BOOK TWO Prophesy and References
CHAPTER FOURTY
The Antichrist
St Cyril of Jerusalem 315 - 386
AD "And after this 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
This one shall seize the power of the
St. Irenaeus 125 – 202 “He shall sit in
the
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 Enoch), 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
"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
men 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 has arisen, the King of the Romans will ascend
"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 tribulations; 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
St. Ephraem 300 – 373 "Then the
Lord from His Glorious 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, and as on dry ground he walks thereon. But he simulates
these things... The lightning 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
cries 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 sends 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.”
St.
"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 Enoch 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 “When the great
ruler (the Great Monarch) 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."
“Enoch 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 Enoch 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 secret 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. Enoch 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. Enoch and Elias have been taught much wisdom
and knowledge in
“Enoch and Elias will be instructed by God in a most secret manner in
This accursed one has been sent by the devil to lead men astray and into
error; we have been preserved by God in a hidden place where we did not
experience the sorrows of men but God has now sent us to combat the heresy of
this son of perdition.
“They will go into all cities and villages where previously antichrist
had broadcasted his heresies and by the power of the Holy Spirit will perform
wonderful miracles so that all nations will greatly marvel at them. This as to
a wedding feast, Christians will hasten to death by martyrdom which the son of
perdition will have prepared for them in such numbers that those murderers will
be unable even to count the slain, then the blood of these martyrs will fill
the rivers
“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
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. I am the Savoir 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 wait 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.”