I am writing this article in response to requests from True Life in God members to address the matter of members circulating among themselves unapproved messages from this and that individual claiming to receive messages from heaven.

Over the past several decades God and Mary have bestowed upon mankind everything, in fact more than necessary, for each and every one of us to attain salvation and arrive at the very summits of perfection – to live in God and allow the three divine Persons to indwell within us with the same interior union of wills that the saints and angels enjoy in heaven. It may be said that in providing us with ecclesiastically approved prophetic revelations that incorporate and explicate Church teaching, God has given us all the spiritual knowledge we need, e.g., the prophetic messages of Fatima, Cuapa, Akita, St. Faustina Kowalska, Vassula Rydén, Fr. Stefano Gobbi, Mirna of Souffanieh, and more.

In the ecclesiastically approved True Life in God message of April 12, 1997 the Blessed Virgin Mary reveals,

“This is why the earth is in a turmoil and so much innocent blood is shed; but these are also the signs of the times; Satan and his dark dominion are spitting out on the earth their vomit, bringing afflictions into families and divisions too; they are raising false prophets around the world… but this is so that the elect too may fall in their treachery; those false prophets are being poured on you like rain, bringing so much mischief and so much confusion, My poor children …. words and false oaths fill their mouths and their prophecies are like poisonous weeds that thrive now in the furrows of the Lord’s field; their roots are spreading to bring forth new poisonous weeds; the danger signals echo in your ears, My children, but you do not seem to understand or discern those signals… be warned, lest you be deceived and may God endow your hearts with discernment, so that His Glory given before your eyes, draws you into the Truth;”   [Read the whole article]