Weather events have been hitting with unusual force even in unlikely places, rivers that had abundantly flowed through centuries are now drying up to their bottoms, heat waves have recently surpassed records mostly in the West, the number of earthquakes worldwide are in record numbers, etc.
Biblical signs of the times.
In the skies, more strange manifestations are being reported, amid an explosion of reportedly supernatural apparitions and other manifestations.
Among men, the Covid 19 pandemic was of such magnitude that now seems to have set the stage for prophetic scenarios, including what was prophesied by the Blessed Mother way back in Fatima in 1917 and also in her more recent apparitions in Garabandal, Spain and Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The prophecy: oppressive communism worldwide. Hints on this could be gleaned from the recent behaviors of Russia and China which are both communists.
And yes, in the US which has remained the most powerful democratic country, communism is creeping ominously. This is what we can pick up from the case of former US president Donald Trump whose Mar-a-Lago residence was raided recently by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as reported by the independent and daring The Epoch Times.
Retired US Major General Paul Vallely has reacted to the recent FBI raid on Trump’s residence, claiming that there is a socialist-communist coalition involved with the act.
He believes that there is a “socialist coalition” that aspires to “overthrow” the U.S. constitutional republic and transform it into a totalitarian communist state.
“The American Republic founded in 1776 is under attack by a Socialist-Communist Coalition and an out-of-control Federal Government,” Vallely said in a statement.
Trump said the FBI could have planted evidence during the raid at his residence since members of his team were blocked from watching the agents’ actions.
“History is repeating itself as we see the tactics of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) used by a few dystopian tyrants who have methodically and comprehensively infiltrated and assumed leadership of the Democratic Party,” Vallely said.
In yet another prophecy conveyed by Heaven to one of modern mystics, there was mention of the assassination of a world leader that would give rise to civil unrest. This cropped up in my mind after one American political scientist expressed fears that there are forces who want to eliminate Trump who, by the way, has been known as unfriendly to important persons advocating the so-called Great Reset and a new world order which, some mystics insist, would pave the way for worldwide communism and the entry of the Antichrist.
Having cited the Antichrist, let me share some prophecies regarding this diabolical being through the centuries.
St. Hippolytus (d 236): “The patriarch Jacob, expresses himself regarding Antichrist...as he prophesied respecting Judah, he also did with respect to his son Dan... ‘Let Dan be a serpent, sitting by the way, that bites the horse’s heel.’ And what other serpent is there, but the deceiver who was in the beginning... Jeremiah, as well, speaks in this manner: ‘From Dan we will hear the sound of the sharpness of his horses, at the sound of the neighing of his horses, the whole land trembled’ (Jeremiah 8:16). Furthermore, Moses says: ‘Dan is a lion’s whelp, and he will leap from Bashan’(Deut.33:22)....He is naming the tribe of Dan as the one where the accuser is destined to come forth.”
St. Methodius (d 311): “When the Son of Perdition appears, he will be of the tribe of Dan, according to the prophecy of Jacob... he will be an ordinary man of the tribe of Dan to which Judas Iscariot also belonged.”4 “He will be born in Chorazin, nourished in Bethsaida, and reign in Capernaum. Chorazin will rejoice because he was born in her, and Capernaum because he will have reigned in her. For this reason in the third Gospel, the Lord gave the following statement: ‘Woe to you, Chorazin, Woe to you, Bethsaida, woe to you, Capernaum–if you have risen up to heaven, you will descend to hell.’”
St. Jerome (340-420), Doctor of the Church: “Antichrist will be born near Babylon. He will win the support of many with gifts and money. He will sell himself to the devil, and thereafter will have no guardian angel or conscience.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604): “Before the birth of her child, the mother of the Antichrist will announce the advent of Messiah, who (she claims) will restore great prosperity to mankind.”
St. Bridget: “As Christ was born from the highest type of womanhood [Virgin] so Antichrist will be born from the lowest [prostitute]. He will be a child-wonder at birth. His mother will be an accursed woman, who will pretend to be well informed in spiritual things, and his father will be an accursed man, from the seed of whom the devil shall form his work.”
Fr. Bartholomew Holzhauser: “Antichrist will come as the Messiah, from a land between two seas in the East...He will be born in the desert; his mother being a prostitute to the Jews and Hindus; he will be a lying and false prophet... He will begin work in the east as a soldier and a preacher of religion when 30 years old.”
Melanie Calvat according to Our Lady of La Salette: “It will be at this time that the Antichrist will be born to a Hebrew nun, a false virgin who will communicate with the old serpent, the master of impurity; his father will be a bishop. At birth, he will vomit blasphemy, he will have teeth, in a word, this will be the devil incarnate. He will scream horribly, he will perform wonders; he will feed on nothing but impurity. He will have brothers who, although not devils incarnate (possessed) like him, will be children of evil. At the age of twelve, they will draw attention to themselves by valiant victories they will have won; soon they will each lead armies, aided by the legions from hell.”
St. Jerome: “Nor do we think him to be the devil or a demon as some others do, but one of mankind, in whom Satan shall dwell totally.... his mouth uttering boasts, for he is the man of sin, the son of perdition, such that he will seat himself in the Temple, as if he were God.”
St. Jerome: “Satan shall exercise his influence over all the powers of Antichrist, both over those of his body and his soul, namely over his will, his intellect, and his memory.”12 St. John Chrysostom: “Antichrist will be possessed by Satan and will be the illegitimate son of a Jewish woman from the east.”
St. Hilary (315- 386): “Antichrist will teach that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, but is the wickedest of all criminals.”
He Will Deceive the Jewish People Antichrist will be the most cunning and deceptive creature: Daniel 9:27: “For one week he shall make a firm compact with many, half the week, he shall abolish sacrifice and oblation...”
St. Irenaeus (d 202): “The Antichrist will deceive the Jews to such an extent that they will accept him as the Messiah and worship him.”