The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-11-09
PROPHECY RECALLED
PRESENT WORLD WAR is SAID TO
HAVE BEEN FORETOLD BY MONK
OF ROME.

! The following has been submitted
by correspondent, and, although his
torically unauthenticated, is of con-
siderable interest at this time, due to
the marked resemblance between the
Anti-Christ of the alleged prophecy
and the present German ruler:
In the Book of Revelations, or the
Apocalypse, written by St. John the
Evangelist, there is a prophecy fore
telling d war that there is much rea-
son to interpret as the present con-
t1ict, speaking of its duration, its
magnitude and even it's result.
In the year 1900 there lived in
Rome a priest called Brother Johan-
nes. He also foretOld what is appar-
emily this present war, but his proph-
ecy is more detailed than that in Rev.
elations. 1t will be interesting to
quote from the two, seeing to what
extent they have been fulfilled and
how the present conditions point to
the probability of the complete full
fillment of these predictions in the
coming year.
In the Bible the two contending
forces are referred to as the Lamb
and the Beast, the latter representing
all that is frightful and violent, while
fcation of truth, mercy and justice.
In deciphering the allegory of
Brother Johannes it must be remem-
bered that France is represented by
a cock, England by leopard, Rus
sia by a white eagle, Germany by
a black eagle and Austria by a twin
eagle, while the lamb stands for
justice, mercy and truth.
Brother Johannes writes as fol-
lows: Before the year 1000 the Anti
Christ will be manifest His army
will surpass in numbers all that can
be imagined. The army of the Anti
Christ will come from the country of
Luther and will be led by Fury
In the Bible the leader of the
beast is referred to as having with
cred member and that everyone in his
army will be marked. Curiously
enough, the Kaiser is from the coun
try of Luther, and he has Withered
member. His right arm is six inches
shorter than his left. Brother Jo
hannes continued.
Every man in his army is mark
ed by the crop of his head.
There will be Christians among
his legions and there will be Moham
medians and savages among the de-
tenders of the lamb. For the first
time there will not be a single spot
in the Christian world that will not be
red, for blood will flow in the domains
of the four elements at once-in the
air, on the earth, on the water and
under the water.
The black eagle will throw him
self on the cock on the one side and
will strike the white eagle on the
north. The cock will lose many
feathers. He would soon be crushed
were it not for the help of the leop-
ard and his claws. The black eagle
will invade the country of the cock
up to the middle of it, from which
point he will be beaten back.
/ 1.-The white eagle will surprise the
black eagle and the twin eagle by
invading the entire country from one
end to the other. The black eagle
will thus see hismelf forced to lib
crate the cock in order to fight the
white eagle, which will give the cook
the strength to pursue the black
eagle in the country of the Anti
Christ There will be much distur
bance i'm the country of the white
eagle, which will give him new
strength.
THE battles fought up to this time
will be nothing compared to those
that will take place in the country OF
! Luther, for the defenders of the lamb
will together pour in the fire OF their
censors a fury which will subdue the
Anti-Christ.
/ The defenders of the lamb will
order the determination of the Anti
Christ. When the beast sees that he
! has lost he will become furious, and
I for many months the beak of the
al 0f hn rh
and the spurs of the cock will fur
iously strike him.
The armies of the lamb will cross
rivers filled with the bodies Of the
slain, and in some places th" 1odie3
will change the course OF L-e waters.
"'Only the men of noble families,
the princes and the leading tJnmand-
ers will be buried, because to the
carnage made by the armies will be
added the Wholesale deaths of those
who .rill die OF hunger and pest dur
rs The last months of this war.
The Anti-Christ will ask many
times for peace, but the lamb will
grant victory only on the condition
that the Anti-Christ be crushed like
straw on the barn floor. The beast
will not stop fighting until his last
soldier is helpless The last fight will
take place after the Anti-Christ
forges his arms. This will in no way
be human fight.
with the end of battle the lamb
will have to erect pyre as large as
a city, for the dead will change the
aspect of the countryside, as there
will be mounds of the slain. The ruler
of the Anti-Christ will lose his crown
and will die in solitude and madness.
His empire will be divided into Y
countries None of them will any
longer possess fortresses, armies or
VaSsalS.
The white eagle will be success
full in driving the crescent from Eu-
rope and will install himself at Con-
stantinople So after the period of
forty and two months Of world war
there will begin an area of peace and .
prosperity for the earth. Each ma
tion will be governed according to the
rules of justice. There will no long
er be Lutherans and Schismatics.
1.-The lamb will reign and supreme
peace of humanity will begin. JOY
full will be those who, escaping the
perils of this period, will be enabled
to enjoy the fruits of the reign of the
Spirit. This will be the purging of
humanity, which can only come by
the defeat of the Anti-Christ.
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