With Proven Two Wins Secured,
the Third Wreath Is Assured!
Few horses have achieved it in the history of what has been called the “sport of kings.”
And the world is all atwitter over the latest thoroughbred to make a move into the exclusive club and possibly be the 12th horse to achieve the temporal “honor.”
After winning the first two of three, if one could know the outcome of the last race, one could certainly make the right Trifecta, Exacta or Win, Place and Show bets to ensure one would more than triple one’s money.
But humans are incapable of knowing the future.
Only God knows who will be the winner of the last leg of this, perhaps, Triple Crown.
And He’s not telling!
He has, however, ensured we have a different way of knowing the future involving a different Triple Crown.
A future that is extremely important to all of us: not because we can triple our money by placing bets on thoroughbred horses, but because — if we listen to Him — we can truly win the only race worth winning.
As the Apostle Paul taught, “Know you not that they that run the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize?” I Corinthians 9:24.
A race unlike the triple one in which a thoroughbred owner receives a “corruptible crown,” but — in God’s winner’s circle — an “incorruptible one” (I Corinthians 9:25) bestowed by the one and only true King upon those who “have fought a good fight” and “finished” their “course [and] have kept the faith” II Timothy 4:7.
What is this way that we can “know” the future?
Any believer immediately comprehends that the Scriptures point the way in this regard.
But there are many today who disregard the Bible; who claim it is irrelevant, or just do not accept that it contains the blueprint to the future coming of our Lord.
After all, the Promise of our Lord’s return is now almost two millennia old!
(“Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to Heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come, as you have seen Him going into Heaven!”
Acts of the Apostles 1:11.)
Even worse, there are those who have hijacked the Word of God, misinterpreting it for their own monetary gain and being — whether they know it or not (does the word “rapture” come to mind?) — the very “false prophets” our Lord warned us about!
While the Lord warned us to “beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves,” He also stated that “by their fruits you shall know them” and “every good tree bringeth forth good fruit” Matthew 7:15-17.
How, then, can we know the “good tree” that brings forth “good fruit”?
Is it not the ability to foretell the future?
Is this not the defining line between a true prophet vs. a “false prophet”?
Although the Scriptures contain many utterances of prophets whose prophecies have been fulfilled, again, many in the world today will not listen; some even claiming that the prophecy was written AFTER the event!
Our God, however, leaves nothing to chance.
There will be no excuse for those who claim the Bible was written too long ago for it to be relevant for them today.
For as the King of Mercy He has ensured we have a prophet for our times.
One who has proven they wrote “under Divine influence in the Name of God” and who “learned of future events from God and consciously announces them as such,” as the 1951 Holy Trinity Bible’s dictionary proclaims.
One who has proven their percentage rate of major prophetic utterances has been correct two out of three times!
Considering that their writings were well known and documented prior to their death and both prophetic events occurred AFTER their demise, it proves beyond a shadow of doubt that not only could this person NOT change or alter their predictions, but only God Himself could have ensured they came to pass!
While there are other events that could be discussed regarding this prophet, we have chosen these two because they are precursors to the third prophecy — a prophecy which has yet to come to pass.
What are the two that have?
The first involves a sad prediction — one that has come to pass in proverbial spades.
From the prophet’s writings:
“Towards the end of the Way of the Cross, which I was making, the Lord Jesus began to complain about the souls of religious and priests, about the lack of love in chosen souls.
‘I will allow convents and churches to be destroyed.’
I answered, ‘Jesus, but there are so many souls praising You in convents.’
The Lord answered, ‘That praise wounds My Heart, because love has been banished from convents. Souls without love and without devotion, souls full of egoism and self-love, souls full of pride and arrogance, souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have just enough warmth to keep them alive: My Heart cannot bear this!
‘All the graces that I pour out upon them flow off them as off the face of a rock. I cannot stand them, because they are neither good or bad. I called convents into being to sanctify the world through them. It is from them that a powerful flame of love and sacrifice should burst forth.
‘And if they do not repent and become enkindled by their first love, I will deliver them over to the fate of this world … [note: this is the Lord’s own ellipsis, leaving out exactly what that “fate” is!]
‘How can they sit on the promised Throne of Judgment to judge the world, when their guilt is greater than the guilt of the world? There is neither penance nor atonement.’ …
‘When I tried to intercede for them, I could find nothing with which to excuse them, and being at the time, unable to think of anything in their defense, my heart was seized with pain and I wept bitterly’ ” Notebook VI, 1702.
We have spoken of this before.
Is this not the situation in the Church today?
The scandal, the closing of convents and churches speak for themselves!
The second prediction which has come true forms the balance to the first one.
It is about an event that we, as believers, take for granted today.
But it was not so during the prophet’s time.
The prophet saw that there would be a period of darkness before the Light would shine through!
Again, from the prophet’s writings:
“Once as I was talking with my spiritual director, I had an interior vision — quicker than lightning — of his soul in great suffering, in such agony that God touches very few souls with such fire! The suffering arises from this work. There will come a time when this work, which God is demanding so very much, will be as though utterly undone. And then God will act with great power, which will give evidence of its authenticity. It will be a new splendor for the Church, although it has been dormant in it from long ago. That God is infinitely merciful, no one can deny. He desires everyone to know this before He comes again as Judge. He wants souls to come to know Him first as King of Mercy. … When will this happen? I do not know. How long will it last? I do not know” Notebook I, 378.
As those officials who will examine the life and “this work” of this prophet and Saint will attest, “the vision concerns [her Confessor] who was to suffer greatly because of the destruction of the devotion to the Divine Mercy. The prediction was almost literally fulfilled. Decree No. 65/52 of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, dated November 28, 1958, and a notification of March 6, 1959, prohibited the spreading of the devotion to the Divine Mercy in the form given by [the prophet].
“As a result, the images which had been hung in many churches were removed. Priests stopped preaching about the Divine Mercy. [Her Confessor] was severely admonished by the Holy See and suffered many other troubles in connection with the spreading of the devotion of the Divine Mercy. … It appeared that the Work of Mercy, so much recommended by [the prophet], had been destroyed and would never rise again. ...
“Since the first part of her prophecy was fulfilled almost literally, it can be supposed that the remainder of it will also be fulfilled” Footnote 89.
Those words, noted as footnotes to the prophet’s diary, were written years before the fulfillment!
A fulfillment which will come about in the mid-1990s and culminate in the Great Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy 2000 Anno Domini!
God acted “with great power,” and gave “evidence of its authenticity,” when in 1995, the Holy Father, John Paul II, the Divine Mercy Pope — saved from an assassination attempt by the Mother of Mercy — who, unknowingly, lived just a few miles from the prophet when both were in Poland in the 1930s, called for the celebration of the Divine Mercy Feast.
“This work,” the Divine Mercy Feast, became “a new splendor for the Church, although it [was] dormant in it from long ago” before the ban of 1958.
Then, in the Year 2000, upon the prophet’s canonization, the celebration of Divine Mercy became a universal feast in which “no one can deny” “that God is infinitely merciful.”
Why?
Because “He desires everyone to know this before He comes again as Judge. He wants souls to come to know Him first as King of Mercy.”
“ … before He comes again as Judge.”
The Triple Crown of the prophet’s prophecies.
For in the same writings where one discovers two incredible prophecies have already come to pass — the destruction of convents and churches, and then the institution of the Feast of Divine Mercy — this third and most important prediction is made:
“Write this: before I come as the Just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy. Before the Day of Justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of
this sort:
“all light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole Earth. Then the Sign of the Cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the Hands and the Feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights
which will light up the Earth for a period of time. This will take place shortly before
the last day” Notebook I, 83.
If we are unsure of the timeframe in which our Lord speaks, He clarifies it for us in this regard:
“I am giving them the last hope of salvation; that is, the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore My Mercy, they will perish for all Eternity. Secretary of My Mercy [as the Lord referred to His prophet!], write, tell souls about this great Mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My Justice is near!” Notebook II, 965.
Has the Feast of Divine Mercy in “great power” and in “evidence of its authenticity” not already occurred in the Great Jubilee Year 2000, when, not only was the feast instituted throughout the Church, but the Jubilee Doors — a Divine Mercy Feast unto themselves — were opened wide around the world for 13 mercy-filled months?
Need another “witness” to the Truth of this yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecy regarding the return of the Just Judge?
In 1936, the Mother of God spoke to the prophet and stated:
“I gave the Savior to the world; as for you, you have to speak to the world about His great Mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but as a Just Judge! Oh, how terrible is that day! Determined is the Day of Justice, the day of divine wrath! The Angels tremble before it!” Notebook II, 635.
It was the second time the Virgin Mother of Jesus had spoken thus to the prophet, telling her just seven days before the Feast of the Annunciation that she must be “pleading for humanity and preparing the world for the Second Coming of God” Notebook II, 625.
Later, in the same year just before the Holocaust of World War II, the Lord will again confirm the season for the prophet:
“ … My daughter, speak to the world about My Mercy; let all mankind recognize My unfathomable Mercy. It is a sign for the end times.; after it will come the Day of Justice”
Notebook II, 848.
As if to ensure the prophetic nature of His “daughter’s” work, the Lord — looking not only at the present of then-1934 but to the future, the time in which the Feast of the Divine Mercy is instituted, yet not celebrated by those “lukewarm souls who have just enough warmth to keep them alive” — states: “And who knows anything about this feast? No one! Even those who should be proclaiming My Mercy and teaching people about it often do not know about it themselves!” Notebook I, 341.
If there be any doubt lingering in the hearts of those who do not believe, the Lord will address the very nature of mankind’s failure to turn to Him with these words; words that negate those who ask, “Where is God in this violent world of ours?”
Jesus tells His prophet: “Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My Mercy!” Notebook I, 300.
Why?
Because “when a soul praises My goodness, satan trembles before it and flees to the very bottom of hell!” Notebook I, 378.
But we, as a creation, have not turned to His Mercy.
The world does not praise His “goodness.”
And most parishes throughout the Church — as evident by their inaction again this year — ignore the feast of His Divine Mercy.
Where does that leave us?
As we have often stated, we cannot look at history, time or events, through the eyes of mankind.
We must look at them through the eyes of our Creator.
A Creator who has told us specifically “that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” II Peter 3:8.
In 1938, this bona-fide Church-approved 20th-century prophet of God — St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, the Lord’s “Secretary of Mercy” — died.
She had been, according to Jesus, the protector of Poland as she prayed for her native country. A nation whose capital, Warsaw, was, at that time, the abortion capital of Europe!
One year later after her death, the prophet’s native land would be invaded by the forces of one of the vilest antichrists who ever lived. Without the prayers on Earth of the Secretary of Mercy, Poland received the full brunt of the chastisement for sin as Our Lady of Fatima warned in Her 1917 prophecies: war!
It is now 64 years after her death and four years since St. Faustina’s canonization.
Out of the Heart of our Lord’s Divine Mercy and the ashes of His Secretary’s native Poland will come — miraculously saved from the hands of the nazi antichrist — the Divine Mercy Pope!
On God’s time clock — with 42 Earth years equaling approximately an hour in Heaven [For an explanation of this equation, please read this story.] — the prophet’s writings predicting these events that led up to the Divine Mercy Feast, instituted by this pope, are merely a little more than an hour-and-a-half old.
Yet, in that short time, two out of three of her major prophecies have come to pass.
Both the scandal of the religious orders and the institution of the Divine Mercy Feast in the Great Jubilee Year are historical facts.
They cannot be denied.
There is but one prophecy that remains.
The Second Coming of our Lord and Savior — not as the King of Mercy, but as He predicted: the Just Judge!
We can pretend that it isn’t so.
We can make-believe that it’s all just “coincidence.”
We can even take the road that claims, like critics and skeptics do regarding the Scriptures, the writings have been changed to fit events.
None of these beliefs will hold before the Throne of Judgment.
Especially in light of the fact that it is Jesus — not anyone else — who said specifically that His Secretary of Mercy’s writings were a “sign for the end times.”
And as a second witness before Heaven, His Mother told the prophet that she was to prepare “the world for the Second Coming of God!”
In light of the odds that two-out-of-three predictions have already come to pass, are we willing to bet these are just idle words of Heaven?
Or should we, instead, place our “bets” on the Triple Crown of Divine Mercy?
What we all need to understand — especially those who are in the Church and believe “because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven” Matthew 13:11 — is that with two prophecies secured, the odds are in favor of the prophet that the culmination of the third — the return of Jesus — cannot be far behind!
For the Lord in the Great Jubilee Year has truly already come as the promised King
of Mercy.
And the world has ignored and continues to ignore that coming.
There is, therefore, not much time left.
Not much time on God’s time clock.
“When will this happen?” In the words of the prophet, we “do not know” for “it is not for [us] to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in His own power” Acts 1:7.
But while mankind notes the track-breaking time of a thoroughbred streaking for the Triple Crown, most souls sleep through the race of their lifetime, even though our Lord warned us the Divine Mercy messages are a “sign for the end times.”
We are in the end of the race, a race humans can ill-afford to ignore — for there is not much time left on the stopwatch as we are into the home stretch.
It is almost over — statistically at least 66.6 percent or better since the prophet’s proven predictions have come to pass.
Yet, despite a true prophet’s Triple Crown of writings before them, so many souls today continue to ignore this sure bet when, instead, anyone who gets into the starting gate — no matter what their post position — can be racing for a record-breaking finish that can
garnish those who stay on the Divine Mercy track the triple-your-prayers wreath of an incorruptible crown!
For who really wants to end this race in the Place or Show positions — even worse, “out of the money”?
Let us not then, ignore the Lord’s Words as He has written them through His Secretary as we strive to run the race, to finish the course and receive the prize.
For He wants us to persevere no matter how the coming years may darken our hopes.
A darkness which, as He warns, no one should “place within their own hearts obstacles to My Mercy, which so greatly wants to act within them. … Let souls who are striving for perfection particularly adore My Mercy, because the abundance of graces which I grant them flows from My Mercy. I desire that these souls distinguish themselves by boundless trust in My Mercy. … The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive. Souls that trust boundlessly are a great comfort to Me, because I pour all the treasures of My graces into them. I rejoice that they ask for much, because it is My desire to give much, very much”
Notebook V, 1578.
Great graces that will enable us to persevere through this race in, as He has spoken,
the “end times.”
The “end times” not of false prophets and “raptures,” but the last days of God’s
continued Mercy.
Remaining Days of Mercy which no one — not even the prophet during her sojourn on Earth — knows how long they may last before the “Day of Justice, the day of divine wrath” begins; the day in which “the Angels tremble before it!”
On that day, not far in the future, our Lord’s imminent return will not only fulfill the Triple Crown of End Times Prophecy by His Secretary of Mercy, but complete the Scriptures themselves — for as He Ascended, so He returns: “Behold, He cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also that pierced Him!” Apocalypse 1:7.
Let us, therefore, be diligent, “ready to be sacrificed,” having “fought a good fight,” in which we “finished [our] course,” and “kept the faith.”
A faith in His unfathomable Divine Mercy — the God-given prophetic sign for the end times.
“As to the rest, there is laid up for [us] a Crown of Justice, which the Lord, the Just Judge, will render to [us] in that day: and not only to [us], but to them also that love His coming. [Lord Jesus] make haste to come to [us] quickly!” II Timothy 4:8.
In order to ensure this wreath — to secure this Crown of Justice — before the Just Judge returns, let us remember, as we have been inspired to call it, the Triple Crown of Mercy His Secretary has recorded for us and, as she recommends, exercise at least one once a day:
“the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray — that, too, is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict. God’s floodgates have been opened for us. [Are they now slowly closing after the Great Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy?] Let us take advantage of them before the day of God’s Justice arrives. And that will be a dreadful day!” Notebook III, 1158-59.
For when that “dreadful day” arrives for those who — by not running in this Triple Crown of Mercy race — did not finish the “course,” the King of Mercy warns: “Oh, how miserable are those who do not take advantage of the miracle of God’s Mercy! You will call out in vain, but it will be too late” Notebook V, 1448.
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