The Labor Pains: Depopulation?

 

THERE is a mysterious passage in the Gospel of John where Jesus explains that some things are too difficult to be revealed yet to the Apostles.

I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth… he will declare to you the things that are to come. (John 16:12-13)

With the passing away of the last Apostle, we know that the public revelation of Jesus ceased. And yet, the Spirit continues revealing and unfolding not only the depths of the “deposit of faith” but also speaking prophetically to the Church.^[1]“…no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.” —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 67

On this point, it should be kept in mind that prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future. —Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), “Message of Fatima”, Theological Commentary, www.vatican.va

But it is when we reflect upon God’s will for the present — and how humanity has departed from it — that we are given a window to the future.

The prophet is someone who tells the truth on the strength of his contact with God — the truth for today, which also, naturally, sheds light on the future. —Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), Christian Prophecy, The Post-Biblical Tradition, Niels Christian Hvidt, Foreword, p. vii))

 

The Rise of Chaos

It is precisely in this context that St. John Paul II spoke very powerfully and prophetically to the Church in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae — “The Gospel of Life.”

The secular messianists of our times are bringing the world ever closer to the brink of complete chaos. In fact, UN Chief Secretary-General Antonio Guterres just exclaimed:

Our world is entering an age of chaos … a dangerous and unpredictable free-for-all with total impunity. —February 7, 2024;Al Jezeera

His words weren’t missed by those of us who understand that the modus operandi of the Masonic secret societies is Ordo ab chaos — “order out of chaos.” Today, global elites offer a more sanitized phrase: the “Great Reset” or “Build Back Better.” But this requires that you destroy what is there first:

…namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism. —POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, April 20th, 1884

In fact, as noted in this video, the word reset as shown in the propaganda videos of the World Economic Forum with a colon — RE:SET — is a combination of the god Re and Set, which are gods of “order” and “chaos.”

How else can one make sense of the sudden “migration crisis” where world leaders (particularly the President of the United States) have refused to protect their borders thereby inviting mass migration, which is inducing a rapid destabilization of their nations?^[2]cf. The Crisis of the Refugee Crisis How else can one explain the attempted global abandonment of fossil fuels by Western leaders, which is destabilizing power grids and driving up inflation?^[3]Dr. John Clauser: “The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.” —May 5, 2023;C02 Coalition How else do you explain nonsensical “emission caps” that will destroy national economies? How else can one explain the aggression toward farmers around the world that threatens the global food supply?^[4]“Those who control the food, control the people. The Communists knew this better than anyone. The first thing Stalin did was come after the farmers. And the globalists of today are just copy-pasting that strategy, but this time around they use pretty/virtuous words to hide their true intentions. Last year, the Dutch government decided that 30% of all livestock needs to be cut by 2030 in order to meet the climate goals. And then the government decided that would mean at least 3000 farms needed to be shut down in the next few years. If farmers refuse to sell their land to the state ‘’voluntarily’’ to the state now, they run the risk of being expropriated later.” —Eva Vlaardingerbroek, lawyer and advocate for Dutch farmers, September 21, 2023, “The Global War on Farming” How else does one explain the mysterious fires that have destroyed over a hundred food and processing plants in recent years while globalists push insects as a food source? How else can one explain the deliberate tinkering with viruses with concomitant preparations for a new “pandemic”? How else can one explain the swift transition to automation and robots that threaten to eliminate hundreds of millions of jobs around the world? How else can you explain the push to “rewild” vast portions of rural land, forcing people into “smart cities“? How else can you explain the incessant flirtation with nuclear war?

None of these make sense — until you see it through the lens of messianic designs and dreams… of depopulation.

 

The Culture of Death

…we must not underestimate the disturbing scenarios that threaten our future, or the powerful new instruments that the “culture of death” has at its disposal. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Caritas in Veritate, n. 75

Depopulation is a word that frightens many. However, I believe Jesus was warning us from the very beginning that this was the ultimate goal of the adversary — and those who follow in his footsteps.

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)

By the envy of the devil, death came into the world: and they follow him that are of his side. (Wis 2:24-25; Douay-Rheims)

What alarmed Pope John Paul II the most was not just the appearance of evil men intent upon purging their race of undesirables but of the manifestation of an entire “culture of death.”

…we are confronted by an even larger reality, which can be described as a veritable structure of sin. —Evangelium Vitae, n. 12

Here, the words of St. Paul take on an apocalyptic implication for entire nations: “Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows.”^[5]Galatians 6:7 How much more so when entire nations sow in abortion, euthanasia, and ever “new instruments that the culture of death has at its disposal.” Here, we find ourselves standing at an unthinkable threshold as global leaders, in bizarre and reckless synchronicity, have opened wide the door to experimenting on entire populations.

LondonReal TV host, Brian Rose, questioned Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an educator on vaccination,^[6]founder of Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center and Courses4Mastery about the potential motives behind the vaccine industry in light of the deaths and injuries caused by the recent gene therapies injected into the greater public.

Rose: Surely Bill Gates and Fauci and even the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want that many deaths on their hands, I mean, they wouldn’t want that to happen or…

Tenpenny: They have no liability.

Rose: But still, I mean still they obviously don’t want that to happen, right? Do they just not know any better?

Tenpenny: They can read the literature just like I can, Brian.

Rose: They’re just evil, horrible people? Like, I’m just trying to understand their motivations…

Tenpenny: Well, one of the things we kind of try not to talk about in the vaccine world is the eugenics movement…. —LondonReal.tv, May 15th, 2020; freedomplatform.tv

As St. John Paul II warned:

…with time the threats against life have not grown weaker. They are taking on vast proportions. They are not only threats coming from the outside, from the forces of nature or the Cains’ who kill the Abels’; no, they are scientifically and systematically programmed threats. —Evangelium Vitae, n. 17

He adds that “False prophets and false teachers have had the greatest success.” Here, the term “false prophet” includes those in the public arena, particularily those secular messianists who hold an ungodly utopian vision of the future.

When people think they possess the secret of a perfect social organization which makes evil impossible, they also think that they can use any means, including violence and deceit, in order to bring that organization into being. Politics then becomes a “secular religion” which operates under the illusion of creating paradise in this world. —POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II, Centesimus Annus, n. 25

These false prophets include those in the “health care” industry…

A unique responsibility belongs to health-care personnel: doctors, pharmacists, nurses, chaplains, men and women religious, administrators and volunteers. Their profession calls for them to be guardians and servants of human life. In today’s cultural and social context, in which science and the practice of medicine risk losing sight of their inherent ethical dimension, health-care professionals can be strongly tempted at times to become manipulators of life, or even agents of death. —Evangelium Vitae, n. 89

…and notably those who produce their pharmakeia or drugs:

Very little work is in progress on immunological methods, methods such as vaccines, to reduce fertility, and much more research is required if a solution is to be found here. — The Rockefeller Foundation, “The Presidents Five-Year Review, Annual Report 1968″, p. 52; view pdf here

Hence, St. John Paul II concludes:

…we are in fact faced by an objective “conspiracy against life”, involving even international Institutions, engaged in encouraging and carrying out actual campaigns to make contraception, sterilization and abortion widely available. Nor can it be denied that the mass media are often implicated in this conspiracy… —Evangelium Vitae, n. 17

There is another explanation for the rapid diffusion of the Communistic ideas now seeping into every nation, great and small, advanced and backward, so that no corner of the earth is free from them. This explanation is to be found in a propaganda so truly diabolical that the world has perhaps never witnessed its like before. It is directed from one common center. —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism, n. 17

 

The Labor Pains: A Conspiracy of Depopulation?

All of this begs the question: were the labor pains that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 a veiled description of this global “conspiracy against life” — an agenda of depopulation? If so, it seems to me that twelve simple disciples living by the Sea of Galilee would not have been able to bear such a word, much less grasp how it could even be possible. Well, 2000 years ago, it was not possible. But today, it is not only possible but in progress (eg. a Canadian study has found that 17 million have died directly from the jab thus far). Hence, when Jesus described wars, famine (Mt 24:7), plague (Lk 21:11)  and the rise of “false prophets” (Mt 24:11), it seems He was speaking of man-made chastisements driven by dangerous messianists — deliberate wars, famines, and plagues.

They will unleash unprecedented horrors: famines, plagues, wars, and ultimately Divine Justice. In the beginning they will use coercion to further reduce population, and then if that fails they will use force. —Michael D. O’Brien, Globalization and the New World Order, March 17th, 2009

These labor pains are mirrored again in Revelation Chapter 6 and the “seals” that St. John envisioned — what the Lord described to me years ago as the “Great Storm.”

Depopulation emerges, then, as one of key strategies of the dragon in the “final confrontation” of our times, alongside the suppression of Christ’s Church and mission. And the late pontiff did not hesitate to make that parallel:

…the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth… (Rev 12:4)

….in a way that child is also a figure of every person, every child, especially every helpless baby whose life is threatened, because — as the Council reminds us — “by his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every person…” —Evangelium Vitae, n. 17

This struggle parallels the apocalyptic combat described in [Rev 11:19-12:1-6]. Death battles against Life: a “culture of death” seeks to impose itself on our desire to live, and live to the full. There are those who reject the light of life, preferring “the fruitless works of darkness.” Their harvest is injustice, discrimination, exploitation, deceit, violence. In every age, a measure of their apparent success is the death of the innocents. In our own century, as at no other time in history, the “culture of death” has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrible crimes against humanity: genocide, “final solutions,” “ethnic cleansings,” and the massive “taking of lives of human beings even before they are born, or before they reach the natural point of death”…. Today that struggle has become increasingly direct. —text of Pope John Paul II’s remarks at Sunday Mass at Cherry Creek State Park, Denver Colorado, World Youth Day, 1993, August 15, 1993, Solemnity of the Assumption; ewtn.com

Here, my dear brothers and sisters, we might be tempted to despair at the troubling dimensions of this confrontation. But Pope John Paul II concludes his encyclical reminding us that God will indeed be near to His Bride during this hour.

The angel’s Annunciation to Mary is framed by these reassuring words: “Do not be afraid, Mary” and “with God nothing will be impossible” (Lk 1:30, 37). The whole of the Virgin Mother’s life is in fact pervaded by the certainty that God is near to her and that he accompanies her with his providential care. The same is true of the Church, which finds “a place prepared by God” (Rev 12:6) in the desert, the place of trial but also of the manifestation of God’s love for his people (cf. Hos 2:16). —Evangelium Vitae, n. 150

After all, he says, it is Jesus who opens the “seals” (cf. Rev 5:1-10). Therefore, John Paul II assured us, this final confrontation “lies within the plans of divine Providence; it is a trial which the whole Church, and the Polish Church in particular, must take up. It is a trial of not only our nation and the Church, but in a sense a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations.”^[7]Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA for the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, August 13, 1976; cf. Catholic Online

After purification through trial and suffering, the dawn of a new era is about to break. —POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II, General Audience, September 10, 2003

[John Paul II] does indeed cherish a great expectation that the millennium of divisions will be followed by a millennium of unifications… that all the catastrophes of our century, all its tears, as the Pope says, will be caught up at the end and turned into a new beginning.  —Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), Salt of the Earth, An Interview With Peter Seewald, p. 237

 

 

 

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