Deep Darkness Will Cover the Earth

The Narrow and Wide Gates

 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.

But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.

Matthew 7:13-14

The majority of earth's inhabitants have rejected the Light, and so they shall have darkness, gross darkness.

Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

John 14: 6

Deep Darkness 

Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of theLord]; for your light has come,
And the glory and brilliance of theLord has risen upon you.

2 
“For in fact, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness will cover the peoples;

But the Lord will rise upon you [Jerusalem]
And His glory and brilliance will be seen on you.
3 
“Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

ISAIAH 60

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Italian exorcist says society risks collapse due to ‘aggressive Satanism’

“There are many groups of satanism,” Dermine said, noting that internet exposure has also increased, and references to the demonic are increasingly prevalent in videogames and school games such as the “Charlie Charlie challenge,” in which players cross two pencils on a grid with sectors marking ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and ask a supernatural being, “Charlie,” to answer the questions they ask.

“Secularization leaves a void,” he said, explaining that alongside it is a “sort of spiritual, ideological and also cultural void. Young people do not have anything to satisfy their spiritual and profound needs. They are thirsting for something, and the Church is not attractive anymore.”

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Deep Darkness

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Syria says air defenses fire on ‘hostile missiles’ from Israel

There were three explosions in the Damascus suburbs after the missiles targeted “Syrian regime and Iranian positions.”

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“Listen carefully, Damascus will cease to be a city
And will become a fallen ruin

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“Now in that day the [former] glory of Jacob [Israel—his might, his population, his prosperity] will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 
“And it will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears of grain;
Yes, it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the [fertile] Valley of Rephaim.
6 
“Yet gleanings will be left in the land [of Israel] like the shaking of the olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost branch,
Four or five on the [outermost] branches of the fruitful tree,”
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 
In that day man will have regard for his Maker,
And his eyes will regard the Holy One of Israel [with awe-inspired reverence].
8 
And he will not have regard for the [idolatrous] altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Neither the Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah) nor the incense altars.
9 
In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like[b]deserted places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.
10 
Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,
11 
In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
Yet [promising as it is] the harvest will be a heap [of ruins that passes away]
In the day of sickness and incurable pain.

12 
Oh, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the noise of nations
Who roar like the rumbling of mighty waters!
13 
The nations roar on like the roaring of many waters,
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before the storm.
14 
At evening time, now look, sudden terror!
Before morning the Assyrians are no more.
This is the portion (fate) of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who pillage us.

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Isaiah 17

JUCHE