Posted on 02/24/2025 2:17:13 PM PST by Vendome
nconfirmed reports from “reliable sources” in Rome are saying that Pope Francis has less than 72 hours to live.
LifeSiteNews’ Vatican correspondent Michael Haynes has relayed reports citing “reliable sources” at the Gemelli Hospital which say Francis has less than 72 hours to live. The reports have not been verified by Vatican officials.
@messainlatino reports reliable sources at the Gemelli Hospital saying Pope Francis has under 72hrs to live
Gemelli's chaplain now urges people to pray with a “hope against all hope”
This comes after Francis' lengthy breathing crisis Sat & 'mild' kidney failure Sun
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
First, pray that he will come to Christ, in faith, and be saved.
Second, pray that his religion would select a believer to lead them in the right direction.
You are not drunk, as it would appear. It’s only nine in the morning! (Acts 2 paraphrased)
So you must have forgotten to take your meds!
ALMOST PERFECT
Ps 109:8 is perfect. It is God's Word.
May his days be few; may another take his office!
“First, pray that he will come to Christ, in faith, and be saved.
Second, pray that his religion would select a believer to lead them in the right direction.”
This brings to mind one of my favorite parables. I call the vineyard workers parable the “Procrastinator’s Parable.” It’s never too late to arrive and the pay is the same for all who are there at the end of the day.
That sure applies in today’s times.
It is “never too late” UNTIL the day is over.
It is “too late” after a person dies.
We only have THIS life to trust Jesus and be saved.
((small, but important point))
Sounds as if a hottoddy is in the works,
>> Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher.
Jesus is LORD of ALL.
There's a lot wrong with what you wrote.
Do you want details?
“Revelation 1, 2, & 3 are filled with quotes from Jesus about judging and it’s in His words to the 7 churches.”
Jesus was telling the TRUTH when He said that He came NOT to Judge but to Save.
John 12: 47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
When I spent time at a Benedictine Monastery, I noticed that about a third of the fifty to sixty monks had the back door to their heart closed. They felt they had to “earn” God’s Love and their self judgement was blocking them from receiving it. They didn’t realize that God’s Love is unconditional and you don’t have to “earn” it.
I had a lengthy discussion with the Abbot about this as it was troubling to me. I could feel that the Abbot was receiving God’s Love and did not block it, so I knew he understood what I was observing. (He actually radiated Love outward in all directions)
Your perception of being judged and the need to “fear God” is very dangerous for people on a spiritual path. God’s Love is so perfect that it casts out any fear. The two cannot exist in the same space.
There are consequences for people’s actions or inaction. Often those consequences are physical death. Even worse is the consequence of not being able to enter Heaven after physical death. These souls become stuck here as “unclean spirits.”
Oh how I wish that everyone could directly observe consciousness the way I do as it makes Jesus’s teachings experiential and so easy to understand.
1 John 4: God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
This is so critically important it is worth repeating.
“18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
JESUS DOES NOT JUDGE. HE OFFERS US GOD’S LOVE.
Everybody has their own expiration date.....hope he gets his heart and soul in the right place.....wishing him a peaceful transition
Here's why you're wrong and I welcome your comments.
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Judgements
Heb 9:27 - "...it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment"
2 Cor 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Cor 5:10 is not about judgement of Christians and whether they will be sent to hell or suffer any penalty for sin
Three future "judgements" are found in Scripture and which one(s) you face depend on what you have done with Christ in this lifetime:
1. The Judgement Seat of Christ - not a judgement of God's wrath (1 Thes 5:9; Rom 5:8,9; 1 Thes 1:10; 2 Peter 2:9; and John 5:24) and punishment but a judgement of what we have done with the gift of life He gave us. This is a judgement of believer's accomplishments and rewards for "what he has done in the body, whether good or evil (some versions 'bad')."
This is the Bema seat judgement. 1 Thes 5:2 and when it takes place is uncertain. I have only an opinion.
Our good works (James 2:14 ff) will be rewarded. See 1 Cor 3:12-15 (n.b. We do not earn salvation by our works.)
2. Judgement of the Sheep and the Goats (or, "Judgement of the Nations") Matt 25:31-34, 42 "when the Son of Man comes in His Glory" (when He sets foot on the Earth).
This is at the end of the 7-year Tribulation period when millions of people will die. Some will be saved during the Tribulation and they will be judged at this time: These are the "sheep" of this particular judgement.
3. The Great White Throne of Judgement (Rev 20) Takes place after the 1,000 year, Millennial Kingdom period.
Believers are not a part of this particular judgement. The spiritually dead (unbelievers whose names are not written in the Book of Life) are judged according to their works and are cast into the lake of fire.
It's not slander if it's true.
The pastors/teachers are held to a higher level of accountability by God. Additionally, we are warned to watch out for false teachers and given the things to look for.
That can't be done without somehow judging their actions by Scripture. It doesn't matter how good they made some people feel, or what other allegedly *good works* they did. That doesn't excuse them in the least and exposing the truth is NOT slander.
If people don't want anything bad said about them, then they should not do anything wrong. Really simple.
I would be nice to have a pope who cared about the church instead of being a propagandist for the left.
My personal opinion that I do not impose upon others, I only share for insight, is that translation and manuscript copying errors by the scribes promote confusion.
Just as many people state that you must “fear God.” Anyone who has ever experienced God’s Love cannot fear Him. It is absolutely impossible. You have reverence and ultimate respect for God and you choose to follow God’s Will out of Love, but never fear. I’m sorry, but I could never fear God, as fear comes from judgement and punishment. God’s Love is unconditional and freeing, unlike human love that is conditional and controlling.
Not one dot of the law is removed, but you follow it as it allows you to approach closer to God and feel more of His Love.
I have a problem with Hebrews 9:27 for several reasons.
1. There has been much dispute as to this book being legitimate.
2. There is much debate as to whom the true author is. It is generally accepted that it was not Paul. Possibly it was Timothy or Luke.
3. In the copies of the oldest manuscripts found, Hebrews 9 ends with verse 14. It appears the remainder was added later.
4. Paul uses the same word “die” in its original text eight other times referring to “dying daily”, not a physical death.
5. This topic was discussed at the Fifth Ecumenical Conference in Constantinople. The entire conference is up for debate as the Emperor Justinian held the Pope Vigilis prisoner eight years until he agreed to have the conference. This is when the anathemas against Origin’s writings were adopted.
6. My actual observations of people’s souls very clearly shows me different. The memories of every life a person lived are stored in the person’s soul.
7. Jesus never stated that there is only one life on earth. He even referred to John the Baptist being the return of Elisha. In John 9 He spoke of the man as being blind from birth and His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” If he was born blind, when did he sin?
When this issue pops up when I am working with people, I explain that it doesn’t matter as they must deal with the current situation, and never play victim to past wrongs. People who hold onto victim status cannot heal the wounds in their soul.
As it results to the other “judgements,” they are consequences based upon the purity of a person’s soul.
You cannot hold onto sin and approach God. It is impossible.
The Holy Spirit is what assists in cleansing sin from our soul. It’s the reason that the only unforgivable sin in the New Testament is to reject the Holy Spirit. If you reject the Holy Spirit, you will never meet Jesus, as Jesus is in the Holy Spirit (and the Holy Spirit is in Jesus, just as Jesus described that His Father is in Him and He is in Our Father, John 14)
The Holy Spirit does not judge, but it will fry your ass if you invite it in while holding onto sin. ( this is also why Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego survived being burned alive by being thrown into a fiery furnace.)
This is why a prayerful blessing for an evil person is like placing hot coals upon their head.
I wonder if he signed an advanced directive?
Let everyone who confesses the name of the Lord, depart from iniquity. that means R.C.’s and all the other “Christian” groups who in any way confess Jesus Christ... even the whacko cults.
I pray that Francis is getting right, as he may be getting his “face to face” job review with the boss. I also pray that the leaders of the church. . . EVERY church that claims the name of Jesus the Christ, take note and get right for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. That was written in the NEW TESTAMENT.
We all need to repent.
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Lord use this season to strengthen your children everywhere, and make them holy. None of us are exempt from accounting to You.
Are you calling us southern babtists. “whackos”?
Given his age and now with renal failure, the Pope’s chances of surviving more than a week if not days are very slim..
Jesus is above criticism.
However, am not sure about all the dudes in costumes that have been and are top residents of Vatican City, and cathedrals and parishes worldwide.
Potentially also above criticism, at least while I was in class: the BVM nuns who taught and terrorized my classmates and me in Catholic grade school.
I’m going to miss the “is the pope Catholic?” jokes.
“Is the pope Polish” never made a comeback after JPII. I wonder if this pope managed to make the answer to “Is the pope Catholic” ambiguous enough to eliminate it from the vernacular.
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