How much longer O Lord?

This Lent, think more in terms of God's time rather than our earthly sense of time.

Impatience is part of human nature. All of us struggle with it from time to time and some struggle (or don’t) daily. Children want to grow up fast; adults want to slow down the aging process. Neither are in our power (despite the promises of cosmetic surgery) but in our Creator’s. And speaking of God the Creator, high-atop of His mysteries is His eternalness. How can someone - even God - have no beginning and no end? That’s impossible for our human minds to process. We live in this valley of tears with deadlines, instant gratification, anxiety, and the reality of life and death. This essay is not to figure out the eternalness of God because doing so would be pointless. What I would like to do is help change our mindset about surrendering to God’s sense of time.

Let’s start with understanding prehistoric science within Sacred Scripture

So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2: 1-3

O.K. So how did God do all of that in seven short days? And what about those dinosaurs that lived a billion or so years before man but aren’t mentioned in the Bible? What about all the science that allegedly proves insignificant little mountain ranges to be a billion plus years older than the Himalayas and the Alps? Hmmm? What do you have to say about that you Bible-believing Christian?

If you’ve been on the receiving line of the above, welcome to the club. Hardcore secular-progressive folks who bow down in adoration to “the science,” love to provoke “scientific formulas” to debunk the Word of God. None of their attempts to agitate us should do so. First of all, why should we take their explanations of scientific methodology so seriously? Especially in light of all the junk science of 2020-2022 that fooled many into believing the covidism population-reduction scam? The Uhwarrie Mountains in central North Carolina are older than the Alps? Yeah, maybe they are but where’s the proof that the little hills of the Uhwarries were ever as high as the Matterhorn and then wore-down in time “with age”? Soil sample analysis? Umm hmm. Rock analysis? Yeahhh, okayyy. On the flip side, did God invent everything in seven periods of twenty-four hours? Well who is to say that a day to God is the equivalent of man’s twenty-four hours?

I’m probably going to lose some hardcore evangelicals here but in regard to reading the Bible literally - Old Testament especially - we have to take into context that the Bible is a translation of many, many ancient texts including Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. How hard is it to translate one language into another? Let’s try that out now with the following statement:

Today is a cold and rainy day. I hope that tomorrow will be warm and full of sunshine.

Let’s translate that now into Hungarian.

Ma hideg és esős nap van. Remélem, hogy a holnap meleg és tele lesz napsütéssel.

Now let’s reverse translate the Hungarian back into English word by word.

Today cold and rainy day there is. I hope, that a tomorrow warm and full will be with sunshine.

I speak zero Hungarian and have to assume that the internet translation is correct. If so, the concept articulated by these Hungarian words back to English is correct, but to the English reader/speaker, it doesn’t make total sense because the sentence structure is off. Today we have algorithms in our software that can instantly translate complex languages like Hungarian into flawless English, but St. Jerome had no such thing when he composed the Bible, nor did his predecessors in the days of the very Old Testament when Adam, Cain, Noah and David were dictating their lives to those who would document them. The point of this is, there has to be some allocation for translation and interpretation without going down the very dangerous path of assuming any part of the Sacred Scriptures is pure fiction.

So how about those dinosaurs and the science of evolution that allegedly proves man descended from the monkeys?

All of the fossil evidence does indicate that dinosaurs walked the face of the earth and so did the dodo bird in much, much more recent times. As to what happened to them and why, we’ll just have to be patient and wait until the General Judgement to find out. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away - on His terms. As for Darwinism/evolution… According to the theory (not the fact) of evolution, things are always mutating. If you and I originally descended from monkeys, but at some point along the way, descended from a totally human line, then surely by now we’d have mutated into a newer species. A third arm would be very handy when I’m weighed down with grocery bags. Maybe if I live another thirty years, I and all of you will get lucky and evolve into something like one of those hindu gods demons with multiple arms? And since we’re on the subject of Darwinism, if man developed out of the monkeys then why are there still monkeys? Shouldn’t they have all evolved into humans like we did? Darwinism = insanity.

God’s in charge so relax and stop looking at the clock

I had to go off on a tangent about reading the Bible to set the pace for this next section. We have to stop thinking that we are God when it comes to the timeline of events in our life. The Hebrew people had to wander around in the Sinai desert for forty years before they could enter the Promised Land. Could they have gotten there sooner if they had been more faithful? Maybe but it was still going to happen in God’s time. He kept His promise and they eventually got there.

One of the people I am grateful to have known and spent time with before she departed the world was Phyllis Schlafly. I really miss her: she was an incredible lady in so many ways. Among her many admirable traits was how when she’d speak on college campuses, the young feminists would seethe with anger and try to trip her up with their questions - which always failed. One time, Phyllis was being harangued by some angry young gal about being a hypocrite because Phyllis, in addition to being a non-feminist homemaker, also had quite a professional resume of accomplishments. After politely listening to the wanna-be Gloria Steinem, Phyllis calmly explained that she had indeed been a homemaker, an attorney, a candidate for public office, an author, and most famously, a successful grassroots activist who defeated the feminists’ golden calf, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The catch as Phyllis explained was that different things happen at different times in our lives and its ridiculous to think you can have it all at one time because life doesn’t work that way.

Have you ever had your heart set on let’s say a job with a company you admire? You go through the interview process, pick up good vibes and start to convince yourself that you have the job. And then… you get the bad news. You’re devastated but what you may not have been willing to see was that the company was a toxic environment and had you been hired there, you would have been miserable. How about that boy or girl that you were smitten with in high school and completely heartbroken that the feeling wasn’t mutual. Years later you see that the then object of your obsession has turned out to be a hardcore addict with a criminal record. Aren’t you glad you didn’t marry him or her?

Let’s take it up a notch and - this is purely fictitious - set the following scenario on September 11th 2001 in metro New York City. One gentleman, let’s call him Daniel, is a shy, unambitious and uneducated young man, living with his parents and employed as a janitor. The other gentleman, let’s call him Stephen, is a middle-aged husband and father. Stephen is a outgoing power-broker, making seven figures as the head of a venture capital firm. Both men work in the World Trade Center and both have started the day like many, commuting to their jobs in lower Manhattan.

A couple hours after departing their homes, Daniel, having missed the bus to the subway stop is severely late. Stephen, much to his surprise, did not encounter that much traffic from his home in the suburbs and is able to go over some meeting notes in his office well in advance of his conference call coming up. And then, that fateful moment in history occurs. Daniel is spared but Stephen dies instantly.

Prior to getting into his car for the drive into Manhattan, Stephen was able to go to Confession before Mass where he received Holy Communion in a state of grace. Daniel had spent the prior night snorting cocaine and fornicating with his married girlfriend. Stephen, at the moment of his sudden death was in a good position for his personal judgement. Daniel, mercifully spared by the Divine Providence, now had an opportunity to reflect on his state in life and make some serious changes.

We can control lots of things in our lives but ultimately, the Divine Providence can - and does - step in to over-rule us. We have to always be prepared like Stephen was.

Now about all of that evil going on in the antichurch…

What happens when a legitimate pope dies? A conclave is called and the cardinals have to go to Rome where they vote on a new (legitimate) pontiff. They all have to get to Rome first, and then they have to meet and vote until there is a valid result. How long does that take? It varies. A week, a month, more? So during that time, who is the pope? Answer = no one. The Seat of Peter is temporarily vacant. Now think back to God’s sense of time. What is a day, a month or several months to God? A nanosecond? a minute? A day? A year? A dozen years?

I’ve been told by many that my position that Jorge Bergoglio and now Robert Prevost are antipopes is wrong because God couldn’t allow the See of Peter to be vacant and thus, abandon His Church. With all do respect to those who take that position, how is that any different from the Chair being vacant between the death of one pope and the election of a successor? The Chair is still vacant but that does not mean that God has thrown in towel and told satan to take over.

Jorge Bergoglio may have desecrated St. Peter’s Basilica with the pachamama demon but Pope Benedict XVI was still alive so the See of Peter was not vacant. But then Pope Benedict died at the end of 2022. Even though the See was now vacant, does that mean the Catholic Church was dead? No, that’s ludicrous. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was still being said worldwide and the Catholic Faith was still being practiced. Three years later, that’s still what’s happening.

Obviously I am not a 1958 sedevacantist but I do face (some of) the same arguments as they do. To their defense, what is sixty years to God? I don’t know but I think it’s wrong to assume that its the same as sixty years to us.

The Conciliar Church WILL BE straightened out and I think it will happen by Divine Intervention. What’s in place now is so sodomitical, so corrupt, so masonic, so… satanic. It’s not rational to think that non-Catholic men doing the non-Catholic things they’re doing are going to reform themselves. Those guys are ALL going to have to go and be replaced. Will it happen? Yep, it has to because Our Lord promised that the gates of hell would not prevail. When will it happen? That’s not for me to figure out nor you. As a sidenote, please be extra cautious about these apparition Karens and Kevins who believe every kook who claims the Blessed Mother and Jesus are visiting them with “messages” about current events. Those people are a big danger to your Catholic Faith and need to be shunned. Look at how Church-approved seers like Bernadette of Lourdes and the children of Fatima behaved. That’s the benchmark.

Trust in the Divine Providence and you’ll be o.k. Yes, you will have to suffer from time to time but that’s how great saints are made. Embrace it and submit yourself wholly to His Will within His Time.