Prophesies of the Antichrist
By Early Church Fathers
The following are some prophesies made by the Early Church Fathers, and
whose prophesies are the most trusted. There are so many mistakes made today
regarding the coming of Christ and the coming of the Antichrist by people like
Father Gobbi, Michael H. Brown and the like that I
simply offer the truth as offered by the early Church fathers. So many false prophets have made the mistake
of thinking that the seat of the Antichrist will be
St Cyril of
"And after
these shall arise antichrist and having by the signs and lying wonders of his
magical deceit, beguiled the Jews as though he were the expected Christ, he
shall afterwards characterize himself by all kinds of excesses of cruelty and
lawlessness…and he shall perpetrate such things for 3 years and 6 months
"Antichrist will exceed
in malice, perversity, lust, wickedness, impiety, and ruthlessness and
barbarity all men that have ever disgraced human nature. Hence
This one shall seize the power of the
St. Irenaeus 125 - 202
“He shall sit in the Temple of God as if he were Christ, and
leading astray those who worship him For when he is come, and of his own accord
concentrates in his own person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall
do according to his own will and choice, sitting also in the Temple of God so that
his dupes may adore him as the Christ...”
“By means of the events which shall occur in the time of Antichrist it
is shown that he, being an apostate and a robber, is anxious to be adored as
God; and that although a mere slave. he wishes to be
proclaimed as a king. For he being
endued with all the power of the devil, shall come, not as a righteous king,
not as a legitimate king obedient to God but as an impious, unjust, and lawless
one; as an iniquitous and murderous apostate; as a robber, concentrating in
himself a satanic apostasy, and setting aside idols to persuade men that he
himself is God
The antichrist will deceive the Jews to such an extent that they will
accept him as the messiah and worship him
The disciples of the apostles say (from oral tradition) that they (Elias
and Henoch) whose living bodies were taken up from
this world have been placed in an earthly paradise where they will remain until
the end of the world.
At the time of his reign antichrist will command that
St. Methodius of
"A time will come when
the enemies of Christ will boast: "We have subjected the earth and all its
inhabitants, and the Christians cannot escape our hands." Then a Roman
Emperor will arise in great fury against them... Drawing his sword, he will
fall upon the foes of Christianity and crush them. Then peace will reign on
earth, and priests will be relieved of all their anxieties.
"In the last period
Christians will not appreciate the great grace of God who provided a monarch, a
long duration of peace, a splendid fertility of the earth. They will be very
ungrateful, lead a sinful life, in pride, vanity, unchastely, frivolity,
hatred, avarice, gluttony, and many other vices, [so] that the sins of men will
stink more than a pestilence before God. Many will doubt whether the Catholic
faith is the true and only saving one and whether the Jews are correct when
they still expect the Messiah. Many will be the false teachings and resultant
bewilderment. The just God will in consequence give Lucifer and all his devils
power to come on earth and tempt his godless creatures...
In the latter days of the
world, Christians will become ungrateful for the great favors they will receive
through the coming of the great Monarch, by reason of the long period of peace
and prosperity on earth which they will enjoy under his reign. Many man will then begin to doubt if the Christian faith is
the only really sanctifying faith and will think perhaps the Jews are right
because they are awaiting the Messiah.
"...Then suddenly
tribulation and distress will arise against them [the Moslems]. The King of the
Greeks, i.e., the Romans, will come out against them in anger, roused as from a
drunken stupor like one whom men had thought dead and worthless [Psalms 77:65].
He will go forth against them from the Ethiopian sea and will send the sword
and desolation into Ethribus, their homeland,
capturing their women and children living in the
"The King of the Romans
will impose his yoke upon them seven times as much as their yoke weighed upon
the earth. Great distress will seize them; tribulation will bring them hunger
and thirst. They, their wives, and their children will be slaves and serve
those who used to serve them, and their slavery will be a hundred times more
bitter and hard. The earth which they destituted will
then be at peace; each man will return to his own land and to the inheritance
of his fathers... Every man who was left captive will return to the things that
were his and his fathers', and men will multiply upon the once desolated land
like locusts.
"Then the "Gates of
the North" will be opened and the strength of those nations which
Alexander shut up there will go forth. The whole earth will be terrified at the
sight of them; men will be afraid and flee in terror to hide themselves in
mountains and caves and graves. They will die of fright and very many will be
wasted with fear. There will be no one to bury the bodies. The tribes which
will go forth from the North will eat the flesh of men and will drink the blood
of beasts like water. They will eat unclean serpents, scorpions, and every kind
of filthy and abominable beast and reptile which crawls upon the earth. They
will consume the dead bodies of beasts of burden and even women's abortions.
They will slay the young and take them from their mothers and eat them. They
will corrupt the earth and contaminate it. No one will be able to stand against
them.
"After a week of years,
when they have already captured the city of
"He will be born in Chorazaim, nourished in
"When the Son of
Perdition appears, he will be of the tribe of Dan, according to the prophecy of
Jacob. This enemy of religion will use a diabolic art to produce many false
miracles, such as causing the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the deaf to
hear. Those possessed with demons will be exorcised. He will deceive many and,
if he could, as our Lord has said, even the faithful elect.
"Even the Antichrist
will enter
"In those days, the
Antichrist will bring about many tribulation; but God
will not allow those redeemed by the divine blood to be deceived. For that
reason, he will send his two servants, Enoch and Elias, who will declare the
prodigies of the Antichrist to be false, and will denounce him as an impostor.
After the death and ruin of many, he will leave the
St. Ambrose 340
- 397
Antichrist will attempt to prove from scripture that he is the Christ
"Antichrist will be
possessed by Satan and be the illegitimate son of a Jewish woman from the East.
This world will be faithless and degenerate after the birth of Anti-Christ”
St. Ephraem 300 - 373
"Then the Lord from His Glorius heaven
shall set up his peace. And the kingdom of the Romans shall rise in place of
this latter people and establish its dominion upon the earth, even unto its ends,
and there shall be no-one who will resist it. After iniquity shall have
subsequently multiplied and all creatures have become defiled then divine
justice shall appear and shall wholly destroy the people and coming fourth from
perdition the man of iniquity shall be revealed upon the earth, the seducer of
men and disturber of the whole earth
"Let us learn, my friends, in what form shall come on earth the
shameless serpent, since the Redeemer, wishing to save all mankind, was born of
a Virgin and in human form crushed the enemy with the holy power of his
godhead. This then the enemy, having learnt that again shall the Lord come from
heaven in the glory of His divinity, thus bethought him to assume the form of
His coming and beguile all men. So in very truth shall he be born of a
defiled woman, his instrument.
In the form of Him shall come the all-polluted, as a wily thief to beguile all beings. Humble and gentle, hating the speech of the
unjust, overturning all idols, honouring piety, a good lover of the poor,
exceedingly fair, altogether well disposed, pleasant towards all. To
conciliate all, he plots craftily, that he may be loved soon by the peoples;
neither gifts shall he accept, nor speak in anger. He shows himself not sullen,
but ever cheerful. And in all these well-planned schemes he beguileth the world so long as he shall rule. For when the
many peoples and nations shall behold such great virtues, fair deeds and
powers, all of one mind shall become and with great joy shall crown him, saying
one to another, surely there is not found such another man so good and just...
For the shameless one, grasping authority, sends his demons unto all the ends
of the earth to announce unto all that a great king hath appeared in glory;
come thither and behold... The peoples shall be gathered, and they shall
come that they may see God, and the crowds of the peoples shall cleave to him,
and all shall deny their own God and invite their fellows to praise the son
of perdition, and one on another they shall fall and with swords each other
destroy... Magnifying his miracles, performing his portents, Deceiver and
not in truth manifesting these things, in such fashion the tyrant removeth the mountains, and simulates falsely and not truly
while the multitude stands by, many nations and peoples applauding him for his
illusions... Again this same dragon stretches out his hands and gathers the
multitudes of reptiles and birds; and likewise he moves over the surface of the
deep, andas on dry ground he walks thereon. But he
simulates these things... The lightnings shall be his
ministers and signify his advent; the demons shall constitute his forces, and
the princes of the demons shall be his disciples; to far-distant lands he shall
send captains of his bands, who shall impart virtue and healing... A great
conflict, Brethren, in those times amongst all men, but especially amongst the
faithful, when there shall be signs and wonders wrought by the Dragon in great
abundance, when he shall again manifest himself as God in fearful phantasms
flying in the air, and show all the demons in the forms of angels flying in
terror before the tyrant, for he crieth out loudly,
changing his forms also to strike infinite dread into all men...
"Then the skies no longer rain, the earth no longer beareth fruit, the springs run out, the rivers dry up,
herbs no longer sprout, grass no longer grows, trees wither from their roots
and no longer put forth fruits, the fishes of the sea and the monsters therein
die out, and thus they say a fetid stench emits with a fearful roar, that men
shall fail and perish through terror. And then in dread shall moan and groan
all life alike when all shall see the pitiless distress that compasseth them by night and eke by day, and nowhere find
the food wherewith to fill themselves... For stern governors of the people
shall be appointed each in his place, and whoso bears with him the seal of the
tyrant may buy a little food.
"But before these things be, the Lord sendeth
Elias the Thesbite and Enoch the compassionate, that they may proclaim
reverence to the race of men, and openly announce unto all the knowledge of
God, that they believe not nor obey the false one through fear, crying out and
saying, "A deceiver, O men, is he; let no one believe in him." But
few are those who shall then obey and believe in the words of these two
prophets.
"Many therefore of the saints as many are then found, as soon as
they shall hear of the coming of the man of corruption, shall most speedily
flee to the deserts and lie hid in the deserts and mountains and caves through
fear, and strew earth and ashes on their heads, destitute and weeping both day
and night with great humility. And this shall to them be granted by God the
Holy One: And grace shall lead them unto the appointed places.
"But all those dwelling in the east of the earth shall fly to the
west, through their great fear, and again those dwelling under the setting sun
unto its rising shall fly in trembling...
"In the end like lightning flashing from heaven shall come God, our
King and the deathless Bridegroom, in the clouds with glory unimaginable.
And behold his Glory shall run the serried hosts of angels and archangels, all
breathing flames, and a river full of fire, with a frightful crash...
"How may we then endure, my beloved brethren, when we shall see the
fiery river coming out in fury like the wild seething ocean, and the hills and
the valleys consuming, and all the world and the works therein; then, beloved,
with that fire the rivers shall fail, the springs shall vanish, the sea dry up,
the air be agitated, the stars shall fall out from the sky; the sun shall be
consumed, the moon pass away, the heavens rolled up like a scroll..."
And when the son of perdition has drawn to his purpose the whole world
Enoch and Elias shall be sent that they may confute the evil one
The man of evil will prepare and coming he will enter Jerusalem; he will
build up and establish Sion and will make himself God
and entering he will sit in the temple as the apostle has written as if he were
God
"And when he was taken
up, He [Jesus] ascended to the East and thus the apostles worshipped Him and
thus He shall come in the same way as they had seen Him going into heaven, as
the Lord himself said “ As lightening cometh out of
the east and appeareth even into the west: so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be”. And so while we are awaiting Him we
worship toward the East. This is moreover the unwritten tradition of the
apostles, for they have handed many things down to us unwritten
"One should know that
the antichrist must come . Antichrist to be sure is
everyone who does not confess that the Son of God came in the flesh is perfect
God and became perfect man while at the same time He was God. In a peculiar and
special sense however he who is to come at the consummation of the world is
Antichrist. So it is first necessary for the Gospel to have been preached to
all the gentiles as the Lord said, and then he shall come unto
conviction of the impious Jews. For the Lord said to them: I am come in the
name of the father and you receive me not: If another shall come in his own
name, him you will receive. And the apostle: “because they receive not the love
of the truth that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the
operation of error, to believe lying: that all may be judged who have not
believed the truth but have consented to iniquity. Hence the Jews did not
receive the Lord Jesus Christ and God, although He was the Son of God, but the
deceiver who says he is God they will receive. For that he will call himself
God, the angel who taught Daniel thus declares: “he will make no account of the
gods of his Fathers”. And the Apostle: “Let no man deceive you by any means;
for unless there comes a revolt first and the son of perdition, who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or
that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple
of God” He says ---not however in ours but in the former one that of the Jews,
for he will not come to us but to the Jews (initially)—not for the sake of
Christ and Christ’s for which reason alone, he is also called Antichrist
“The gospel, then, must first
be preached in all nations “ and then that wicked one
shall be revealed: whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all
power and signs and lying wonders, in all seduction of inquity
to them that perish: who the Lord shall kill with the words of His mouth and
the coming of His brightness” Thus the devil does not himself become man after
the incarnation of the Lord –God forbid! --! But a man is born of fornication
and receives into himself the whole operation of Satan, for God permits the
devil to inhabit him for He (God) foresees the future perversity of his will.
“So he is born of fornication
as we said and is brought up unnoticed: but all of a sudden he rises up,
revolts and rules. During the first part of his reign – of his tyranny rather –
he plays more the part of sanctity; but when he gains complete control, he
persecutes the
"And Enock
and Elias the Thesbite will be sent and they shall “turn the heart of the
fathers to the children” that is to say, turn the synagogue to our Lord Jesus Christ
and the preaching of the apostles. And they will be destroyed by him. Then the
Lord will come from heaven in the same way that the holy apostles saw Him going
into Heaven, perfect God and perfect man, with glory and power; and he shall
destroy the man of iniquity, the son of perdition, with the spirit of His
mouth. So let no one expect the Lord to come from the earth but from Heaven,
as He Himself has positively assured us.
"And so with our souls
again united to our bodies, which will have become incorrupt and put off
incorruption, we shall rise again and stand before the terrible judgment seat
of Christ. And the devil and his demons, and his man which is to say the
Antichrist and the impious sinners will be given over to everlasting fire,
which will not be a material fire such as we are accustomed to but a fire such
as God might know."
St. Hildegard 1098 - 1179
ANTICHRIST
When the great ruler (the Great Monarch who is to rule Europe after the
collapse of Communism) exterminates the Turks almost entirely, one of the
remaining Mohammedans will be converted, become a priest bishop and cardinal,
and when the new pope is elected (immediately before Antichrist) this cardinal
will kill the pope before he is crowned, through jealousy, wishing to be pope
himself; then when the other cardinals elect the next pope this cardinal will
proclaim himself Anti-pope, and two-thirds of the Christians will go with
him. He, as well as Antichrist, are descendants of the tribe of Dan.
An unchaste woman will conceive an unchaste son. The wicked serpent who deceived Adam will influence this child in such as way
that nothing good or virtuous will enter him; nor under the circumstances will
it even be possible for any good to be in him
The mark (of Antichrist) will be a hellish symbol of Baptism, because
thereby a person will be stamped as an adherent of Antichrist and also of the
Devil in that he thereby gives himself over to the influence of Satan. Whoever will not have this mark of Antichrist
can neither buy nor sell anything and will be beheaded.
He will win over to himself the rulers, the mighty and the wealthy, will
bring about the destruction of those who do not accept his faith and, finally,
will subjugate the entire earth.
The streets of
Antichrist will make the earth move, level mountains, dry up rivers,
produce thunder and lightning and hail, remove the leaves from the trees and
return them again to the trees, make men sick and cure them, exorcise devils,
raise the dead to life. He will appear
to be crucified and rise from the dead.
All in all,
Christians will be astounded and in grievous doubts while the
followers of Antichrist will be confirmed in their false faith.
Finally, when he shall have converted all his plans into action, he will
gather his worshippers about him and tell them that he will presently ascend
toward Heaven. However, at the moment of
the ascension a bolt of lightning will overwhelm and annihilate him. The planned ascent into heaven will have been
prepared by the artful employment of ingenious devices, and the moment at which
the event was to have taken place, leading to his destruction,
will produce a cloud that will spread an unbearable odour. Through this many people will again come to
their senses and to understanding.
Then the people should prepare for the last judgment, the day of which
is indeed veiled in secrecy and obscurity, but not far distant."
Henoch and Elias are being instructed by God in a
mysterious manner in paradise. God shows
them the works of men as though they could see these with natural eyes. The two men are therefore, much wiser than
all wise men put together. The same
force which removed Henoch and Elias from the earth
will bring them back in a storm wind at the time when the Antichrist will
spread his false doctrine. As long as
they will dwell amongst men they will always be refreshed after 40 days. They have the mission from God to resist the
Antichrist and lead the erring back to the road of salvation. Both men, distinguished by age and stature,
will speak to men: `This accursed one is sent by the devil in order to lead men
into error. We have been preserved by
God at a secreted place, where we did not experience the suffering of men. We are now sent by God in order to oppose. the heresy of this destroyer. Look, if we resemble you in stature and
age.' And because the testimony of both
shall agree they will be believed. All
will follow these two aged men and renounce heresy. They will visit all cities and towns where
previously the Antichrist had sown his heresy, and through the power of the
Holy Ghost will work genuine miracles.
All the people will be greatly astonished at them. Henoch and Elias
will. confuse the followers of Satan with thunder
strokes, and destroy. them and fortify the Christians
in faith. Therefore,
the. Christians will hurry to martyrdom, which the son of evil will. prepare for them like to a banquet, so that the murderers
will. grow tired of counting the dead on account of
their great. numbers; for their blood will run like
rivers. Henoch and Elias have been taught much wisdom
and knowledge. in
When the fear of God has been disregarded everywhere,.
violent and furious wars will take place. A multitude of people.
will be slaughtered and many cities will be
transformed into. heaps of rubbish.
The Son of Corruption and Ruin will appear and reign for. only a short time, towards the end of the days of the
world's. duration; the period which corresponds to the
moment when the sun. has disappeared beyond the
horizon; that is to say he shall come. at the last
days of the world. He will not be Satan
himself, but. a human being equalling and resembling
him in atrocious. hideousness. His mother, a depraved woman possessed by
the. devil, will live as a prostitute in the
desert. She will declare. that she is ignorant as to the identity of his father, and
will. maintain that her son was presented to her by
God in a. supernatural manner, as was the Child of the Blessed Virgin. She. will then be venerated as a saint by deceived people.
Antichrist will come from a land that lies between two seas,. and will practise his tyranny in
the East. After his
birth false. teachers and doctrines will
appear, followed by wars, famines,. and pestilence.
His mother will seldom let any one see him, and yet by magic. art, she will manage to gain the love of the people for
him.
He will be raised at different secret places and will be kept in.
seclusion until full grown. When he has grown to full manhood he. will
publicly announce a hostile doctrine on religion. He will attract the people to himself by
granting them complete
exemption from the observance of all divine and ecclesiastical. commandments, by forgiving them their sins and requiring of
them only their belief in his
divinity. He will spurn and reject. baptism and the gospel.
He will open his mouth to preach contradiction. He will say, `Jesus of Nazareth is not the
son of. God, only a deceiver who gave himself out as God; and the Church,
instituted by him is only superstition'.
The true Christ has come in his person.
He will say, `I am the Saviour of the. world'. Especially will he try to convince the Jews
that he is the Messiah sent by God and the Jews will accept him as such. . His doctrine of faith will be taken from the Jewish
religion and seemingly will not differ much from the fundamental doctrine of
Christianity for he will teach that there is one God who created the world, who
is omniscient and knows the thoughts of man and is just, who rewards the obeyers of his commands and the trespassers he chastises,
who raises all from the dead in due time.
This God. has spoken
through Moses and the Prophets, therefore the precepts. of
the Mosaic laws are to be kept, especially circumcision and. keeping the
Sabbath, yet by his moral laws he will try to reverse. all
order on earth. Therefore he is called
in Holy Writ the `Lawless One'. He will
think that he can change time and laws. . He will discard all laws, morals and
religious principles, to draw the world to himself. He will grant entire freedom from the
commandments of God and the Church and permit everyone to live as his passions
dictate. By doing so he hopes to be
acknowledged by the people as deliverer from the yoke and as the cause of
prosperity in the world.
Religion he will endeavour to make convenient. He will say that you need not fast and
embitter your life by renunciation as the people of former times did when they
had no sense of God's goodness. It
will suffice to love God. He will
let the people feast to their heart's content so that they will pity the
unfortunate people of former centuries.
He will preach free love and tear asunder family ties. He will scorn everything holy, and he will
ridicule all graces of the Church with devilish mockery. He will condemn humility and foster proud and
gruesome dogmas. He will tear down that
which God has taught in the Old and New Testament and he will maintain
that sin and vice are not sin and vice.
Briefly he will declare the road to Hell is the way to Heaven.
"After having passed a licentious youth among very perverted men,
and in a desert, she being conducted by a demon disguised as an angel of light,
the mother of the son of perdition will conceive and give birth without knowing
the father. In another land, she will make men believe that her birth was some
miraculous thing, seeing that she had not appointed a spouse, and she will
ignore that, she will say, how the infant she had brought into the world had
been formed in her womb, and the people will regard it as a saint and qualified
to the title.
"The son of perdition is this very wicked beast who will put to
death those who refuse to believe in him; who will associate with kings,
priests, the great and the rich; who will mistake the humility and will esteem
pride; who will finally subjugate the entire universe by his diabolic means.
"He will gain over many people and tell them: "You are
allowed to do all that you please; renounce the fasts; it suffices that you
love me; I who am your God."
"He will show them treasures and riches, and he will permit them to
riot in all sorts of festivities, as they please. He will oblige them to
practice circumcision and other Judaic observances, and he will tell them:
"Those who believe in me will receive pardon of their sins and will live
with me eternally."
"He will reject baptism and evangelism, and he will reject in
derision all the precepts the Spirit has given to men of my part.
"Then he will say to his partisans, "Strike me with a sword,
and place my corpse in a proper shroud until the day of my resurrection."
They will believe him to have really given over to death, and from his mortal
wound he will make a striking semblance of resuscitation.
"After which, he will compose himself a certain cipher, which he
will say is to be a pledge of salute; he will give it to all his servitors like
the sign of our faith in heaven, and he will command them to adore it.
Concerning those who, for the love of my name, will refuse to render this
sacrilegious adoration to the son of perdition, he will put them to death
amidst the cruellest torments.
"But I will defend my two Witnesses, Enoch and Elias, whom I have
reserved for those times. Their mission will be to combat the man of evil and
reprimand him in the sight of the faithful whom he has seduced. They will have
the virtue of operating the most brilliant miracles, in all the places where
the son of perdition has spread his evil doctrines. In the meanwhile, I will
permit this evildoer to put them to death; but I will give them in heaven the
recompense of their travails.
"Later, however, after the coming of Enoch and Elias, the
Antichrist will be destroyed, and the Church will sing forth with unprecedented
glory, and the victims of the great error will throng to return to the
fold."
"The Man of Sin will be born of an ungodly woman who, from her
infancy, will have been initiated into occult sciences and the wiles of the
demon. She will live in the desert with perverse men, and abandon herself to
crime with so much the greater ardor, as she will
think she is authorized thereby to by the revelations of an angel. And thus, in
the fire of burning concupiscence she will conceive the Son of Perdition,
without knowing by what father. Then she will teach that fornication is
permitted, declaring herself holy and honoured as a saint.
"But Lucifer, the old and cunning serpent, will find the fruit of
her womb with his infernal spirit and entirely possess the fruit of sin.
"Now when he shall have attained the age of manhood, he will set
himself up as a new master and teach perverse doctrine. Soon he will revolt
against the saints; and he will acquire such great power that in the madness of
his pride he would raise himself above the clouds; and as in the beginning
Satan said: "I will be like unto the most high", and fell; so in those
days, he will fall when he will say in the person of his son, "I am the
Saviour of the World!"
"He will ally himself with the kings, the princes and the powerful
ones of the earth; he will condemn humility and will extol all the doctrines of
pride. His magic art will feign the most astonishing prodigies; he will disturb
the atmosphere, command thunder and tempest, produce hail and horrible
lightning. He will move mountains, dry up streams, reanimate the withered
verdure of forests. His arts will be practiced upon the elements, but chiefly
upon man will he exhaust his infernal power. He will seem to take away health
and restore it. How so? By sending some possessed soul into a dead body, to
move it for a time. But these resurrections will be of short duration.
"At the sight of these things, many will be terrified and will
believe in him; and some, preserving their primitive faith, will nevertheless
court the favour of the Man of Sin or fear his displeasure. And so many will be
led astray among those who, shutting the interior eye of their soul, will live
habitually in exterior things...
"After the Antichrist has ascended a high mountain and been
destroyed by Christ, many erring souls will return to truth, and men will make
rapid progress in the ways of holiness."
"Nothing good will enter into him nor be able to be in him. For he
will be nourished in diverse and secret places, lest he should be known by men,
and he will be imbued with all diabolical arts, and he will be hidden until he
is of full age, nor will he show the perversities which will be in him, until
he knows himself to be full and superabundant in all iniquities.
"He will appear to agitate the air, to make fire descend from
heaven, to produce rainbows, lightning, thunder and hail, to tumble mountains,
dry up streams, to strip the verdure of trees, of forests, and to restore them
again. He will also appear to be able to make men sick or well at will, to
chase out demons, and at times even to resuscitate the dead, making a cadaver
move like it was alive. But this kind of resurrection will never endure beyond
a little time, for the glory of God will not suffer it.
"Ostensibly he will be murdered, spill his blood and die. With
bewilderment and consternation, mankind will learn that he is not dead, but has
awakened from his death=sleep.
"From the beginning of his course many battles and many things
contrary to the lawful dispensation will arise, and charity will be
extinguished in men. In them also will arise bitterness and harshness and there
will be so many heresies that heretics will preach their errors openly and
certainly; and there shall be so much doubt and incertitude in the Catholic
faith of Christians that men shall be in doubt of what God they invoke, and
many signs shall appear in the sun and moon, and in the stars and in the
waters, and in other elements and creatures, so that, as it were in a picture,
future events shall be foretold in their portents.
"Then so much sadness shall occupy men at that time,
that they shall be led to die as if for nothing. But those who are
perfect in the Catholic faith will await in great
contrition what God wills to ordain. And these great tribulations shall proceed
in this way, while the Son of Perdition shall open his mouth in the words of
falsehood and his deceptions, heaven and earth shall tremble together. But
after the fall of the Antichrist the glory of the Son of God shall be
increased.
"As soon as he is born, he will have teeth and pronounce
blasphemies; in short, he will be a born devil. He will emit fearful cries,
work miracles, and wallow in luxury and vice. He will have brothers who are
also demons incarnate, and at the age of twelve, they will distinguish
themselves in brilliant achievements. They will command an armed force, which
will be supported by the infernal legions.
"After the Son of Perdition has accomplished all of his evil
designs, he will call together all of his believers and tell them that he
wishes to ascend into heaven.
"At the moment of his ascension, a thunderbolt will strike him to
the ground, and he will die.
"The mountain where he was established for the operation of his
ascension, in an instant will be covered with a thick cloud which emits an
unbearable odour of truly infernal corruption... At the sight of his body, the
eyes of great number of persons will open and they will be made to see their
miserable error.
"After the sorrowful defeat of the Son of Perdition, the spouse of
my Son, who is the Church, will shine with a glory without equal, and the
victims of the error will be impressed to re-enter the sheepfold.
"As to the day, after the fall of Antichrist, when the world will
end, man must not seek to know, for he can never learn it. That secret the
Father has reserved for Himself."
After Enoch and Elias suffer physical death the spirit of life will
reawaken them raise them up into the clouds and the rejoicing of that man’s
followers (antichrist) will change into fear, sorrow and dismay. Then the son
of corruption will gather together a large group of people in order that his
glory can be openly shown forth. He will attempt to walk through the heavens so
that any remnant of the catholic faith that might remain throughout the world
might completely disappear. In the sight of crowds standing around and
listening he will order the high strata of the sky to lift him up during his
ascension into heaven and the words of my loyal servant Paul will be fulfilled
and these are the words which Paul who is full of the spirit of truth says” and
the lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and will destroy him
with his glorious appearance at his coming…” “…when the son of corruption
ascends on high through diabolical trickery he will be thrust down again by
divine power. The fumes of sulphur and pitch will consume him such that the
crowds standing nearby will flee into the mountains for protection. Such abject
fear will seize all who see and hear these things that they will reject the
devil and his spiritual son antichrist and be converted to the true faith by
baptism.
The son of perdition will come when the day declines and the sun sinks,
that is when the time arrives and the world loses its stability