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Bernie Madoff, a well-known Wall Street investment advisor, became world-famous for operating possibly the largest Ponzi scheme in history. When investigators for the FBI and the SEC finally uncovered the massive fraud in 2008, losses by Madoff’s investors were estimated at more than $50 billion over the course of nearly 20 years. (1)

Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was operated through the wealth management portion of his business. It was a classic – and, in fact, frighteningly simple – Ponzi scheme. Madoff attracted investors by promising them extraordinarily high returns on their investments. However, when investors handed over the money, Madoff just deposited it into his personal bank account at Chase Manhattan Bank. He paid “returns” to earlier investors using the money obtained from later investors. Clients’ trading statements, showing their alleged profits, were complete fabrications. (1)

Bernie Madoff was arrested in 2008 and eventually sentenced to a 150-year prison term in 2009. The United States government ended up offering to pay out more than $700 million to defrauded Madoff investors, but that amount paled in comparison to the billions upon billions of dollars that investors had been scammed out of. (2)

(a) Madoff served as chairman of the NASDAQ exchange in 1990. (1)

(b) He was so well-respected on Wall Street that he also served for a time as the chairman of the board of directors of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) – a privately operated regulatory firm for the securities industry. (1)

(c) Madoff was also known for being a philanthropist to several charity organizations and a major contributor to candidates of the Democrat Party in the United States. (1)

(d) Madoff cultivated close friendships with wealthy, influential businessmen in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, signed them as investors, paid them handsome returns, and used their positive recommendations to attract more investors. (2)

The Gospel Reading from Luke 16: 19-31 reminds us why most will not believe what you say.

The rich man did not "get it" since he was not a Child of God. God's Children can hear Him when He calls. God's Children are not without fault, but when the time comes, they will get the message, if for no other reason than God insists that they do; whatever it takes, God will get them to listen.

In the case of the rich man and his brothers, not only did he and they ignore Moses and the prophets, but truly, they would not have believed even if a man rose from the dead to tell them the truth.

The rich man and his brothers would insist that the risen man was "not a face they recognized" and that that same man lived in "an alternate reality."

God either gives one the light or He condemns one to the darkness. If God will not give one the Grace to see, it will not happen.

For the Children of God, they know, not believe, that Miguel is right. The end of Our Times is anticlimactic at this point. We know enough to know how it ends, the details are best left to God.

Peace and Best wishes!

RC

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement!

You stated: "...whatever it takes, God will get them to listen." That is indeed the case since "Pain is the megaphone that God uses for the deaf to hear" and, as we have stated many times, to minimize the suffering of the Elect (i.e. reduce "whatever it takes") is one of our functions. The faster the slumbering Elect wake up, the less they will suffer.

We take this opportunity to underscore further the fact that "If God will not give one the Grace to see, it will not happen."

The parable in question [Lazarus and the rich man] is the only parable where the main character has a name - Lazarus. Now, let us highlight a specific quotation from said parable: "And he (Abraham) said to him (the dead rich man): If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead."

Now, let us "fast forward" to the Gospel according to John, Chapters 11 and 12. Jesus raised a dead and already decomposing Lazarus almost at the gates of Jerusalem. There were many witnesses and many people were converted when they witnessed Lazarus resurrection. A little later we see that Jesus dined with Lazarus and sisters in His way to Jerusalem where He would be crucified in about six days.

In spite of the astonishing miracle He had performed at the gates of Jerusalem, He was crucified because "... neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead."

Perfect Divine coherence in the Holy Scriptures.

Thank you for the opportunity to Glorify God.

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Hi. I also fight against OD.

I have found many names of Spanish clubs and student's residences of the sect and I wrote [...] to inform people.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, Barbarin, Pope Francis, all belong to Opus Dei.

Have you read "Inside Opus Dei" by Maria del Carmen Tapia? Very interesting book.

Opus Dei loves money and power. Behind you'll maybe find the CIA...
It's written on a french book called "La Sainte Mafia".

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Best regards.

(Portions [...] edited out for anonymity)

May the Peace of God be with you!

Thank you for taking the time to send us a note and share your thoughts.

Obviously, you have read only a small portion of what we have written about O.D., but we appreciate your sincere intentions to inform us and we thank you for this opportunity because in responding to you we also provide a brief summary for our readers.

Thank you for your advice about the books. Actually, we have read and studied many books about O.D. along the years, including Tapia's book under its old title "Beyond the Threshold - A Life in Opus Dei" - a very important book, indeed.

Regarding our "fight" against O.D., we would like to qualify that our objective is not to destroy Opus Dei. God will take care of that at a time appointed by Him, just as God dealt with Judas Iscariot in due time, not before. Our objective is to keep the Faith alive by warning the faithful of the traps and dangers that come from many different fronts, being O.D. the most dangerous and persuasive at the End of These Times.

In case you do not know our indexes related to this matter, here are they:

* In English: Documents Regarding the Opus Dei Sect and Ecclesiastical Masonry - Index

* In Spanish: Documentos sobre la Secta del Opus Dei and Masonería Eclesiástica - Índice

Regarding "Opus Dei loves money and power", we have published this:

The False Theology of the Opus Dei

Regarding "Behind you'll maybe find the CIA", we have published this:

The Possible Opus Dei - CIA Connection

About "Pope" Francis, better than say that he "belongs" or "is affiliated" to Opus Dei, we would rather say that he is so strongly influenced by them (consciously and/or unconsciously) that, in practical terms, they control Francis. (1)

Surely you already know our Listing of Cardinals, Bishops and Priests in the Opus Dei Orbit. In case you are interested, our corresponding list in Spanish is more updated and better organized.

Said listings are demonstrative, not exhaustive, so we are not pressed to constantly update them. But, if you would share with us a web link with those "many names of Spanish clubs and student's residences of the sect", we would consider to publish it somehow. Thank you!

May God guide you on your exposing of the danger of that sect, alerting the unsuspecting souls.

The tiny electronic device, dubbed the “Killer Chip” by Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger, would be suited for tracking fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don't return home from pilgrimages.

After subcutaneous implantation, the chip would send out encrypted radio waves that would be tracked by satellites to confirm the person's identity and whereabouts. An alternate model chip could reportedly release a poison into the carrier if he or she became a security risk.

The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market, to punish it for interfering in last year's U.S. election, cyber hacking, bullying Ukraine and other alleged malign actions.

Among his moves, Biden signed an executive order authorizing the U.S. government to impose sanctions on any area of the Russian economy and used it to restrict Russia's ability to issue sovereign debt to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2020 U.S. election.

How long are COVID-19 vaccines effective? (3)

One of the most pressing questions about COVID-19 vaccines is how long they can provide protection. It may be decades, or a matter of months – the data necessary to figure that out is accumulating every day. Pfizer’s CEO said this week that after a full regimen of doses immunity will probably start to fade within a year. According to the WHO, it’s simply too early to know the exact duration of COVID-19 vaccines because both the disease and the science deployed against it aren’t yet fully understood.

(1) A vaccination certificate linked to an existing personal ID (driver's license, national identity card... depending on each country)
(2) A travel passport associated to your vaccination certificate. Increasingly, a forced requirement for travel.
(3) The link of the personal/vaccination/passport ID to a mobile device. First, as a convenience. Later, mandatory.
(4) When the world financial breakdown arrives (as a result of the nefarious lockdowns), "let's make reality a universal digital currency",
(5) and, since a robust personal ID for everyone is in place, "let's make reality a digital wallet for everyone".
(6) Since the personal ID has become the ID for financial transactions, a more difficult to tamper ID must to be put in place. How about an implanted microchip or a tattoo? (Better yet if the very vaccines have already put this in place)
(7) More and more, those who are not vaccinated, are seen as a danger to public health.
(8) More and more, those who have not accepted the regulated ID are seen as an obstacle for the new global economic system.
(9) Staged acts of terrorism are attributed to the "unvaccinated" and "ID rebels". Hatred is sown against those "outside the system". Now they are "domestic terrorists".
(10) Disinformation has to be stopped. Dissidence from the new system is a danger to society, a crime to be punished. Digital and universal control of speech and behaviours, perhaps feasible through neural wireless connections via personal devices, must be implemented.

Twenty four world leaders have signed a letter calling for more globalism to combat future pandemics, citing the the coronavirus outbreak as an opportunity to consign nationalism to the dustbin of history.

[Quoting from the Letter signed by 24 world leaders:] "The Covid-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s. At that time, following the devastation of two world wars, political leaders came together to forge the multilateral system. The aims were clear: to bring countries together, to dispel the temptations of isolationism and nationalism, and to address the challenges that could only be achieved together in the spirit of solidarity and cooperation: namely, peace, prosperity, health and security."

But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you; For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

And round about the throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads were crowns of gold. [...] And when those living creatures gave glory, and honour, and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever; The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne, and adored him that liveth for ever and ever, ... [Revelation 4:4,9-10]