The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-14
WAS MADE BY MONK THREE
HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
FITS KAISER And GERMANY
One Armed Ruler Will Lose the Fight
He Started and the Turk Will
Be Driven Out of
Europe.

hNS III tHS year 1OUU, SStllS 10 Ue HedI
ing fulfillment.
AS key to the prophecy one ha!
only to realize the following:
The Kaiser is German Lutheran
The has a withered arm.
Germany is the Black Eagle.
Austria, her ally, has also al
eagle.
France is the cock.
Russia is the White Eagle.
England, the British Empire, is the
leopard
The following prophecy by the
monk, Fratre Johannes, who lived
about the year 1900, is remarkable in
its application to the present world
crisis. The authenticity of this pro-
phecy was at first doubted because
OF few discrepancies in the text but
the matter was referred to the news
paper information bureau at Wash
ington, and Director Frederick ].
Hawkins replied as follows:
I'm reply TO your letter, asking
whether the prophecy of the monk
Fratre Johannes, is real, we would
say that this prophecy was discover
ed in an old parchment in the con-
vent of the Holy Ghost at Wiswar, in
Germany. and is kept under glass in
the town hall of this city. There
have been numerous translations
which text vary somewhat. We are
returning your copy Of this prophecy
The discrepancies which we noted
and which you also may notice, are
probably due to the variations in the
translation of the text On the whole
it is a remarkable prophecy 1t is as
follows:
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
the Bible. He will represent him
self as the arm of the Most High, sent
to chastise corrupt peoples.
He win have only one arm, but
his innumerable armies. who will take
for their device the words, God is
with u.s. win resemble the Internal
regions.
For long time he will act by
craft and strategy. His spies will
overrun the earth, and he will be
master of the secrets of the mighty.
He will have learned men in pay, who
viii maintain and undertake to prove
his celestial mission.
"A war will afford him the oppor.
tunity of throwing off the mask. It
will not be in the first instance war
which he will wage against French
monarch. But il will be one of such
magnitude that after two weeks all
will realize its universal character.
mot only all Christians, but Mus.
selmans and even more distant Peep
pies will be involved, Armies will
be involved from the four quarters
of the earth.
For by the third week the angels
will perceive that the man is anti
Christ and all will become his slaves
If they do not overthrow this con-
queror
Will Massacre Helpless.
"Antichrist will be recognized by
varions 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 re-
semble those Of Christians, but his
VOWS of all the human race
"He will have an eagle in his arms;
there will also be an eagle in the
arms Of his confederate. But the
latter will be Christian and will die
from the malediction OF Pope Bene-
dict who will be elected at the begin.
ming Of the reign of antichrist.
"In order to conquer antiehrist, 1t
win be necessary to kill more men
than Rome ever contained 1t will
need the energies Of all the king
doms because the, cock. the leopard
and the white eagle win not be able
TO make an end Of the black eagle
without the aid of the prayers and
the VOWS of the human 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
The Beast incarnated.
For II has been said that 20 cen
turtles after the incarnation of the
word, the beast will be incarnation in
his turn and will menace the world
with as many evils as the divine in
carnation has brought it graces.
Toward the 1000 antichrist will be
made manifest. His army will sur.
pass in number anything that can be
imagined There will be Christians
among his cohorts and there will be
Mohammedans sfao1g the defenders
Of the lamb ~ well an some heaillcn
soldiers.
eFor the irss time the lamb win be
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