The King of Mercy
or the Just Judge?
“Before I come as the Just Judge,
I Am coming first as the King of Mercy … .”
The Lord Jesus did.
He spoke them 70 years ago.
Almost 2 hours ago on Heaven’s time clock (for 41.6 years on Earth is equivalent to
1 hour in Heaven).
Jesus, as God — and the Word — does not speak lightly.
Every jot and tittle when He provides a message is carefully and succinctly chosen.
Two thousand years ago, or two days on Heaven’s time clock (for a day is but a thousand years and a thousand years but a day to the Lord), Jesus questioned the Pharisees and scribes when He walked the Earth, asking them why — as they applied the Mosaic Law to its utmost — they condemned their brothers who had a speck in their eye, when they had a beam in their own!
This was a great chastisement to the prideful leaders of Israel.
And many people today — well-meaning believers — are afraid to chastise others for they know full well they have a beam in their eye.
What most people fail to do is read the Lord’s Words in context, rather than just as a snippet of information. A line out of context.
This is the great fault of protest-ant-ism and its interpretation of Scripture. And this has deeply infected — in this age of “ecumenism” — Catholicism.
When the Lord spoke these Words to the 1st-century Israelites, He ended His statement with these Words: “Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye; and then thou shalt see clearly to take the mote from thy brother’s eye” Luke 6:42.
So in effect, Jesus DID NOT tell us NOT to remove the speck from our brother’s eye — but to do so AFTER the beam is removed from our own! When we can see “clearly.”
We began this article with the words Jesus spoke to St. Faustina, His Secretary of Divine Mercy.
It was Jesus’ plan to give mankind direct access to His total Mercy through the Divine Mercy Feast.
For more than two decades, the Church suppressed Faustina’s writings. It wasn’t until the Divine Mercy pope, John Paul II, brilliantly, and under Divine Inspiration, brought about the now 9-year-old feast.
In the Year 2000, John Paul declared the feast to be “universal” so that every Catholic throughout the world could have access to the greatest Gift from Jesus since His salvific action on the Cross.
But the Church in many major quarters has refused to listen.
It has failed to listen to its King and High Priest.
It has failed to listen to its pope, his magisterium, and position of authority as the Vicar of Christ.
It has failed to listen to the first Saint of the new millennium.
It has failed to listen to the Mother of Mercy.
We know this as any observant Catholic does because most parishes and dioceses FAILED to provide the faithful with a Divine Mercy Feast this year.
In our own new parish community, despite our attempts to interest the hierarchy and promulgate this devotion, our words fell on the proverbial deaf ears. And this, three years past the pope’s decree to make this feast “universal.”
Instead of Divine Mercy, we heard a sermon by the priest on that Sunday about how few people attend Mass after Easter. Perhaps, if the priest and his bishop publicized and offered this Gift of all forgiveness of sin and any punishment due, the faithful would have flocked to that Sunday after Easter Mass.
Perhaps, if the Divine Mercy Image was displayed, people would have — as Jesus Himself prophesied — been drawn to Him and the special Gift He provides in the partaking of His Body and Blood on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Perhaps.
We, however, can tell a different tale.
It is a personal one.
For it was in 1996 we first went to Divine Mercy and received this incredible Gift. Then again in 1997, ’98, ’99, and every year since.
But something very special and incredible happened to us in the Year 2000.
For that was the Great Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy.
The year the Church threw open its doors with its treasure of graces, creating Jubilee — in effect, Divine Mercy — portals throughout the world.
We went through them.
We went through them in Rome, Assisi, California and elsewhere. By the time the year was done, we turned around and realized we had gone through 13 Jubilee Doors! We stood beneath the Shroud and were bathed in the Rays of the true Blood and Water that gushed forth as a Fountain of Mercy for us!
The beam had ultimately been removed from our eyes.
Again, please understand, we do not claim to be Saints, visionaries or prophets.
Surely, we, as normal people, continue to have specks, but the beam has been removed.
With the beam removed, we do claim the Lord has given us a special gift — one we did not ask for, but one He is demanding in return for His Gift of Divine Mercy.
That demand is for us to speak boldly.
To defend His Truths.
His honor.
His glory.
His Mother.
We, as well as anyone who received Divine Mercy, owe it to Him.
In reality, He is asking us to speak about the specks and beams in our brothers’ eyes. And there is a vital reason for this.
Time is short. We are now in the 3rd Day on Heaven’s time clock. The day of Resurrection to the Lord. The Sorrowful Mysteries will, at some point, give way to the Glorious Mysteries and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will completely, as promised, unfold!
Yes, we are quite aware that things haven’t changed just yet. But we are still only a few minutes into the new day as far as Heaven is concerned. The sun has barely risen on the new millennium.
But in this new millennium an event has occurred. Everyone knows that on that date, September 11th, the world changed.
We cannot go back anymore. This event is a dividing line.
For it divides the Great Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy and the beginning of chastisements so many have prophesied. It divides the coming of Christ as the King of Mercy as He spoke to St. Faustina more than three decades ago.
What remains now — as Jesus Himself prophesied — is His coming as the Just Judge. A time when “all light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be a great darkness over the whole Earth. Then the Sign of the Cross will be seen in the sky … . This will take place shortly before the last day.”
We are praying for souls.
But in those prayers must also be warnings.
For we will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by following those with beams and specks in their eyes. For they will meet Him as the Just Judge.
We will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by following Woody Allen for a good laugh at the expense of the Cross.
We will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by following Cardinal Mahony as he listens to the advice of lawyers to keep concealed that which needs to be brought out into the daylight.
We will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by following George Bush’s “roadmap to peace.” (For who is the King of Israel, but the Just Judge?)
We will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by following protest-ants who ignore, or even worse, dishonor His Mother.
We will not meet Jesus as the King of Mercy by strapping explosives to our bodies and screaming “jihad.”
The world has already missed its collective opportunity to meet Jesus as the King of Mercy in the Great Jubilee Year 2000.
Instead, the King of Mercy found the world dishonoring His Mother — the Queen of Mercy — in a blasphemous painting in a museum in New York City.
As a result, He allowed an event to happen.
He warned us through this event on September 11th that the Door of Mercy was now closing on the world (there is still time for individuals, if they but turn to Him).
Jesus told St. Faustina that those who refuse to pass through His Door of Mercy, MUST pass through His Door of Justice.
In the Great Jubilee Year, the world rejected its King of Mercy.
The world will next meet its King as the Just Judge.
And until that time, we will continue to warn against and expose those with beams and specks in their eyes — no matter who they are or where they reside.
For we owe it to Him.
And that’s what this web site is all about.
That’s what the Great Spiritual Battle is all about.
This is not about being “self-righteous.”
This is about warning those who have an ear to hear.
For the world is teaching souls to perish.
And they are perishing in vast numbers.
As the Lord Himself told St. Faustina: “Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion … . If they will not adore My Mercy, they will perish for all Eternity. … write, tell souls about this great Mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My Justice is near.”
That day, since Jesus spoke those words to Faustina, is now 66 years closer.
In this light, we all must weigh the deeds of those who want us to follow them before we fall victim to them. For their misdeeds will not lead one to meet Jesus as the King of Mercy, no matter what their position of authority may be; whether in the Church, the government or the media.
In fact, based on the behavior of the majority of those in these arenas, it is a safe bet to state that Jesus is not pleased with their “performances.”
It is even easy to weigh these individuals no matter what arena they may reside in by simply observing whether or not they “adore” Jesus’ Mercy.
For if they do not, we believe Jesus, in what may be His final act as the King of Mercy, is now requiring His true followers to warn others to not follow those who think they can abuse His Mercy.
And to be prepared for His next manifestation as the Just Judge.
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