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[ANNOUNCER]

The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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[ANNOUNCER]

This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[REYES]

And a Friend of Medjugorje is in the village of Medjugorje at this moment where he will be meeting up with the Caritas pilgrimage group going to the island of Patmos where St. John received the book of Revelation, followed by the pilgrimage to Medjugorje. So, over the next few weeks, we will be hearing from him coming from overseas. Tonight we wanted to do something a little bit different. Alabama has been very much in the news lately, especially after the passage of the historical new Alabama abortion law which bans nearly all abortions.

And we want to take a step back in time to April of 2013. Now, this is before the Cross for the Soul of America had been built on the mountain here at Caritas. This was after the book They Fired the First Shot was written just a year before this. For the next few minutes here, we want you to hear what a Friend of Medjugorje had to say at the Caritas New Community Convention on April the 18, 2013. And it will give us a very good perspective on what has led us to where we are today.

And so, for the next five or six minutes, you will be hearing a Friend of Medjugorje from the April 18, 2013 New Communities Convention.

[CLIP: A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE FROM NEW COMMUNITIES CONVENTION]

Every subject, everything, every marriage, every family, every problem, every economic situation, the messages apply to because theyre Scriptural. Shes bringing Scripture to us in a new way for whats been, through the ages, clouded, through maybe too much theology. Or not maybe, it has. Layer after layer of thinking, too much, instead of just being simple. Jesus came for division! I believe that. I see that. I see that in the Medjugorje world. I see that around Christians. The early pagans, if you go to St. Peters, and where Peter was buried, and you go underneath the basilica, its incredible. Youre walking on streets of the cemeteries where pagans were buried. And some of those pagans families had Christians. They were mixed up together. You see angels on some of the stones there that the pagans put on there because they believed in angels after life.

But there was a mix-match of Christian in the transition of in the world and out. And thats where we are right now. And the more they got and grew in holiness, the more they had to get away from where the culture was going.

And so, youre here to be separated. Youre here for division. And sometimes that happens right in the middle of the family or right in the middle of the Church. The churches are dividing. The denominations are coming closer together than some of the people in the same denominations because the process of thought of metanoia, of changing mentalities, is bringing people together. God wants to unify. Diversity is from the devil, nothing less. You can be you, I can be me. No more. As a Christian nation, youre here for those principles, one will prevail. Youve read that in They Fired the First Shot, Look What Happened While You Were Sleeping, a lot of writings through the years. If we dont take it, they will.

There is no neutrality, theres no constitutional level playing field thats in regard to the Constitution that atheists and Christians have the same rights. Theyve got a right to practice atheism. They dont have a right to put atheistic principles in our law. Our forefathers told us that the Constitution was written by Christians and its wholly unfit to govern any other than that. Yes, they have a right for atheism. Freewill, thats from God, unalienable. We cant take that away. But we dont have to sit there and say, Youve got equal right to put in law your beliefs. It cant stay equal that way. One prevails. Whos prevailing today?

When youve got one kid, and the parents say, We cant pray in the school, and the rest of the school wants to. See, it doesnt work. Its self-proved. Its there. They win because were neutral. satans goal is not to defeat us, but just to get us to neutral, and then they take over. Its easier to go to reverse and neutral from reverse to drive. If you go straight from drive to reverse, you tear the transmission up. If you go neutral, you can keep things going, and we go right along with it. And were all riding in the car backwards. And thats where were going, were going backwards. Were defeated. How come we cant defeat abortion?

Forty, fifty years weve been fighting it! People are praying, theyre marching, theyre doing all kinds of sacrifice. We cant stop it! And we think weve made progress? Weve gone worse! All the while were putting all this energy and effort into this, and the whole world, from Italy to every place, all over the world prays for this to stop. You match that up with Elijah. One man, he prayed and he closed up the Heavens from rain. One man, three years later, opened up the Heavens for rain to come back. One man in the whole world with tens of, hundreds of millions of people praying to stop abortion cant close up the womb and protect it? And yet its open for abortion?

Theyre not on Gods side, yet theyll win! Theyll win over and over and over. Why is that? Because we havent looked that were the biggest contributors to abortion. Its not the doctors, its not the women going in there. We, until we recognize, are the source of this, will never fix it. And thats one private revelation about public revelation that Marys coming to show us. You dont know the real God because you dont know yourself. As Sun-Tzu, I quoted in the book, we lose if we dont know ourselves, and we dont know our enemy, every single battle. If we know ourselves but not of enemy, well lose half the battles. If we know our enemies and we know ourselves, well win almost every battle we fight. Really, every battle. Sun-Tzu says 100 battles.

And thats exactly what this warrior-Woman has come to tell us. You got to come back to My Son. You got to be willing to live sacrificially. You got to be willing to give your life in living martyrdom, not just somebody killing you on a daily basis to your own needs in the preference of another. Youve got to be willing to be hated, defamed, slandered, and still love. And that starts in the home, because if youre commanded to love your enemy, how much more your spouse?

And every day we hear about Christians getting divorced. Many here have suffered that. Many have offered that advice. This has got to stop in the Church because if you vacate marriage and its sanctity, and you go toward that, or you tolerate it, and start saying, Well, this persons all abuse, and all this stuff, then you give marriage over to the abomination. Somebody else is willing to take it, and theyre taking it from us. Dont blame them. Blame us. Choking words, maybe hurting some people sitting here, but until you realize, How Ive contributed to this, how Ive participated in this, how Ive done this, we can never fix anything. Weve got to fix that in the Church. No more divorce.

If weve got to be willing to die for an enemy, how much more for a spouse? You may be put on this earth to bring salvation to that spouse. You may suffer, 40-years, but how many times have we heard that a husband or wife was brought to God on their deathbed because of the example of a saint? Oh, well accept Joan of Arc being burned at the stake, but not the husband or the wife? Its got to stop.

And we think these are just simple messages? Theyre choking, and theyll choke you to death. So, were here gathered until we fix these things, God, the corrector of everything, wont bring that. And thats what Our Ladys here for, is to correct us, for us to grow in holiness, us to live that, to lead the culture. Because you all here are going to be apostles for the new springtime that comes to the Church.

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[REYES]

And, perhaps we are seeing the beginning stages of that. And you have heard a Friend of Medjugorje say, especially quoted in the recent book Big Q, Little Q that we are approaching the time of the beginnings of the Secrets of Medjugorje, and this time we are already starting to see events coming in motion. And perhaps this new Alabama abortion law is one of the beginning steps toward that. Certainly, there are a lot more fights to take place, and a lot more battles that will have to be won.

But since that time in April of 2013, how many nine-day fasts have been offered. How many prayers, how many consecrations have been offered? How many patriotic rosaries have been offered? How many exhortations from a Friend of Medjugorje to the people of this nation and the people of the world to pray and to convert and to change their lives because the United States is in the crosshairs of evil? And we know this. So, knowing that our nation is the target of evil, we know that there will be many things brought against it.

As we spend these moments reflecting on our nation and reflecting upon its future, we want to go more recently to something which a Friend of Medjugorje said in Texas when speaking about the book Big Q, Little Q, keeping in mind the distance between 2013 to 2019. Thats a six-year difference between the two, almost to the day. Here is what a Friend of Medjugorje has to say.

[CLIP FROM TEXAS: A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Our Lady is here from Heaven spiritually. And She says, I need you. So youre in the physical realm. satan has his minions. hes spiritual, but hes got to have his people doing his bidding too. So, we have the deep state, we have everything thats taking place, we have an anti-Christ system threaded through our government, things that are being revealed right now, daily, which is what Our Lady is exposing, Her plans are part of whats taking place now.

We have to put in the context of what Our Ladys here for, is just pray, pray the rosaries. No, She is here to change the direction of the world. The direction of the world is to an anti-Christ system. And if Shes going to crush it, Shes going to crush and bring people to conversion. It may be necessary for them to be in jail to be brought to conversion. A lot of people convert on death row. We have treason at the highest degree in our nation. All this stuff is connected to Medjugorje. Dont think its something over there just happening in Washington. satan has planted in our nation the means to destroy it.

Going to Europe, all over the world into Russia, Guam, wherever you say it, Ive been to so many places, there is no place like America. And this place has to be crushed for the world to be taken over. And for people to think that the Virgin Mary has nothing to do with it. Our nation was consecrated through John Carroll, the bishop in the beginning of the United States of America. We did it in the Field. Many people have asked the visionaries about their nations. Our Lady gave a message in Alabama after four consecrations on July 3, Form and make prayer groups through which we will pray for your healing and the healing of this nation to draw closer to God Weve got the message from it, but its just not spiritual. These things have to manifest physically.

Trump is an instrument of Our Lady. Hes part of the plan. You say, Well, hes so crass. Hes so crude. He does these Tweets. Who do you want? Peter was a cussing fisherman. Matthew was cheating, as a tax-collector, old people, poor people, when Jesus says, Hey, come follow Me. What was Mary Magdalene doing the day before? He turned her love around the other way. Trump is growing. If you havent noticed, youre listening to the wrong side of the news. God takes you where you are, and we dont need a cissy in the president seat right now. We need somebody tough, somebody thats really strong. You cant work in Manhattan

I was meeting with Tom Murphy; he owned ABC sports division, news division, entertainment division. Eighty percent of the news of the world came from Tom Murphys ABC; he owned it lock, stock, and barrel. Yes, its a public commodity, but I took him to Medjugorje. His wife was devoted to Our Lady of Fatima. I worked with 20/20 ABC so I knew all the producers, all these people. I was right there at their place. The power the media has is incredible and theyre entrenched and theres evil in it. Tom couldnt even control it even though he owned, he had full voting authority for ABC. Now, cable came out and they weakened these companies, but God acts through this. And Hes allowing Our Lady, She cant change the world, She cant be having some terms physical.

You say, Oh, this persons demonic, what theyre doing right now with abortions, demonic. All this stuff. Thats a physical realm. Well, whos behind the physical, the spiritual? Whos that spiritual behind it? The devil. So you say Our Lady cant do that? Shes got to implement Her plans physically.

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[REYES]

And what we are seeing taking place in our nation is definitely a physical implantation of the plan, most particularly the new abortion law which is also happening across many different states now, are stepping forward and doing similar things for the purposes of no longer being idle, but to take the fight to the enemy. And this is what is manifesting now, physically on the earth, this spiritual forces of evil, the spiritual forces of good coming together in this clash which a Friend of Medjugorje has recently written about in Big Q, Little Q: The Calm Before the Storm and what you just heard him speaking in Texas just one month ago.

These new abortion laws which are happening are certainly not sealing the deal, so to speak, but there certainly will be clashes and there certainly will be more battles which will have to take place. But we are seeing activity. We are seeing things which are happening. And it is important that it happens in this nation in order for the rest of the world to follow suit.

Contrary to what some people may think about Alabama, there actually was a clash which took place in the Senate during this whole process, and we want you to hear this because this is an indicator of evil losing its power. Before the abortion bill was passed and sent to the governor, this is what took place in the Alabama senate.

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All those in favor say I. Any opposed?

No! No! No! Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chairman! There was no motion! There was no motion! You didnt even make a motion! Not make a motion!

He made a motion to table!

He did not make a motion! There was no motion from the other side!

No, he made a motion to table. Senator.

No! He didnt even make a motion! He did not make a motion!

He made a motion to table.

What was the motion made?! No motion was made!

Excuse me! Senator Chambliss, youre recognized!

I dont care what the chair is about! He did not make a motion!

In response to the number of abortions

No! No! No! No! No!

Performed this year versus the incest.

Mr. President.

He did not make a motion.

There were 325,000 abortions that have been performed this year and a little over 3,000

Alright, state your point of order.

You know, I know you all are for this bill, and I know this bill is going to pass. Youre going to get your way. But at least treat us fairly and do it the right way. So, if there has been a motion made, we would like to have a roll call vote on that motion.

So, Senator Chambliss, I mean Senator Figures, were moving on. There was a motion made at table. Its not debateable. There were not three hands raised. And were moving on. Senator Chambliss, thank you for you.

Im very disappointed Mr. President.

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[REYES]

So, thats how people would react to tabling the amendment. That was actually a call to table the amendment, meaning that they were going to put it off for the day. Yes, it did eventually pass, but just to see the reactions of people who would be against something like this is an indicator of the fight thats ahead of us in the future. Continuing ahead, Ruth will share something with us now.

[RUTH]

Yesterday, May 16, we published a Medjugorje headline on Mej.com. The title was Running into the Ambush: The New Alabama Abortion Laws. We want to share with you a few of the feedbacks that we received from that. Now the first one is someone from Missouri and in this headline, there were some things quoted from They Fired the First Shot, and this is in response to that.

I read They Fired the First Shot 2012. I believe everything that is written. Thank you, Mary and God.

The next was a feedback sent to us from Florida, and her response to us was:

Alabama will one day be known as the state from which the restoration of our nation began. The decades of prayers, fasts, novenas, and petitions to the Queen of Peace to heal our land from those gathered at Caritas are bearing tremendous fruit.

And from Texas:

Hallelujah! Heavens choirs are belting out Sweet Home Alabama!

[SONG SWEET HOME ALABAMA]

Sweet home Alabama. Where the skies are so blue. Sweet home Alabama. Lord, Im coming home to you. Sweet home Alabama. Where the skies are so blue. Sweet home Alabama. Lord, Im coming home to you. Sweet home Alabama. Where the skies are so blue. Sweet home Alabama.

[REYES]

Many of you have heard and read a Friend of Medjugorje state that as goes the United States, so goes the world. One thing that you have not heard him say publicly that we will reveal tonight is that, as goes Alabama, so goes the United States, so goes the world. From this little place here, where Our Lady has appeared in a Friend of Medjugorjes home has given messages, has blessed this nation, has given messages to heal this nation. We are sitting here in the place that is the central point of conversion for the entire nation, inspired, foundationed, and directed from the events of Medjugorje.

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[REYES]

Tonight, as we reflect on our nation and the direction that it is heading, certainly guided by the hand of Our Lady, as you heard a Friend of Medjugorje say tonight, and as you have read in They Fired the First Shot 2012 and in the book Big Q, Little Q: The Calm Before the Storm, we are seeing physical events unfold, guided by Heaven. And as we continue to reflect on our nation, one more thing which we would like to share with you which happened very recently.

Gene Simmons who is the lead singer of the rock band Kiss visited the Pentagon. He spoke to officials from the Department of Defense and the military who were gathered there. Gene Simmons was born in Israel. You will hear what he thinks about the United States. What he has to say may surprise you.

[CLIP GENE SIMMONS]

I was born in Israel. I know I dont look Swiss. [LAUGHTER] And Im a proud son of a concentration camp survivor in Nazi Germany. My mother was 14 when she was in the camps. Im measuring my words because Im about to break up again. [LAUGHTER] My mother just passed at 93, but, almost there, 10 seconds control. If Americans could see and hear my mother, almost there, talk about America, they would understand. And, Ill just cut to the chase. When we first came to America, my mother let me stay up and watch TV with her. I couldnt speak English very well. And my mother could barely get by. She worked six days a week in a night. We would watch the news and whatever, and by 12 oclock, the three or four TV stations would go off the air. And you would hear sssss. Was kind of just noise, and people presumably would go to sleep.

Before then, we saw a jet flying through the sky, on TV. A jet flying through the sky. And a man in a very deep voice was saying something. I couldnt understand it. And the jet then turned skyward and flew seemingly into the Heavens through the clouds. And I remember what the man said. And saw the face of God. And then it melted into the black and white, because in those days we didnt have color TV. The flag was full screen billowing. And I heard la-da-da, the National Anthem. And I didnt know what it was or what was going on. And it was almost time to go to sleep. It was late. And every time my mother saw the flag, shed start crying.

As an eight-year-old boy I didnt understand why, but for my mothers point of view, we were finally safe. I may have been born in the country everybody, give me two seconds. I may have been born in the country that people throughout history have referred to as the promised land, but take my word for it [KNOCKS] America is the promised land. For everybody. And dont be ashamed, dont hesitate. We need to teach young people to be comfortable saying God bless America. End of my story. [CLAPPING]

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Our National Anthem. [INSTRUMENTAL NATIONAL ANTHEM]

[REYES]

And that was a vintage National Anthem. That actually was a sign-off from a television station in the early 1960s just as Gene Simmons would have heard in his youth.

And so tonight, broadcasting from Sweet Home Alabama, in the promised land, the United States. On behalf of a Friend of Medjugorje, Caritas of Birmingham, the Community of Caritas, BVM Pilgrimages, the Caritas Mission House in Medjugorje, Medjugorje.com, and RadioWave 24-hours, God bless America.

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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

This ends the Mejanomics broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.