The Warning: When it will happen
Year: 2009
Month: April
Day: 10th
Day of the Week: Friday
Liturgical Calendar: Good Friday
The Warning is the same as the first secret of Medjugorje; this event is also called The Day of Repentance.
Why: To prepare the world for the first part of the tribulation, as described in the Book of Revelation (but the second part of the tribulation is in the distant future).
The Warning: What it is
It begins with an event in the sky. This event is not natural, but supernatural. This event is not the Warning itself. This event has no effect on nature or on the planet. This event is not a comet, nor an asteroid, nor any other natural event. The purpose of this event is to get everyone's attention, and to awaken anyone who is sleeping. It is very brief, even momentary. It has been said by Conchita that this event begins with the letter 'A'. I believe that the 'A' stands for Angel, because this is not a natural event, and because God often makes use of His Angels to herald His Divine Acts.
Everything will stop during the brief time needed for the Warning (minutes, not hours).
Electronics and vehicles will not function, except in cases of necessity.
People who are asleep will be awakened for it.
The Warning is entirely supernatural.
Each person will find themselves alone in their mind and heart with God.
God will touch each person's soul.
God will speak to each person's soul in a way that is fitting to the uniqueness of each individual.
God will speak to each person's conscience within the limits of their own knowledge and experiences.
People will understand their sins and the negative consequences of their sins.
Every single human person on earth without exception will experience the Warning.
Every single human person on earth will be offered grace and mercy directly from God.
Even prenatals in the womb will be touched by God. Though they have no personal sins to be brought to mind, they will be given blessings of grace to prepare them for the great difficulties of the world into which they will be born, especially the gift of God's grace to strengthen them against sin (but they will not be sinless).
For most persons, those who are old enough to understand right from wrong, the Warning will take the form of an awakening of the conscience, making that person aware of the sins in their lives and their own sinfulness in general. God will offer all sinners the gift of repentance and of conversion from sin, as well as grace and mercy more generally.
For those who are holy, and for those who have thoroughly acknowledged their sins, have been forgiven, and have done much penance, the experience will be different. For them, their sorrow will be at the suffering of Christ on the Cross for the sins of mankind, much more than the sorrow that they will have for their own sins. They will join with Christ in His loving sorrow for the sinfulness of the world.
Those who are evil will no longer be able to hide behind excuses for their sins; they will no longer be able to half-deceive themselves; they will know full well that what they are doing is evil. People often lie to themselves, telling themselves that what they are doing is right, when they know in their heart of hearts that it is wrong. But at the Warning, these lies will be exposed; there will be no place to hide from the truths of one's conscience at the time of the Warning.
Some great sinners will repent greatly. But many great sinners will continue in their evil deeds, with a much clearer realization that they have chosen evil over good. By rejecting this gift of repentance, and by deliberately choosing to continue sinning, despite a very full knowledge that what they are choosing is evil, they will commit an actual mortal sin and will become much more thoroughly evil themselves. The fallen angels will concentrate their efforts on such persons, with whom they will have greater influence than before.
Actual Mortal Sin
Be advised that anyone who rejects the gift of repentance on the Day of the Warning is necessarily committing an actual mortal sin, because the Warning carries with it a clarity of heart and mind to such an extent that only by an act of full deliberation and full knowledge can one reject God's extraordinary call to repentance from sin. The call to repent from sin on the day is a very grave matter, so deliberately and knowingly rejecting it is an actual mortal sin.
The Warning: What it is not
Be Advised: there are numerous false visionaries and other persons who are promoting false ideas about the Warning!
The Warning has its limits.
It will not reveal all knowledge about religion or about morals.
It will not make all non-Catholic Christians realize that Catholicism is the truest form of Christianity.
It will not make all non-Christians realize that Christianity is the truest form of religion.
It will not give the very young the understanding of adults.
It will not speak to each person beyond the limits of their own knowledge, understanding, and experiences.
It will not provide people with a complete understanding of wrong and right.
It will not provide people with a complete understanding of their entire life.
It will not show each person their entire life.
It will not show each person the good things that they have done in their life.
It is restrained by the limits inherent to each person's mind and heart and life.
Each person will not see their soul as God sees it.
The Warning is not the end of the world.
The Warning is not an immediate precursor to the end of the world, nor does it herald the Return of Christ.
The end of the world is not for this generation, nor for the next, nor for the next, nor until centuries afterward.
The Antichrist is not in the world today, and he will not be born for several centuries.
The Warning: Individual Reactions
All human souls will be touched by God in some manner pertaining to sin and grace.
Many people will become holier and less sinful.
Many people will repent.
Many will continue in this repentance, reforming their lives and seeking God.
Many others will quickly relapse, falling back into sin, perhaps even into worse sins.
Some will reject the Warning so thoroughly that they will become very much more sinful than ever before.
Some persons will try to ignore or forget the Warning by indulgence in worldly pleasures. God will hold this sin against them for the rest of their lives.
Some will be so afraid of having to face their own sins, mortal sins lived unrestrainedly for many years, that they will respond by taking their own lives. Suicide is not the answer, for after death, these persons will again have to face the sins of their lives and the consequences for their sins. Those who commit suicide will be severely punished either in Purgatory or in Hell.
Many people will be struck by an overwhelming fear, confused as to what happened, not knowing who to listen to for an explanation of the event. Some persons will be so fearful that they will die of fright.
The number dead from suicides and from fear will not be insignificant. It will be a very sharp increase in the number of deaths from these causes at that time.
False Repentance
Beware of persons who attempt to feign repentance outwardly, when inwardly they have completely rejected God!!!
Some persons who experience the Warning will reject this merciful offer of repentance and forgiveness. But, when they see many persons around them repentant and seeking holiness, they will pretend to do the same. Some of these false penitents will be politicians, some journalists, some celebrities, some members of the clergy and religious life, some lay persons with leadership roles, and some will be persons who might not seem to have any serious sins from which to refuse to repent. Very many mortal sins within humanity are hidden deep within the human person. So, beware of wolves in sheep's clothing!!! They will feign repentance in order to obtain or to maintain roles of leadership in society and in the Church, or for other reasons.
Group Reactions: The Church
The aftermath of the Warning will have profound effects on the Church, the world, families, and individual lives. It will change the course of the history of the human race and of the Church.
The Church will become suddenly holier, and will continue to increase in holiness. The transfiguration of Christ was a foreshadowing of this event, whereby the Church will be transfigured. But the transfiguration of the Church only begins with the Warning; it is not yet completed at this time; and so there will still be many problems in the Church. The completion of this transfiguration, at least for this generation, occurs many years later at the time of the three days of darkness.
The Church on earth is comprised of sinners; some of those sinners are very sinful and are harming the Church. The Warning will remove many sinful persons from the Church: some will die; some will reject the Church because they reject the gift of repentance offered by the Warning; some will be rejected by the faithful after the Warning because sincere repentance allows them to understand who is a true disciple of Christ, and who is not.
In the days and weeks after the Warning, very many persons will flock to the Catholic Church for guidance and for the forgiveness of sins in the Sacrament of holy Confession. Priests will be overwhelmed with the number of repentant sinners who want to confess. (Prudent Catholics will go to confession frequently in the months and weeks prior to the Warning!) Even non-Catholics will want to go to Confession. The lines for confession will stretch even out the doors of many churches. Only Catholics will know about this event in advance, and be able to explain its meaning, and be able to properly advise people as to how to be reconciled to God. Even Catholics who are not holy and not knowledgeable will be sought out by non-Catholics for whatever little guidance or knowledge they might be able to offer.
But not every problem in the Church will be solved by the Warning. The Warning will not bestow all knowledge or understanding of right and wrong, even on holy persons. Christians will still disagree about beliefs and practices. Many repentant persons will eventually slip back, some slowly, some quickly, into their old sins, or into even worse sins. And the increase in holiness among the faithful will cause some barely-practicing Catholics and some non-practicing Catholics to soon fall away from the Church. For they will not be able to keep up with the quick advancement in holiness that the Church will make, beginning at this time.
Pope Benedict XVI's Reaction
The Warning will occur during the reign of Pope Benedict XVI. This Pope is mentioned in Sacred Scripture in a hidden way. The transfiguration of Christ was a foreshadowing of the Warning. Peter said to Jesus, after His transfiguration: "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you are willing, let us make three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Mt 17:4). In this way, Peter foreshadowed Pope Benedict XVI, who will respond to the Warning by suggesting that three places of worship (tabernacles) be established in Jerusalem: one for Christianity, one for Judaism, and one for Islam, that is, a Church, a Temple, and a Mosque. And that all three religions worship God together in peace, with the city of Jerusalem as an example to the world of peace between religions.
Now the Gospel of Mark comments on Peter's words: "For he did not know what he was saying. For they were overwhelmed by fear." (Mk 9:5). The Pope suggests these three tabernacles because the world will be overwhelmed by fear in response to the Warning, and because they will seek answers to this event, each in his own religion.
But the Pope's suggestion will not happen for many years. Instead there will be war. And not until after the first part of the tribulation will there be three places of worship in Jerusalem for the three religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam); and not until then will there be a yearly celebration, at the same time of year, for worshipers from all three religions to worship together in peace in the city of peace.
There are already places of worship in Jerusalem, of course. But the three places that will be built will be three very important centers of worship. The Jews will be the first ones to build it; in 2009 they will decide to build the Third Temple of Jerusalem, but it will take a number of years to build (about seven years). It will incorporate the Wailing Wall, and will necessitate the destruction of the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Next, years later, the Catholic Church will build a chief place of worship in Jerusalem, which will become the center of worship for the Church worldwide. (The center of authority in the Church will move from Rome during the first part of the tribulation, but will return to Rome in the year 2040.) This Church will most likely be built (or at least completed) soon after the first part of the tribulation is completed. Lastly, an important Mosque will be built at Jerusalem, finally replacing the Dome of the Rock Mosque, but in another location. So the building of the three places of worship in Jerusalem will be in the same order as the establishment of the three religions.
After the first part of the tribulation is completed with the three days of darkness in early 2040, then Catholic Christianity, Judaism, and Islam will be the only religions on earth. No other religion will have any significant following, other than Catholic Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Group Reactions: Families
Some families will be torn apart, because some family members accepted repentance and conversion, changing their lives very substantially, while other family members refused to repent or to change.
Some persons will be rejected by their peers, for being a good person among unrepentant sinners, or vise versa. Some circles of friends will fall apart because of different reactions to the Warning. Some persons who committed mortal sins together will no longer be able to stand the sight of one another, because it reminds them of their sins.
Children will generally accept the Warning and benefit from it greatly. In this way, God will prepare them for the difficult years ahead, and build a holy generation to live after the end of the first part of the tribulation. Prenatals in the womb will benefit from this experience, being given grace to assist in avoiding sin in the future (but they will not be sinless).
The Warning will be particularly difficult for those who have willingly had an abortion, or who encouraged others to have an abortion. These persons will realize the horror of their own decisions to end an innocent life. They will be inconsolable.
Group Reactions: non-Catholics
The Warning will not cause all Protestants to realize that Catholicism is the truest form of Christianity. However, many will begin to feel an attraction to the Catholic Church and a call from God to convert to Catholicism. Some will convert at this time. But generally, at this time, the repentant Protestants will follow their own denomination's teachings, and especially the teachings of the Bible, more fervently. However, the Warning is like a seed planted in fertile soil (the Protestant faithful), which will later grow to bring about the repentance and conversion of all the Protestant Churches to Catholicism (in the late 2010's), and the unification of all Christian Churches in one holy Catholic Church (in the early 2020's).
The Orthodox will not all realize that Catholicism is the truest form of Christianity, truer even than the Orthodox faith. But some will convert at this time, and the Orthodox Churches will begin to move toward later unification with the Catholic Church.
The Jews who are devout and repentant will seek to be better Jews and better worshipers of God. Jews who are repentant will tend to favor the more conservative schools of thought within Judaism. Jews who practice the faith only nominally will be strongly rebuked by God at the Warning; some will repent and begin to practice their faith; others will fall away.
The Muslims who are devout and sincere in seeking God will accept repentance and conversion, becoming holier worshipers of God. They will not generally change to Christianity as a result of the Warning. But their respect for Jesus and Mary will deepen. Muslims who are not devout, but who merely use Islam as an excuse for violence, if they do not repent with great sorrow and penance, will become very much more sinful and more prone to violence. As a result, there will be conflict between the devout moderate Muslims and the violent extremist Muslims.
Atheists and agnostics will realize that there is a God. Persons who have forgotten or stopped caring that there is a God, (because they have been immersed in the secular world) will realize the importance of worshipping God. The sin of not worshipping God is one of the main sins about which the Warning will accuse the conscience of humanity. Some persons will try to fool themselves and others by attempting to explain away what happened. Some will offer absurd explanations. But everyone will know in their hearts that in truth there is a God.
The United States President's Reaction
The U.S. President at the time of the Warning will be, for better or worse, Hillary Clinton. Now I am not going to judge her soul, or her heart, by saying whether or not she will sincerely repent in response to the Warning. But I know that very many persons in the U.S. will repent sincerely, including many who once had an abortion, or who supported abortion. A clear majority of the nation will very quickly become pro-life. President Hillary Clinton will also change her mind and become pro-life. Perhaps she becomes pro-life out of sincere repentance, or perhaps, seeing the nation suddenly become pro-life, she will change her mind out of political expediency. I do not know which reason will motivate her (perhaps some of both).
Note added May 12th: I am still predicting that Hillary Clinton will be the U.S. President at the time of the Warning (April, 2009). But it is now clear that the path to that outcome is more complex than I had understood previously.
Note added September 8th: I am still predicting that Hillary Clinton will be the U.S. President at the time of the Warning (April, 2009).
Political Changes
Most nations will become pro-life, in other words, a majority of their citizens will turn against abortion because of the Warning. If some few nations fail to achieve this advancement in morality (becoming a nation where most citizens are pro-life), then woe to those nations! They will soon be severely punished, for the tribulation is about to begin!
There will be an attempted backlash, because of the Warning,, against those who sincerely repent. Some persons in the media will attempt to ridicule or explain away this event (even though they themselves experienced it). They will even attempt to blame the Church, or to blame the devout faithful. But such a large number of persons will accept this gift of repentance that they will not succeed in this attempted persecution of the devout faithful.
Some prominent persons, and some ordinary persons, will feign repentance, and some will even feign conversion, when they see that so many persons have themselves repented. Some politicians and some celebrities and some media personalities and some religious leaders will feign repentance, when inwardly they have rejected this gift from God, turning away from good toward evil. Beware of false repentance in those days!
Politicians will change their stance on various issues related to morality, some out of true repentance and some out of political expediency, since they see that most voters are now against certain types of immorality. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, even in the Church. Some Church leaders, including perhaps a small number of Bishops or Cardinals, will feign repentance so as not to lose their power and their role in the Church. Some false prophets and some insincere evangelists will also feign repentance.
Just as most citizens in most nations will turn against abortion, realizing that it is a serious offense against God, so also will most citizens of most nations turn against homosexuality and various kinds of sexual immorality, realizing that these are serious offenses against God. If some few nations fail to achieve this advancement in morality (becoming a nation where most citizens are against homosexuality and sexual immorality), then woe to those nations! They will soon be severely punished, for the tribulation is about to begin!
The Upheaval
See the article on the First Secret of Medjugorje. The upheaval pertains to political and social changes in certain nations as a result of the Warning.
The Rise of Communism
See the article on Mistaken Ideas about the Secrets. Yes, there will be (and has been) a rise of communism, but it is spiritual communism, not political communism.
The World in General
The influence of the Warning on future world events is incalculable.
The Warning will bring many good people closer to God, and will bring even great sinners to repentance. It will also cause those who reject its gift of repentance to move away from God. To reject the gift of repentance on the day of the Warning is to reject God. A significant number of persons in the world will become more evil than ever before by rejecting this gift. Their will be a greater disparity between those who are holy and who seek God sincerely, and those who do whatever evil pleases them. This polarization will cause conflicts in families, in organizations, in nations, and in the world.
The Warning will also throw the world into a great fear. The vast majority of both good and bad persons will be caught unaware by this event, even though it will be announced in advance. Yes, even though its date is given in this set of articles, many persons still will be surprised and frightened by this event and by the depth of its penetration into their conscience and soul. Many persons will be terrified because their own sins have been laid bare. This confusion will be evident worldwide. Wicked persons, in particular will be very afraid, knowing that their sins have been rejected by God, knowing that they have chosen sin over God. But the faithful who knew about this in advance will have peace and true sorrow for sin.
This worldwide fear will calm somewhat with the second secret of Medjugorje, but since that secret is only given to those who accepted the earlier event of the first secret, that is, of the Warning, the unrepentant will be more confused and more afraid than ever at this next event. See the article on the second secret of Medjugorje.
False Prophets
Many false prophets will continue their false preaching, even after the Warning. There are quite a few false prophets today who are preaching about the Warning, but with numerous distortions and falsehoods. After the Warning, many devout persons will more clearly discern the false prophets from the true ones. But many of the false prophets, especially the worst ones, will attempt to continue their false preaching. They will say that the Warning is a fulfillment of their prophecy (even though they stole the idea from Garabandal and then perverted it). They will try to use the Warning to continue to promote their false ideas.
Some of the errors that they will promote at this time are as follows:
Some false prophets will claim that now is a time of peace and holiness for the world, because repentance has resulted in the sufferings that God had planned being delayed or taken away. But this is not true. Soon there will be war and great afflictions, one after another, after another, for many years. I say again: the false prophets will tell you, at the time of the Warning (i.e. the Day of Repentance) and at the time of the Day of Consolation, that a time for peace has now arrived or will soon arrive. This claim is false; instead there will be war upon war, and affliction upon affliction, for many years.
Some false prophets already claim that now is the end of the world, and that the Antichrist is in the world, ready to work his evil. But this is not true. The Antichrist is not in the world today; his time is not until the distant future. And the so-called end of the world is very many years, many centuries, in the future also. So, when the Warning occurs, they will try to use that event to claim that the time has now arrived for all their various erroneous prophecies to begin. They will still continue to fool some of the weak and misguided in the world. But then, as the true events of the secrets, and of the first part of the tribulation in general, unfold before everyone's eyes, it will become clearer and clearer that their prophecies, and their messages, and their apparitions, and their signs and wonders are false.
Some false prophets will claim that the Warning is the fulfillment of their own prophecies, as if it proved that they are true prophets, instead of false ones. But if these false prophets mentioned the Warning previously, it was only because they stole the idea from Garabandal and other true private revelations. They never gave a single message that contained any specific information, other than what was already known, or what could be guessed or assumed, or what was vague and uninformative, or outright erroneous.
Beware of false prophets, who might try to steal information from these articles about the future, and then claim the same ideas as messages from Heaven, either telling the same information (as if they had now predicted it), or pretending to make inane and useless corrections, or meaningless amplifications, of this information.
Here is my page with a list of true and false private revelations:
http://www.catholicplanet.com/apparitions/index.htm
Peace to You
Beware of false prophets, but listen to true ones.
"Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom." (Lk 12:32).
Be ever more peaceful in your souls and, by trusting in God, do not let these events disturb you.
by Ronald L. Conte Jr.
published April 9th, 2007
May God give you grace and peace during the difficult years ahead.
