What we have, is the conjunction of three historical events that play into the Evangelical narrative quite nicely, from their point of view. What we can expect over the next few years, starting immediately after Ariel Sharon's death, is a radically increased intensity of end times hysteria coming from Evangelical America. We will hear it on the radio, see it from television preachers, and our Evangelical friends will be getting a steady dose of it regularly from their churches. The Second Coming of Christ is about to come -- so they will say. He will arrive any day to "Rapture" his Church, and you better not be "left behind." The four blood moons herald his coming, and Pope Francis is the prophesied Antichrist -- or at least the Antichrist's false prophet. Those who follow him (meaning all Catholics) will go straight to Hell. They will shout at us to "Repent!" and "Leave the Whore of Babylon" before it's too late. If you think they were loud and obnoxious in previous years, you haven't seen anything yet. The next few years will be the culmination of everything they've been waiting decades for. Catholic parents need to prepare their older children (teenagers and young adults) for this, because I promise you, the hard sell that will be put on them over the next few years will be like nothing we've ever seen before. I am certain that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of young Catholics will leave the Church over fears that the Evangelical narrative might be right.
PFL
4 posted on 01/03/2014 6:52:34 AM PST by Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")