who lived in simplicity, humility and poverty. Where there is such deep faith and humility, poverty and service to people, God is always there. I can freely say that here in Croatia, monks, primarily Franciscans and Salesians, gather thousands of young people and raise them in the faith, from students to the youngest. The Jesuits in Zagreb, until the earthquake collapsed part of the Church, also gathered many young people... The dream that Pope Innocent III had that St. Francis was keeping the Church from collapsing was not just a knowledge of that time, but a sign of what the Church should be throughout history. I hope that your religious orders have preserved all these virtues and that one day the rest of the clergy will look up to such virtues.
Really quite something https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...p-of-the-first-round-s-results_6676224_8.html
in church the other day the reader read the passage as she will strike at your heel while he strikes at your head. I am hoping that was just a mis-spoke and not what actually was written in the text
