Brother John of the Cleft Rock 14th Century

 

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1. The Chastisement

 

“Towards the end of the world, tyrants and hostile mobs will rob the Church and the clergy of all their possessions and will afflict and martyr them. Those who heap the most abuse upon them will be held in high esteem.  The clergy cannot escape these persecutions but because of them all servants of the Church will be forced to live an Apostolic life. At that time, the Pope with his cardinals will have to flee Rome in tragic circumstances to a place where they will be unknown. The Pope will die a cruel death in his exile. The sufferings of the Church will be much greater than at any previous time in her history….” 1

 

“God will raise up a holy Pope over whom the angels will rejoice. Enlightened by God, this man will re- construct almost the entire world through his holiness and lead all to the true faith, and everywhere fear of God, virtue, and good morals will be dominant. He will lead all erring sheep back to the fold, and there shall be only one faith, one law, one rule of life, one baptism on earth. All men will love each other and do good, and all quarrels and war will disappear….” 2

 

“All kingdoms will have to unite in the fight since the Cock (France?), the Leopard (England?), and the White Eagle (Russia?) will not be able to overcome the Black Eagle (Germany), unless aided by the prayers and vows of all mankind. The Black Eagle will attack the Cock which will lose many of his feathers, but will strike heroically with its spurs - it would soon be exhausted were it not for the help of the Leopard and its claws. The Black Eagle from the land of Luther will surprise the Cock from another side and will invade half of the land of the Cock. The White Eagle coming from the North will attack the Black Eagle; and the other Eagle will invade his land from one end to the other…” 3

 

“The Black Eagle will find himself compelled to let the Cock go in order to fight the White Eagle, but the White Eagle and the Cock will pursue the Black Eagle into his own land, thus helping the White Eagle. The battles waged until then will be trifling to those that will take place in the land of Luther because the seven angels simultaneously pour fire from their censors on the impious land of Luther…” 4

 

“When the Beast sees that he is lost he will become furious - it is ordained that for several months the beak of the White Eagle, the claws of the Leopard, and the spurs of the Cock must tear his vitals. Rivers will be forded over masses of dead bodies: in some places this will change the course of waters - only the great will receive burial for the carnage caused by firearms will but be added to the numberless dead due to famine and plague….” 5

 

“The Black Eagle will ask for peace again and again, but the seven angels who preceded the three animals have declared that victory must involve the absolute crushing of the Black Eagle. As a consequence, the executors of the justice of the Lamb cannot stop the fighting as long as the Black Eagle has a soldier left to defend him. This ruthless sentence of the Lamb against the Black Eagle is because he has claimed to be a Christian and to be acting in the name of God - hence if he did not perish the fruit of the Redemption would be lost and the gates of Hell prevail against the Saviour….” 6

 

“It is obvious that this combat, which will be fought where the Black Eagle forges his arms is no human contest…” 7

 

“The three animals will exterminate the Black Eagle's last army, but the battlefield will become a funeral pyre larger than the greatest cities with the corpses changing the very landscape. The Black Eagle will lose his crown and will die abandoned and insane - his Empire will be divided into twenty two states with neither fortifications, army nor navy…” 8

 

“The White Eagle, by order of the Archangel Michael, will drive the crescent from Europe where none but Christians will remain - he himself will rule from Constantinople. An era of peace and prosperity will begin for the world. There will no longer be Protestants or schismatics; the Lamb will reign and the bliss of the human race will begin. Happy will they be who have escaped the perils of that terrible time, for they can taste of its fruit through the reign of the Holy Spirit and the sanctification of mankind, which can he accomplished only after the defeat of the Black Eagle…” 9

 

2. Antichrist

 

“It is said that twenty centuries after the Incarnation of the word, the beast in its turn shall become man. About the year 2000 A.D. Antichrist will reveal himself to the world” 10

 

 “This Prince of Liars will swear by the Bible and pose as the arm of the Almighty, chastising a corrupt age. In the beginning he will work by cunning and crime.  Hi spies will infest the whole world and he will become master of the secrets of the mighty.  He will pay theologians to show that his mission is from God. A war will give him the opportunity to assume his true role - this war will not be the one he will wage against a French sovereign but one which will within a fortnight involve the whole world and will be easily recognised by his mark on his followers….” 11

 

 “The Angels will enlighten men and in the third week they will wonder if this is truly the Antichrist, and realising that it is they will either have to fight to overthrow him or become his slaves….” 12

 

“Antichrist will be recognised by various tokens: in especial he will massacre the priests, the monks, the women, the children, and the aged.  He will show no mercy, but will pass torch in hand, like the barbarians, yet invoking Christ!  His words of imposture will resemble those of Christians, but his actions will be those of Nero and of the Roman persecutors.  He will have an eagle in his coat of arms as also his lieutenant, the other wicked ruler - this latter will be a Christian who will die when cursed by the Pope, who will be elected at the beginning of the reign of Antichrist….” 13

   

“Priests and monks will no longer be seen hearing confessions and absolving the combatants: partly because they will be fighting alongside other Christians and partly because the Pope, having cursed Antichrist, will proclaim that all who fight against him, if they die, will go to Heaven as martyrs.  The Bull, proclaiming these things will rekindle the courage of the faint-hearted and will cause the death of the monarch allied with Antichrist.  Before Antichrist is overthrown however, more men will have been killed than were ever within the walls of Rome…” 14

    

“Never will humanity have been faced with such a peril, because the triumph of Antichrist would be that of the demon, who will have taken possession of his personality.  For it has been said that, twenty centuries after the Incarnation of the Word the Beast will be incarnate in his turn and will menace the earth with as many evils as the Incarnation has brought it graces. Towards the year 2000 Antichrist will be made manifest.  His army, will surpass in number anything that can be imagined.  There will be Christians among his cohorts, and there will be Mohammedan and heathen soldiers among the defenders of the Lamb…” 15

 

References

1. Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 29

2.  ibid

3. Rev R. Gerald. Culleton The Prophets and Our Times  (Tan Books and Publishers 1941) p 151-152

4.  ibid 152

5.  ibid

6. ibid

7. ibid p 153

8. ibid

9. ibid

10. Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 23

11. Yves Dupont Antichrist World Trends Magazine, September, 1975

11. ibid

12. ibid

13. ibid

14.  ibid

15. ibid