1. There are two ways by which God allows Lucifer to attack man’s soul. We may call the first ‘controlled attack.’ The second may be referred to as ‘an all out attack.’ In the first way, God controls Satan’s attack so it does not completely overwhelm man into committing sins. In the second, God allows the devil free rein and do whatever he wants on man.
2. An example of the first is the temptation of Christ on the desert. An example of the second is how Jerusalem went against Christ on Good Friday. Another example of the first is the temptation of Adam and Eve in the garden of Paradise. That was really mild. An example of the second is the story of Job; and that was really awful.
3. Let us discuss the second ‘all out attack.’ That was what happened on Good Friday when it seemed that the devil took complete control over the city. God’s forces where on the defensive, in fact, nowhere.
4. The most popular second attack was the story of Job.
” In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job who feared God and avoided evil. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him and he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camel, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a a great number of work animals, so that he was greater than any of the men of the East. His sons used to take turns giving feasts, sending invitations to their three sister to eat and drink with them. And when each feast had run its course, Job would send for them and sanctify them, rising early and offering holocausts for every one of them. For Job said, “it may be that my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts.’ This Job did habitually.’
What happened next is our point of discussion. While Job and his family were praying, Satan appeared before Job and God. God praised Job before Satan. Then Satan answered; ‘of course, Job is faithful to You because you have surrounded him with favors. Take away those favors and he will blaspheme you.’
God’s answer was scary. He told Satan; Ok, as long as you don’t touch his person you can do anything to all the things that are his. In other words; you can wage an all out war on him.
What is happening today is pre-figured in Job. Thieves stole his animals and killed his herdsmen. Lightning killed the sheep and shepherds. Then, more thieves stole his camels and killed those tending the camels.
More, while Job’s children were eating, a wind blew their house, it collapse and killed the children.
5. But Job remained Faithful to God. So again Satan went to God and said. if you allow me to attack his flesh, he will surely blaspheme you. And God said; ‘Go ahead but do not touch his life.’ Suddenly Job was full of wounds and sores. His wife taunted him to abandoned God. But Job remained faithful to God.
6. The Sixth Day.
Job was the figure of Christ on the sixth day. Satan was allowed to wage an ‘all out war’ on Christ. Satan did not attack one man only, like Job. Satan attacked the whole of Jerusalem. So the lesson we can learn from Job is that what happened to him as a test is what happened to Christ. And and this is what will happen to us at this age as a test. It is, in fact, a test for the whole world when the end is near and there will be no purgatory anymore.
Man has to be perfect by this time and their purgatory will be a short moment wherein Satan will be released to do his will on men.
After Good Friday, God was going to do it again and warned Pope Leo XIII in a vision. It will be a test for the Whole Church. That is to say; that one day today, God will allow Satan free hand to completely devastate the whole world. God will place everything in the hands of Satan for him to do what he wish. This is what is happening right now.
Allowing Satan to freely strike the Church was a singular episode that will follow what happened on Good Friday. Satan began destroying, first, the priesthood; the Pharisees and the Scribe, thus, he will first spiritually destroy the priests, bishops and cardinals in the hope he can reach the high priest, Caiphas, the personification of the Pope. Satan did reach Caiphas.
While Caiphas is an Old Testament representation of the Pope, the New Testament personification of the future Pope is Judas, who was a New Testament bishop in whom the devil entered into.
Satan will spiritually possess as many bishops as God will allow him in the hope that one of this possessed bishop will be elected Pope.
Though it was Leo XIII who saw the vision, it was Gregory XVI, Pius IX and Pius X who saw the transformation of the Catholic priesthood into a mob of heretics. They described the heresies in the “Syllabus.” With such a prophetic knowledge many were waiting for the time that those heretics will have the opportunity to elect its own heretic, a modernist with the evil plan of replacing the true Church of Christ with a new man-made Protestant denomination.
These priests were described by Christ as; having a decaying Faith and waxing cold of Charity, i.e. no Faith and no Charity. In short, they will have none of the four visible signs of the true Church. They are not Catholics. And the rest of the Catholic world will be the product of their heretical teachings. No Catholic Church in the world.
7. This is unstoppable because Satan on the loose is a veritable nemesis; besides, all of these are with God’s permission. Even with God’s orders; “Do with them as you wish.” What is happening is unimaginable.
No priest would be teaching the complete truth. In fact, it was for this that Pope Benedict declared the ‘Year of the priests,” because priests did not know the way to heaven, he said.
Instead, priest are teaching heresies; specially their favorites no. 78, 79 and 80 in the Syllabus. And forcing all to obey the heresies under pain of canonical punishments. Canon Law is used to stifle those teaching the truth.
St. Paul wrote; ‘everything not of Faith is sin. Everything coming out of the mouth, ears, eyes, mind and heart are sins. The Church is flooded with the worst perversions. And these are flaunted around and given euphemistic names like mercy and compassion.
8. With a priesthood like this, there is no hope for the family. The family could easily be destroyed in the fire place of the Bishop’s Synod. Fortunately, St. Therese’s family did not reach these days. Though they lived at the beginning of these days and their saintly life is a description on how they swam against the initial storm surge of this era of liberalism.
9. Even the usual sources of Divine knowledge, Tradition, had been kept by the devils. An occasional writing, like St.Robert Bellarmine, would rock the Church’s complacency making the whole Catholic world realize that they are not Catholic, a truth they could not swallow so they simply settled down with the more popular Church of Compassion, the idea of which was condemned by Pope John Paul II in ‘Veritatis Splendor.
10. Add to this attack by the devil on the soul of the Church his attack on the body, as he did to Job. The famines in Africa. The storms and earthquakes, the Global warming, the wars around the world, the corruptions in government, etc. Whoever would still want to live in this world must be insane. Yeah. That was what Gilbert Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc observed. The world had gone mad. But isn’t this how God destroy His enemies. He first makes them mad. Then He destroys them.