1,600-year-old prophecy
Last night I discovered the below 1,600-year-old prophecy on two different Web sites. If
anyone knows anything more about it that might validate or invalidate it please let me
know. What is especially remarkable about it is that in the 5th century A.D., Nilus
pinpointed the mid-point of the 20th century for this, a millennium and a half later! He
had no way of knowing that in the mid-20th century the nation of Israel would be reborn
according to many prophecies, a major end-time sign. And we know from even secular studies
that decadence has greatly increased in the world since mid-century, which in the U.S. is
exactly when the federal government, through the Supreme Court, began to outlaw God and
declare Him not wanted. An indepth Heritage Foundation study of America concluded from 19
leading indicators that there had been "substantial social regression" in the
latter part of the 20th century. The rest of the world is as bad or worse.
The Prophecy of Saint Nilus
After the year 1900, toward the middle of the 20th century, the people of that time will
become unrecognizable. When the time for the Advent of the Antichrist approaches, people's
minds will grow cloudy from carnal passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow
stronger. Then the world will become unrecognizable. People's appearances will change, and
it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their shamelessness in dress
and style of hair. These people will be cruel and will be like wild animals because of the
temptations of the Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will
disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain men, completely
failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left. At that time the morals and
traditions of Christians and of the Church will change. People will abandon modesty, and
dissipation will reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great proportions, and woe to
those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret deeds and murder will
rule in society. At that future time, due to the power of such great crimes and
licentiousness, people will be deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they
received in Holy Baptism and equally of remorse. The Churches of God will be deprived of
God-fearing and pious pastors, and woe to the Christians remaining in the world at that
time; they will completely lose their faith because they will lack the opportunity of
seeing the light of knowledge from anyone at all. Then they will separate themselves out
of the world in holy refuges in search of lightening their spiritual sufferings, but
everywhere they will meet obstacles and constraints. And all this will result from the
fact that the Antichrist wants to be Lord over everything and become the ruler of the
whole universe, and he will produce miracles and fantastic signs. He will also give
depraved wisdom to an unhappy man so that he will discover a way by which one man can
carry on a conversation with another from one end of the earth to the other. At that time
men will also fly through the air like birds and descend to the bottom of the sea like
fish. And when they have achieved all this, these unhappy people will spend their lives in
comfort without knowing, poor souls, that it is deceit of the Antichrist. And, the impious
one! -- he will so complete science with vanity that it will go off the right path and
lead people to lose faith in the existence of God in three hypostases. Then the All-good
God will see the downfall of the human race and will shorten the days for the sake of
those few who are being saved, because the enemy wants to lead even the chosen into
temptation, if that is possible... then the sword of chastisement will suddenly appear and
kill the perverter and his servants.
The above plus biographical information on Saint Nilus are available at
http://www.ihsv.com/nilus.html