THE PROPHECY OF THE MONK JOHANNES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 16 February 1915, Page 7

THE PROPHECY OF THE MONK JOHANNES.

A MARVELLOUS PREDICTION. (A Latin Prophecy made in tJ u . v ,. a! . oy Murk Jolmniuvs), tiie aito-curist. Ar i ski,(l to f«now. ■ >/, extiaordinary article, wind, h ßii i in these columns) ■ times has one seemed to ecoguis.e him, because all the slaver* of •ie Lamb resemble each oilier, a»d I "' CC ™ <»' U- - wi » invoke God and call himself, Ui s Messenger. f'h' 5 ' p-n' P ',' i " c ' e Avi,i swear bv Til! M i°Tr n ,' rall himS " ,f t,il ' Arm people. S ' cl,astisii, S corrupted

_ 4. 11,. will only have one arm but hi* |™'»r ! ""'"■'V w, " > wi " tl,k " infernal WiU !ik " S For a long while he will act by ru-.e tieason, his spies will S , T ™.i ~ii "veij the earth, and he will.)', tlu nmster »f; the ,„ecre s of those in power. f fV ,iavo ill liis'pfiv to pro.cl.i, celestial niissi™. ■m f furnish him for the reason of lifting tile mask. Tt will not be one which he will make against the lench monarch, but another which will - easily recognised by.the fact that ' versah' 8 ° H wiH havo »•»"

8. It will call to arms all Christians, • 11 Mohammedans, and eve,, other verr distant people. Armies will be formed ill the four parts of the world. l'or men's minds will be opened hv angels and in the third week they will ■in,' 'TI I"J ".'j? is 1,10 Anti-Christ, ... li ; tIll T W1 " nil become slavel If they do not trample down this conquering one.

0. [ho Anti-Christ will be recognisable by several marks; he will chiefly massacre priests, monks, women children and old people. He will show no mercy, lie 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 coat 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 lie will die cursed by the Pope Bcnedietus, who will be elected at the beginning of the reign of the Anti-Christ. 13. Priests and monks will no longer be seen confessing and absolving tlio combatants, because for the first time priests and monks will be fighting with the 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 shoud 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 Anti-Christ's ally. 15. In order to conquer the anti-Christ, more men must be killed than Rome 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 thehy were not helped by the prayers of all the human race.

10. Never before has humanity been in such peril, for the triumph of the antiChrist would be that of the Demon, in whom he is incarnated (?). 17. For it- had been said that twenty centuries after the incarnation of the Word, the beast in his turn would be incarnated, and would threaten the earth with as many evils as the Divine Incarnation had brought it graces.

IS. Near the year two thousand the anti-C'hrist will appear; his army will surpass in numbers more than anything imagined; there will be Christians amongst the hordes, and amongst the defenders of the Lamb there will be Mohammedans and savage tribes. 10. 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 soon be 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 one half of the land of the cock. 22. The white eagle, which will coni' from the north, will surprise the black Prophecy of the Monk Johannes TWO eagle, and the other eagle, and will com-, pletely invade the land of the antichrist. from one end to the other. ' 23. The black eagle will be forced to leave the cock fight the white eagle, and the cock will pursue the black eagle into the land of the anti-Christ to help the white eagle. 24. The battles waged until then will be small in comparison to these that will take place i„ the land of Luther. Because the seven angels will at the same time pour fire from their burners in the impious land (image taken from the Apocalypse) which means that the Lamb will order the extermination cf the anti-Christ's race. 25. When the Ben.st sots he is lost, lie will become furious. During months the beak of the white eagle, the claws ot the 'leopard, and the spurs of the' cock must harass him.

. • will be crossed on stepping stones of corpses, which in some places h'Ml change the course of the water. Only great noblemen, superior officers nnd 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. j-7. The anti-Christ will several times ask for peace, but the seven angels who precede the three animals, defenders of the Lamb, have said victory shall only be recorded on the condition that the anti-Christ be crushed like straw on the threshing floor.

~ s - l'' x ('''utors of the Lamb's justice, these three animals cannot stop f'ightin" so long as any soldier remains to the anti-( hrist.

-0. Ihe reason the sentence of the Lamb is so implacable is that, the anti- ( hust has pretended to be a Christian and 10 be acting in TTis name, so that if he did not perish, the fruit of the redemption Would he lost, and the gates oMieli prevail against the Saviour. no. rt will be seen that it is not a human combat which will be waged where the anti-Christ, forges his arms. Ihc three animals, defenders of the Lamb, will exterminate the anti-Christ's last, army; hut the battlefield will become as an altar of sacrifice larger than the in cutest of cities, and the corpses have have changed its shape bv raising in if chains of mounds.

•J]. Tiie. anti-Clirist will loose his crown and will die demented and alone, fTis lunpirc will he divided into twentytwo States, but none shall have either n , royal [louse, an army or vessels. I •S2. The White Ka-le by Michael',; will chase the Crescent from Kurope, where only Christians will remain: it will occupy Constantinople. Ti. The,, an era of peace and prospers! v will commence for all the universe. and ih'Te wil] be 710 more war. ! '•arh tia(ir>n bein.ir Ji'ovenicd according to iN wwh and living in justice. I •»•!. r l here will be no more Lutherans [ov Schismatics. The Lamb will rei^n,

and tlio joys of humanity will commence. Happy they who, escaping from, the perils of this prodigious time, can taau of its fruit, which will be the reign of the Eternal Spirit, and the sanetification of humanity, only to be achieved by the defeat nf the Anti-Christ.

I'ranee is figured by the cock, England by the leopard, Russia the white eagle, and Germany and Austria; by the lilaek eagle, and the "other eagle." This explanation we can easily accept in view of the referencs ill the text, rememberiiifg. too, that the leopard was more in evidence than the lion, as the badge of England.