{"id":27606,"date":"2019-09-04T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=27606"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:14:14","slug":"lying-wonders-signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/lying-wonders-signs-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying Wonders, Signs Of The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Image<\/em>We tend to cover a wide range of topics here, reaching once in a while even to what could be called the \u201couter limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Put another way: while strictly Catholic, we don\u2019t always walk in lockstep with what \u201cmainstream\u201d religious media prescribe as the limits of reportage. We prefer a template that has a bit more breathing room. Not every story has to be about the institution; often it is good to go beyond human guidelines (as Jesus did) and explore the supernaturality of our religion (they can be two very different things).<\/p>\n

A glaring example:\u00a0the \u201clying wonders\u201d in our era, which we see as a largely unrecognized (and unreported) \u201csign of the times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many don\u2019t realize just how many cable shows, movies, documentaries, books, web posts, Youtube videos, social media entries, and simply conversations there are these days about such arcana as aliens, big foot, poltergeists, and so forth. Red, sparking, frightening eyes. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

When we allow them, or dismiss them as eccentricities, we allow them to fester and our young to be exposed to them.<\/p>\n

\"ImageAs we have indicated,\u00a0particularly in \u201cspecial reports,\u201d and now the book,\u00a0Lying Wonders, Strangest Things<\/em>\u00a0(though the book includes much more than such anomalies), deceiving spirits are doing what they do best: deceiving. The Travel Channel might as well now be known as the Paranormal Channel. More than a million have vowed to crash the gates of Area 51 (the top-secret Air Force installation about eighty miles north of Las Vegas \u2014 believing there are extraterrestrial craft there). You\u2019ll see this across the news soon. Even the staid\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, and outlets such as Fox and CNN, are now reporting on \u201cwonders\u201d in the skies \u2014 so-called UFOs \u2014 documented even in gunsight videos taken from Navy Hornet jets, doing things \u2014 flitting about, at impossible speeds \u2014 in a way nothing physical that humans know of can remotely accomplish.<\/p>\n

Strange creatures<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the abominable snowman, skunk ape, mothman, chupacabra, Champie \u2014 everywhere. In Africa \u2014 deep in voodoo territory \u2014 are claims of small, terrifying, relict dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Voodoo? Indian burial mounds? Cemeteries?<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s not hype or hallucination\u00a0or hoax or imagination \u2014 and it is unlikely they\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0are \u2014 it seems nearly like an invasion. And should we be surprised? Might it not be another sign? Does not the Bible warn of such things?<\/p>\n

Here, remarkably, we can consult the Book of Wisdom (11: 17-18):<\/p>\n

\u201cFor\u00a0not without means was your almighty hand that had fashioned the universe from formless matter, to send upon them a drove of bears or fierce lions, or new-created, wrathful, unknown beasts to breathe forth fiery breath, or pour out roaring smoke, or flash terrible sparks from the eyes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNew-created,\u201d \u201cwrathful,\u201d \u201cunknown beasts.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sums up everything from the dragons of old to the strange pterodactyls claimed by missionaries in New Guinea in our own time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in return for senseless, wicked thoughts, which misled them into worshiping dumb serpents and worthless insects, You sent upon them swarms of dumb creatures for vengeance, that they might recognize that a man is punished by the very things,\u201d it says, \u201cthrough which he sins\u201d\u00a0(11: 15-16).<\/p>\n

[resources:\u00a0Lying Wonders, Strangest Things<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n