A PRIVATE REVELATION CONCERNING THE FALL OF LUCIFER AND THE MEANING OF REVELATION CHAPTER 12 (Post #19) THIS IS THE LAST POST! CHAPTER X. (continued ...) THE EXPLANATION OF THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE APOCALYPSE IS CONCLUDED. 130. And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman, water, as it were, a river that he might cause her to be carried away; and the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river, which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ... All his malice and all his forces Lucifer exerted and directed against the Mistress; for all those, who were ever tempted by him, seemed to him of less importance than Most Holy Mary. With the same force as the current of a great swift river, so the MALICE, and the LIES, and the TEMPTATIONS flowed from the mouth of that dragon against Her. But the earth helped Her; for the earth of her body and of her inclinations was NOT CURSED, nor did the sentence and punishment, which God hurled against Adam and Eve, touch Her in any way. For in it our earth is cursed and produces thorns instead of fruit. It is WOUNDED in its very nature by its inclination to sin----fomes Peccati (Gen. 3, 17), which continues to assault us and causes opposition. The devil avails himself of these inclinations for the RUIN of men, for he finds within us arms for his offensive warfare; and catering to our evil inclinations by his false representations and apparent sweetness and delight, he draws us toward sensible and earthly things. 131. But the most blessed Mary, the holy and sanctified earth without touch of bad inclinations or evil dispositions, was free from all danger of corruption arising from the earth. On the contrary, since all her inclinations were most orderly, composed and obedient to grace, the earth of her body was in perfect harmony with her soul. Thus this earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the stream of temptations which the dragon raised up for Her in vain; for he found that material indisposed and unfomented for sin, unlike the other offspring of Adam. Their terrestrial and disorderly passions are more adapted to produce the floods of temptation, than to absorb them, since our passions and our corrupt nature are always in opposition to virtue. On account of the futility of his efforts against this mysterious Woman, Scripture says: 132. And the dragon was angry against the Woman: and he went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The dragon, having been gloriously OVERCOME IN ALL THINGS by the Queen of all creation and dreading the furious torments of his own confusion and the ruin of all hell power, fled from Her, determined to make cruel war against the other souls BELONGING to the generation and race of the most blessed Mother. These are the faithful, who are marked with the testimony and the Blood of Christ in Baptism as keepers of His Commands and constant witnesses. For all the wrath of the demon turned so much the more toward the Holy Church and its members, when he saw, that he would be UNABLE to gain any advantage over Christ and His most holy Mother. Especially does he war against the virgins of Christ, and with a more particular hatred does he seek to destroy the virtue of virginity or chastity, this being the seed and the inheritance of the most chaste Virgin and Mother of the Lamb. On account of all this the Evangelist says: 133. And he stood upon the sands of the sea. This is the contemptible vanity of the world, on which the dragon feeds and which he eats like hay. All this passed in heaven and many mysteries were made manifest to the angels in the decrees of the Divine Will regarding the privileges reserved for the Mother of the Incarnate Word. I have been short in describing what I saw; for the multitude of the mysteries has made me poor and halting in the words needful for their manifestation. [City of God, Venerable Mary of Agreda, Volume 1, pg. 121 - 122] For more info. on the Churchs Teaching on Private Revelations: ewtn/expert/answers/apparitions.htm
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