Chapter XII: JEREMIAS' PROPHECIES ON THE MESSIAS. THE PRESANCTIFICATION OF THE HOLY PROPHET. APOCALYPTIC REVELATIONS.
1. We devote this
chapter to the study of the vocation and revelations of the Holy Prophet
Jeremias, a wonderful figure of the Man of Sorrows, Jesus Christ, because
of the persecutions, insults and martyrdom he underwent - all sealed by
the virginity he kept his whole life long.
2. We define that the
Holy Prophet was presanctified in his mother's womb as stated in the first
chapter of his Prophe-cy, in the words spoken by God Himself: "Before
I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee, and before thou
camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thou a prophet
unto the nations" (Jer. I, 5); which this Council declares took place
in the eighth month of his conception.
3. Although Jeremias
was presanctified and anointed prophet while yet in the womb of his mother,
his Prophetic Book describes to us another decisive moment in his life,
namely the starting-point of his activity as Messenger of God: Jeremias
was perturbed and alarmed to hear the voice of God expressly telling him
of his naming as prophet, and he protests his inability to fulfill such a
great mission; but the Lord comforts him with the promise of His
assistance, and opens his lips for the labour of prophet by touching them
with the Sacrament of the Triple Benediction which He bore in His hands.
This is Jeremias' first prophetic vision; we turn to the Sacred
Text just interpreted: "And the Lord put forth His hand, and touched
my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold, I have given my words in thy
mouth: Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms,
to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build,
and to plant" (I, 9-10). Here
we see the wonderful and varied power of the Wisdom that dwelt in this
Mysterious Sacrament of the Old Law, for by this means alone, and through
the ministry of the Most Divine Soul of Christ, did God bestow these great
graces, as we have seen until now in the course of this Treatise.
4. The Holy Ghost
praises Jeremias the Prophet in the following verse from Ecclesiasticus:
"For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his
mother's womb" (XLIX, 9). But
the praise which the Paraclete bestows on this man of outstanding sanctity
contrasts strangely with the curses that spring from the pure lips of this
extraordinary Messenger of God; Jeremias is imprisoned for his preaching
and experiences a trial of great darkness in his soul; he curses the day
he was born with desolate bluntness, for his sacred dignity as a prophet
had been outrageously insulted, his prophecies ignored,
and through him, God's love for his people spurned; and he would
rather never have been born than behold such apostasy.
These lawful curses then bore no malice, but went accompanied by a
constant hymn of praise to God and a clear vision in the spirit of the
liberation to come, both of himself and of his people.
5. We will first of
all examine Jeremias' prophecies on the Messias.
In his work he announces the close coming of the Messias, His
belonging to David's House, that He will be a prudent and fair-dealing
King, and Saviour of Mankind, as we see very clearly expressed in chapter
XXIII, v. 5: "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise
up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and
shall execute judgement and justice in the earth "; following this he
speaks too of the saving and sanctifying mission of the Redeemer of the
world, whose principal task will be to make reparation to the Father and
give Him glory, to justify men and save them with His Passion and Death
from the bondage of sin and the devil,- to beget life in them; which is
the exact meaning of the following text of Jeremias: "In those days
shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the
name that they shall call him; the Lord our Just one". (XXIII, 6)
6. We find the
Incarnation of the Word of God mysteriously prophesied in the following
verse which we shall briefly explain:
"... the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth; THE
WOMAN SHALL COMPASS THE MAN". (XXI,
22) This creation, referred to the past, different from and
greater than the rest of creation, was that of the Souls of Christ and
Mary who, according to the general laws of nature, would have been created
united to their bodies, as they belong to the human race. Nevertheless, Almighty God desired that they surpass all the
visible and invisible creation in dignity, in excellence and privileges.
Then the Prophet reveals that this creation will appear visibly on
earth with the Incarnation of the Divine Souls each in their respective
bodies; first the Woman, Mary, and then the Man, Jesus Christ, conceived
by the Virgin Mary with a most perfect Body, and carried for nine months
in her womb.
7. How masterful
Jeremias' description of the imperishable Reign of Jesus Christ, who will
seat Himself on the throne of David; and as well that of His
representatives on earth, the Vicars of Christ, Supreme Heads of His
Church, clothed with all
authority both spiritual and temporal. Let us turn to the Sacred Text: "... There shall not be
cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of
Israel". (XXXIII, 17); - which cannot refer to temporal kingship over
the Jews, which was withdrawn from David's descendants after Zorobabel.
Verse 18 of the same chapter proclaims that the Priesthood of the
New Testament will be for ever, as also the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which will be offered
ceaselessly until the end of time, prefigured in the Sacrifices of the Old
Law: "Neither shall there be cut off from the Priests ... a man
before my face, to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifice, and to kill
victims every day" (XXXIII, 18).
8. Again we turn to
Chapter XXXI in which the Holy Prophet
gives us another monumental proof of the perpetual Sacrifice of the Mass,
compact of the New Covenant between God and man, the Only True Sacrifice
which fully satisfies God,- because of the Victim of Infinite worth,- and
which abolishes all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant: "Behold, the
days shall come, saith the Lord, and
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Juda: Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the
day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt:
the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the
Lord" (XXXI, 31-32). Saint
Paul in his letter to the Hebrews (VIII, 8), quotes this text of Jeremias.
9. Elsewhere in his
Prophecy Jeremias tells of the innu-merable members who shall form the
true Church of Jesus Christ, the Christian People, clearly drawing the
line between clerics and faithful, all begotten in grace by Christ and
Mary on Calvary, and become of the lineage of David like their Divine
Founder: "As the stars of Heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of
the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and
the levites my ministers" (XXXIII, 22).
10. Now we look at the
prophecies which refer to the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and to the Sorrows and desolation of His Most Holy Mother at the foot of
the Cross, as also to the guile and hard-heartedness of the People of
Israel who, fully aware through the Prophets of the Coming of Christ,
Light of the world, and of His Passion and Death, because of their
treachery and blindness of soul did not receive Him.
Here is the sacred text: "And I
was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not
that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his
bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be
remembered no more" (XI, 19). We
now correctly give the true interpretation of this beautiful verse full of
profound meaning: Our Lord Jesus Christ, knowing the evil intentions of
the Jews, allowed Himself to be led innocent to the gallows.
He who in a gesture of His most loving Heart had revealed Himself
to the Jews as the Bread of Life, received from them as payment only the
blackest in-gratitude; and they wished at all costs to erase the memory of
His Name from the earth and from the hearts of men so that no one would
recognize His Sacred Body as the indispensable food for eternal life; for
Satan, who by divine permission had been lying in wait during the Mass of
the Last Supper, heard Christ say the words: "Do this for a
commemoration of me" (Lk. XXII, 19),
with which He ordered the Apostles to perpetuate His Sacrifice.
Hearing them, Satan placed those perverse intentions in the hearts
of the Jews, without understanding that precisely through the Death of
Christ on the wood of the Cross it becomes possible for us to receive His
Most Divine Body in the Eucharistic Food.
11. When speaking of
the Sacrifice of Calvary, Mary's par-ticipation as Priest and Victim with
Christ cannot be left out. Thus
the Holy Ghost, Mary's Spouse,
places verses on the lips of
the Holy Prophet that express the immolation of Mary in the Sacrifice of
Cal-vary. We consider those verses of Jeremias' Lamentations which most
clearly depict for us the Sorrowful Mother; we present the twelfth which
says: "O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any
sorrow like to my sorrow; for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger" (1,
12). We interpret and assert
that in this Lamentation Jeremias refers to the meeting of Christ and Mary
along the Way of Sorrow, and expresses the extreme suffering of the Most
Holy Virgin's Soul at seeing Herself deprived of the Vine which is Her
Divine Son, who has been snatched from her company and vilely outraged by
the faithless Jews, thus fulfilling the decree of the Eternal Father by
which He unleashed His Anger upon the Innocent Lamb, Jesus Christ, loading
Him with our sins.
12. Now we turn to the
twentieth Lamentation, charged with deep and cruel reality, and which
transports our soul to Calvary, there to live and contemplate the bitter
agony and death of Christ and Mary: "Behold, O Lord,
for I am in distress, my womb is troubled: my heart is turned
within me, for I am full of bitter-ness: abroad the sword destroyeth, and
at home there is a like death" (Lam. 1, 20).
Words cannot be found to describe the gran-deur of the meaning of
this text. Jeremias saw and
lived through the whole Sacrifice of the Cross, and in these few words
sketches the deep essence of the Sacrifice.
Mary at the foot of the Cross feels Herself seized by the most
terrible desolation as She sees the Fruit of Her womb become the most
wretched outcast. Her ma-ternal Heart is pierced by a sharp-pointed sword, and
through this most painful transfixion She suffers the same bitter agony as
Her Divine Son, who a short while before had breathed His last; and whose
Divine Heart is now pierced by the lance of Longinus, which causes a death
in Mary like to that of Her Son, only spiritual.
13. In another of his
Lamentations the Holy Prophet again brings us to Calvary to the side of
Saint John the Evangelist, who has completed the infinite Sacrifice of
Christ and Mary by joining to it the finite sacrifice of the Church; there
we see the Sorrowful Mother with Heart consoled by our presence, seeing in
us the fruits of so bloody a Passion, as we are saved from the bondage of
sin and the devil, and begotten in the life of grace.
So, when Jeremias says, `who
shall heal Thee?', he is showing us precisely the Heart of Mary fully
consoled by our Redemption. Now
we give the text of the 13th Lamentation of Chapter II, here interpreted:
"To whom shall I compare thee, or to whom shall I liken thee, O
daughter of Jerusalem? to whom shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee,
O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy affliction: who
shall heal thee?". The
expressions `daughter of Jerusalem' and `virgin daughter of Sion' signify
that Mary is daughter of David and was conceived in Jerusalem.
14. We cannot end our
consideration of Calvary without referring to another very sad reality,
cause of the most acute dolour
in the transfixed heart of the Sorrowful Mother.
In Lamentation no. 16 Jeremias presents us with Mary at the foot of
the Cross, over-whelmed by a sea of grief, for, besides the loss of Her
Divine Son, the Consoler who lightens and vivifies Her soul, She feels
within Herself the bitter gall produced by the condemna-tion of so many
sons who do not seek refuge in the Saving Blood of Christ, and thus became
the helpless prey of Satan. Now the Lamentation to which we refer, and have interpreted:
"Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the
comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are lost,
because the enemy hath prevailed" (I, 16).
15. Jeremias, figure
of Jesus Christ, weeps bitterly over the ruins of the City of Jerusalem,
which he knew full of splendour, crowned by the majestic Temple of Solomon
where most solemn worship was given to God.
Jeremias weeps with sorrowful and heart-rending ex-pressions over
the corrup-tion of his people, the motive for the ter-rifying discharge of
God's anger upon them: "How doth the city sit solitary that was full
of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as the widow: the
princess of provinces made tributary!
Weeping she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:
there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her
friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.
The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the
solemn feasts: all her gates are broken down: her priests sigh: her
virgins are unkempt, and she is oppressed with bitterness." (I Lam.
1, 2, 4)
16. With respect to
apocalyptic times Jeremias vividly describes the dreadful and terrifying
chastisement of purification which shall be God's vengeance on the first
general apostasy; here God avails Himself of His own enemies,- namely
Russia, precursoress of Antichrist,- instrument of devastation with which
God will cruelly lash apostate humanity, subjecting her for a time wholly
beneath the oppres-sive marxist yoke, since mankind has rejected the easy
yoke and light burden lovingly offered her by Our Divine Redeemer; and
this Chastise-ment will be the 3rd World War.
17. In Chapter 5,
verse 6 of his Book, the Holy Prophet Jeremias shows us the communist
power always lying in wait, making con-tinual sallies until she achieves
the realization of her plans; "Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath
slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth
for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken,
because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebel-lions have gained
strength".
18. Once the nations
are sufficiently undermined by marxism, Russia will give the mortal and
decisive blow, making use of all the for-ces of war and destruction which
she keeps so cunningly hidden, and im-pose her tyranny.
This is precisely the fulfillment of verses 15-17 of Ch. 5: "Behold,
I will bring upon you a
nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an
ancient nation, a nation whose langu-age thou shalt not know, nor
understand what they say, their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are
all valiant. And they shall
eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons and thy
daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy
vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong
cities, wherein thou trustest"; expressi-ons quite clear enough to
show us the ferocity and cruelty of the satanic Russian empire, tool of
the Wrath of God.
19. In chapter XLVII,
verses 2 & 3, Jeremias again refers to God's chastisement of humanity,
and presents us a wide view of the Third World War,
which will turn powerful nations into ruins, and bring down the
pride and materialism of their in-habitants, who have lived with their
backs to God and in the vanity of mutual rivalry: "... behold, there
come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing
torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city
and the inhabit-ants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the
inhabitants of the land shall howl, at the noise of the marching of arms,
and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the
multitude of his wheels".
20. As the consequence
of this terrible war, there will be such universal panic that it shall
appear that the world has come to an end, and this will produce a profound
awareness of guilt in the majority of conscienc-es, as well as the
recognition of God's just chastisement for man's immense crimes; resulting
in a kind of universal judgement on a reduced scale, in which men will
judge themselves. Jeremias
refers to this in Chapter XXV, verse 31: "The noise is come even to
the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgement with the
nations: he entereth into judgement with all flesh...".
21. But the Russian
sway will not last for long, for as the communist forces make to enter
Spain to place her beneath their yoke, they will come up against the
irresistible strength of the army of the Lord, captained by the Virgin
Mary by means of the Great Leader of the Tagus, Gregory XVII who,
brandishing his noble and invincible sword, will hurl himself with
all strength into the reconquest of every ter-ritory seized by the invader,
passing from triumph to triumph right into the heart of imperial Russia,
there to plant the glorious stan-dard of victory, the Sacred Face of Jesus,
in the very centre of Mos-cow. His
sword will not rest until he has formed the Holy and Great Palmarian-
Hispanic Empire, whose enormous territory will include na-tions from every
con-tinent. All of which is
the exact inter-pretation of the following verse: "He hath left his
covert as the lion, for their land is laid waste because of the wrath of
the Dove, and be-cause of the fierce anger of the Lord" (XXV, 38).
The lion, Gregory XVII, leaves his covert, Spain, to reconquer the
terri-tory laid waste by Russian power, for he is the violent and effec-tive
instrument of the Sacred Wrath of Cod;
and his sword, guided and inspired by the holy ire of the Dove
which is Mary, will give its well-aimed stroke, and Satan will again be
enchained. The same meaning
is found in verses 16, 23 and 24 of Chapter L: "Destroy the sower out
of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for
fear of the sword of the Dove every man shall return to his people, and
every one shall flee to his own land".
In verse 23 Jeremias adds: "How is the hammer of the whole
earth broken, and destroyed? how is Babylon turned into a desert among the
nations?" And we end with verse 24: "I have caused thee to fall
into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon; and thou wast not aware of it:
thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord".
With what precision the Sacred Text predicts the destruction of
Imperial Russia, one of the heads of the Beast, as also her emblem and
sign: the hammer and sickle!
22. The great Pontiff
Gregory XVII will form the most glo-rious empire ever known, only to be
surpassed by the Messianic Kingdom. During
the long duration of the Sacred Empire, continua-tion of the Reign of the
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary which began with the elec-tion of Pope
Gregory XVII, the Palmarian Church will reach its greatest splendour,
outstanding for the sanctity of her Pastors, the fidelity and fervour of
her children, the full-ness of the Church's teaching au-thority and a
flourishing material prosper-ity.
23. The question we
now examine is a sad and grievous one for the Church, referring to the
Second and Last General Apostasy, which will occur towards the end of the
Sacred Empire. Jeremias
describes this bitterest reality in the following verse: "And I
brought you into the land of Carmel,
to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof; and when ye
entered in, you defiled my
land, and made my in-heritance an abomination" (II, 7).
Comparing this text with those of Isaias referring to Mount Carmel,
which emphasize the glory of the Palmarian Church we see in Jeremias'
words the clear proof of this second apostasy, which will develop slowly
towards the end of the Great Palmarian Empire out of the spiritual
slackness of many members of the Church, once again led by lax pastors
attached to comforts, wealth and worldly pleasures. A
considerable number of Princes of the Palmarian Church,
who will exercise temporal power over their subject territories as
well as spiritual power, will vend their authority, and as a consequence
discipline will become relaxed. This
results in the infiltration of heresy and immorality with the
corresponding general corruption of faith and morals.
It will be a slow process, with Satan's agents working from without
using the guile and cunning of the serpent, until they succeed in
introducing themselves surreptitiously into the Empire; and this will take
place when part of the prelates and members of the Church, trusting in
their spiritual and material security - -for the Empire will be prosperous
in every sense, - abandon the
spirit of prayer, penance and
daily struggle, and incur in the most sickening lukewarmness, thus leaving
the ground well-tilled for the Antichrist-in-person.
24. It is at the end
of the Empire that this apostasy, pre-viously latent,
reaches its term with the last unchaining of Satan and the
appearance of the Antichrist-in-person, as Jeremias clearly de-scribes in
the following verse: "The Priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and
they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against
me; and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols" (II, 8).
25. Before this second
apostasy shows itself openly, the Great Pope Gregory XVII will transfer
the See of the Church and of the Empire to Jerusalem accompanied by those
princes who shall have re-mained faithful, and will carry out the
evangeliza-tion of the Jewish People with the help of Elias and Enoch, who
will come to the earth to assist the Pope in this most high mission.
The Jews after their conversion will be united to Gregory XVII's
Empire, which from then on will be called the Judeo-Hispano-Palmarian
Empire, which will more-over
include all the members of the Palmarian Church who have not apostatized.
26. We now examine the
previous paragraph in the light of Jeremias-' prophesies, which describe
this apocalyptic moment wi-th great wealth of detail.
The transference of the Papal See is contained in Chapter III,
verse 17, which alludes likewise to the conversion of the Jews and of many
other sects, and to their incorporation within the Church, and gives us a
wide general view: "At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne
of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the
name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the
perversity of their most wicked heart".
The follow-ing verse refers more directly to the conversion of the
Jews: "In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of
Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the
land which I gave to your fathers" (III, 18).
The `land of the north' is the Empire of the Antichrist.
27. Jeremias refers to
the apparition of the An-tichrist, the Man of Iniquity, who will delude
immense masses of mankind by means of signs and wonders: "The lion is
come up out of his den, and the rob-ber of nations hath roused himself: he
is come forth out of his place, to make thy land desolate: thy cities
shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant" (IV, 7).
Expressions which indicate the great-est apostasy known to history
as well as the material destruction in the territories which fall beneath
the yoke of Antichrist.
28. In verses 6 and 8
of the same chapter, Jeremias shows us the Church making use of her
spiritual arms in order to limit the incursions of the powers of darkness
and to prevent the contamination of the faithful.
The Great Pontiff Gregory XVII, assisted by the Pro-phets Elias and
Enoch, and by the Princes of the Church, will preach penance tirelessly,
calling on men to become converted. Many
Jews will obtain conversion through this apostolate, although the great
bulk will continue as militant henchmen of Antichrist until the moment
arrives for their conversion in mass.
Here are the sacred texts which refer to these episodes: "Set
up the standard in Sion. Strengthen
yourselves, stay not; for I bring evil from the north and great de-struction...
For this gird yourselves with hair-clo-th, lament and howl: for the fierce
anger of the Lord is not turned away from us" (IV, 6 & 8).
29. Continuing with
this same chapter of Jeremias, the Prophet foretells the imprisonment and
death in Jerusalem of Pope Gregory XVII at the hands of the unconverted
jews, as also the mar-tyrdom of Elias and Enoch together with a number of
cardinals. The whole Church will be deeply troubled.
At the same time the followers of Antichrist will gloat and rejoice
seeing themselves free of their principal adversary, though but for a
short while: "... the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart
of the princes ..." (IV, 9). The
expression `the heart of the king shall perish’ is very meaningful,
showing us quite clearly, in the light of our interpretation, the kind of
martyrdom Gregory XVII will undergo; for, just as Our Lord Jesus Christ,
he will die nailed to a cross and have his heart pierced by a lance.
30. In the second part
of this verse Jeremias describes the amazement and dread of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the whole world at the resurrection of the
Pope `De Gloria Olivae', of the Prophets Elias and Enoch, and of the
princes who died with him, which will take place on the third day of their
death, and they will rise up in the sight of the people.
Turning to the Sacred Text we see the apostate priests and the
false prophets, who had instigated the killing of the Pope, become
terrified: "... and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall be amazed" (IV, 9). This verse of Jeremias is linked to the follow-ing text of
the Apocalypse (XI, 12): "... And they went up into Heaven in a cloud:
and their enemies saw them", which indicates that their risen bodies
will enjoy the state of glory, and they will have the beatific vision
while continuing their apostolate on earth.
31. Again Pope Gregory
XXVI, accompanied by Elias and Enoch and the Princes of his Church, will
war against Antichrist, under-taking the great and decisive struggle,
preaching penance with greater intensity, unmasking the Man of Iniquity,
and calling on conversion: "Behold, I will send many fishers,
saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will
send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every moun-tain, and
from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks" (XVI, 16).
A clear indication of the tireless apostolate which will achieve
the mass conversion of the Jewish People, now made ready for the truth by
the extraordinary sign of the resurrection of the Pope, Elias, Enoch and
the Princes of the Church, and their grandiose exaltation; this is the
content of verses 4 & 5 of Chapter L: "In those days, and at that
time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste, and
shall seek the Lord their God. They
shall ask the way to Sion,
their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the
Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten".
32. In verse 19 of the
same chapter, Jeremias speaks of the incorporation of the Jewish People,
after their mass conver-sion, into the Church of the Carmelites of the
Holy Face: "And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he
shall feed on Carmel, and Basan; and his soul shall be satisfied in mount
Eph-raim, and Galaad" (L, 19). In
this verse we are also shown the glory and magnificence of the Empire of
Gregory XVII, which will be outstanding above all for the blood of
countless martyrs, victims of Antichrist, on a scale never before known in
the history of the Church. This
is the interpretation of the following verse: "For I have heard the
voice as of a woman in travail, anguish as of a woman in labour with child.
The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands:
Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain"
(IV, 31)- clear expression of the Passion of the Church during the reign
of Antichrist. The Empire of
`De Gloria Olivae', which will be called the `Judeo-Hispano-Palmarian
Empire' after the conversion of the Jewish People, will last for a while
until the Second Coming of Christ.
