{"id":47700,"date":"2021-06-30T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=47700"},"modified":"2021-09-08T00:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:03:03","slug":"blessed-virgin-satan-is-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/blessed-virgin-satan-is-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Virgin: ‘Satan Is Strong’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You can make any number of things out of the message \u2014 the words spoken by the Blessed Virgin Mary last week on the fortieth anniversary of her appearances in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina.<\/p>\n

No \u201calleged\u201d needed here, at least not for the first days in June of 1981 upon which the commemoration is based \u2014 for a Vatican Commission, after years-long, painstaking investigation, determined that the first seven days at least were indeed authentic visitation by the Mother of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Back in those early days, the Virgin\u00a0 warned that\u00a0\u201cdarkness reigns over the whole world,\u201d \u201ca great struggle is about to unfold, a struggle between my Son and Satan,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cthis is the hour of the power of darkness,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cthe hour has come when the demon is authorized to act with all his force and power.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She emphasized that with God, there is no fear. That we should go forward with all confidence in the Lord, that especially with prayer and fasting, we win. But she also added:<\/p>\n

\u201cSatan is strong and is waiting to test each one of you.\u201d<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

That was four decades ago\u00a0and now on June 25, 2021\u00a0came a monthly message of similar gravity:<\/p>\n

\u201cDear children!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she said Friday, as thousands returned to the apparition site.\u00a0\u201cMy heart is joyful because through these years I see your love and openness to my call. Today I am calling all of you: pray with me for peace and freedom, because Satan is strong and by his deception, wants to lead away all the more hearts from my motherly heart. That is why decide for God so that it may be good for you on the earth which God gave you. Thank you for having responded to my call.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There it was again:\u00a0\u201cSatan is strong\u201d \u2014 a precise iteration of what she said in 1981.<\/p>\n

What did she mean by\u00a0\u201cthe earth which God gave you\u201d<\/em>? Was she again alluding to preservation of His Creation, of nature, of the environment?<\/p>\n

In 1991 was a very similar message.\u00a0\u201cSatan is strong and desires to destroy not only human life, but also nature and the planet on which you live.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Said the seer Vicka Ivankovic years ago, in an interview, \u201cSatan is actively trying to destroy this planet, the environment, and even nature. These actions of Satan bring great suffering and hardship. Only through prayer and fasting can he be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 25, 1990, the Blessed Mother had also said,\u00a0\u201cGod wants to save you and sends you messages through men,\u00a0nature,\u00a0and so many things which can only help you to understand that you must change the direction of your life.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There was that word \u201cnature\u201d again,\u00a0but in this instance, as a means of\u00a0signs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, since 1981, year after year, week after week, we have witnessed the intensification of portents, too many to summarize.<\/p>\n

In the current moment, there is heat, Oregon and the state of Washington recording the hottest temperatures ever there, up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit. On a Soviet slice of the Arctic, meanwhile, a \u201cground temperature\u201d of more than 110 degrees was registered (actual air temperature in the eighties). Precisely one year ago, on June 20, 2020, the same region of Siberia recorded the first 100 degree air temperature \u2014\u00a0another record<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0The water in Lake Mead in Nevada is diminishing precipitously \u2014 heralding what many climatologists increasingly believe is a historic mega-drought (much larger and longer, if so, than the Dust Bowl a century ago).<\/p>\n

Tornadoes are ripping through European villages unaccustomed to such winds.<\/p>\n

There is heavy hail in Munich.<\/p>\n