Apocalypse Now： Has the 'False Prophet' Infiltrated the Church？
Summary
In this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, we re talking about the false prophet of the apocalypse, St. Francis of Assisi. Fr. Frank Unterhalt, a meticulous researcher, goes back to the original sources, and is able to provide clarity for us.
Transcript
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Hello, and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, where we're going
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to be talking about the false prophet of the apocalypse.
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Now, there's lots on the internet about the false prophet, the prophecies related in the
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last book of the scriptures known as Revelation or the Apocalypse, and there's lots of quotes
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out there from Catholic saints and seers and whatnot about it.
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But when you're looking on the internet, you don't often know if these quotes are accurate,
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if this is actually what Padre Pio said, St. Catherine of Siena said, or some other
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saints said, is this actually the correct quotes from the scriptures, and how do we interpret
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Well, we're trying to sort all of that out for you here at LifeSite News.
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We've got a great priest, Fr. Frank Unterhalt from Germany, a meticulous researcher who went
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Let's begin as we always do at the Son of the Cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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So, Father Frank Unterhalt, as I said, a great Marian priest, a very holy priest from Germany
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who we're very privileged to know at LifeSite News, has written articles for us there.
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He's a meticulous researcher and has done this research for us so that we can stay on top
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of this very important story, which has garnered much interest of late.
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So, I'm going to relate what he has in his little essay, which is published in full at
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Go there so that you can see not only his text, but also all the references which he
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provides is heavily footnoted so that you can see all the original sources.
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There is a prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi in an authentic and renowned source in which
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he, that's St. Francis of Assisi, speaks of the appearance of an apostate antipope in
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It says, quote, that someone who is not canonically elected and is infected with heretical wickedness
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at the turning point of that tribulation raised to the papacy would make a refined effort to
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give many the death of his error to drink, end quote.
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Also, it is in this sense that in our time St. Padre Pio has entrusted to his spiritual son,
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the famous exorcist, and now late exorcist, Don Gabriele Amorth, the following dramatic words,
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It is Satan who has entered the womb of the church, and within a short while he will rule
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It had actually been revealed to him four years before the Little Shepherds.
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You're going to want to check out the reference on that one.
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And Father Unterhalt continues, the well-known Spanish journalist Jose Maria Zavala asked Don
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Gabriele Amorth about it in more detail and summarized the conclusion of the dialogue as
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There were two recurring and interrelated themes, the great apostasy in the church from its apex
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in accordance with the testimony of Cardinal Chiapi, and the introduction of the devil to
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the head of the church by means of a pope under the control of Satan, end quote.
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In this context, Zavala referred to the exact correspondence of these words to the statement
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of Frère Michel, a great expert on the message of Fatima, and author of a trilogy on the subject.
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It will be the time of the decisive battle between the virgin and the devil.
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A flood of diabolical confusion will spread through the world.
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Satan will penetrate the highest levels of the church.
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This will be the great apostasy announced for the last days.
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The false prophet who betrays the church in favor of the beast, according to the prophecy
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In fact, as Sister Lucia herself pointed out, this secret is revealed in the last book of
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And in that book, the book of the apocalypse, there is talk of the fiery red dragon.
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You'll read that in Apocalypse 12.3, which is manifest in atheistic communism and of also,
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the book speaks of, the black beast in Apocalypse 13.1-2, which represents Freemasonry.
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It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
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It exercised all the power of the first beast before his eyes.
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It made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast.
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The beast, which looks like a lamb, represents the ecclesiastical Freemasonry that has penetrated
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into the interior of the temple, especially into the hierarchy.
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Its goal is to overcome the Catholic Church from within.
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It wants and achieves for a short time the creation of an idol, a false Christ, and a false church.
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The reference to the hierarchy of the church is crucial,
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in which the mitre with two horns indicates the fullness of the priesthood.
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The beast that comes up out of the earth looks like a servant of Christ, the lamb,
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Thus, if the second beast is ecclesiastical Freemasonry,
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it is personified and literally elevated to the summit in the false prophet as its head,
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who is expressly designated as such in three passages of the Apocalypse.
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He is the pseudo-religious leader of the anti-church.
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Through grave heresies and despicable sacrilegies,
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He deceives and cheats the inhabitants of the earth.
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And wants to lead people to worship the Antichrist,
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whose direct forerunner he is, as you'll read in Apocalypse 13.12.
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The former bishop of Fulda, the exegete of the New Testament,
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has also pointed out this dimension in his work on the Apocalypse.
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The second beast's mission is the unlimited seizure of power by the first.
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For this purpose, it is ordered and equipped by the first.
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It is to lead people to recognize the first as what it claims to be, namely God himself.
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All his propaganda aims at this in words and deeds.
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It is a matter of religiously transfiguring the world of power of the Antichrist
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and getting mankind to pay him cultic veneration in turn.
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Bishop Schick accordingly speaks of a satanic trinity.
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The first beast, which represents Freemasonry, is personified in the Antichrist,
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and the second, which represents ecclesiastical Freemasonry, in the false prophet.
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Their goal is the unrestricted rule of the world, the kingdom of the devil on earth.
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The rulers of the world, who had placed themselves in the service of the satanic trinity,
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believe that the favorable opportunity has come to lead together
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the final destructive strike against the Church of Christ on earth.
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The satanic triad doubles its propaganda for this purpose.
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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen made it clear in this context that this agenda is marked
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It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church,
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but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.
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There will be a mystical body of the Antichrist,
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which will resemble in all its externals the mystical body of Christ.
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Accordingly, an Antichurch, as its head necessarily needs,
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an Antipope, who is the false prophet of the Apocalypse.
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The hostile aspiration wants to seduce people to, quote,
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accept a new religion without the cross, a liturgy without the hereafter,
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a religion to destroy religion, or a politics that is a religion.
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, the great German mystic,
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has seen and described the rise of the pernicious Antichurch.
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In doing so, she used a drastic turn that clearly demonstrates
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and all that happened in it was darkness and gloom.
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I also saw how very bad the consequences of this after church would be.
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I saw many heretics of all ranks go to the city.
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich also saw the closure of the churches
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and the great distress of the Catholic communities everywhere.
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as an implementation of the anti-Christian decisive struggle.
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The sect receives its signature from the apocalyptic beast,
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and drives it to fight against the flock of Christ.
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Against the background of this apocalyptic period,
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the famous message of La Salette echoes like a loud and insistent warning.
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Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
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in pointing out the authentic quotes from these various saints
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