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The faithful are elected among all peoples from all nations, shall be signed with the seal of the living God, shall be protected from evils. But they still have to go through many trials in life, endure persecutions and be affected by Divine Chastisement such as wars and natural disasters as everyone else will. They shall be called the children of the living God, the new Israelites by baptism and by the redemption and love of Christ.
From Verse 9, we know that these children of God are chosen from four corners of the earth, forming a countless multitude. Thus the number 144,000 does not indicate the exact number of the faithful being saved but it rather indicates the population of all twelve tribes of a new Israel, the chosen ones from all four corners of the earth ( 12 x 12 = 144, square or four-cornered shape; " thousand " simply means a multitude, not an exact number ).
Seven angels are to announce the seven forms of chastisements. The
first angel carries out God's Chastisements on the sinful mankind in the
form of (wild) fires which shall scorch a third of the earth's surface.
The second angel carries out His Judgment in the form of a great comet
which shall collide with the earth at sea. The tremendous heat due to the
friction with the earth's atmosphere and high speed shall evaporate a tremendous
amount of steam and form many clouds which shall alter the earth's climate
and affect crops.
The third angel shall announce the Chastisements in the form of firing
missiles which carry nuclear or chemical warheads. These weapons shall
contaminate many sources of drinking water such as rivers and lakes. The
word " Chernobyl " means wormwood in Ukraine language. And coincidentally
Chinese missiles were named Silkworm.
The fourth angel shall carry out God's Chastisements in the form
of the loss of sunlight which is necessary to sustain crops and all life
forms. The loss of sunlight shall probably be due to much rain, clouds,
global warming, war-related destruction and pollution, steam generated
by the great comet. The amount of sunlight or moonlight shall be reduced
to one third of the normal levels which shall result in a great loss of
crops and great famines world-wide.
During this last assault on men, the evil army shall actually be
led by their king, the prince of Darkness, the begotten son of Satan, the
antichrist whose name was called Abaddon in Hebrew, Apollyon in Greek,
Exterminan in Latin, and Destroyer in English. His destruction on earth
shall be unstoppable and indescribably demonic.
The sixth angel is the angel of wars who prepares for God's Chastisements
from the eternal down to the exact appointed hour which only the Lord our
God know. The invading forces shall come from the Eastern countries near
the great river Euphrates or similar river from the East. Saint John had
a vision of many great tank battles or calvary units in which tanks could
be seen as lying down lions from the front view. From their "heads", cannon
were fired with fire, smoke, and brimstone or the odor of gun powder. These
battles shall involve numerous troops inflicting numerous casualties. Twenty
countries might fight against ten countries ("twenty thousands times ten
thousands"). The power of the "horses" were also in their "tails". These
"tails" were the moving chains of tanks which would look like serpents
to the seer who had no knowledge of modern technologies and which could
inflict many losses of lives by running over soldiers. However, after facing
these costly and brutal wars, men still shall not see God's Hand in them,
shall not repent from their evils such as murder, abortion, sorceries or
occultism and false doctrine, from their fornication's and theft or sin
of material gain.
On his part, the prophet Saint John swallowed the prophetic book
which signified that he was given further prophetic insights for the whole
world and the additional prophecies were not necessary to be just chastisements
from this point on.
God shall send two Apostles of the last days to be the spiritual
leaders for the scattering flock. The true believer's spirit shall be uplifted
while the unbeliever's heart shall be exposed by them who were prophesied
throughout many centuries to be Henoch and Elias or Saint Paul or Peter.
Whoever they are, they shall proclaim the Gospel with great zeal, shall
call souls to repentance, shall reveal the true identity of the Antichrist,
and shall expose the dark evil secrets in the heart and soul of the sinful
world. The two witnesses shall live their lives as the true witnesses for
the Gospel and sacrifices for their Bridegroom. They shall be the two candlesticks
standing before God which symbolize the living theological virtues of Faith
and Charity. They shall speak against and condemn evils with the fire of
the Holy Spirit. Like Elias or Moses, they shall be allowed to call upon
God to chastise the rebellious mankind. The world shall feel uncomfortable
with their teachings and shall hate them. However. the world shall not
be allowed to harm the two prophets of the last days until an appointed
time at which they shall give up their lives to God. The Antichrist or
the "beast from the abyss" shall kill them and shall expose their dead
bodies in the city of Jerusalem where the Lord was also crucified, and
where its name no longer means the City of Peace but the place of fornication's
or Sodom and slavery or Egypt. The whole world shall rejoice over their
martyrdom's. But the Lord shall resurrect the two martyrs after 3.5 days
and their bodies shall be taken to Heaven. At the same time, the Lord shall
show the whole world and the Jews that the Antichrist is merely mortal
like any other creature by striking him dead and his body shall be burnt
in fire. The resurrections of the two prophets and the punishment of the
antichrist shall waken many Jews and unbelievers to bring them to repentance
and to believe that the true Messiah is our Lord Jesus Christ.
The seventh angel shall sound his trumpet after this period signifying
that all mysteries of God's Creation and Salvation have been revealed to
men.
In our present century, these two prophets or witnesses cannot be
found any where else but the lives of Pope John Paul II and Mother Theresa
whose lives are used by God to illustrate to the whole world the true Faith
and Charity to the fullest. After they accomplish their tasks on earth,
they might give up their lives through their martyrdom's in the hands of
the enemies of God as the sacrifices offered to their Bridegroom.
At the end times, her role in man's salvation is more prominent than
ever. She labored to deliver for mankind a ruler who was very firm in his
ruling. the Devil wanted to destroy him but he was not able to do so as
she would protect her son. This son of hers finally shall be taken up to
Heaven after his earthly mission is accomplished. Her son mentioned here
is our Holy Pontiff who completely consecrates his life to his mother.
He is the one St. Malachi prophesied one thousand years ago as " The Labor
of the Sun " in his famous prophecy upon all the future pontiffs. He is
Pope John Paul II whose life was once threatened by the Red Dragon. He
someday shall be taken up to Heavenly Throne of God by his mother. He is
the gift that she brought to us for this troubled time in order to lead
us with firmness of the eternal Truth. He is the pillar upon which the
Church of the latter days is leaning on. He commands an universal respect
from both friends and foes. He is the remaining light for this sinful world
who shall rejoice over his martyrdom but at the same time shall plunge
further into darkness.
The great spiritual battle is being raised in the apocalyptic time
between the heavenly army led by the Queen and her general, St. Michael,
along with her children to battle the army of darkness led by the Dragon
and his evil cohorts. The Dragon himself shall form a formidable force
in which he effectively recruits many kings (stars) to join his camp. However,
relying on " the wing of the eagle " or the eternal Truth in the most sublime
Gospel of St. John and the help of all her earthly children through their
prayers, the Heavenly Queen shall raise a fierce but painful battle against
the old serpent and shall "crush his head under her heel " as being prophesied
from the beginning of creation (Gen 3:15). At the end her Immaculate Heart
shall triumph (Dan 12:8).
The second beast is the beast disguised as a lamb, the one who corrupts
mankind with spiritual falsehood. This beast has the responsibility to
destroy the Church of Christ from within. He is the one who entices the
religious to commit sins of flesh, to abandon religious life or to become
timid in their spiritual discipleship. He entices the religious with worldly
attractions, scientific marvels, and heretical teachings. He encourages
them to be disobedient to their leader, the pope, and to disregard the
Church's sacred Doctrines as outdated or childishly simple. He is behind
all heretical reforms, pride, irreverence to the Real Presence, movement
toward female priesthood and abolishment of the vow of celibacy. He infiltrates
into seminaries with false teachings, questions the essential dogma of
Catholicism. The images of this beast shall be able to speak as the false
prophets who pave the way for their master, the Antichrist. The second
beast shall create the Great Apostasy and Great Schism in the Catholic
Church. This beast has only one objective in mind: to succumb the Church
to the world , to entice Her to adore the first Beast (Apoc 13:12) or to
turn the man of Spirit into the carnal man who concerns only materialistic
and carnal matters. The beast on spirituality shall poison human spiritual
life, shall transform human souls into the images of the beast. Men shall
become beastly beings who were once created according to the Image of God.
The ones who deny the teachings of Christ and worship the worldly things
shall have beastly characters on their right hands and their foreheads.
Our Blessed Mother had said that men would labor for the present carnal
world alone and therefore forsook the kingdom of God with the beastly imprint
on their hands, would kill and commit many sins with their beastly hands.
Likewise, with the devil's seal upon their forehead, men shall have their
minds fogged with falsehood and immoral liberalism.
This spiritual beast, not the antichrist, shall be symbolized with
the number 666. This is not a metaphor for a name but rather for the supreme
evil. The number 6 stands for imperfection in the Scriptural prophetic
language. A triple of imperfection implies the Great Evils. Thus the number
666 stands for the extreme demonic character of the Beast and also indicated
its spiritual significance. Blessed Mother also revealed to Father Gobbi
through locutions that we were now living in an evil era which was on the
verge of self-destruction as the number 666 timing thrice equals to 1998.
The first sign for the Apocalypse or the Wrathful Day of the Lord
is the fact that the eternal Gospel has been preached throughout the whole
world (Apoc 14:6). We definitely see that this condition has been met as
Christianity has been evangelized through out the world including the continents
of Africa and Asia. The Gospel teaches us the right attitude that we should
have in preparation for the coming of the Lord, "...fear the Lord, and
give Him honor, because the hour of His Judgment is come..."
The second sign is the Great Babylon, the sinful world of whoredom
which shall be discussed in greater details in Chapter 17. By the end times,
in the "latter days", men shall commit many sins due to fleshy or lustful
desires such as fornication, lust, pornography, homosexuality, rape, contraception,
abortion, adultery, and so on. These transgressions shall bring men to
the lower level of natural man or animal which only live for their physical
satisfaction alone. The great Babylon which symbolizes many (Western) nations
who commit numerous sins of flesh shall be demolished by God as he did
to Sodom and Gomorra. We are now warned: " If any man shall adore the beast
and his image, and receive his character in his forehead, or his hands,
shall drink the cup of the Lord's Wrath, and shall be tormented in hell
forever. Blessed are the ones who have virtue of patience in carrying their
daily crosses following the way the Gospel living, who keep the Commandments
of God and Faith in Jesus Christ." These are the ones who shall die in
the state of Grace, immersed in the Eternal light. They shall rest from
" the labor of their hands " for the Lord shall be their Source of nourishment
forever.
Another sign for the Apocalypse is the seven last plagues inflicted
upon sinful mankind (Chapter 15 and 16).
The first plague shall be painful sores upon men . This plague is
consisted of unusual and untreatable diseases such as AIDS and cancers.
This year more than 500,000 lives shall be lost due to cancers alone.
The second plague shall turn seas into dead seas, fully contaminated
with blood, dead bodies of animals and men due to chemical toxic waste,
nuclear waste, war, and due to unusually high water temperature.
The third angel shall turn drinking water of rivers and lakes into
contaminated and toxic, unfit for human consumption.
The fourth plague shall be global warming. Mankind shall be scorched
with fire and high heat, drought, and highly intensified ultra violet light
from the sun.
The fifth plague shall be great physical sufferings and sorrows of
peoples who live in atheistic and communist countries or " seat of the
beast ".
The sixth plague shall be great wars between Western Europe including
USA and Eastern countries including China, Russia, and Muslims. The enormous
battle of Armageddon shall occur in this period.
The seventh plague is the destruction of all major cities of Gentiles
or all major cities in which God does not dwell. Jerusalem shall be shaken
and split into three. All sinful Western modern cities or Babylon shall
be ruined.
Finally, a great hail shall fall upon the earth but evil men shall
be beyond the point of repentance. They shall continue to curse God regardless
of His chastisements and even His Hand appear so eminent in those calamities.
" Seven heads " of the beast are the seven kingdoms or empires through
out the human history supporting the harlot and her harlotry. These are
the likes of Sodom and Gomorra, Babylon, Roman Empire, ancient Greece,
and so on. " One is " the present world of the twentieth century with pornography,
homosexuality, adultery, and abortion. " One which is not yet to come "
is the reign of the antichrist who himself shall have a strong lust for
women (vs.10). At the end times, the beast shall be incarnated into the
eighth king or the Antichrist, who shall come from the seventh king or
the present world powers. He shall come to destroy the world of the harlot
(vs.11).
" Ten horns " are the Islamic countries who are hating the harlot,
who always consider the Western world as satanic, shall destroy the harlot
(vs.16) with wars, shall fight the Lamb or against the Christian troops
under the French holy leader and they shall be defeated by our Lord at
the end (vs.14). During the reign of the Antichrist, those same countries
shall summit themselves to the power of the Evil One (vs.13) according
to the Design of God so that the whole sinful world shall be punished for
their multitude of transgressions through the brutal oppression and total
devastation by the Antichrist, and all prophecies shall be fulfilled (vs.17).
The Lord had warned mankind to get away from the harlot (vs.4) and
to abandon their evil inclinations and sinful practice of sexual desires.
Otherwise, we shall receive His Chastisements which He shall measure out
against the modern world because our transgressions and because the cries
of the aborted unborn and other victims due to human sexual appetites have
reached the Heavenly Throne of God (vs.5). The Lord shall chastise the
Western societies with death, disease, war, sorrow, famine, and fire from
the sky. He shall judge these nations harshly for all the sins they commit
especially abortions. He shall turn all modern cities into ashes. They
are the towers of Babel and Sodom of the modern world. He shall abolish
all modern conveniences which promote apostasy and defiance. He shall eliminate
all international trades. Mankind shall endure an economic disaster of
unprecedent scale, shall be inflicted with an universal starvation and
poverty (vs. 11-18). The destruction shall come suddenly and quickly for
" in one hour, she is made desolate " (vs.19). But the children of God,
on earth as in heaven, shall feel liberated from all evil bondage, shall
rejoice as they realize that the Kingdom of God is at hand. They shall
rejoice while witnessing God's Swiftness in bringing down the whole worldly
civilization with one single stroke of His Hand. Babylon the Great shall
be punished so violently and completely that it shall not be found any
more except in memories of the survivors.
The Divine Purification shall be in blood. The unfruitful vines and
sour grapes shall be pressed through the Winepress of the Divine Wrath.
Mankind shall be crushed and refined through the Great Millstone of their
Maker.
After the Divine Infliction upon the harlot are carried out, the
destruction shall be so great that the former ways of living which include
worldly literature, sexual (rock) music, modern facilities and indecent
arts all of which are the idolatries of human hands shall not be found.
But most of all, the greatest form of Chastisements shall be the
complete loss of the Divine Wisdom and goodness in men. It shall seem that
God abandons mankind to themselves and into evil hands. Men shall kill
one another in the most senseless and gruesome ways. They shall become
beasts of survival. The Light of the Lamp or the Voice of the Bridegroom
shall no longer be heard for a long time (vs.23).
The First Resurrection shall take place after the reign of the antichrist.
The Lord shall reward all the martyrs who had died for Christ and for the
Word of God, by raising them up first to live and reign in Heaven with
Him through out the next millennium. The rest of the departed faithful
and the dead shall be resurrected at the end of the world or after the
next millennium. The "second" or the eternal death shall have no power
over the resurrected ones as they shall receive the eternal life in a glorious
body. The resurrected martyrs shall be "priests" for Heavenly Father and
the Lord Jesus. That might mean that they shall shepherd the faithful on
earth in spirit or simply mean that they shall belong to a blessed group
in Heaven. The Lord Jesus shall be among us the faithful in Spirit which
means in the most intimate way just as He was with His Apostles and disciples
after His Resurrection (vs.6).
At the end of the next millennium or about 3800AD, Satan shall be
loosened for a short time once more to tempt mankind as men again shall
turn away from God. This period of final chastisements might be shorter
than the one we are now enduring during this twentieth and the next century.
It probably shall not last longer than 70 years (vs.3). Satan shall be
incarnated into a human body. He shall rule the earth for 3.5 years right
before the End of the world. He is another "abomination upon desolation"
mentioned by the prophet Daniel. He shall carry out the Wrath of God, the
"consummation" upon the earth and upon its inhabitants. Even the antichrist
would shudder at Satan's brutalities and demonic creativity. His followers
shall be numerous as the sand of the sea as the evils in the world at that
time shall reach the ultimate climax. The faithful who shall live together
in small communities or "camps" at that time shall be protected by our
Risen Lord Himself from their outnumbering enemies. At the end, the Devil
and his disciples: the beast or the antichrist, the false Prophet or the
heretics and schismatics who propagate falsehood shall be cast into hell
fire and endure endless torments for eternity. And the Lord Jesus, Who
sits on the white Throne, shall glance at the desolate earth and its heaven
with sadness and they shall cease to exist. The Lord God Who can create
all things with His Thought alone can also make them vanish with a wink
of His Eye.
And the dead starting with Adam and Eve shall be resurrected with
new bodies, some glorious and radiant and some darkened and filthy. The
holy Scripture identifies that all the dead shall come from three places:
"sea", "death", and "hell". Two of these three places which imprison souls
might be the Purgatory and Hell. All shall stand in front of the Judge
Lord to receive their sentences. All shall be judged, not according to
a "dead' faith but to a living one, in the other words, according to their
works and efforts during their lifetime which shall be recorded with their
entirety in the "books" (To be saved by our belief in Jesus the Lord does
not mean that we are not required to make reparations for our past sins
by prayers , hard works, or other forms of penance's. Who believes that
Jesus is truly God more than Satan himself but he is not saved! It is a
fallacy to tell the believers that they are automatically saved regardless
of the way they live their lives or to tell them that every deceased Christian
will go straight to Heaven after he dies). The damned whose names are not
recorded in the Book of life shall be cast into the pool of the eternal
fire forever. This is the second Death.
God shall dwell among men, His own children. There shall exist jubilant
joy and happiness only. There shall be no more sorrow, suffering, and death.
Men shall live forever in their immortal bodies which shall be nurtured
solely by the Water of Life. They shall eat from the Tree of Life, not
from the toils of their hands. Men shall be called the sons of God, and
God their Father.
The Gate of the Heavenly City shall be closed to the unclean spirits
and the children of the evil one who are liars, atheists, the defiled,
apostates, the abominable, adulterers, fornicators, idol worshipers, blasphemers,
and so on. In the Paradise, the Lord shall be its Illumination. We shall
see our God face to Face. There shall be no more darkness in one's heart
or his surroundings.
In the latter days, the Lord shall send His servants to reveal all
these things that His people need to know to get done (Apoc 22:6) and done
quickly. He is calling for the conversion of heart as the time is at hand.
"Blessed is he that keepth the words of the prophecy of this book (of the
apocalypse)".
Pay heed to the prophetic warnings of the Book. Adore God and not
the idols of human hands, be just to be justified; be holy to be sanctified;
"wash one's robe with the Blood of the Lamb" to be saved; obtain good works
to be rewarded accordingly; avoid filthy "dogs", evil worshippers, unchaste,
murderers, idol worshippers, deceivers to enter the Holy City of God.
The other prophetic books that I interpreted can be found at:
Catholic Prophecies of Nostradamus
Catholic Prophecies of the Prophet Daniel
If you enjoy my interpretations, please visit my page on CATHOLIC
DEVOTION which I believe even more edifying and beneficial for you
than the ancient prophecies.
May the Lord bless you. Thank you.
June 5th of 1997
APOCALYPSE
8
The First Round of Chastisements
APOCALYPSE
9
Wars and The Empty Hell
without Devils
APOCALYPSE
10
The Mighty Seventh Angel
& Prophetic Book
APOCALYPSE
11
The Two Witnesses
APOCALYPSE
12
The Labor of the Sun
APOCALYPSE
13
The Two Beasts
APOCALYPSE
14
The Sign of The Time
APOCALYPSE
16
The Seven Last Plagues
APOCALYPSE
17
The Harlot of the Great
Babylon
APOCALYPSE
18
The Fall of The Great Babylon
APOCALYPSE
20
The Next Millennium, the
First Resurrection,
and the Consummation
CONCLUSION
