{"id":1616,"date":"2017-09-03T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:45:33","slug":"firebase-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/firebase-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebase Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are involved in a war which was raging when the current event, which we call the universe, began its existence. This war’s origins are in a place where space and time are not, and many of its soldiers are beings whose nature and mode of existence we can only infer from their dealings with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>When the first humans walked Earth, they quickly became involved in this war. On the wrong side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Earth is now on the front lines, and only one or two human beings have been born who were not scarred by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I grew, I became aware of the war. First, noticing its effects, then slowly developing a dim understanding of why death and deception, malice and greed, were so much a part of life here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike most wars, this one has a distinct “right” and “wrong” side: assuming that one regards the agonizing death of humanity as “wrong.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite recently there was a major turning point in the war. About twenty centuries ago, the leader of the side which does not seek humanity’s destruction intervened, personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a process we may never understand, a portion of the leader became fully human and walked among us. The crux of his mission here was an act which broke the enemy’s power over humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also set up a sort of command center. It maintains his presence, and protects and guides humanity in what appear to be the final phases of this conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had known about this command center for decades before understanding what it was. When I found out, I joined its ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

\u00a9 2006, Brian H. Gill. I posted this story in 2009, when this blog was on Blogger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More of how I see angels, Jesus, and being human:<\/p>\n\n\n\n