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Disasters serve as wake up call to repentance and to
announce His Final Judgment
From: "jagbir singh" <adishakti_org@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Oct 9, 2005 11:30 am
Subject: Disasters serve as wake up call to repentance and
to announce His Final Judgment
—- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, "jagbir singh"
<adishakti_org@y...> wrote:
>
> Shri Mataji has said that:
>
> "In between Jesus Christ and His destroying Incarnation of
> Mahavishnu called as Kalki there is time given to human
beings to
> rectify themselves, for them to enter the Kingdom of God
which in
> the Bible is called as Last Judgment — that you will be
judged.
> All of you will be judged on this Earth.
>
> The population of the Earth is at the maximum these days
because
> all those — practically all those who had aspirations to
enter into
> the Kingdom of God — are born in Modern Times and are
going to be
> born very soon. This is the most important times because
Sahaja
> Yoga is the Last Judgment. It is fantastic to hear this
but that's
> the fact. It's the Truth!
>
> Though you can understand that Mother's Love makes it very
easy
> for you to get to your Realization and that the whole
story of
> Last Judgment — which looks such a horrifying experience —
has
> been made very beautiful, and very tender, and delicate,
and does
> not disturb you."
>
> The Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
> Kundalini And Kalki Shakti, Bombay, India — September 28,
1979
>
>
> Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi proves beyond a shadow of doubt
that
> these "are the times described in the Holy Bible as the
Last
> Judgment and in the Koran as Qiyamah, the Resurrection
time.
> Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the
time of
> rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth."
>
> In the Qur'n it is proclaimed as the peaceful Night of
Power that
> precedes the terrifying Day of Noise and Clamour. Even the
Hindu
> scriptures prophecy the same Second Coming of the Supreme
> Chastiser, better know as Kalki who will arive on a White
Horse:
>
> "Thereafter, at the end of Kali-yuga, when there exist no
> discussion on the subject of God, even at the residences
of so-
> called saints and honoured gentlemen ... at that time
the Lord
> will appear as the Supreme Chastiser."
>
> Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 2, Ch. 7 Text 38
> (A.C. B. Swami Prabhupada, Srimad Bhagavatam, BTT, 1987,
p. 422.)
>
>
> "Shri Kalki is the Redeemer and the Destroyer, the White
Rider of
> the Christian and Hindu eschatologies, His Coming is
actualised by
> Sahaja Yoga's implementation of collective consciousness
on
> earth .... The Rider is the Destroyer. That was made
perfectly
> clear in the Gospels and the Kalki Purana. When He will
come, He
> will neither argue or listen, neither save nor forgive. We
should
> clearly understand one thing: HH Mataji is the Saviour
because She
> is the compassionate One to grant us emancipation before
the
> coming of Shri Kalki. She is the Comforter that Christ has
> promised. Therefore, all our attention should be on Her,
on the
> Now, and on self-realsation that She grants. Shri Kalki is
not to
> be expected now. We are not ready for Him. He is the
beloved and
> most obedient Son of HH Mataji. He listens to Her and
delays His
> coming because the Divine Mother wants us to get our
realisation
> first."
>
> Grégoire de Kalbermatten, The Advent
>
>
Quake's terrible toll is revealed
BBC 9 October 2004
Pakistan says more than 19,000 have been killed by
Saturday's huge
earthquake, and it is feared the death toll could climb much
further. ...
Only a handful of buildings in the once bustling market town
of
Balakot are still standing, says our correspondent.
Tariq Farooq, works and communications minister in Pakistan-
administered Kashmir, said 30,000 people had died in that
region
alone.
But there was no confirmation of that figure from the
central
authorities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4323008.stm
Fears mount for mudslide victims
BBC 9 October 2005
Rescuers are still not able to reach at least 90 Guatemalan
villages
cut off by mudslides after Tropical Storm Stan, Vice
President
Eduardo Stein says.
At least 508 people are confirmed dead but officials warn
another
1,400 could have died in two villages in the worst affected
area,
around Lake Atitlan. ...
Mr Stein said the situation was "rougher than after
Hurricane Mitch"
in 1998, when 268 people were killed and 110,000 left
homeless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4324038.stm
Bali bombs death toll rises to 23
BBC 8 October 2005
One of the people injured in the Bali suicide attacks a week
ago has
died, bringing the death toll to 23.
A hospital official said Endri Kartika, who was working in
Raja's
restaurant on Kuta Beach at the time of the attack, died on
Friday
from internal bleeding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4321524.stm
Six US marines die in Iraq blasts
BBC 7 October 2005
Bombs have killed six US marines in western Iraq where
operations
have been under way to track down militants fighting the
US-backed
government. ...
In another development, the bodies of 22 men from Badra, a
town
south-east of Baghdad, were found bound with wire handcuffs
and
riddled with bullets.
Many are thought to have been Sunni Muslims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4319388.stm
Bird flu 'could kill 150m people'
BBC 30 September 2005
A flu pandemic could happen at any time and kill between
5-150
million people, a UN health official has warned.
David Nabarro, who is charged with co-ordinating responses
to bird
flu, said a mutation of the virus affecting Asia could
trigger new
outbreaks.
"It's like a combination of global warming and HIV/Aids 10
times
faster than it's running at the moment," Dr Nabarro told the
BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4292426.stm
Hurricanes and global warming - a link?
BBC 23 September 2005
Take the president of the world's most powerful nation. Add
two
intense and damaging natural storms which bring destruction
to that
country; then mix in the widely held view that the same
nation's
environmental policies are partially responsible for those
storms....
Certainly, 2005 appears to have been an unusually active
year.
The US National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center
comments
in its August summary that "thus far in 2005, there have
been 12
named storms and four hurricanes.
"These numbers are well above the long-term averages of 4.4
storms
and 2.1 hurricanes that would normally have formed by this
date."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4276242.stm
A Call to Repentance
First, disasters serve as a wake up call to repentance for
mankind.
Disasters can have a sobering effect upon the human mind.
When a war
breaks out, or an earthquake destroys countless lives and
property,
or a drought burns the crops and dries up the water supply,
or an
epidemic disease victimizes millions of persons, many people
will
call out to God either in curse or prayer. C. S. Lewis wrote
that "pain is God's megaphone to a deaf world."
It was an earthquake that caused the jailer at Philippi to
exclaim:
"Men, what must I do to be saved?" (Acts 16:30). It was a
famine
that sent King Ahab searching everywhere for the prophet
Elijah (1
Kings 18:10). It was a plague that brought Pharoah to his
knees,
confessing before Moses: "I have sinned against the Lord
your God,
and against you. Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you,
only
this once, and entreat the Lord your God only to remove this
death
from me" (Ex 10:16-17).
In His Olivet Discourse Jesus predicted that certain
calamities will
occur before His Return. Because of their nature and
function, we
can call these calamities "signs of divine judgment."
Specifically
Jesus said: "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars;
see that
you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end
is not
yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against
kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in
various
places: all this is but the beginning of the sufferings"
(Matt 24:6-
8; cf. Mark 13:7-8). Luke adds "pestilences" to the listing
of
calamities (Luke 21:11).
The manifestation of divine judgment through calamities is
intended
to summon people to repent. The prophet Joel, for example,
describes
a disastrous drought and fire which destroyed the harvest,
the
pasture, and the trees and dried up the water brooks (Joel
1:11-12,
19-20). In the context of this calamity, the prophet calls
upon the
people to repent: "Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail,
all you
drinkers of wine, ... Sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly.
Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the
house
of the Lord your God; and cry to the Lord" (Joel 1:5, 14).
An Announcement of the Final Judgment
Second, disasters are used by God not only to summon people
to
repentance, but also to announce His final judgment which is
associated with the Day of the Lord in the Old Testament and
with
the Day of Christ's Coming in the New Testament. For
example, Joel
sees the historical famine described above as a sign that
"the day
of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it
comes"
(Joel 1:15).
In the prophetic perspective, disasters such as wars,
earthquakes,
and famines not only reveal God's immediate judgment upon
human
ungodliness and wickedness (Rom 1:18), but are also
harbingers of
the final judgment to come. They constantly remind mankind
that the
Judge is standing at the doors (James 5:9). "Every report of
calamity by sea or land," states Ellen White, "is a
testimony to the
fact that the end of all things is at hand." (Evangelism, p.
219).
A Pledge of the Certainty of the End
A third noteworthy aspect of calamities is that they serve
to point
to the certainty of the approaching End. Jesus spoke of
wars,
earthquakes, famines, and pestilences as disasters occurring
not
exclusively at the very end but during the whole time
preceding His
Return. This point is implied in the admonition not to be
alarmed by
the occurrence of these signs "for this must take place, but
the end
is not yet" (Matt 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 21:9). In fact,
these signs
are said to represent "but the beginning of the sufferings"
(Matt
24:8; Mark 13:8).
The latter expression was used in Judaism in a technical way
to
describe the period of suffering ("the birth-pangs of the
Messiah")
that would precede the establishment of the messianic
Kingdom.
Possibly Jesus made use of this familiar concept to
characterize the
conditions that will precede His Return. The occurrences of
wars,
earthquakes, famines, and pestilences do not pinpoint but
point to
the approaching End. They constitute a pledge that the End
will
surely come.
By saying that wars, earthquakes, famines, and pestilences
are "but
the beginning of the sufferings" (Matt 24:8; Mark 13:8),
Christ
clearly implied that they will intensify as the End
approaches. "But
the beginning" presupposes that there will be more and worse
disasters yet to come. These will cause such a "great
tribulation"
that, Jesus said, "if those days had not been shortened, no
human
being would be saved" (Matt 24:22; cf. Mark 13:20).
Christ's prediction of the intensification of calamities
before the
End finds support in the prophetic books of the Old and New
Testaments. These books, as I have shown in The Advent Hope
for
Human Hopelessness, predict an intensification of warfare
and
disasters prior to the Coming of the Lord. (If you do not
have this
timely book, just call us at (269) 471-2915 or email us your
request, and we will mail it to you immediately).
Both natural and man-made disasters are increasing today in
different parts of the world. Through natural cataclysms and
man-
made environmental crises, God is announcing His impending
judgment
upon human rebellion and is calling people to repent before
it is
too late.
The unprecedented fulfillment in our time of the signs of
divine
judgment predicted by Christ is a clear harbinger of the
impending
final judgment that Christ will soon execute upon mankind at
His
Second Coming. Through natural disasters like Tsunami God is
calling
upon unbelievers to repent and upon believers to live holy
and godly
lives while "waiting for and hastening the coming of the day
of God"
(2 Pet 3:11-12).
A Call to Repentance
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