On May 13, 1917, five months before the Communist takeover of
Russia, Christ sent his mother to three children in Fatima,
Portugal. In a series of apparitions, Mary warned that if
people do not stop offending God with their sins, God would
permit a chastisement upon them through an atheistic government
that was about to take control of Russia. Mary promised the
conversion of Russia if people heed the warning. She also
promised a visible miracle as a sign.
The miracle occurred on October 13, 1917, when the sun seemed
to dance in the sky in the presence of seventy thousand
spectators. Fatima is today world famous because of the
apparitions. (Luchia) (Haffert, Meet the Witnesses) (Alonso)
(Sharkey, p. 99) (Haffert, Deadline: The Third Secret of
Fatima).
These warnings of chastisements are easily misunderstood. It
would be much more clear to state them as warnings that if we
do not, of our own free wills, avoid sins, especially sins of
injustice toward each other, like murder, rape, robbery, bigotry,
violence, we will wind up experiencing the consequences of sins
committed by those who choose to continue sinning. God does not
want to take away our free will. We will no longer be fully
human if God does. Instead, God wants us all, of our own free
will, to recognize the harm caused by our disobedience and
freely quit disobeying God. We need supernatural help to do
so.
Knowing what we know now about history, one wonders how three
young children in Fatima could make such a preposterous
prediction about Russia at a time when Russia was considered
a backward nation, far outdistanced by the Western nations, and
was suffering terribly in World War I. Who would have believed
that Russia could chastise the world in 1917?
Before Communist Russia had run its course, it had converted
or conquered more than twenty nations, including China, and
was stopped from conquering all of Europe only through threat
of nuclear war. When the Soviet Union finally did run its
course, it simply collapsed, like whatever unifying spirit held
it together simply vanished.
The mother of Jesus told the three children that if the Catholic
pope, in union with all the Catholic bishops, would publicly
consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, Russia would be
converted into believing Christ. The Pope, I suppose, couldn't
get all the bishops to comply. Perhaps not all of the bishops
believed it. The consecration was not made. Russia then became
Communist and struck terror into Europe and killed many, many
persons, Christians especially, as Russia tried to enforce
atheism in every country they captured. What a shame! There was
a spirit behind Communism. God would have bound that spirit
in 1917, had enough people, especially clergy, believed
the children. Had the consecration been made, both parts of the
Illuminati's plan (mentioned on p. 269) would have been nipped
in the bud.
Fatima is famous for three secrets revealed to the children. Two
were made public soon after the apparitions, but the third secret
was not made public until after the collapse of the Soviet Union,
even though one of the children advised her bishop to make the
third secret public before 1960.
Here is the third secret. Lucia saw an angel crying out "Penance!
Penance! Penance!" Then she saw the pope with bishops, priests,
monks, and nuns going up a steep mountain, on top of which was a
huge cross. On the way up the mountain, the pope passed through
a city half in ruin and filled with corpses. When the pope and
those with him reached the top, they were all killed by soldiers
firing bullets and arrows. Two angels gathered their blood and
sprinkled their blood on souls making their way to God. What do
you make of it? What harm would have ensued if it were made
public earlier?
The other two secrets were a detailed vision of hell and the
prediction of a great luminous sign in the sky warning that God
is ready to let sin run its course through another World War,
famine, and persecutions. The sign was seen on Jan. 25,
1938. The media dismissed it as an unusually bright Aurora
Borealis seen in Europe and North America. Six months later,
Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, which was the point of no return
for World War II. You know the rest. The United States and its
allies built up Russia so it was, after the war, able to become
the superpower that challenged the West for fifty years.
