Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-21
JOHANNES PROPHECY
SEEMS UNCANNY TODAY

The prophecy given herewith is said
to have been made by monk. Fratc
Johannes, who lived in about 1900. 1t
recently has been published by several
American newspapers and from the di-
rector of a bureau of information in
Washington the following is offered:
In reply to your letter asking
whether the prophecy by the monk
Frate Johannes is real we would say
that this prophecy was discovered on
old parchment III the convent Of the
Holy Ghost, at Wianlar. in Germany
and is kept under glass in the town hall
of this city There have been numer-
our translations which text varies
somewhat. We are returning your
copy of this prophecy,
The 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 or
apostle. This prince of lies will swear
by tire Bible. He will represent him
self as the arm Of the Most High, sent
to chastise corrupt peoples.
He will have only one arm, but his
innumerable armies, who will take for
their device the words, God is with
us will resemble the Internal regions.
For long time he will act by craft
and strategy. His spies will over run
the earth and he will be master of the
secrets of the mighty.
He will have learned men in his pay
who will maintain and undertake to
prove his celestial mission
War will afford him the opportunity
of throwing off the mask. 1t WIFI not
he in thesfi instance a war which
he will wage against a French mon
arch. But it will be one of such ma
ture that. after two weeks all will real
ize its universal character
Not only all christians. but all Mus
sulmans and even more distant peoples
will be involved. Armies will be in
lolved from the four quarters of the
earth.
For by the third week the angels will
have opened the minds Of men who
will perceive that the man is Antichrisu
and that all WAL become his slaves #
they do not overthrow this conqueror.
Antichrist will be recognized by Vari-
Gus tokens-in special 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 resemble
those OF Christians. but his vows of all
the human race. He will have an eagrc
in his arms. There will be also an eagle
in the arms of his confederate. But
the latter will be Christian and will
no m q 1n6inttnn IF pnnn Roma
dict, who will be elected at the begin
ming Of the reign OF Antichrist.
In order to conquer Antichrist it will
be necessary to kill more men than
Rome has ever contained. 1t will need
the energies Of all The kingdoms. be-
cause the cock. the leopard and the
white eagle will not be able TO make
an end Of the black eagh without the
cid Of the prayer and vows Of the hui
man race.
Never will humanity have been faced
with such peril, because the triumph
Of the Antichrist would be that Of the
demon who will have taken possession
Of his personality.
For it has been said that twenty CEN
turtles after the incarnation of the
Word the beast will be incarnate in
his turn, and will menace the world
with as many evils as the Divine in
carnaticn has brought it graces
Toward the year 1000 Antichrist will
be made manifest. His army will sur
pass in number anything that can he
imagined. There will be Christians
among the cohorts. and there will be
Mohammedans among the defenders OF
the Lamb as we'll as some heather
soldiers.
For the first time the Lamb will be
red for blood will flow in the domains
OF the four elements at once.
The black eagle will hurl itself upon