“What you have heard is not fantasy nor the darkness of imagination, but what mankind has formed as the future of its history.”

It is a striking, almost startling way of juxtaposing words — this new little addition to the anonymous “1990 prophecy,” received just the other day.

Mediate on that, just a single sentence (for your discernment).

When it comes to the future: do we approach armed and perhaps nuclear conflict?

One wonders. And when one reflects on an “enlightenment” given to the famous Fatima seer Lucia dos Santos, in 1944, as discussed in the new book, Future Events: A Prophecy of Coming Times, one sees (after what seem like descriptions of natural calamity; more on this shortly) a description of mayhem and the words, “It is the purification of the world as it plunges into sin. Hatred and ambition cause the destructive war!”

The battle drums are certainly rattling, in some corners booming. There are two major ongoing conflicts. Is a third on the way in Latin America? We see of late that danger of Venezuela invading neighboring Guyana — something the U.S., which has sent some military assets in the area, would strongly — and perhaps militarily — oppose. “The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an urgent meeting,” said CBS. last week.

The mystic and servant of God Maria Esperanza, speaking of Venezuela, once said: “It will begin here.” 

Would that draw in Russia, which has an association with Venezuela and kinship with authoritarians in general? Now deceased, Esperanza, in interviews with film-maker and now radio host Drew Mariani, said the Virgin Mary was coming “to look for us amid the brouhaha of an atomic awakening that is about to explode.”

There is Ukraine. There is Israel.

“I feel the United States has to save the world,” Esperanza, a friend of Padre Pio, said. “There is nothing else that can be done. All of America, the whole world, has to unite to save the world, because if we separate from them a little war will come right away. War is waiting. It’s waiting already to come upon us, especially in Venezuela. They want Venezuela to be like the hook or the lure for all of this to begin.”

That was said in 1989.

She mentioned egoism and greed as reasons for war, and in fact Venezuela seeks to absorb Guyana territory because recently it found eleven billion barrels of recoverable offshore oil off those lands.

Remarkably, Esperanza had added, “In 1953 I was told things that will happen. Russia will act before the United States in a surprise way.”

As for China, “The yellow races will stand up,” she had said. “And that’s very serious and I’m afraid, because they would like to rise. We are living difficult times right now, and I expect an earthquake in Venezuela. We’re living them now. A very difficult and serious time will come.”

“I take a look at the Orient and the West. I hope Israel makes peace with the Muslims, because there will be a nation within those people that may provoke a war — a very great war. This could be very great. And comes Russia, Germany, and then England, and so many nations to defend themselves, and this is going to be a catastrophe.”

This revisitation of the remarkable mystic, who died August 7, 2004, comes as Finland is boosting its border defenses against Russia, as is Poland; on the other side of the globe, Taiwan is preparing for a “highly possible” war with China. The Philippines also fears a Chinese assault.

“Germany may have to wage a defensive war against Russia in the future, German television news program Tagesschau reported on Dec. 9, citing Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) Inspector General Carsten Breuer,” reports Yahoo. “Breuer expressed concern about Russia’s rearmament and the behavior of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, saying there will be no return to the times before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Germany will have to get used to the idea “that one day we might have to fight a defensive war.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jb0tckw2KA

Meanwhile, in addition to the prospects for conflicts, are the signs — or possible ones — in nature:

Locusts swarm skies of Mexico leaving people fearing the world is ending

Some likewise see dead fish as “signs.”

And in the news also: Thousands of tons of dead fish have washed up on a beach in northern Japan, prompting speculation that the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has wrought havoc on local ecosystems. “The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating an unsettling sliver blanket that covered almost a mile of shoreline,” is the way the London Mail put it. “Officials could not come up with an explanation for the phenomenon, but Takashi Fujioka, a Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute researcher, posited a number of theories as to why the fish could have died en-masse.”

Or — to really go out there — how about the fact that an asteroid called “319” will be eclipsing (or “occluding”) a star called Betelgeuse this week (December 12, the feast of Guadalupe).

Beetle Juice!

“The path of the occultation passes south of Medjugorje,” notes viewer Joel J. Keene. “Then Rome. Then Lourdes. Then Garabandal. Then Fatima. Then it ends south of Guadalupe. This happens on the 492nd anniversary of the occurrence of Guadalupe.”

“In addition to this occultation ending at Guadalupe on Guadalupe anniversary, we have a solar eclipse that will center over Guadalupe on April 8, 2024. This involves Blessed Virgin Mary as the Patroness of America.”

We’ll take it under advisement.

— MHB

[resources: Future Events] and Spirit Daily pilgrimage, Fatima, Lourdes, Avila, and other special powerful spots!]

[From the mailbag (a pilgrim on our recent trip through Italy):

“Hello, Michael. I hope you and Lisa are having a great holiday season! I fell asleep last night praying the Holy Rosary and had a concerning dream that I want to share for your discernment.  In it, the civil defense sirens were blaring.  We were told that the United States was under attack and to seek immediate shelter.  I was walking along a city street at the time, so I headed to the closest sturdy building leading several stunned strangers there too,  urging them to find shelter.  I told them to use the stairways and to descend to the lowest possible level, away from any windows or glass.  Several listened and followed those directions.