1.
Several times has one seemed to recognize him because all
slayers of the Lamb resemble each other and all the wicked
are the precursors of the Great Wicked One.
2.
The veritable Antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his
time, a son of Luther; he will invoke God and call himself
His messenger.
3.
The Prince of Lies will swear by the Bible; he will call
himself the arm of the most High, chastising corrupted
people.
4.
He will only have one arm, but his innumerable armies, who
will take as their motto "God is with us," will
seem like infernal legions.
5.
For a long while he will act by ruse and treason; his spies
will spread all over the earth, and he will be the master of
the secret of those in power.
6.
He will have theologians in his pay to certify and prove his
celestial mission.
7.
A war will furnish him with the reason for lifting his mask.
It will not be one, which he will make against the French
monarch, but another, which will be easily recognized by the
fact that in two weeks’ time it will have become
universal.
8.
It will call to arms all Christians, all Mohammedans, and
even other very distant people. Armies will be formed in
four parts of the world.
9.
For men’s mind will be opened by angels, and in the third
week they will understand that this is the Antichrist and
that they will all become slaves if they do not trample down
this conquering one.
10.
The Antichrist will be recognizable by several marks, he
will chiefly massacre priests, monks, women and children and
old people. He will show no mercy; he will pass along
holding a torch like the barbarians, but invoking the name
of Christ.
11.
His false words will resemble those of Christians, but his
acts will be those of Nero and the Roman persecutors; there
will be an eagle in his coats of arms, and there will also
be one in that of his confederate, the other wicked monarch.
12.
But this one is a Christian and he will die cursed by the
Pope Benedictus, who will be elected at the beginning of the
reign of the Antichrist.
13.
Priests and monks will no longer be seen confessing and
absolving the combatants, because for the first time priests
and monks will fight with other citizens; and also because
Pope Benedictus having cursed the Antichrist, it will be
proclaimed that all those who wage war against him will be
in a state of grace, and should they die will, like martyrs,
go straight to heaven.
14.
The pope’s "bull" proclaiming these things will
make a great sensation and will cause the death of the
monarch, the Antichrist’s ally.
15.
In order to conquer the Antichrist more men must be killed
than Rome has ever held. It will require an effort from all
lands, for the cock, the leopard and the white eagle would
not suffice to overcome the black eagle if they were not
helped by prayers of all the Roman race.
16.
Never before has humanity been in such peril, for the
triumph of the Antichrist would be that of Demon, in whom he
is incarnated.
17.
For it had been said that twenty centuries after the
incarnation of the world, the beast in his turn would be
incarnated, and would threaten the earth with as many evils
as the Divine Incarnation had brought in graces.
18.
Near the year two thousand the Antichrist will appear; his
army will surpass in numbers anything before imagined; there
will be Christians among his hordes, and among the defenders
of the Lamb there will be Mohammedans and savage tribes.
19.
For the first time the Lamb will be entirely red; in the
whole of the Christian world there will not be a space that
will not be red, and the heavens, the earth, the water and
even the air will be red, for blood will flow in the sphere
of the four elements at the same time.
20.
The black eagle will throw itself upon the cock, which will
lose many of its feathers, but will strike heroically with
its spur. It would be soon annihilated were it not for the
help of the leopard and its claws.
21.
The black eagle, which will come from the land of Luther,
will surprise the cock by another side and will invade half
of the land of the cock.
22.
The white eagle will come from the north, will surprise the
black eagle and the other eagle and will completely invade
the land of the Antichrist from one end to the other.
23.
The black eagle will be forced to leave the cock to fight
the white eagle, and the cock will pursue the black eagle
into the land of the Antichrist to help the white eagle.
24.
The battle waged until then will be small in comparison to
those that will take in the land of Luther. Because the
seven angels will at the same time pour fire from their
burner on the impious land (image taken from the
Apocalypse), which means that the Lamb will order the
extermination of the Antichrist’s race.
25.
When the beast sees he is lost he will become furious;
during months the beak of the white eagle the claws of the
people and the spurs of the cock will harass him.
26.
Rivers will be crossed on stepping-stones of corpses, which
in some cases will change the course of the water. Only
great noblemen, superior officers and princes will receive
burial for to the carnage caused by firearms will be added
the piling up of those who perished by famine and plague.
27.
The Antichrist will several times ask for peace, but seven
angels who precede the three animals, defenders of the Lamb,
have said victory shall only be accorded on the condition
that the Antichrist be crushed like a straw on the threshing
floor.
28.
Executors of the Lamb’s justice, these three animals
cannot stop fighting so long as a soldier remains to the
Antichrist.
29.
The reason the sentence of the Lamb is implacable is that
the Antichrist has pretended to be a Christian and to be
acting in His name, so that if he did not perish the fruit
of redemption would be lost and the gates of hell prevail
against the Saviour.
30.
It will be seen that it is not human combat, which will be
waged where the Antichrist forges his arms. The three
animals, defenders of the Lamb, will exterminate the
Antichrist’s last army. But the battlefield will become as
an altar of sacrifice larger than the greatest cities, and
the corpses will have changed its shape by raising in it
chains of mounds.
31.
The Antichrist will lose his crown and will dies demented
and alone. His empire will be divided into twenty-two
states, but none will have either a royal house, an army or
vessels.
32.
The white eagle, by Michael’s order, will chase the
Crescent from Europe, where only Christians will remain. It
will occupy Constantinople.
33.
Then an era of peace and prosperity will commence for all
the universe and there will be no more war; each nation
being governed according to its wish and living in justice.
34.
There will be no more Lutherans or Schismatics. The Lamb
will reign and the joys of humanity will commence. Happy
they who, escaping from the perils of the prodigious time,
can taste of its fruit, which will be the reign of the
Eternal Spirit, and the sanctification of humanity, only to
be achieved by the defeat of the Antichrist.
