The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-06-15
WAR RECALLS PROPHECY.

the most remarkable is that of a
monk named Brother John or Johan.
nes, who lived about the year 1900.
His forecast points To the events
OF the present war with amazing
closeness. The black eagle from
the land of Luther" and the white
eagle from the north, VINO win fall
upon the black and the other eagle"
seem to refer Enthusiastically TO the
war of Germany and Austria against
Russia. Many other illusions are
equally startling.
There is no doubt that this is a
genuine ancient document. Ii was
published in Paris shortly after the
outbreak Of the war by NJ. Peladan,
a French literary man Of high repu-
tatiun, who gave its history since
the sixteenth century. Some of its
most startling passages are given
here.
Brother Johns Remarkable Prophecy
| The real Antichrist will be one OF
the monarchs of his time, Lutheran
Protestant. He will invoke God and
give himself out as his Messenger
| Cor apostle.)
This prince of lies win swear by
the Bible He will represent him
self as the arm of the Most High,
sent to chastse corrupt people.
He will only have one arm, but his
innumerable armies, who will take
for their device, the words God with
u.s. will resemble the Interna, Ie-
gions.
For a long time he will act by
craft and strategy. His spies will ov-
errun the earth, and he will be mas
n nf ha fuh
He will have learned men in his
pay who will maintain, and under
take TO prove, his celestial mission
A war will furnish him with the
opportunity of throwing of the mask.
II will not be in the first instance
a war which he shall wage against
Ia French monarch. But it will be
one of such nature that after two
weeks all will realize its universal
character.
Not all Christians and all Mussul-
mans, but even other more distant
people will be involved. Armies will
be enrolled from the four quarters of
the globe.
For, by the third week, the angels
win have opened the minds of men,
who will perceive that the man is
Antichrist, and that they will all be
come his slaves if they do not over
throw this conQueror.
Antichrist win be recognized by
various tokens; in especial he will
massacre the priests, the monks, the
women, the children and the aged
He will show no mercy, but will pass
torch in hand, like the barbarians
but invoking Christ.
His words of imposture will resem
BILE those of Christians. but his &C
tions win be those of Nero and of tht
, Roman prosecutors. He will have al
eagle in his arms, and there will b,
an eagle also in the arms of his con
federate, another bad monarch.
In order to conquer Antichrist u
will be necessary to kill more mer
than Rome has ever contained. i
, will need the energies of all the king
doms, because the cock, the leopard
and the white eagle will not be able
to make an end OF the black eagle
without the aid Of the prayers anC
vows of all the human race.
Never will humanity nave been fac
/ ed with such a peril; because the tri
umph of Antichrist would be that o.
the demon, who will have taken pos
= session of his personality.
The black eagle, who will come
? from the land of Luther, will make {
, surprise attack on the cock from an
other side. and will invade the lanC
of the cock up to one-half.
The white eagle, who viii come
, from the North, will fall upon tbs
black and the other eagle, and com
| lpletely invade the land of Antichrist
) The black eagle will find itsel
, forced to let go the cock In order e
. fight the white eagle. whereupon th'
> cock will have to pursue the blacl
eagle into the land OF Antichrist tt
+ aid the white eagle.
5 The battles fought up to that tim'
will be as nothing compared to thos'
{ which will take place in the Luther
+ an country, for the seven eagles VII
! simultaneously pour out the FIRE %
P their censers upon the impious land
/. Z In other words, the Lamb ordains th'
4 determination of the race of Anti
}. christ.
5 Men will be able To cross the riv
2 ers over the bodies OF the dead
l which in places will change tn
I courses OF the streams. Only tn
bodies OF the most noble, the high
captains and ehe princes. will be bu
ried, for to the carnage Of the battle
+ fields will be added the destruction
s OF myriads who will die from hunge
] and pestilence.
: II viii be made manifest that tn
combat. TO be fought out in that par
of the country in which AntichriE
r FORCES his arms. IL no human conflict
!. The three animals, defenders Of th'
Lamb, will exterminate the last AZ
I my OF Antichrist But il viii Be nee
: essary to make he field of battle I
J funeral pyre as great as the creates
OF cities. for the corpses vii! havi
altered the features Of the land b,
forming ranges OF little hills.
AntiChrist viii lose his crown an
die in solitude and madness His en-
/. pire will be divided into twentytwl
states. but none will have any lnnEe
: either fOrtifcation or army, OF ship
: OF war.
The white eagle, BY order OF Mich
: sel. viii drive the Crescent out o
= Europe, where there vii be no Iona
: er any but CHRISTIANS ae viii IN