THE COMING STORM

A former radio talk-show host from Illinois asserts that he has seen a coming "great storm" in visions granted to him by the Archangel Gabriel and Blessed Mother -- visions that occurred with great specificity in 1993, 1995, and 1997.

The former broadcaster, Charles Johnston, now a salesman in Belleville, Illinois, warns that mankind is approaching a great purification. Although coming events had long been indicated to him, it has only been in the last ten years, says Johnston, that he has seen specifics in what he terms three "great visions."

"The first great vision was in March of 1993," he says. "I was told the spirit of anti-christ was already in the world. It was very simple, and in that simplicity is its deception. It is the institutionalization of the belief that good could be done without reference to God."

When that occurred -- when he watched as the world seemed to turn topsy-turvy, with good considered evil and evil good -- Johnston says he became startled and knew it was leading to the events he was shown in the visions. He says that in those premonitions is general upheaval, a breakdown in technology, and a "global civil war" -- with the dividing line the issue of abortion.

While Johnston also sees signs in natural happenings, it is his belief that the major events will be spawned by man. There are "legions," he says, that have given themselves over to Satan. He believes that abortion is a satanic "sacrament."

And as a result, the world is in for a roller-coaster ride during the next 14 years, he says, with major events preceded by "rumblings" like September 11 that will lift the veil and show us the real existence of good and evil. "There will be more than a few false dawns, and people will deceive themselves during these periods that the crisis is past," claims Johnston.

"Then: sudden terror, more starkly terrifying than all that has gone on before." We are not speaking about the end of the world but of major events that if Johnston is correct will take place in various ways in parts of the world.

"The sequence of ever-deepening chaos will continue until mid-October of 2017," he asserts he was told by the Blessed Mother. "Despair will reign throughout the world.

Then, between October 13-17 of 2017, the world will be miraculously, utterly, and visibly delivered from the terror by the Intercession of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception.

Christianity will be reunified, Satan will be shackled, and the world shall enter a glorious period of peace and harmony under the rule and protection of the one, triune God." We are on the threshold, he claims, of new miracles. There will be a time of great healing.

But before that will be trauma. The coming events, he believes, will take up to six million lives. We are not speaking about the end of the world but of major events that if Johnston is correct will take place in various ways in parts of the world. The Lord seeks not to destroy, says Johnston, but to deliver. It will involve terrorism, he says, but goes beyond that and will include persecution.

"This war shall ultimately become a death struggle between the authentic Judeo-Christian values of classical Western Civilization and the false gods that are ascendant throughout the world," warns Johnston.

"Let me draw this point finely -- when I speak of 'false gods,' I do not mean merely other religions. I include the false gods of materialism, hedonism, the 'culture of death,' and other such idols that cross national and religious boundaries."

"This is a definitive struggle between the values of Christian Western civilizations and forces that want to destroy that. It is a battle for the soul of the world," is the way he synopsizes it. He also states that there will be a breakdown in our technology and infrastructure. "Technology won't cease to exists," he says. "But there will be a greater simplicity with everyone.

We will know the nature of the battle we are in when our technology fails -- and fail it will. It is not that the laws of science are going to be revoked; rather, we are almost unaware of what a fragile hothouse plant our sophisticated technological systems are.

Satan has seduced many souls by filling them with an unwarranted confidence in themselves and the work of their hands." It is this self-sufficiency, maintains Johnston, this idea that we are our own gods, that will be broken down -- at times unpleasantly.

Johnston also had warned long before the recent crisis that the storm would break through North Korea. "North Korea is the dragon's tail," he says. China? "You got it," he says. "China is a very bad actor.

You'll know for certain that the storm has broken in its fullness when it comes through North Korea. For almost a decade now I have shuddered with an unknown and supernatural dread at the mere mention of North Korea."

Johnston asserts that he was informed in visions presented to him by both the Blessed Mother and Archangel Gabriel that the "storm" -- a great global conflict between those of the Judeo-Christian ethic and those who seek to wipe out that ethic -- will break after the death of the Pope.

"I was shown Pope John Paul and was told that he knew what was coming and that he had completely devoted himself to preparing the Church for the storm to come," he maintains. "I saw him at his desk writing furiously and traveling far and wide, but that everything he was doing was to prepare the Church so that she would weather the storm. That was his mission.

I was shown the storm would not break in its fullness until he had passed, that this was not a particular grace for him, but the reason was to allow him to completely fulfill his mission at which point he would then constantly intercede for the Church in Heaven."

In this decade will come the greatest financial collapse in history, the greatest war and the greatest move of God. However, this will not be the time of the Mark Of The Beast, nor Armageddon, nor the great end times harvest, for we are only at the beginning of the end and not at the end.

It will be the best of times and the worst of times, for it will be the season of the double blessing, yet there will also be great judgment, apocalypse, catastrophe and sorrow. Judgment will come like the destruction of the Twin Towers; the financial system will be greatly shaken and the peace will be greatly shaken. Out of great tragedy will come a great move of God.

As America and the world begins to wash their hands of Israel, there will come a great collapse in the America dollar, the stock market and the property market. Because of a mistake in judgment by America (the president), the wrath of the nations will come against America.

This will mark the beginning of a sudden and dramatic economic collapse that America will never fully recover from. The sphere of influence will shift from America to Europe. Economic disaster will engulf the whole world.

In this weakened state, there is coming a war between the East and the West. The Islamic and Communist nations will go to war with America and the European Economic Community. This will be World War Three. America will be caught off guard, with much of its military force overseas, in peace keeping roles.

In the end, the world will blame Israel for starting this war. The war will be a time of great preparation and sacrifice; it will either develop in us character and an excellent spirit or it will kill us and/or devastate us.

Towards the end of the decade, out of great tragedy, will come a great move of God. As the realm of glory falls, our Father will pour out His 'Father's heart of love' and we will see 'great signs and wonders' and the Kingdom will be greatly advanced.

At the end of the decade, the realm of glory will grow in momentum and multitudes will be translated into the Kingdom. More will be brought into the Kingdom, than in any at any other time in history.

Much of the Church will collapse this decade as our Father shakes everything that can be shaken, for He cannot put new wine in old wine skins. Our Father will sovereignly begin to build His new Church, a glorious Church, where Jew and Gentiles will become one, a Church that will know not only Christ, but also will intimately rest in our Father's love and forgiveness. Many will come out of the existing Church, cults and other religions, into the new Church. Out of intimacy with our Father, will come a glorious realm of signs and wonders, greater than was seen in the Former Rain.

"We are never co-planners in God's secret plan," says Johnson. "God tells us these things in order that we can watch and wait and understand when they begin to happen. When you see these things come, then you understand what's happening. It's very important to understand that Christ does come with the sword, but He doesn't come to punish us. He comes to reclaim those who can be reclaimed.

"My mission is to reassure people of God's loving presence in these things when it manifests," he says. "I used to be scared to death of these things, but what must come, must come!"

Nasreen Jouni, a stigmatic, grew up in Kuwait under the guidance of a holy nun and entered the U.S. in 1980. She now lives in Hesperia, California. Nasreen asserts that on February 17, 2012, the Lord said:

"My daughter, I know you are weak and I know without me you are always imperfect, unable to move. Don’t worry; I will take care of you. I will take care of you until all my works are done. My chalice of mercy has overflowed. Daughter, when My Mother appeared in Fatima on May 1917, she said the devil asked the Divine Throne to tempt the world for a hundred years. This time is going to end in 2017.

He will no longer reign on earth because I will come with My peace. I will cover the world with My peace because, I am peace and passion. My call is to the whole world." She interpreted this not as the end of the world, but as the end of a period -- Satan's time, to be accompanied by major events, for which we should prepare, in ways she believes will be revealed in coming years.

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