Are We Experiencing the End Times?

So when I see countries trying to annihilate Israel for no good reason, I'm like, do you know who you're messing with? God's not going to just sit back. If you're literally stirring a pot trying to exterminate the Jewish people that he founded, you better be careful. And we better be on the right side of that as Americans, cuz I feel like we are telling Israel to pump your brakes and telling Iran, you're fine. Are we in end times? I mean, I think we're in the end of this age of disobedience. I don't think it's the end of the world, because I'm pretty sure in Revelation it talks about a thousand-year peace, and I think we would have noticed that if that happened. I'm pretty sure that didn't happen. And there are theologians say, oh, it's metaphorical. It's don't look for a thousand-year peace. Well, you know what? Were you there when he created everything? No. So like, it could be true. Maybe there will be an actual thousand years of real peace, peace that only can come down from heaven. Uh, but in the process, we, we're living in a very, like you said, it's dark. Uh, a lot of the rulers of this world have an allegiance to Satan and, uh, you know, there's a propensity for destruction, right? And I'm not going to go into all the wars happening, but it's ironic to me, you know, whenever you look at the Old Testament and the Israelites were being, uh, persecuted unjustly, if they didn't create the problem themselves and they were just being, you know, the country comes in to try to take them over, they're always vindicated by the Lord, always. He crushes the enemy and sets them free and they're fine. Now, when they stray, he sometimes uses armies to conquer them to teach them a lesson, but then over time, they would repent and then they would be put back into their proper place.

So when I see countries trying to annihilate Israel for no good reason, I'm like, do you know who you're messing with? God's not going to just sit back. If you're literally stirring a pot trying to exterminate the Jewish people that he founded, you better be careful. And we better be on the right side of that as Americans, because I feel like we are telling Israel to pump your brakes and telling Iran, you're fine. You know, we're going to give you a couple hundred billion dollars. By the way, what are we doing? Doesn't it, doesn't it say that in the end times that all the nations will turn against Israel? Yes. Do you think that's happening right now? No, because all the nations have not turned against Israel yet. I mean, I feel like we still at least verbally support Israel, but no, I think it'll be more dramatic than that. And I don't think, I don't think we're going to live in those times now. But it's only my opinion and it's, it's not even a really good one, like it's just my opinion, so don't take that to the bank. Uh, but you know, we're great, we're sin abounds, grace super abounds. So the darker the days, the more God's going to put his hand in to help us. And that's really good news. Cuz if you want to be a saint and you're living in times of peace, it's a lot harder and longer to become that saint. If you're in the darkest of days, you just put your hand up and say, Lord, I want to be a saint, and there's a funnel in heaven that's going to come over you and go, and they're going to advance you in holiness very quickly because of the days we live in. And that might be the quickening that you're feeling in like this transformation that's happening in your life or in my own. I'm seeing things I never used to see on a regular basis, um, of when God is working in these miracles and doing things that I'm just like, I just step back amazed. I'm like, wow, I didn't see that coming. And in, and, and the more you see the exorcisms go up in number, means the enemy is getting more riled up. The more you see the, what, go up in exorcisms, okay, they're increasing ever since COVID, they've been multiplying, really. Oh, yeah. Well, take away the sacraments, close the churches, and tell people to sit home idle all day doing bad things. What are you going to get? That was a big mistake. And the cases take longer to get the demons out. So we used to have a lot of them would be one and done. It's, you know, one session, they, they're gone. Now it's two, three, four, five times, which I have to, you know, put on a calendar way out several weeks between them because I have other things I do. And then the new cases come in and they're piling up. So it's, it's not a good situation. In Italy, they have popup exorcism booths. Are you serious? Dad, serious popup explosion of demonic. I mean, is there? I've recently read the book of Romans and, you know, it's really hard. I'm not going to lie, it's really hard for me to understand what I'm reading. But Paul's not a big fan of punctuation. But, um, but it sounded very similar to kind of what we're living into today. Um, sexuality running rampant, gender confusion, there were a lot of things in there that when I read that, I was like, holy, we're talking about modern day here. Are these, are these all signs that something's coming? Well, I mean, there's a lot of signs that the Lord said we could look to. If you go to Revelation or the Book of Daniel or even chapters in Matthew, uh, he talks about these end days. But I'm not sure it's all the end of time, but there, I feel like we're in. So let me, this is again, my own personal opinion. We had 2,000 years of, uh, before Jesus came, of God tapping the Israelites and making them his people. And that was really when we read through those scriptures, it's really God the Father who's speaking to them. And then Jesus comes, and we've had 2,000 years of focus on Jesus, rightly so. But we haven't had a, had a period that's focused on the Holy Spirit, who is an equal member of the Trinity. And I feel like this age of the Holy Spirit is coming when God's going to crush the evil forces that are really derailing mankind in whatever way he wants. He's God, he can, whatever he wants. And then bring forth his Spirit on the planet in a way that would, uh, have everybody drawn into this great giant Shalom of heaven, this great, uh, time of peace and flourishing in God's word. Imagine that. I mean, that'd be like heaven on earth. And that's, I think that thousand years they talk about in the Book of Revelation. And that would be amazing cuz we'd never seen that. I mean, there's pockets of that around the planet, like this place in Magorri. It's so grace-filled there that you can't help but feel joy and peace and you're, it's an out-of-body experience. Why? And I'd go, why does this happen over here? Well, first of all, everybody there is practicing Catholic and practices their faith deeply. Everybody going there is seeking to go deeper in their Catholic faith. And even the people that work in the shops, they're all participating. So they all go to mass every day, they all pray the Rosary every day. And there's really no discontent there against the practice of that religion. So it's just an open pipeline of grace flooding this village. And you feel it when you walk in. You can't say that about Rome. Can't say that about Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe. No, because they're all in cities now that are partially Catholic, partially pagan. And even the Catholics aren't all practicing their faith. And so it, it limits the grace that goes into those places. You know, you should go there. You had something happen there, correct? Oh, yes. That was, I was when I was away from the faith all those years, I went over there cuz a friend invited me. And, uh, when I got there, I realized it's one of these holy places. I really don't want to stay. But I stayed enough to go to bed that night because I was tired. And when I woke up in the morning, I had this overwhelming peace that I've never experienced prior. And only experienced really when I'm back there. And that's when I went looking for the priest to go to confession cuz I knew I said, I'm going to stay the whole week cuz it's amazing to be here. Like, I don't think you feel like this anywhere in the world. And it's natural, well, supernatural, but it's, it's not a drug, it's real. It's like coming from heaven. So the funny thing is, I knew the confession was going to be pretty deep and dark. So I went looking for a priest before the mass that was going to be kind of lenient and not judgy. And so I find this priest outside the church and I call him Hollywood priest cuz he was like, good-looking guy, strong, handsome, tan. And he's telling jokes to like these 10 women and they're all laughing at his jokes and he's smoking his cigarette. I'm like, that's the guy. He will not be harsh on me. And so I went to confession to him. And you heard the whole story, he absolved me. Then he said, I think you're going to be a priest. And I said, I don't know about that. But anyway. Well, lo and behold, fast forward 19 years later, I go back to Magorri with a group and they, we did an excursion outside of the village that day about 20 kilometers away to another parish that has a famous statue of Our Lady that we wanted to see. So we went down there. And when we pull up in the bus, um, the tour guide says, wait a minute here, the pastor wants to come out and greet you all. So we get out and we wait. And out comes this priest, and it's him. It's the priest I went to confession to. And I remember him because this was a life-changing moment for me. I'll never forget him on his face. But when he sees me, he looks up and he goes, oh, you became a priest. And I go, what? I go, you remember me? And he goes, yes, I've been praying for you every day. Are you serious? 19 years later? Wow. And we, we went and had coffee and he stopped smoking, had a heart attack. And, you know, we both aged quite a bit in 20 years. But like, only God can wrap those things up like that and let you know, like not just for me, but for him, that he would know that his prayers paid off. Very, very. Wow. That that's it's like profound, right? Very. Yeah, profound. No matter where you're watching Sean Ryan Show from, if you get anything out of this, please like, comment, subscribe, and most importantly, share this everywhere you possibly can. And if you're feeling extra generous, please leave us a review on Apple and Spotify podcasts.