So many prophets of our era have indicated the Antichrist is among us. Following is one prophet who has a message about his presence in our world today for our discernment. Josyp Terelya---Our Lady –October 21, 2002 from his book 'Witness' (co-authored by Michael Brown) “Our Son, The times have come which St. John had foretold - 'the time of times'. The time has arrived to unveil the truth before the eyes of the Christian faithful - the Truth which is the beginning of the great travails and tribulations, which inexorably seek to kill the soul of men. (Mt. 24,9: birth pangs; cf. Rev. 12.2). The devil has seated himself on his throne, his altar. And he has now become the opponent of all good initiative. The antichrist has assumed total control over all human activity, possessing, as he does the might and power of his father, Satan. The evil spirits are leading the apostates into lawlessness and incredulity. The antichrist is working actively through these evil spirits on the mind of man, conscious and subconscious. As a result man is led to commit yet greater crimes that distance him from Truth. The spirit of the antichrist has long since been operating through the mystery of lawlessness. He is becoming ever stronger in these hapless days. The terrain is being prepared for the future 'benefactor' of mankind. Until now, the greatest obstacle in the 0nal realization of the ideas of the antichrist is the Church of Christ, which alone is completely in unison with Divine revelation, and truly unveils the dark plans of Satan. In our times there are many dark forces and Luciferian organizations that are working to undermine the Christian faith. Christians must remember and know, that the choirs of the saints and martyrs of the Church are looking down upon you from the depths of history, questioning: why are you not defending your faith….” 43 “My children, as never before the servants of Satan, the masons, are becoming active in their subversive efforts against the Church, the family and the nations of the world. The father of the masons - the antichrist - stands over them. A liar and a thief from age to age. Having infiltrated the Church, the servants of the devil and the lawless one, have begun to eliminate actively from Christian prayers the invocations of the Archangel St. Michael, who is the patron of the Catholic Church. His name is being removed from Masses and liturgical texts. Modern priests and bishops especially are destroying the statues of the Archangel, Saint Michael. They justify this as if this; take away from Christ, which is an outright lie. Things are being done in the Church which are opposed to God: penitential practices are eliminated in Lent. Self-denial and penance are scoffed at. Instead, they preach the happy life and love of fame. The Catholic masons are spreading the idea that Jesus Christ has already won heaven for us by His death on the cross, and that our human efforts are not required. They use modern priests to falsify the Holy Mass, so that nothing of holiness remains. The antichrist through these evil spirits is trying to raise doubts about the truth of the Eucharist. This is why the Pope blessed you to organize Eucharistic Congresses throughout the entire world. On September 17 this year you had the special grace with your wife to kneel before the Holy Father to receive his Papal blessing. The enemies of the living God and of His Church are spreading the idea, that the blessed Eucharist is only, a symbol, and that Jesus is not present under the appearances of bread and wine during the Sacred Liturgy. This is why they forbade the celebration of the Holy Mass in Latin. The antichrist has ordered his evil spirits, the masons, to undermine the authority of priests, comparing them to ordinary people. Women in churches walk around everywhere with their heads uncovered. Modern priests are clamoring to have women serve during Holy Mass on the grounds of the constitution about the equality of the sexes; and are even to be admitted to the priesthood, through which they offend my Son. They are demanding full freedom to act for women as ministerial priests. The antichrist is clamoring to forbid kneeling during the reception of Holy Communion, as though the spirit of democracy required this. They tell children that God loves them just as they are and this is why children have full freedom to do as they wish. The apostate women religious teach the children not to fold their hands devoutly during prayer, for God loves them as they are. Many churches forbid organ music,and they have substituted modern music for this. Modern priests are doing everything they can to destroy a personal relationship of Jesus with those praying….” 44
The AC has not been revealed yet. After the Warning you will know him. Keep an eye on this guy Prince El Hassan https://www.whiteoutpress.com/is-jordanian-prince-el-hassan-the-anti-christ/
What do you mean by the "rapture"? Are you speaking of the heresy of the fundamentalists/evangelicals?
Ezdras, there is no leaving this earth until you die and then judged for heaven or hell. The battle will be won here on earth through the remnant saints through the graces that come from Jesus and distributed through his mother Mary. She shall crush his head Genesis 3:15 and then the era of peace.
I prefer to think of it as the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand myself. The end times have been here since the day that Jesus ascended into Heaven.
I try to remember that Jesus said when these times come we are to rejoice because our redemption is near at hand.
I have tried to find 2 Ezdras 15 in my Bible, but I can not find it. 2 Ezdras ends after Chapter 13 in my Bible, where can I find it? I am a little tired of waiting for the 'secrets' to start but I guess I will probably feel differently once they do start. May God bless us with the grace we need to persevere.
The Scripture as well as the Sacred Tradition makes clear that the final Antichrst will be Jewish, from the Tribe of Dan, and will be accepted by much of Israel as the Messiah. He will perform Satanic "miracles" and will be opposed by Enoch and Elijah. As much as it is interesting to speculate about his identity, I think that when he arrives we will not need to speculate. It will be plainly evident because his public appearance will be countered by the public appearance and ministry of the Two Witnessess. I think we have a ways to go until the Antichrist appears.
Qassem Soleimani: Devil to America, to Iran a superhero Qods Force leader Qassem Soleimani is pictured in Tehran in 2016 (Handout/khamenei.ir/AFP) Hero to some and villain to others, General Qassem Soleimani is seen by both allies and enemies as one of the most powerful players in the Middle East today. As leader of the Qods Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps for more than two decades, he has masterminded Iran’s strategic chess game in the region. Over the many years I have reported from there for the BBC, I have followed the progress of this shadow commander, who pulls the strings behind the scenes. "We saw Soleimani as a very capable, charismatic, skilled, professionally competent, diabolically evil human,” said US General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Iraq and went on to become director of the CIA. "He is a rare treasure that can’t easily be found - spiritual and idealistic, different from the strict and harsh character you normally find in military commanders,” said Sheikh Jalal al-Saghir, an Iraqi Shia imam who has known Soleimani for many years and fought alongside him. A living martyr From a working-class background in rural Iran, Soleimani came of age during the Islamic Revolution. He made his name as a military commander in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians died. Somehow, he survived, creating the myth of himself as a living martyr. When the US-led coalition invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003, toppling Saddam Hussein, Soleimani’s key aim was to ensure Iraq could never destabilise Iran again, and he began to exert his influence. As Iraqi Shia militias took up arms against the invaders and Sunni militants, the Qods Force began to train and supply those militias with sophisticated weapons. Sheikh Jalal al-Saghir, a Shia imam who has known Soleimani for many years, called him 'a rare treasure' (BBC Two) Major-General Jonathan Shaw led British forces in Basra in 2007, at the peak of the violence. Forty-one of his troops were killed in just a few months by explosive devices supplied and smuggled in through the southern marshes by Iran. It was a cat-and-mouse game: “We knew they were coming in, but we just couldn’t stop them,” Shaw said. “Our armour got bigger and their bombs got bigger. It was a calculated intimidation campaign by Soleimani - not all-out war, but keeping the heat on us, and saying ‘you better get out’. You could just feel the will to fight in Iraq ebbing away in the British nation.” The British pulled out of Basra more than a decade ago, but the city remains under Iranian influence - as does much of Iraq - to this day. Out of the shadows The tables turned in 2014, when the Islamic State (IS) swept across northern Iraq, seizing territory and weapons from the Iraqi army. While the West was slow to react, Soleimani - quickly recognising the threat IS posed to Iran - supplied planeloads of weapons, both to the hard-pressed Kurdish Peshmerga holding the line and to the Iraqi Shia militias who joined the battle. “We asked for Iran’s help, and Iran stood by us, for which we are very thankful,” said former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Soleimani was openly seen on the battlefield, directing operations. He came out of the shadows, becoming a star on social media as his selfies with fighters spread across the region. When US and British forces finally joined the fight against IS, they found themselves on the same side as Iran. “ISIS, which was this negative evil thing, Soleimani now gets the role of being the white knight against it,” said US General Stanley McChrystal. “Now, to a certain degree, he comes out like an American ally … but that was strange bedfellows for a pretty narrow period.” Peshmerga commanders said that they were put in an awkward position when they found themselves inundated with arms from both sides Peshmerga commanders said that they were put in an awkward position when they found themselves inundated with arms from both sides. “Our people were asking which bullets are better - American or Iranian?” said Mohammad Haji Mahmoud, a well-known commander. “We didn’t want to publicise the Iranian ammunition so the coalition wouldn’t find out we were using it.” Mahmoud noted that when Soleimani or Shia militias were in the area, the US would not offer air support. According to Petraeus, the rationale for this was to curtail Soleimani’s power so that in a post-IS scenario, Shia militia members would respond “to legitimate Iraqi authorities, not to these Shia militia leaders, some of whom are basically on the payroll of Soleimani”. Fighting Israel Western analysts told me that Soleimani’s ultimate goal was the creation of a land corridor from Tehran to Lebanon and the Mediterranean shores through Iraq and Syria to enable the flow of Iranian weapons to allies and to encircle Israel. After shoring up the Assad regime, Soleimani has used Qods Force bases in Syria to probe Israel’s defences in the north. A year ago, Israel said that Soleimani’s unit launched an armed drone into Israeli airspace. Since then, Israel says it has carried out dozens of air strikes in Syria in response to Iranian missile and rocket attacks. According to Israel, Soleimani is also arming Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, providing sophisticated technology to upgrade tens of thousands of rockets.
US General David Petraeus described Soleimani as 'diabolically evil' (BBC Two) General Nitzan Alon, who is leading Israel’s military battle on this new frontline, spoke to me in the Golan Heights, overlooking Qods Force bases in Syria. He noted: "I think Soleimani underestimates Israeli capabilities and maybe overestimates his capabilities against Israel." Soleimani has become a popular figure in Iran – an animated film Battle for the Persian Gulf has even been made in which he stars as the commander defeating America in a fictional war. “Soleimani has become in a way one of the sort of heroes of ancient Iranian mythology,” says Professor Ali Ansari, who heads the Institute for Iranian Studies at St Andrews University, "a modern day knight in shining armour...who by the sheer force of will and his goodness ...has been able to banish all evil.” Qasem Soleimani has thrown down the gauntlet in recent remarks. "You will start the war - but we will determine its end,” he has warned the US. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind airs at 9pm on BBC Two on 14 March. Jane Corbin Jane Corbin is the senior international correspondent for BBC Current Affairs specialising in investigations in the Middle East and Central Asia. She is also an author and broadcaster who has covered politics and conflicts in the region for more than 30 years for the BBC.
Well anyway it will be someone from roundabout the Middle East. I do strongly suspect he is alive at the moment.
Thank you for your reply. Here is a wikipedia link that gives some background information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Esdras
