I fear God for He has the power to dump me in hell. I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. I don’t put words into His mouth or make Him a liar but it is true that God spoke to the people of Oakland, California (and to the rest of the world) on May 21 in all Catholic churches of the diocese during a Sunday vigil Mass. That was 5:00 or 6:00 in the evening.
The good Lord said:
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me . . . I am the way and the truth and the life.” (See Jn. 14: 1-12 – Fifth Easter Sunday Gospel)
Exactly at a time when Oaklanders in particular were waiting for massive apocalyptic earthquake and annihilation, the Creator and Master of the Universe comforts the people assuring them of His love saying “Have faith in me . . . I am the truth.”
As the Truth, He did not lie when He said that not even the Son of Man knows the hour but the Father alone. That implies that any one who tells the exact date of the end of the world is a liar.
Some doomsayers are still to sprout telling the exactness of their calculation or genius in understanding the Bible or world events that lead them to conclude that the end of time will be on a particular day and time again.
That is not totally bad. Those who believed that the world was to end yesterday were in great fear. I hope that they went closer to God via spiritual conversion. Despite the promiscuity, materialism, hedonism and stubbornness in returning to God, when the end of the world is heard, fear possesses the mind.
Don’t fear God only when there is a tsunami, 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tornado that levels a city, epidemic or war. Fear God everyday.
If I’m permitted to interpret God’s word, He urges us to trust and believe in Him; have faith in Him and never the liars that put words into the mouth of God. We trust Him for all our fears for He said that He is the way, the truth and the life.
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