For those of you just tuning in: for more than a month we've been exploring a prophecy, given in a dream (of either an angel or young Jesus), that occurred anonymously in 1990. As we have reported, the first part of the prophecy purported that "in four years there will arise a new evil the likes of which mankind has never before encountered. It will arrive almost imperceptibly, with few people noticing the depth of its evil, for it will appear to have beneficial and convenient aspects. It is an evil comparable to abortion -- that is to say, that even if evils as great and widespread as abortion were to be eliminated, this is enough of an evil that it would present mankind with an enormous challenge. This evil is being allowed as a test because of the prayers inspired by Mary to put off chastisements. How mankind responds to this new evil will determine the extent, length, and severity of the first chastisements. These chastisements will differ according to regions, and like the great evil, will not always or usually be immediately noticeable for what they are. In the period also will be a warning that involves not fire from the sky but fear of fire from the sky, and strange loud rumblings."

We've already discussed the fact that four years after this prediction, research on cloning and stem cells dramatically advanced -- seeming to fulfill the prophecy of a new evil that would challenge mankind. But that wasn't all. Since 1990, there has been virtually direct fulfillment of the next prediction: that the world would see natural disasters occur on a regional scale. While they have not peaked in the way the prophecy hints they will at some point in the future, since 1990 the United States has witnessed seven of its top-ten historic disasters, including the great Mississippi flood and Hurricane Andrew. Along with the other current disasters, they seem like a build-up -- precursors.

But what of the next prediction? What of the forecast that "in the period also will be a warning that involves not fire from the sky but fear of fire from the sky, and strange loud rumblings"?

We're wondering -- just wondering -- if we are seeing hints of this also. In the last several years quakes have hit India, Nicaragua, Seattle, Taiwan, the Philippines, Turkey, and other places in peculiar ways -- in Seattle, on Ash Wednesday. Meanwhile, just last week, on August 24, 2001, the Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal had this headline: "Officials stumped by reports of rumbling." 

The article explained that last Wednesday night residents in the vicinity reported bright lights and rumbling sounds. 

Some said the sounds and lights came to a sudden halt, only to begin again with more fury. Many said it shook their homes. It ended as quickly as it began. "It was eerie," said one resident, Lynn Madelyn Bailey. "It was scary." Some reported a streak of light and then a flash that accompanied the sound. "That sound made me consider the end of the world," said another witness, John Comis. "I am not glad I heard it. But I never would have believed in it had I not."

Some speculated that it was an earthquake (which can cause flashes of atmospheric light), and indeed we've long wondered if there will come a time when the world or at least residents of a huge region will encounter "strange loud rumblings" caused by some kind of massive shift under the earth. We note that seer Maria Esperanza once said the earth's core is not in balance. Will we one day hear the echoes of unprecedented seismic activity? Is there a noise that could be heard over hundreds -- even thousands -- of miles? Might something unusual happen at depths far beyond the geologists' view?

We know very little about plate tectonics, but recently evidence has grown that earthquakes can occur in swarms and sometimes hundreds of miles below the surface. On June 9, 1994 -- the year when the great cloning advances occurred -- there was a powerful and highly unusual earthquake that occurred 400 miles below South America and was felt from Bolivia to Canada.

Or, if this prophecy is true, will it be extraterrestrial? The arrival of even a small asteroid could cause a "rumbling" over a wide area. In 1906 what appears to have been a small asteroid or comet hit the Tunguska region of Siberia. Although only 60 to 200 feet in size, the chunk of rock caused an explosion that was at least 1,000 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and a cylinder of incandescent white light was seen falling with a fiery tail. The blast was heard at a distance of up to 500 miles.

Are these events forerunners -- tiny hints, just as the current storms may be precursors? Your discernment is as good as ours. But the timing is certainly curious and according to the alleged prophecy, the rumbling, when it comes, will be followed by chastisements whose severity will depend on our response to the new evil, which we now believe indeed has to do with human stem cells and cloning.

[We'll explore the rest of the prophecy in future installments...]

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