Signs of the Times  

   "I have already told you and now I say it again:  I cannot give My beloved Son another time to prove My love for men!  I am now coming among them in order to love them and to make them know this love, assuming their image, their poverty.  Look, now I am putting aside My crown and all My glory to take on the appearance of an ordinary man!"

     (Having assumed the appearance of an ordinary man by placing His crown and His glory at His Feet; He took the globe of the world and held it to His Heart, supporting it with His left Hand.  He then sat next to me.  I can say but a few words about His arrival and about His appearance He deigned to assume, and about His love!  In my ignorance, I do not have the words to express what He revealed to me:)



    "PEACE AND SALVATION TO THIS HOUSE AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD!  MAY MY POWER, MY LOVE AND MY HOLY SPIRIT TOUCH MEN'S HEARTS, SO THAT ALL MANKIND MAY TURN TO SALVATION AND COME TO ITS FATHER, WHO SEEKS IT, TO LOVE AND TO SAVE IT!
      LET MY VICAR, PIUS XI UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE DAYS OF SALVATION AND BLESSING.  LET HIM NOT FAIL TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHER WHO IS COMING TO HELPTHEM IN THIS LIFE AND TO PREPARE THEIR EVERLASTING HAPPINESS.
      I HAVE CHOSEN THIS DAY TO BEGIN MY WORK AMONG MEN BECAUSE TODAY IS THE FEAST OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF MY SON JESUS.  I INTEND TO BATHE IN THIS BLOOD THE WORK I AM BEGINNING, SO THAT IT MAY BEAR FRUIT AMONG ALL  MANKIND.
       THIS IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF MY COMING:

   1.  I AM COMING TO BANISH THE EXCESSIVE FEAR THAT MY CREATURES HAVE OF ME AND TO SHOW THEM THAT MY JOY LIES IN BEING KNOWN AND LOVED BY MY CHILDREN, THAT IS, BY ALL MANKIND, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
    2.  I AM COMING TO BRING HOPE TO MEN AND NATIONS.  HOW MANY HAVE LONG SINCE LOST IT!  THIS HOPE WILL MAKE THEM LIVE IN PEACE AND SECURITY, WORKING FOR THEIR SALVATION.

    3.  I AM COMING TO MAKE MYSELF KNOWN JUST AS I AM, SO THAT MEN'S TRUST MAY INCREASE TOGETHER WITH THEIR LOVE FOR ME, THEIR FATHER.  I HAVE BUT ONE CONCERN: TO WATCH OVER ALL MEN AND LOVE THEM AS MY CHILDREN.

    THE PAINTER DELIGHTS IN CONTEMPLATING THE PICTURE HE HAS PAINTED.  IN THE SAME WAY, IT IS MY PLEASURE AND DELIGHT TO COME AMONG MEN, THE MASTERPIECE OF MY CREATION!
    TIME PRESSES.  I WISH MEN TO KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THAT I LOVE THEM AND THAT I FEEL THE GREATEST HAPPINESS IN BEING WITH THEM AND TALKING WITH THEM, LIKE A FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN.
   
      I AM THE ETERNAL ONE, AND WHEN I WAS ALONE, I HAD ALREADY THOUGHT OF USING ALL MY POWER TO CREATE BEINGS IN MY IMAGE.  BUT MATERIAL CREATION HAD TO COME FIRST, SO THAT THESE BEINGS COULD FIND THEIR MEANS OF SUSTENANCE; IT WAS THEN THAT I CREATED THE WORLD.  I FILLED IT WITH ALL THE THINGS I KNEW WOULD BE NECESSARY TO MEN; AIR, SUN AND RAIN, AND MANY OTHER THINGS THAT I KNEW TO BE NECESSARY FOR LIFE.
      IN THE END, MAN WAS CREATED!  I WAS PLEASED WITH MY HANDIWORK.  MAN SINS, BUT IT IS PRECISELY THEN THAT MY INFINITE GENEROSITY SHOWS ITSELF.

    IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, I CREATED AND CHOSE PROPHETS TO LIVE AMONG MEN.  TO THEM I TOLD MY DESIRES, MY SORROWS AND MY JOYS, SO THAT THEY COULD COMMUNICATE THEM TO EVERYONE.
     THE MORE EVIL GREW, THE MORE MY GOODNESS URGED ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH JUST SOULS SO THAT THEY COULD TRANSMIT MY COMMANDS TO THOSE WHO WERE CREATING DISORDER.  THUS, I WAS SOMETIMES OBLIGED TO BE STRICT IN ORDER TO REPROVE THEM; NOT TO PUNISH THEM--THAT WOULD ONLY HAVE DONE HARM--BUT TO TAKE THEM AWAY FROM VICE AND LEAD THEM TO THEIR FATHER AND THEIR CREATOR, WHOM THEY HAD FORGOTTEN AND IGNORED IN THEIR INGRATITUDE.  LATER, EVIL OVERWHELMED MEN'S HEARTS TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT I WAS COMPELLED TO SEND CALAMITIES UPON THE WORLD TO PURIFY MEN THROUGH SUFFERING, THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR POSSESSIONS, OR EVEN THEIR DEATH.  THESE WERE THE FLOOD, THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, MAN'S WARS AGAINST MAN, ETC.

     I HAVE ALWAYS WISHED TO REMAIN IN THIS WORLD AMONG MEN.  SO, DURING THE FLOOD, I WAS CLOSE TO NOAH, THE ONLY JUST MAN THEN.  IN THE OTHER CALAMITIES, ALSO, I ALWAYS FOUND A JUST MAN WITH WHOM I COULD STAY, AND THROUGH HIM, I LIVED AMONG THE MEN AT THAT TIME, AND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THUS.
      tHE WORLD HAS OFTEN BEEN PURIFIED OF ITS CORRUPTION BECAUSE OF MY INFINITE GOODNESS TOWARDS HUMANITY.  i CONTINUED TO CHOOSE CERTAIN SOULS IN WHOM I WAS PLEASED, BECAUSE THROUGH THEM, I COULD BE HAPPY WITH MY CREATURES, MEN.
     I PROMISED THE WORLD A MESSIAH.  I DID ALL I COULD TO PREPARE HOS COMING, SHOWING MYSELF IN THE FIGURES THAT REPRESENTED HIM, EVEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE HIS COMING!
      FOR WHO IS THE MESSIAH?  WHENCE DOES HE COME?  WHAT WILL HE DO ON EARTH?  WHOM DOES HE REPRESENT?
      THE MESSIAH IS GOD.
       WHO IS GOD?  GOD OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
       WHENCE DOES HE COME?  OR RATHER, WHO ORDERED HIM TO COME AMONG MEN?  IT WAS I, HIS FATHER, GOD.
        WHOM IS HE TO REPRESENT ON EARTH?  HIS FATHER, GOD.
        WHAT IS HE TO DO ON EARTH?  HE WILL MAKE THE FATHER GOD KNOWN AND LOVED.
        DID HE NOT SAY:
        "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS?" 
        "I HAVE COME ONLY TO DO THR WILL OF MY FATHER."
        "WHATEVER YOU ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE WILL GIVE YOU."
        "YOU WILL PRAY TO HIM LIKE THIS, "OUR FATHER, WHO ARE IN HEAVEN..." AND ELSEWHERE, SINCE HE CAME TO GLORIFY THE FATHER AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN TO MEN.  HE SAYS:
        "WHOEVER SEES ME, SEES THE FATHER."
        "I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME."
        "nO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME."
        "WHOEVER IS WITH ME IS ALSO WITH MY FATHER," ETC.

     REALIZE THEN, O MEN, THAT FOR ALL ETERNITY, I HAVE HAD BUT ONE DESIRE, TO MAKE MYSELF KNOWN TO MEN AND BE LOVED BY THEM.  I WISH TO STAY FOREVER WITH THEM.
      DO YOU WANT AN AUTHENTIC PROOF OF THIS DESIRE THAT I HAVE JUST EXPRESSED?

      WHY DID I COMMAND MOSES TO BUILD A TABERNACLE AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, IF NOT TO COME AND DWELL, AS A FATHER, A BROTHER, A CLOSE FRIEND, WITH MY CREATURES, MEN?  THIS WAS MY ARDENT DESIRE.  IN SPITE OF THIS, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN ME AND OFFENDED ME WITH COUNTLESS SINS.  I GAVE MOSES MY COMMANDMENTS TO REMIND THEM, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, OF GOD, THEIR FATHER, AND OF HIS SOLE WISH--TO SAVE THEM.  THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO OBSERVE THE COMMANDMENTS AND THEREBY REMEMBER THEIR INFINITELY GOOD FATHER, ALWAYS INTENT UPON THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL SALVATION.

     ALL THIS WAS FORGOTTEN AND MEN SANK INTO ERROR AND FEAR, CONSIDERING THAT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE COMMANDMENTS AS I HAD TRANSMITTED THEM TO MOSES WAS TOO TAXING.  THEY MADE UP OTHER LAWS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR WHIMS, IN ORDER TO OBSERVE THEM MORE EASILY.  LITTLE BY LITTLE, IN THE EXAGGERATED FEAR THEY HAD OF ME, THEY FORGOT ME MORE AND MORE AND HEAPED OUTRAGES UPON ME.
      YET MY LOVE FOR THESE MEN, MY CHILDREN, NEVER QUITE CEASED.  WHEN I REALIZED THAT NEITHER THE PATRIARCHS NOR THE PROPHETS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MAKE ME KNOWN AND LOVED BY MEN, I DECIDED TO COME MYSELF.
       BUT HOW COULD I COME AMONG THEM?  THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY THAN TO COME MYSELF, IN THE SECOND PERSON OF MY DIVINITY.

        WOULD MEN KNOW ME?  WOULD THEY LISTEN TO ME?

     NOTHING IN THE FUTURE WAS HIDDEN FROM ME; I MYSELF ANSWERED THESE TWO QUESTIONS: