The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-14
A PROPHECY
WHICH HAS TO DO
WITH WORLD WAR
GERMAN MONK WROTE, ABOUT
YEAR 1900, QUEER THINGS RE-
GARDING PRESENT EVENTS.

markable prophecy is starting to go
the rounds of the state papers and
whether one believes in prophecies or
| fore-tellings or fore-warning of any
kind, even the doubter and the
skeptical will have. to admit that
Fratre Johannes, the German monk,
who wrote it. must have had some
kind Of an inspiration, whether from
God or somewhere else and that the
document is coming somewhere near
the truth, after the 400 years time
which has elapsed since it was writ
ten. The document was written by
a German Catholic monk, Fratre Jo-
/ names brother john, who lived
about the year 1900, in monastery at
Wiemar, Germany.
ITCHY of the prophecy, wrote in to the
newspaper information bureau at
Washington, d. c., and in return re-
ceived the following reply from Dr.
rector Frederic j. Haskins, Of that Of
fee:
I'm reply to your letter asking
whether the prophecy Of the monk,
Fratre Johannes, is real, we would
say that this prophecy was discovered
on an old parchment in the convent of
the Holy Ghost at Wiemar, in Ger
many, and is kept under glass in the
town hall of this city. There have
been numerous TRANSACTIONS, which
text varies somewhat"
| The discrepancies which may be no
ticel are probably due to the varia-
tions in the translation Of the text,
but on the whole it is a remarkable
prophecy. 1t is as follows:
1.-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 himself
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
u.s. will resemble the internal reg
ions.
"For long time he will act by
craft and strategy. His spies will
overrun the earth, and he will be mas
ter Of the secrets of the mighty.
"He will have learned men in his
pay, who will maintain and undertake
to prove his celestial missions.
"a war will afford him the oppor-
tunity of throwing off the mask. 1t
will not be the first instance a war
which he will wage against French
monarch. But it will be one of such
nature that, after two weeks all will
realize its universal character.
mot only all Christians, but all
Musselmans, but even more distant
peoples, will be involved. Armies
will be involved from the four quar-
tiers of the earth.
For by the third week the angels
will have opened the minds of men,
who will perceive that the man is An
tichrist and that all will become his
slaves if they do not overthrow this
conqueror.
"Antichrst will be recognized by
various tokens-in special he will mas
acre the priests, the monks, the wo-
men, the children and the aged. He
will how no mercy, but will pass,
torch in hand, like the barbarians, but
invoking Christ.
"His words of imposure will resem-
bic those of Christias, 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 con-
federates. But the latter will be a
Christian, and will die from the male
diction of Pope Benedict. who will be
elected at the beginning of the reign
of the Antichrist.
"In order to conquet Antichrist it
will be necessary TO kill more men
than Rome has ever contained. 1t will
need the energies of all the Kingdoms,
because the Cock, the Leopard and the
White Eagle will not be able to make
an end CT the Black Eagle without the
aid of the prayers and the vows of
all the human race.
"Never will humanity have been
faced with such a peril, because the
triumph of the Antichrist would be
that of the demon. who will have TAX
en- possession of his personality.
"For it has been said that 20 CEN
turtles after the incarnation of the
world the beast will be incarnate in
his turn and will menace the world
with as many evils as TIE 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 among the defenders
of the Lamb as well as some heather
soldiers.
"For the first time the Lamb will
be red-for blood will flow in the do
mains of the four elements at once.
"The Black Eagle will hurl itself
upon the Cock, which will lose many
feathers. 1t will soon be exhausted
but for the Leopard and its claws.
"The Black Eagle who will come
from the land Of Luther, will make a
surprise attack upon the Cock.
1.-THE White Eagle will come from
the north.
1.-THE Black Eagle will find itself
forced to let go the Cock in order To
fight the White Eagle, whereupon the
Cock will have to pursue the Black
Eagle into the land of the Antichrist
to aid the White Eagle.
1.-THE battle fought up to that
time will be as nothing compared to
that which will take place in the Lu-
theran country.
when the beast finds himself lost
he will become furious