1. The signs of summer.
In the Gospel, Christ mentiones that people know that summer is near because of the new leaves in the fig trees. Men, also, know if it is autumn and if winter is approaching. Men knows what is coming from signs that occur before. A red sky in the afternoon informs the farmer that there will be rain the next day. But how come, though Christ mentioned all the signs of the approach of general judgment day so men can prepare their souls, nobody seems to know that it is coming soon.
General judgment day is when each man will be judged by Christ for every word they said, every thought he had, every action he did and every duty he omitted. For everything, even for every useless word they said, St. Paul writes.
What we see in the world is man's utter carelessness in that everything he does is reason for God to condemn him. And at a time when man is fast approaching the general judgment day.
Christ complains of man's stupidity. Man usually knows when summer is approaching because of the new saplings that grow in the trees. Or he knows when winter is approaching because of autumn. How come man does not know the approach of the most important day of his life; when he will be judged where he will spend his eternity.
2. The Liturgy gives many signs.
Christ declared to His apostles that nobody knows the exact day of the last judgment or when a person will die. Then He adds, not even the angels, nor the Son. Only the Father. Christ did not want to satisfy the useless curiosity of the apostles. He wanted them to concentrate on the essentials. So He did not want to tell them. But the Son and the angels know the exact time. And Christ gave His apostles signs when general judgment day is by the doorstep. He gave these signs on Holy Week because the events of Holy Week were the prophetic signs that general judgment is by the doorstep.
The sign was the spiritual state of both the state and the church in Jerusalem on Holy Week. Both were faithless, both were sinners, both had no Charity, both were filled with hatred, both were murderers.
3. Which goes first.
The state is in the natural level of politics. The Church has two levels; the level of politics which is referred to as the institutional church and the supernatural level, the spiritual level, which is the true Church of Christ. Ordinarily, the church deteriorates before society deteriorates. And vice versa, society improves as the church spiritually improves.
On Holy Week, both the Synagogue, which was the church of God's chosen people, and the Jewish society hit the bottom of immorality. Both had no Charity, no Faith and no knowledge of God's religion. Both regressed down to the unnatural level. Thus God declared condemnation both to the city and its religions......death and destruction that will be fulfilled 40 years later. The religion, first, loses its Faith then the nation loses its reason to exist.
Many nations, today, are in this deplorable state. Their Catholic Church has lost its Faith thus the nation has lost its reason to continue existing. Let us not talk about those nation who do not have the right religion thus nations without souls. These nations have no reason to exist and, in fact, they are not a nation at all but just a conglomeration of many people of different minds and hearts.
We are talking about the sign of the times that shows that general judgment day is by the door. This sign is when the Catholic Church in that nation have lost its Faith and the nation have lost its nationality i.e. the nation has become a nation full of squatters with no single norm of unity. These are usually former Catholic nations. They have become signs identical to Jerusalem, ready for the slaughter; like Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Korea, China, Japan, etc. They will be destroyed at the same time. And true Catholics are just waiting for that dreaded moment while preparing themselves for the general judgment that will follow soon.
What are we waiting for? Babylon. The nation that represents the state of the whole world. When Babylon falls, the entire sinful world will fall with it. Babylon, the modern world Jerusalem who crucified Christ, is about to fall. Summer is coming and nobody seems to notice it. Most of its inhabitants are even hastening its fall. "O Babylon, Babylon. You devastator of morals. "
4. The 6th day is today.
Pope Benedict mentioned briefly in a talk on St. Bonaventure that we are in the 6th day, referring to the 6th day as discussed by St. Bonaventure. The saint was referring to that day when both the state and the institutional church will be faithless thus deserving to be destroyed by the Romans as they did to Jerusalem.
The crisis of Faith was noticeable after Vatican II in the US. Then it spread all over the world that we cannot find a Catholic parish or diocese that has the four visible marks of the Catholic Church because they are faithless. Gradually, it begun to show among the laymen especially among so called Catholic politicians. Being in the limelight they were clearly faithless. The same goes with the more better known bishops and cardinals precisely because they are in the lime light. No one can hide the fact that one is faithless. And no one can hide that he has Faith.
The US, being the most prominent nation, is being watched by the whole Christian world on whether state and church are on the slippery way down to great evils. The inevitable way down which no one can stop started with Vatican II, it rapidly descended with Obama as head of the US. It temporarily slowed down in its descend with President Trump. And everybody is expecting the descend to continue with great speed with Biden. In which case the world is expecting the Divine punishment, the destruction of Jerusalem to occur.
