A CASE OF TWO WHO SAY THEY SAW THE ETERNAL: DID THEY ALSO
SEE THE SAME FUTURE EARTHLY EVENTS?
It's curious how a number of those who say they glimpsed
eternity claim they were shown prophetic images concerning natural disasters
and even a military attack on the U.S. Right now -- with all our bases and
other mechanisms of defense -- an invasion seems a preposterous notion.
And so it is.
Someone attacking the contiguous states?
What if the landscape were suddenly very different, however
-- wracked by natural and economic paroxysms that in quick fashion disabled our
infrastructure? We'll get into a little bit of prophecy here.
As we have reported, there was Dr. George Ritchie -- a
prominent psychiatrist in the Richmond, Virginia, area who had a near-death
experience.
During that episode, claimed Dr. Ritchie, "Jesus opened
a corridor through time which showed me increasing natural disasters coming
upon the earth. There were more and more hurricanes and floods occurring over
different areas of our planet. The earthquakes and volcanoes were increasing.
We were becoming more and more selfish and self-righteous. Families were
splitting, governments were breaking apart because people were thinking only of
themselves. I saw armies marching on the United States from the south and
explosions occurring over the entire world that were of a magnitude beyond my capacity
to imagine. I realized if they continued, human life as we have known it could
not continue to exist."
The psychiatrist said he was shown a second corridor or
alternative future. "At the beginning they appeared very similar but the
further the second one unfolded, the more different it became," he wrote.
"The planet grew more peaceful. Man and nature both were better. Man was
not as critical of himself or others. He was not as destructive of nature and
he was beginning to understand what love is."
Destroy nature, Ritchie claims he was shown, and hurt each
other, and the first "corridor" will be the one mankind traverses. He
felt humans would be given about half a century to go one way or the other (the
vision occurred in the 1940s, and since the 1980s, for sure, there have been a
good number of natural events).
Does it have significance? How do we discern matters like
this?
It is where we use the words "alleged" and
"perhaps."
Curiously, another near-deather named James Wilburn
Chauncey, a retired businessman from Fayetteville, Georgia, says he was also
shown future natural and military eruptions during a brush with death as a
young boy, his case too in the 1940s (while suffering from spinal meningitis).
(What might be the significance of the 1940s? Was it a hangover from world
war?)
Chauncey envisioned an invasion not from sea or air but
across America's southern border. He also saw great earthquakes and mountains
and lakes disappearing or emerging in the heartland, along with a global
epidemic.
Are there precursors? Recent tornadoes? Rumblings in
Ukraine? Whatever the military stuff, we're in a spiritual confrontation. John
Paul II, as cardinal, during a visit to New York, once called it an
"apocalyptic" battle between light and dark. That you can bank.
Meanwhile: wildfires. Droughts. Harsh winter weather. How
about a slow-motion landslide dismantling a Walgreens in Wyoming. ("Slowly
but surely"? Is that how many things will occur?)
"Whatever one's interpretation of the evidence, there
is a surprising consensus on what is to come [among those who have an encounter
with death]: widespread earthquakes and volcanic activity, a pole shift,
erratic weather patterns, drought, and food shortages, economic collapse,
social disintegration, diseases of unknown origin, and possibly nuclear or
natural holocaust or catastrophe," said a non-Catholic book of such
experiences called Life Beyond Death. "Such calamities are seen as the
inevitable result and reflection of a universally flagrant and ignorant violation
of natural and spiritual laws, a necessary shake-up and purification which will
bring a new sense of unity and cooperation. The severity of the disasters is
said to depend on the extent to which human beings work to acquire the
qualities that the near-death itself brings: unconditional love and spiritual
values."
New Age stuff?
Time will tell. And time, claimed Dr. Ritchie, is
"short" (whatever "short" may mean: for our discernment.)
[resources: Dr. Ritchie's Return from Tomorrow and
Chauncey's Eyewitness to Heaven]