When the Lord comes, the dead in Christ will resurrect, and you can proclaim: “When the Lord comes in his second coming, those that died in Christ will resurrect, according to His promise. I will resurrect,  because I am of Christ, I am in Him and I want to continue being so. I do not want to deny Him. I do not want to turn away from the Lord for nothing in his world. I want to end my days on this earth being of Christ Jesus. I have this certainty: I will die and resurrect in Christ. I will not remain in death when the second coming of the Our Lord Jesus Christ is near, I will resurrect! We will Resurrect!”

For whenever we are being tormented from all sides by the presence of the evil one, but the time will arrive when we will be free from his yoke. Especially our generation, so oppressed, it will experiment the joy of liberation. We believe that the problems that surround us are common in human life, but this is not true. Our generation has been terribly oppressed by the yoke of the enemy.

Drugs, alcoholism, depravity, that devastate our society, are not normal things, but rather, they result from tremendous evil oppression that wants to destroy our generation.

The terrible injustices, hunger, misery, and as consequence, the pains and the death of innocent children, they are not simply the result of human evil. The millions of abortions, corruption, that have become a world wide epidemic, are signals that the prince of the this world is who rules.

If the demons attack and oppress us, the angels of the God exist to be our protectors. The valient warriors of the Lord need to count on his presence and concrete action of these heavenly combatants. Spirit fights with spirit. The Angel of the Lord fights and conquers the decadent angel. This is a fight among them and not us. Our fight is different. We can contribute in this spiritual battle but with a firm and constant intercession. We are combatants in intercessary prayer  to the Lord.

Deus te abençoe!

God Bless You!

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the Canção Nova Community

(Excerpt of the book “Céus Novos e uma Terra Nova” [New Heaven, New Earth] by Monsignor Abib)

translated from Portuguese