The city of Seven Hills is Rome The "Book of Destiny" by Fr. Herman Kramer and "The Apocalypse of St. John" by Fr. Sylvester Berry are great classic resources for this type of information. They do a great job at decoding the book of the Apocalypse using early Church fathers and Catholic biblical study as reference.
Yes, it is very possible that the city of Rome will be the seat of the AC, although there are a few cities built on seven hills that could also qualify. Here's a Wikipedia list of cities claiming to be built on seven hills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills The mistake that Anti-Catholics make is equating secular Rome with the Vatican. Vatican hill is not one of the original seven hills of Rome which according to Wiki are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_hills_of_Rome Aventine Hill (Latin, Aventinus; Italian, Aventino) Caelian Hill (Cælius, Celio) Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus, Campidoglio) Esquiline Hill (Esquilinus, Esquilino) Palatine Hill (Palatinus, Palatino) Quirinal Hill (Quirinalis, Quirinale) Viminal Hill (Viminalis, Viminale)
I think that the AC will be seated in Jerusalem because most prophecy states that he will be accepted by a majority of the Jews, in addition, it seems like he will be destroyed there. Prophecy also states that the AC will "conquer" Rome but I think that the False Prophet will be seated in the Vatican. I also think that some non-Catholics take their shots at us so to speak by stating that Rome/the Vatican is Babylon from Revelations but once the AC/FP are in control, the Vatican will no longer be of the true RCC or of Christ.
The prospect of the AC being seated in Jerusalem has also occurred to me. I think that Jerusalem is also built on seven hills. And yes, I believe that the AC will be destroyed in Jerusalem because that's when Jesus will return in the same way that He ascended into Heaven, except that the whole world will be able to see his coming whereas only a handful witnessed His ascension. Ever since the Reformation, Protestants have been "interpreting" Sacred Scripture to blame the Catholic Church for everything that has is and will be wrong in the world. I agree that the false prophet will be someone very high up in the Church, either a senior Cardinal or an Anti-Pope. Otherwise, how could the faithful and even some of the elect be deceived? There is the "if that were possible" qualification to the "some of the elect" prophecy.
This is the Popes favorite book on the subject which many regard as prophetic. Its author , Fr Benson was I believe a true mystic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_World
How do you know one of the secrets of Medjugorje? I think the only one that we know if is the sign, unless I missed an announcement?
As you have said, Padraig: To wind up I hell along with rest of the damned. The worst fate imaginable for it is Eternal. We have distorted the fathomless depth of God's Love by debunking his Justice! The price of LOVE: Is 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Our search for love leads to the Way of the Cross, Jesus' Way: Song of Songs 1: 7 Show me O thou whom my soul loveth; where thou feedest, where though liest at midday, lest I wander after the flocks of thy companions. Jesus is upon the Cross at midday. In this time of trial let us be found at the Cross with Mary and John! For most of the companions were then hiding in fear, but this time the "end of the Year of Mercy" approaches and second chances will be few and far between! Lord Jesus, may we all be found faithful! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you! To wind up I hell along with rest of the damned. The worst fate imaginable for it is Eternal. Safe in the Father's Arms!
PS, I believe Padraig infers that he personally has been shown that his dream of the Balkans corresponds with a Medjugore secret. Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
Dolours, I didn't say that I think that the false prophet will be someone very high up in the Church, either a senior Cardinal or an Anti-Pope but I guess that is the obvious conclusion.
That's right, Carol, you didn't say that he would be a member of the hierarchy. On reflection, I'm not so sure that he will be a member of the Church. The true faith will likely be so weak by then that it wouldn't be hard to lead many people astray. We expect the Church to be persecuted and when real persecution happens people tend to clutch at straws to save themselves and their families. When Henry Vlll broke from the Church St. John Fisher was the only Bishop who resisted. There's no reason to suppose that something similar couldn't happen globally. We're inclined to fit prophecy into the world as we know it with nation states and bishops in regular contact with Rome and the Pope but we are seeing already a shift away from nation states. What if we had a world where, say, there were a handful of regional governments (maybe one for each of the continents) all subject to a central super-powerful world government? In such a world, a persecuted, underground Church would be disjointed with very little contact between Bishops and possibly no contact with the Pope. There could even be a situation like in China where there is a Government recognised Church and an underground Church at the same time. It wouldn't be so very difficult in such a scenario for government approved Bishops to lead many people astray by following a false prophet for self preservation or out of some misplaced sense of loyalty as happened in England. What if that false prophet were the "Jesus" the Muslims are expecting to come and lead them in their final battle against non-believers? Wouldn't it be easier for them to persuade people who don't know the faith that they are following the real Jesus? By that time there could even be a revised, politically correct bible with the true bible being banned. To be honest, I find it all very confusing. I don't know how the conversion of the Jews fits in. We know that the final battle will be in Jerusalem so presumably the Jews will have been converted by then but if that's the case will all the remnant be located in Jerusalem? I'm even beginning to wonder whether the final False Prophet and the AC will be one and the same because the Bible tells us that there will be many false prophets. Maybe it's best to follow the Church's advice to live each day as though it will be our last and not get sidetracked by spending too much time worrying about the future.
I have read that mystery Babylon during the age of the Apostles was Israel. It was the code used to describe the Jews who persecuted the Christians. The false prophet is Islam. The false Church is the Protestant one or freemasonry. We must remind ourselves always that those who deny Christ and his divinity, let alone the Trinity are anti Christ's. Notice Netanyahu involved in the U.S. debate. The first and only country who our leaders must have a meeting with to discuss our loyalty to them at all times. What would our founding fathers say? Are we truly a sovereign country? All the trillions spent on endless bloody wars. Who was behind that foreign policy? Putin?
I wrote that I beieve it may correspond to the 7th secret, (see above)..I mean my dream of the Balkns)
I remember reading something a few years abck from a very old book, Terry. It went, 'The first duty of every Catholic is to save their soul'. This stuck with me and I though about it because it seemed so selfish. I mean look after yourself first. But then I thought about it and its makes sense. For of course if you do not yuorself avoid hell you are not oging to save everyone else. So in the case of our own personal salvation charity does indeed begin at home. But of course the trouble is no one ever talks about hell or eteneranl damnation anymore, do they?
This is so true, because how could we love our neighbor, if we do not first, love ourselves enough to save our souls, makes sense, Padraig.
Yes but it has been like the drip, drip , drip of a poison. Poisoning the Church nad poisoning our souls. On the other hand if you look at the apparitions of Our Lady they have the remedy to this poison in so many ways. Fistly in that they remind us that God realy does exist. Not just a great big something out there..a kinda pie in the sky but a firm relality.. A down here God who effects us and our lives. A God who cna kick ass and work miracles and who can bounce the sun inthe sky like a childs toy. Not some distant God but the very same God who came down to the Hebrews in a pillar of cloud and fire. A God who cna kick ass. In Fatmia we saw that when those little kids were shown hell. In other words a sure and certain remedy for Modernist poison. If you want one sure sign of a Modernist Bishop or Cardinal I'll give you one. He's a guy who won;t let a statue of Our LAdy of Fatima within a hundred miles of his Episcopl;a Front Door!! LLOL I'm off on one of my regular rants; but I guess who cna blaim me , I have loads and loads and loads to rant about. But you know we have come full circel here for one of the Marian Secrets seems to be this. That the very Sing given to the Hebrews is the very same Sign that is to be given to us at every MArian Shrine in the world..and it is...well have a guess. ..and let the genltemen in the Vatican try to explain this little matter away for it will be left till the end of the world. Exodus 13:21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.
It is important to remember though as someone reminded me latley that before things are set strigth we have to all go through a great war. As Our Lady of Good Sucess in Quito, Equador said: "In order to dissipate this black cloud, which impedes the Church from enjoying the clear day of liberty, there will be a formidable and frightful war, in which both native and foreign blood will flow, including that of secular and regular priests and other religious. This night will be most horrible, for, humanly speaking, evil will seem to have triumphed. This will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvellous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed satan, trampling him under my heel and chaining him in the infernal abyss, finally freeing the Church and the country from his cruel tyranny. ..and this will of course involve a Russian invasion of Italy/ Europe and I do not see how this would be possible without some kind of limited nuclear exchange, a Third World War in fact. Thoguh not a War in the sens eof mankind being wiped out, but somekind of limited exchange of missiles. Our Lady herelf mentions this at Fatima when she talks of certain Nations being 'annihilated'. Well we have to ask our selves how a Nation could by , 'Annihilated'. Certainly at Akita Our LAdy mentions , 'fire coming down from heaven'.
Padraig the apparition of Our Lady of Good Success happened 400 years ago. In the year 1610, not even the French Revolution had occurred. The war she predicted then may very well have been from the French Revolution to WWII. What makes you think Russia will invade Italy today?
There are so many Catholic prophesies pointing towards this and thePope fleeing Rome. If you watch the video above on Sister Aiellio it is a good one. This invasions eems to be coupled with tow revolutions in Italy and France. Let me see if I can find a link: http://www.catholicprophecy.info/muslim.html Approved Catholic Prophecy speaks of such an invasion for sometime in the future. Catholic prophecy speaks of a future invasion of the heart of Christendom (Western Europe) both by Muslim and Russian armies. Right now (under current conditions) the only credible threat the Russians pose to anyone (beside military lightweights such as Chechnya) is a nuclear threat. According to Catholic prophecy from many approved Catholic prophets (Canonized Saints, Blessed and Venerable), the following scenario is in store for some time in the future. [As you may guess, Desmond does not think it is the far distant future.] By the way, my European contacts, several of whom work in/with several European intelligence communities, confirm that several nations are in deep trouble as far as internal integrity - i.e., it would not take a great deal to kick them over the edge into civil disorder. Two of the most prominent on that list are; 1st - France, 2nd - Italy. That would/should surprise no one who reads much on Europe. 1. Sometime in the future France and Italy go into civil war at almost the same time - France will probably be first. "When everyone believes that peace is assured, when everyone least expects it, …Revolution will break out in Italy almost at the same time as in France:" [Ecstatic of Tours, Trial, Tribulation and Triumph (TTT) p. 360.] This happens after an economic collapse that is quite general throughout Europe (My personal assessment is that this will be more or less worldwide). We also have an Italian, Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, prophesying about the same revolution inFrance (By the way, these prophecies are not speaking about the 'French Revolution', which was long over when these prophecies were made in the 19th century); "France shall fall into a frightful anarchy. The French shall have a desperate civil war during the course of which even old men will take up arms." (Page 363, TTT) Another approved prophet, Fr. Nectou (a Jesuit Provincial in France) prophesied about a future civil war in France. He was not prophesying the late 18th century 'French Revolution', because he speaks of the total destruction of Paris, which has not yet happened, and he speaks of it being a general condition "not confined to France". "During this Revolution, which will very likely be general and not confined to France, Paris will be destroyed…" Fr. Nectou goes on to describe what many of us call the "Age of Peace" as following this time of Revolution. "Justice will reign throughout the whole world, and the counterrevolution will be accomplished." (TTT, p. 351) [The meaning of the term "counterrevolution" is explained in this section of TTT.] 2. There are numerous other approved Catholic prophets quoted in TTT describing the same thing. This entire scenario will take civil authorities by surprise, certainly as to the speed with which things develop. The Vatican will be one of the few authorities that will not be surprised. This will be largely due to the fact that there are a number of orthodox men in the Vatican who are very knowledgeable about Catholic Church approved prophecies 3. The civil war in both France and Italy will take on a specifically anti-Catholic animus. This civil war in France will develop basically into a general war between Catholics (and a few allies) and the anti-Christian forces (particularly in France) which have been running those countries for centuries. That ruling pattern began with the French Revolution in France. It began/culminated with Garibaldi in Italy. 4. The Catholics will be on the verge of being wiped out in France, when, a great military Catholic leader will come to the fore in France. (The prophecies lead me to believe that by this point, the Catholics and Protestants are fighting on the same [Christian] side against anti-Christian forces.) 5. ABOUT THE SAME TIME, A RUSSIAN ARMY WITH SOME "PRUSSIAN" (spell that East German) COUNTERPARTS WILL INVADE FRANCE AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES. The Russians will invade out of desperation. It will match their historic pattern. Whenever the Russians have gotten hungry or desperate, historically, they have driven South into the Ukrainian Steps, or East into Poland in order to get what they need. This is a six hundred year old pattern. In this prophesied case, they opt to march West, and do not stop at Poland. [Not all of this is spelled out in the prophecies - but much of it is.] Sr. Elena Aiello made the following prophecy in 1959. She was the founder of the order of the "Calabrians", an Italian order of nuns. "Russia will march upon all the major nations of Europe." (TTT p. 392) Speaking of the same time and events, Fr. Nectou prophesied, "In a second battle at Frankfurt, the Prussians lost again and retreated as far as Siegburg, where they were joined with a Russian army. The Russians made common cause with the Prussians." (That most probably means troops from former East Germany) (TTT, p. 347) THERE ARE DOZENS OF SUCH PROHECIES TO BE FOUND IN TTT. I HAVE GIVEN YOU A FEW SNIPPETS FROM THEM HERE. IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY APPRECIATE JUST HOW MANY APPROVED CATHOLIC PROPHETS HAVE PREDICTED SUCH AN EVENT, READ IN PARTICULAR, CHAPTER 8 OF TTT.
This is also very much in line with Our LAdy of Fatima were Russia is spoken of as a stick to beat the West (to punish us for our sins) ..hence the urgent call for the Consecration of Russia. It is also spoken of very widely and specifically at Garabandal.