Our Catholic Study Session this week focuses on false prophets in general and The False Prophet from the book of Revelation.
Let us start our session with the sign of the faith.
This last week I ran across an article by Fr. Frank Unterhalt is a German diocesan priest. He recently wrote an article for LifeSite laying out the many prophesies and visions made by Catholic saints and mystics regarding the end times. These saints and mystics include Sr. Lucia from Fatima, Padre Pio, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, and Melanie from LaSalette among others.
The article from LifeSite news is here.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-false-prophet-of-the-apocalypse
Cardinal Burke had a very appropriate summary of our times and discusses very briefly the False Prophet in this homily during the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
In the approved apparition of LaSalette, Mother Mary said this to Melanie about the time of the Antichrist:
So it will be around the time when the Antichrist is born of a Jewish religious woman, a false virgin who will be in league with the old serpent, the master of fornication. His father will be a bishop. When he is born he will spit blasphemy; he will have teeth; in a word, this one is the devil incarnate. He will break out into a terrible scream; he will work miracles, he will only feed on fornication. He will have brothers who, although not devils incarnate like him, are children of evil. By the age of twelve they will be distinguished by the brilliant victories they have achieved. Soon each of them will be at the head of an army, supported by legions of Hell. The seasons will change. The earth will only produce bad fruit; the stars will leave their regular orbits. The moon will only reproduce a faint reddish light. Water and fire will cause terrible earthquakes and great tremors on earth, which will sink mountains and cities.
https://www.marianisches.de/la-salette/
It was right after this quote that she said
Rome will lose faith and become the seat of the Antichrist. The demons of the air will work great miracles with the Antichrist on the earth and in the air, and people will get worse and worse. God will provide for His faithful servants and people of good will.
https://www.marianisches.de/la-salette/
We discussed in our Land Beast post about how the Land Beast teaches things other than the true teachings of Jesus and as such can be considered a false prophet. What else has Mother Mary had to say to Fr. Gobbi about the false prophet(s)?
I have announced to you many times that the end of the times and the coming of Jesus in glory is very near. Now, I want to help you understand the signs described in the Holy Scriptures, which indicate that his glorious return is now close. These signs are clearly indicated in the Gospels, in the letters of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and they are becoming a reality during these years.
— The first sign is the spread of errors, which lead to the loss of faith and to apostasy. These errors are being propagated by false teachers, by renowned theologians who are no longer teaching the truths of the Gospel, but pernicious heresies based on errors and on human reasonings. It is because of the teaching of these errors that the true faith is being lost and that the great apostasy is spreading everywhere. (Mt 24:4-5, 11; 2 Thes 2:3; 2 Pt 2:1-3)
Marian Movement of Priests
To My Beloved Sons, Message #485 The End of the Times, December 31, 1992
Mother Mary also spoke of how the Daily Sacrifice is the Daily Mass in this same message.
— The fourth sign is the horrible sacrilege, perpetrated by him who sets himself against Christ, that is, the Antichrist. He will enter into the holy temple of God and will sit on his throne and have himself adored as God. (2 Thes 2:4,9-10; Mt 24:15)
Beloved children, in order to understand in what this horrible sacrilege consists, read what has been predicted by the prophet Daniel. (Dn 12:9-12)
The Holy Mass is the daily Sacrifice, the pure oblation which is offered to the Lord everywhere, from the rising of the sun to its going down.
The Sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on Calvary. By accepting the Protestant doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal, that is to say, a remembrance of that which Jesus did at his Last Supper. And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the daily Sacrifice consists the horrible sacrilege accomplished by the Antichrist, which will last about three and a half years, namely, one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Marian Movement of Priests
To My Beloved Sons, Message #485 The End of the Times, December 31, 1992
Mother Mary finishes the message with “My beloved ones and children consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, I have wanted to teach you about these signs, which Jesus has pointed out to you in his Gospel, in order to prepare you for the end of the times, because these are about to take place in your days.”
