Making Sense of The End Times

Drew Mariani (0:00)

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Drew Mariani (0:24)

Well, hey, thanks for joining me. Good to be with you this afternoon. You're gonna love this topic. It's a fascinating one. You know, we'll share with you a little bit. St. Faustina, who I love We have. a great devotion to it, as you know. We pray the Chaplet on the air every day here. The vice postulator for her cause was a man named Father Seraphim Mikhilenko. And he's the one who introduced me to the whole Divine Mercy devotion. And he was an expert on the theology and what the Lord revealed. And he told me something that was very striking. The chaplet's not, the Divine Mercy devotion is not just about the chaplet or the image or the great feast of mercy or the hour of mercy or any of these other things.

He said really the essence of that was to prepare, the Lord came to Faustina to prepare the world for his second coming. That's what he told her.

He spoke of a time of extraordinary mercy before the coming divine justice. He says before I come as a just judge, I first come as a merciful savior. Woe to those of you who do not recognize this time of my visitation. So these revelations are actually recorded by St. Faustina, who was the great apostle of divine mercy in her diary. Well, I want to explore what he told her. What did she write about the final days? What about her prophecy? What about the spark coming from Poland? I want to talk even more than that. I want to take a look at something that is really fascinating. Something that's talked about enough. There's a new book out, though, and I cannot wait to read this book. And I'll tell you what, it's called, it's written by my next guest, Dr. Ralph Martin. He'll be joining me in a minute. He's been a guest on the program in the past. He's the president of Renewal Ministries. He wrote a book that is called The Coming Judgment. Are We Ready? And it explores everything from the antichrist to the particular judgment, the final judgment, to the return of Jesus Christ. And let me ask you, what if Jesus Christ returned tomorrow?

What if he came today? Would you be ready to meet him?

Sacred scripture tells us that before his return, there'll be war and rumors of war. There'll be deception and persecution. There'll be a great falling away from the faith. There'll be a final confrontation between good and evil. But there's something extraordinary about the Second Coming that a lot of Christians overlook. I mean, Christ's return is supposed to, you know, it's not supposed to fill you with terror. It's supposed to fill you with hope. So what did Jesus actually reveal about the end times? What did the scripture tell us? What did the saints believe? And could some of the signs already be unfolding right now around you? That's what I want to explore. You can join me here, 888-914-9149.

It's a delight to have with me Dr. Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries. He's got a couple books out, and his other book is Heart-Speeding as One. That's on the Fatima apparitions from Sophia Institute Press. But Coming Judgment, Are We Ready? That's from Emmaus. Check it out. Doctor, thank you for joining me. It's good to talk with you today.

Ralph Martin (3:40)

Well, it's good to be with you, Drew. And every single thing you mentioned there, I've written about in the book, because I think it really is important for Catholics to know these things. A lot of times people say, oh, I don't want to hear about the Coming Judgment, I'm scared. Well, I want to say, don't be scared, be ready. And, you know, yeah.

Drew Mariani (3:58)

Yeah, we don't know the day or the hour. I was praying today, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, for a priest who just got done preaching about being ready, and a crucifix falls off the wall behind him, a big one, large one, and he died right there at Mass. You know, I hear stories about people having lunch, taking their lunch break, sitting in their car, and a tree falls on them. You don't know, somebody dies of an aneurysm. We do not know the day or the hour, so to your point, I think we have to be, we certainly have to be ready.

This concept of the return of Christ, and there's so much to talk about. We can talk about the man of perdition, the antichrist, the three days of darkness, we can talk about anything, right? All this stuff that gets all meshed up in this.