The Maccabees

 (Please note that this is just my opinion through prayer and discernment.  Lynne)

On May 6th, 1977 at 3AM, Ida Peederman (Our Lady of All Nations) heard interiorly, “Read the Maccabees!”  (The book of 1Maccabees is about three great leaders, heads of the Jewish people and “rulers of high Priesthood” (Popes?), Judas Maccabeus and his brothers Jonathan and Simon.  The high point of the book is reached with a description of the rededication of the temple.  2 Maccabees is not a continuation of 1 Mac., but concentrates on the period of about fifteen years, chapters 1-7.  The story reads more like a sermon than a history.  Several passages refer to particular doctrines, e.g. the resurrection of the body (7.9,11; 14.46) rewards and punishments after death (6.26); prayers for the dead (12.42-45); the intercession of the saints (15.12-16).

 Then on May 31, 1977 Ida was told, “Now the Maccabees are coming forth!”

(Take note the date of May 31st - Ida’s book tells us that the Fifth Dogma will be pronounced by the Holy Father on May 31st, but does not give a year)

                       After reading 1 Maccabees, and this is what I seemed to understand:

                       1.  The date that Jesus told Ida, “Now the Maccabees are coming forth!” was in 1977.  Our Holy Father (Pope John Paul II) became Pope in 1978.  Therefore, we can assume that Our Holy Father parallels Judas Maccabeus, the first brother (1Mac. 2:66-68) “Judas Maccabeus has been a mighty warrior from his youth; he shall command the army (Our Lady’s army!) for you and fight the battle against the peoples (evil).  You shall rally about you all who observe the law and avenge the wrong done to your people.  Pay back the Gentiles in full (those who are against God, atheists, etc.) and heed what the law commands.” 

                       2.  1Mac. 2:29 - “Then many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there....”  

                 On May 31, 1978 (again on the 31st of May - only in 1978), Ida saw a vision of several large buildings; one she recognized as the side wall of the Vatican.  The other buildings were Seminaries and Universities.  From all these buildings she saw priests and clergymen coming out who’s faces looked like foxes, wolves and hyenas.  Jesus said to her, “They are those who have led My people into the wilderness and have broken up My Church.”

             3.  In 1Mac 3:35, it speaks of a “remnant” of Jerusalem (the Church) under Judas Maccabeus.  Our Lady tells us of a remnant in the church today!

                4.  There are several places you will read about days of celebration which just happen to be on the 25th of the month (Medjugorje) and the 13th of the month (Fatima).  There is also mention of the Feast of Tabernacles (1Macc. 10:21) which we know is the Feast of Booths - which is one of the unfulfilled Jewish feasts.  The Feast of Booths in the Old Testament was when the Israelites would go up to the mountain in tents, and by swaying palm fronds they would call in the Holy Spirit.  Just before this is mentioned about this Feast, (1Mac. 8:23). It implies that the Christians and Jews will unite - “May all go well with the Romans and with the nation of the Jews at sea and on land forever.” 

             If you will read the books on Maccabees, you will recognize much about the situation in the church today, and also many passages that parallel what is written in the New Testament.  After Chapter 7, it seems to go into more future events.  If in fact Judas Maccabeus is paralleling Pope John Paul II, then in Maccabees you will see that there will be only two more Popes after our Holy Father. (St. Malachi predicted the amount of Popes the church would have, and it is estimated that after John Paul II there will only be two more Popes!)

 Mon. Feb. 1, 1999 - The Gospel today was from Hebrews 11:32-40 - all about the Maccabean persecutions.

 As I sat listening to the Gospel, I seem to understood that Jesus’ comment to Ida, “Now the Maccabees are coming forth!” was not only intended to represent the Pope’s (the leaders in the battles), but also the faithful; the remnant who will remain faithful to Christ, to the Holy Father and to the Gospel.  We are fighting a war - one that cannot be seen, but a spiritual war.  Soon, another war will come - that against the person of the anti-Christ and those who will stand with him.

 This is from the Marian Movement of Priests, “To The Priests”:

 #384, 6/11/88:  “In these times in the Catholic Church, there will remain a little remnant who will be faithful to Christ, to the Gospel, and to its entire truth.  The little remnant will form a little flock, all guarded in the depths of my Immaculate Heart.  This little flock will be made up of those Bishops, priests, religious and faithful who will remain strongly united to the Pope....”

#384, 6/29/88:  “...Pope John Paul II.  He is my Pope.  He is the Pope who has been formed by me in the depths of my Immaculate Heart.  He is the Pope of my great light, in these times of greatest darkness.

            “The heart of the Pope is bleeding today because of one Bishop of the Holy Church of God who, through an arbitrary episcopal ordination carried out against his will, is opening up a painful schism in the Catholic Church.  But this is only the beginning.”  “The hour has come when there must appear, in all its force and its splendor, the great army which in silence and in hiddenness, I have been forming for myself during these years in every part of the world...”  “Thus, there is beginning to be delineated clearly the plan of the little flock, which will remain faithful to Christ and to his church, guarded whole and entire in the garden of my Immaculate Heart.”

 

“Read the Maccabees!”

 

 

Lynne Bauer