Nature. Asteroid Apophis and Garabandal

It will come scarily close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029. At that day it will be only 36 thousand kilometers from the planet.

The next close encounter should take place on April 13, 2036. It is even possible, that Apophis will hit the Earth in 2036. Everything depends on the details of the 2029 event.

Garabandal's Predictions

The apparitions of the Mother of God in Garabandal took place from 1961 to 1965. Our Lady appeared to four schoolgirls in the village of San Sebastian de Garabandal in northwest Spain. She told the girls what would happen in the future Miracle, as a result of which the whole world should turn to God. But before that the world must receive Warning, to change and prepare for the Miracle.

The girls were also shown the Chastisement, which can come from God to all mankind if people do not repent. The Chastisement poses a mortal danger to mankind. But this is a conditional thing, that is, it may not happen, or its strength and severity can be significantly reduced.^[**]

Below we tried to correlate the images revealed to the seers with the pictures of the approach of the asteroid Apophis to the Earth.

The event of the Warning starts with the letter «А»

Question: Many years ago you told us the event of the Warning begins with the letter «А». Since Our Lady never told you not to reveal it, can you now mention it?
Answer: She did not forbid it, but I don't know why I haven't said it and I don't feel as though I should say it now.

Interview with Conchita
February, 1977

The Warning like a collision of two stars

According to the Garabandal seers the Warning has two features:
• On the one hand, it will be an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Something like a collision of two starts in the sky, which crashed into each other and make a lot of noise and a lot of light but they don't fall on our hads.
• On the other hand, during this event we are going to see our conscience, i.e. everything wrong that we are doing and everything good that we are not doing though we can. This is going to frighten us strongly that we can even die from the shock.

The picture of the collision of two stars may well outline the peoples' attempt to blow up Apophis or to deflect the asteroid from its dangerous trajectory at the time when it travels close to the Earth in 2029.

Question: Would you repeat for us what you know about the Warning?
Answer: What I remember now is that the Virgin told me that before the Miracle God will be sending us a Warning so as to purify us or prepare us to see the Miracle and in this way we may draw enough grace to change our lives toward God. She told me what the Warning will consist of but not the date. I am not able to say what it consists of but I am able to say what it will be like, more or less. It is a phenomenon which will be seen and felt in all the world and everywhere; I have always given as an example that of two stars that collide. This phenomenon will not cause physical damage, but it will horrify us because at that very moment we will see our souls and the harm we have done. It will be as though we were in agony but we will not die by its effects but perhaps we will die of fright or shock to see ourselves. May the Virgin forgive me if I do not explain it the way it is, but I am trying to tell you … after knowing what the Warning will be like that day.

Interview with Conchita
February, 1977

Question: It (the Warning) is not going to hurt you?
Answer: No. To me, it's like two stars… that crash and make a lot of noise and a lot of light but they don't fall… It's something that's not going to hurt us but we're going to see it. In that moment, we're going to see our conscience. You're going to see everything wrong that you're doing.

Question: You 're going to see everything wrong that you are doing?
Answer: Yes. And you're going to see the good that you're not doing.

Interview with Conchita
August, 1980

⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: Пс 6, 9. Лк 13, 27.
⁴² For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Mat 25:41-45

The Warning first seen in the air

Jacinta Gonzalez (one of the four Garabandal seers) characterizes the Warning as something that will first be “seen in the air everywhere in the world.” The words “everywhere in the world” can be understood taking into account the fact that at the time of the Apparitions of Our Lady the seer girls lived in a remote mountain village, and, as another of them (Mari Loli) said: “at that time, for me Europe equaled the whole world”.

Description of the Warnings as "something that is first seen in the air" can be attributed to the asteroid Apophis flying in 2029, which humanity will try to blow up or deflect from a dangerous trajectory.

Question: Can you tell us what the Warning will be like?
Answer: The Warning is something that is first seen in the air everywhere in the world and immediately is transmitted into the interior of our souls. It will last for a very little time, but it will seem a very long time because of its effect within us. …

Interview with Jacinta
February, 1977

God can let the Chastisement happen

The Chastisement, anounced at Garabandal, is a very great punishment imposed on the mankind. But it is still conditional and depends on whether or not mankind heeds the messages of the Blessed Virgin and the Miracle. Even if humanity would not escape the Chastisement, it can be mitigated.^[**]

Pictures of the Chastisement, shown by the Mother of God in Garabandal in the summer of 1962 during the "Nights of Screams", may well be interpreted as the fall of an asteroid to Earth. The following is an excerpt from text of the note, signed by Mari Loli:

… Then she [the Blessed Virgin] showed us how the great Chastisement for all mankind would come, and that it would come directly from God.

At a certain moment, not a single motor or machine would function; a terrible heat wave will strike the earth and men will begin to feel a great thirst. In desperation they will seek water, but this will evaporate from the heat. Then almost everyone will despair and they will seek to kill one another. But they will lose their strength and fall to the ground. Then it will be understood that it is God alone Who has permitted this.

Then we saw a crowd in the midst of flames. The people ran to hurl themselves into the lakes and seas. But the water seemed to boil, and instead of putting out the flames, it seemed to enkindle them even more. It was so horrible that I asked the Blessed Virgin to take all the young children with her before all this happened. But the Virgin told us that by the time it came, they would all be adults.

Father Francis Benac, S.J.
The Chastisement

When might the Chastisement come?
In the summer of 1962, the girls were 12-13 years old (the oldest, Conchita Gonzalez, was born on February 7, 1949). By “little children” (in a request to the Mother of God) they could mean children 2-7 years of age, i.e. children born in 1955-1960. If we accept the life expectancy of a person as approximately 70-80 years (“The days of our years are seventy years, and with a greater strength — eighty years” Psa 90:10), then we can estimate that the Chastisement (if it nevertheless comes to people) happen no later than 2040. Here it is appropriate to recall that a possible collision of the asteroid Apophis with the Earth may occur on April 13, 2036.

Chastisement is a conditional thing and can be avoided

According to the revelations of Our Lady in Garabandal, the Great Punishment may not happen. Humanity can escape Punishment. If people turn to God, then God will cancel Chastisement.

Marie Cruz: “Chastisement (Castigo) is a conditional thing and can be avoided (mitigated) if people return to God.” (Interview with Marie Cruz, April 2006)

Question:
What were your feelings and thoughts regarding the Warning (El Aviso), the Miracle (el Milagro) and the Chastisement (el Castigo)?

Answer:
The Warning (Aviso) has been misconstrued by some who see it as a threatening situation. I [Mari Cruz] have a different idea about it. For me, I see it as a situation where a father (parent) scolds a son (in a gentle manner), but not a threat.

The Miracle (Milagro) — Mari Cruz has no first hand information on this.

The Chastisement (Castigo) — This is a conditional thing and can be avoided (mitigated) if they would return to God.

Interview with Mari Cruz
April, 2006

In his book The Apparitions of Garabandal, Francisco Sanchez-Venture y Pascual includes the following note written by Conchita about the Chastisement:

The Chastisement is conditional and depends on whether or not mankind heeds the messages of the Blessed Virgin and the Miracle. If it should take place, I know what it will consist of because the Blessed Virgin told me about it, but I am not permitted to say what it is. Moreover, I have seen the Chastisement. I can assure you that if it comes, it will be worse than being enveloped in fire, worse than having fire above and beneath you. I do not know how much time will elapse between the Miracle and the Chastisement.

Barry Hanratty, Garabandal: The Chastisement

The conditionality of the Chastisement fully corresponds to the uncertainty of the collision of Apophis with the Earth in 2036. More certainty in this matter will be after 2029. In the meantime, as Boris Shustov says: “With absolute certainty, we can say that in 2029 Apophis does not threaten the Earth in any way.”

Asteroid Apophis and the Messages of Our Lady of Garabandal

Asteroid 99942 Apophis

Garabandal's Predictions

The event of the Warning starts with the letter «А»

The Warning like a collision of two stars

The Warning first seen in the air

God can let the Chastisement happen

Chastisement is a conditional thing and can be avoided

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