Olives and the Glory (3)
Something may be wrong, friends, since an evil spirit seems to be seeing down to something.
It might be related to the injury Ms. Noguchi, the Japanese female marathon gold medalist in Athens in 2004, has been suffering since the end of this July to the extent to abandoning her scheduled entry into the Beijing’s race to be held soon with an expectation that Ms. Radcliffe will erase the horrible image of her fall in the middle of the race in Athens’ Olympic Games.
Otherwise, it may be so, since U.S. President Mr. George W. Bush looked like nobody but a super-rich sightseer in Beijing.
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/olympics/2008-08/10/content_9152565.htm
It must be so, because immediately after the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games armed conflicts started in the border area between Russia and Georgia. In early September of 2004, a school near the area was attacked by insurgents, resulting in at least 334 hostages killed, including 186 children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
Or it may be related to a dishonest Chinese taxi driver a Japanese newspaper reporter encountered on his way back to an air port from a hotel in a Northern Chinese city where diplomatic negotiations were held yesterday or the day before between Japan and North Korea on the subject of Japanese citizens North Korean secret agents had abducted in the past decades.
( http://abirur.iza.ne.jp/blog )
SECTION I: Pope Leo XIII and John Paul II
I know some Japanese Christian priests who cannot understand such things as a spirit, a soul, an angel, a devil, and any other intangible and invisible things and miracles being described in the Bible. They regard the Bible and the Gospel as a kind of moral stories full of exaggerations.
Now, I am afraid that some Americans supporting Mr. Barack Obama might be the same as those Japanese priests who do not even believe the world beyond, namely existence of Heaven and the hell.
Anyway, you have to admit that a Pope can be allowed sometimes to hear a conversation between God and the devil.
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Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision…
As he listened, he heard the following conversation:
The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord:
"I can destroy your Church."
The gentle voice of Our Lord:
"You can? Then go ahead and do so."
Satan:
"To do so, I need more time and more power."
Our Lord:
"How much time? How much power?
Satan:
"75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service."
Our Lord:
"You have the time, you will have the power.
Do with them what you will."
http://www.stjosephschurch.net/leoxiii.htm
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Then, WWI and WWII occurred. And the USSR and the U.S. started to aim nuclear war-head ballistic missiles at each other, though the cold war ended with the fall of the Berlin Walls in 1989, namely five years after the year 1984 the Devil had set as the longest time limit.
No all-out nuclear war was set off between NATO and the Soviet Block, though the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union was accidentally blown off in 1986, containing the possible global nuclear disaster only into a part of the former USSR.
What’s more, referring to the above site but pondering the contents in the opposite direction, we must find that Pope John Paul II advanced his understanding on the love of God to mankind as the Pope admitted:
5/6/80:
All men are saved;
11/17/80:
Luther had a profound religious spirit; and
6/17/84:
Buddhism is a great religion.
Indeed, Pope John Paul II is said to have respected Pope Leo XIII very much:
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At the same time, we should not forget that no less a figure than Pope John Paul II paid a great tribute to Pope Leo XIII by publishing Centesimus Annus in 1991 on the one hundredth anniversary of Leo's Rerum Novarum. John Paul II looked back to Leo XIII in commemorating the fall of communism, and he re-affirmed Leo's social teaching in favor of a qualified version of private property, capitalism, and workers' rights. Pope John Paul II's anti-communism and affirmation of the dignity of labor are deeply indebted to the spirit of Leo XIII.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pope+Leo+XIII+and+the+Catholic+response+to+modernity.-a0177859966
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Nonetheless, as the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (symbolized by the Glory of the Olive) and the 2005 inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI are almost within a moment for Malachy who lived more than 800 years ago, this time limit the Devil imposed on himself cannot be trusted unconditionally, since the Devil is a devil.
Until the Lord God interferes with the continued evildoing by the Devil, the Devil must continue his cruel attacks on mankind despite the expiration of his self-declared time limit.
SECTION II: Modernity, Globalization, and the Vatican
This issue must be reviewed later; but the above site on Pope Leo XIII is useful in this study, since the Devil started to launch full-scale attacks on mankind in 1884 as witnessed by the then Pope Leo XIII.
Yet, if modernity and economic globalization are the stage where the Devil is playing his game, the Vatican must be fully engaged in it.
But the alarming fact is that the Vatican has been very reluctant to fight against the Devil in the various sectors of the global society, including the political sector, the diplomatic sector, the defense sector, the industry sector, the labor sector, and the financial sector or specifically Wall Street and the City.
SECTION III: The Glory of the Olive
It does not seem to be simply enough for Cardinal Mr. Joseph Ratzinger to name himself Pope Benedict XVI.
It is not so in order to fulfill the prophecy written by St. Malachy more than 800 years ago as allegedly.
Pope Benedict XVI must move the headquarters of his religious organization from Rome to Jerusalem.
Many Judaists in the world returned to Palestine after WWII.
Now, the Vatican must return to Jerusalem.
All the cardinals and officials now living and working in the Vatican, Rome, must move to Jerusalem to show their utmost respect for their Lord Jesus Christ.
This great return of the headquarters of the Catholic Church to Jerusalem must be carried out during the reign of the incumbent Pope; accordingly, the Malachy’s prophecy shall be fulfilled precisely with the holy words “The Glory of The Olive.”
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The last fall I went to the Tokyo National Stadium to see a women’s marathon race Ms. Noguchi joined.
She won it. But, one of pictures I took there showed some dark shadow around her. That is why I was cautious about mentioning the women’s marathon race in the Beijing Olympic Games until recently. Finally, Ms. Noguchi announced yesterday her default in the Beijing Olympic marathon race, which shocked so many Japanese people.
Nonetheless, it is a surprise that a Japanese male fencer got the silver medal in Beijing following a German gold medalist, though fencing was originally established in France.
Likewise, there might be something we are still missing in things and events now happening in the venue of the 2008 Olympic Games, since the Great Sichuan Earthquake could have happened in these days but not a few months ago, taking 70,000 innocent lives.
(If you don’t mind listening:
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/folk/amazinggrace.html )
Gen 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Gen 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Gen 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Gen 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Gen 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Gen 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Gen 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.