The John-Henry Westen Show - Israel’s Fate, Catholic Prophecy, And The Start Of World War 3

00:00:00.000 This is John Henry Weston for LifeSite News. We wanted to bring you some kind of explanation of what we found so far going around in Israel.

00:00:10.320 The war in Israel is devastating, as I'm sure many of you have seen, but we wanted to give you some perspective on this from what we've seen.

00:00:18.900 We're going to give you an update on what's going on, at least for the best that we have right now.

00:00:22.800 We're also going to give you some historical perspective of what's been going on there, how this plays out geopolitically in the area.

00:00:30.000 But I also want to give you the perspective of prophecy.

00:00:34.520 And for that, we have with us a guest who is a great friend, someone who has written extensively, and someone who has a great faith.

00:00:45.680 His faith shines through more than anything else, although his research is impeccable.

00:00:51.060 And his book called Revelations has been, you know, very well received by many.

00:00:57.500 It is a great, great resource to understand heaven's warnings and heaven's direction for us here on earth from all of the Marian prophecies.

00:01:08.620 Xavier Eral, welcome to the program.

00:01:12.000 Bonjour, John Henry. How are you?

00:01:14.620 Very well, my friend.

00:01:15.560 So let's begin with a short prayer, a prayer for peace, a prayer for peace in Israel and over all the world, where we are now engulfed in wars, not only in Israel and Ukraine, but it looks like also starting all over the world.

00:01:32.600 So let's pray.

00:01:33.280 Amen.

00:01:38.280 Eternal Father, in the most holy name of Jesus, by the infinite merits of his most precious blood,

00:01:47.060 we beg thee, send us thy Holy Ghost with his graces and healing powers upon Israel, upon all of the Palestinian lands there,

00:01:58.580 and upon all of the peoples who are called by your name, who also suffer in this great conflict.

00:02:04.700 We ask this by the powerful intercession of Blessed Mary, of the Virgin, whom we consecrate ourselves and the whole world,

00:02:12.680 our Lady Queen of Peace, pray for us.

00:02:15.860 In nom de santris, et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen.

00:02:21.260 So let's start off, I think, when we all first heard about this, it was almost with an announcement of war.

00:02:28.520 Before Israel said that they were under attack in war, it all started on October the 7th.

00:02:34.440 And one of the first things I saw was this rabbi, and it really hit home with the gravity of the situation,

00:02:43.100 as he explained right off the bat, that basically all the reservists were being called up.

00:02:49.340 Let's take a look.

00:02:50.900 That unit was called up this morning.

00:02:53.260 My son, who's currently serving in a combat unit, was called up this afternoon.

00:02:57.800 And then my older son, who's a combat reservist, was just called up now.

00:03:03.220 They're all heading in to the line of duty.

00:03:06.640 Many have been killed.

00:03:08.860 The fighting is ongoing.

00:03:11.580 And I'm calling on all friends of Israel, our Jewish and Christian friends alike,

00:03:18.780 to rise up right now in prayer.

00:03:22.460 The forces of evil are attacking us.

00:03:26.460 This is a moment of truth.

00:03:29.480 Hello, everyone.

00:03:30.700 This is Rabbi.

00:03:31.740 And so that was one of the first things I saw that really struck home the gravity of what was going on.

00:03:39.960 It was war.

00:03:41.460 And, you know, initially we saw this barrage of rockets that went out, a massive number of rockets.

00:03:48.740 Maybe, Xavier, I know you've been following closely the French television reports,

00:03:52.520 which are actually more than what we get in America and Canada.

00:03:55.520 If you could describe for us maybe what you saw in the beginning and what you've seen now.

00:03:59.740 Well, the situation, the way it is described in France and also on the BBC, in Italian and Spanish news,

00:04:10.320 gives, I would say, somewhat more details.

00:04:13.420 In the sense that different views are being presented and different reasons for this extraordinarily successful surprise attack

00:04:23.240 from an organization, a terrorist organization such as Hamas, that is well known to be funded by Iran.

00:04:30.380 And therefore, in France, the numbers are the same as far as casualties are concerned.

00:04:38.600 What is incomprehensible as far as France, the French media, the French military headquarters

00:04:44.500 and French military intelligence is concerned is how could the Israeli intelligence services

00:04:52.540 and defense ministry could have possibly have been taken so successfully by surprise.

00:05:00.380 Let me stop you there, because that's a very interesting point.

00:05:05.280 And there is an Israeli journalist by the name of Erfat Fenningson.

00:05:10.300 She's actually a former intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Force.

00:05:15.980 She came out super early in all of this, both obviously with grave concern for Israel,

00:05:23.200 but expressing her total, absolute disbelief at the very fact that there's no way the Mossad,

00:05:30.760 the intelligence service of Israel, wouldn't have done.

00:05:33.620 Let's have a look.

00:05:35.520 Let's talk about 30 or 40 people, but we know there are more.

00:05:38.640 In some places, the terrorists were burning the village,

00:05:40.740 and people didn't know if to leave the shelter and surrender or stay and pray for the fire to not reach them.

00:05:44.300 Many young people who were in a big outdoor party near the Gaza Endelope villages were attacked there.

00:05:47.760 Some ran away, some were injured, and some are still missing.

00:05:50.560 Apparently, Israeli defense forces that were supposed to be around Gaza were placed around the West Bank

00:05:53.540 because of security concerns, so that the Gaza envelope was left unoccupied with military.

00:05:57.380 They say around 60 to 80 percent of that area was left without the IDF forces that were supposed to be there.

00:06:02.120 Soldiers are being recruited for reserves as we speak from this morning,

00:06:05.060 but because of stupid reasons such as no public transport, they're waiting hours to get to the bases. 0.92

00:06:08.260 Mainstream media, this is an interesting point, 0.93

00:06:09.820 apparently admits that IDF spokesperson is forbidding them to tell the complete truth about what's happening,

00:06:14.180 highlighting a lack of transparency, and this is to the Israeli citizens.

00:06:16.140 I'm not even talking about overseas, I'm talking about to the people of Israel here.

00:06:18.580 For hours and hours, the reports that came from the mainstream media were completely lacking,

00:06:21.460 and people started to rely mostly on the news from each other, from people on the ground.

00:06:24.860 Only now, 6 p.m. Israel time, or it's actually 7 already, 12 hours after the event started,

00:06:28.360 we received the first formal statement from the IDF spokesperson,

00:06:30.760 and I will include an article with that statement in the notes.

00:06:33.060 A year ago, there was a military operation in Gaza to prepare for such events,

00:06:35.400 and ongoingly there are trainings for these kind of scenarios.

00:06:37.340 This raises serious questions for me, anyway, about Israeli intelligence, what happened.

00:06:40.480 Two years ago, there was a successful deployment of underground barriers with sensors

00:06:43.820 to alert exactly on these kind of terrorist breaches.

00:06:46.140 Israel is one of the most advanced and high-tech armies.

00:06:48.000 How come there was zero response to the border and fence breaching?

00:06:50.740 I cannot understand that.

00:06:51.900 Personally, I served in the IDF 25 years ago in the intelligence forces.

00:06:54.500 There's no way, in my view, that Israel did not know of what's coming.

00:06:57.180 A cat moving alongside the fence is triggering all forces.

00:06:59.160 So this?

00:06:59.760 What happened to the strongest army in the world?

00:07:01.180 How come border crossings were wide open?

00:07:02.900 Something is very wrong here.

00:07:03.740 Something is very strange.

00:07:04.780 This chain of events is very unusual and not typical for the Israeli defense system.

00:07:07.720 With the recent normalization efforts of Israel and Palestine led by Saudi Arabia,

00:07:10.260 I wonder whether a prisoner's exchange deal is something that could only be seriously considered by Israel

00:07:13.580 if a shocking event like that happened.

00:07:15.080 Is it a possibility that only with Israel hostages it can be justified to release dangerous prisoners 0.80

00:07:18.620 from Israeli prisons?

00:07:19.740 I don't know.

00:07:20.340 Mainstream media reported that Deputy Hamas leader, Salah al-Aboui, suggests using Israeli

00:07:23.920 prisoners for leverage in negotiations.

00:07:25.480 So maybe.

00:07:26.340 A point about the situation in Israel in the past few years, which I want to make, is related

00:07:29.340 to, and those who follow me know, that there's a general sense of insecurity in Israel.

00:07:33.000 There's political and social instability and unrest.

00:07:34.860 Public funds are being misused on agendas such as COVID, climate, judicial reform, abolishing cash,

00:07:38.300 and many more.

00:07:39.260 The current government is highly corrupt in my view, while the previous one was no better.

00:07:42.220 I don't care about having a popular opinion.

00:07:43.540 I care about exposing evil forces wherever and whomever they are.

00:07:46.380 So to me, this surprise attack seems like a planned operation on all fronts.

00:07:49.720 This is a failure to protect the people of Israel, for sure. 0.71

00:07:52.260 Perhaps the biggest failure since the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago, if not bigger. 0.91

00:07:55.400 By the way, is it a coincidence it's exactly 50 years ago, almost on the day?

00:07:57.920 The Yom Kippur War was on October 6, 1973.

00:08:00.360 If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say that this feels like the work of the deep state.

00:08:03.400 It feels like the people of Israel and the people of Palestine have been sold once again

00:08:06.200 to the higher powers that be.

00:08:07.300 At the same time, this is still very, very difficult to fathom.

00:08:10.080 Have a good evening.

00:08:12.940 I thought that was rather fascinating, because that lays out so many things.

00:08:17.860 But if you could continue to pick up from there, what are people making of this?

00:08:21.880 It's impossible.

00:08:22.660 She said, like, a cat going across the fence would have alerted them.

00:08:26.240 Yet, it's obvious that there's something going on here that's much beyond what we're seeing

00:08:36.260 in that, oh, it's a surprise attack, and they just missed it, and this little band was able

00:08:42.940 to come in and take over some posts, and that's just the way it was.

00:08:46.740 Quite so.

00:08:47.460 And that is one of the principal theories that is being discussed in the European medias.

00:08:54.460 It's not just the attack itself, which defies all logic.

00:08:59.960 How could Mossad have missed that?

00:09:02.960 It's as well the enormous, massive military arsenal that Hamas has been able to put its hands on. 0.62

00:09:11.260 It's an operation that must have been planned for months, for months, and to have managed

00:09:16.360 to get to open fire with a force of over almost 4,000 rockets in one night without Israeli authorities

00:09:26.460 being able to have caught the importation of such a massive volume of weapons also inspires suspicion.

00:09:34.600 Now, as I said, there are some cases, for example, that possibly could have been left for unexpected

00:09:43.360 or surprise to the Mossad and to military intelligence, such as, for example, the Border Patrol post

00:09:50.420 that acts as a breach letting in and out all the civilian parties from the Gaza Strip to Israel,

00:09:57.700 for indeed, a large part of the population there processes every day that particular post

00:10:01.600 was supposed to go to work in Israeli-occupied territories.

00:10:04.900 But it said that particular post had been literally untakeable.

00:10:09.240 It's unassaultable.

00:10:10.940 And yet it was taken and spent in less than half an hour by an operation that simply took

00:10:16.700 by surprise and cost a great many lives to the Israeli forces.

00:10:20.840 It appears in objectivity and without taking any passionate stand that this entire incident

00:10:31.400 was a mixture of both sincere and true surprise of the extent and efficiency of such a well-planned attack.

00:10:39.560 And at the same time, possibly, there was something which probably might have informed Mossad

00:10:47.480 that this was going to take place, but certainly not to this level of efficiency

00:10:54.800 and with such high volume of efficient and accurate weapons.

00:11:02.140 So we are expecting something else.

00:11:07.480 We've seen a barrage already of return fire, and you've seen devastation in the Gaza Strip.

00:11:14.460 From that already, you have, you know, as they were saying before, I think 830.

00:11:20.160 So far as the death toll, as of yesterday, that's probably much higher right now.

00:11:24.360 And that's just from the Palestinian citizens.

00:11:29.800 And so the situation is already very tense.

00:11:34.220 But Prime Minister Netanyahu got on television yesterday to say,

00:11:38.880 basically, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:11:40.900 Watch this.

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00:11:51.800 Watch this.

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00:12:00.300 Beadaholique.com.

00:12:16.020 Watch this.

00:12:18.520 Watch this.

00:12:19.520 And it really did strike fear into, you know, those who are trying to still hope for peace.

00:12:34.660 I think you have a lot of machinations here that this could blow up.

00:12:40.020 But one of the things that, you know, retaliation breeds is, in fact, Xavier, if you can tell us that, that's a very interesting thing you told me before the show started with regard to what this might spark and what a major, major offensive that goes, you know, way beyond something that I think from the point of view of Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters is we want to make more force that will,

00:13:10.020 crush any kind of idea ever again to do anything, even remotely close to what this was or anything at all.

00:13:19.500 We want to beat them into submission, into subjugation, whatever. 0.95

00:13:23.600 There are calls for basically wiping out the Palestinians altogether from a lot of people in the West as well. 0.97

00:13:33.660 Now, that works the other way, too. 0.98

00:13:36.020 There's a lot of calls for from Islam to wipe out all Jews and all Christians, by the way. 0.98

00:13:43.700 And that's been going on for a long time. 0.96

00:13:45.420 So in most wars, people like to see a good guys and a bad guys.

00:13:52.200 But unfortunately, it's not that clear.

00:13:54.200 Xavier, if you could explain what you think here.

00:13:56.340 Well, look, I had so many conversations with some of my family's friends in France, one among which is a retired French colonel in the French army.

00:14:09.280 That being said, this is the conclusion that are being taken by some of this particular group of people.

00:14:15.280 When Hamas started this operation, it was planned by a mastermind that could not possibly have come from anything else but a superior headquarters gathering of military executives. 0.79

00:14:28.340 So this does not come, certainly not from the little tiny Gaza Strip, nor from Hezbollah, which is the brother counterpart of Lebanon.

00:14:39.440 Both entities, Hamas and Hezbollah, are both financed, are the strong arms, you could say, in this region, financed by Iran.

00:14:46.940 Now, what was the purpose?

00:14:49.700 For any military operation, there must be some kind of objective.

00:14:53.440 The objective could not have just been for Hamas to hurt Israel and come back to the Gaza Strip without expecting retaliation.

00:15:00.480 That's completely unrealistic.

00:15:02.220 So what is it?

00:15:03.760 It appears, according to people who have considerably more experience in the military field than I do, that this was a trap.

00:15:10.920 First of all, you have to understand the mentality of the Muslims, of Hamas. 0.94

00:15:15.300 Now, these people, for them, it is an honor to die for their faith.

00:15:20.000 Allah Akbar is the war cry. 0.96

00:15:23.100 God is great.

00:15:24.280 For them to die, a martyr, is the greatest of rewards for paradises being offered to them.

00:15:29.320 So the objective was simple. 0.99

00:15:31.640 Strike Israel and humiliate them as hard as they possibly could so that they would retaliate in turn. 0.99

00:15:37.700 And first of all, torpedo, the diplomatic rapprochement, first of all, between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which was starting very well. 0.97

00:15:47.760 Now, keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and Iran has completely or supposedly reconciled thanks to the intervention, incredibly enough, of China. 0.65

00:15:56.220 So it does not play into Iran's play game for Saudi Arabia also to establish proper and civil diplomatic relationship with the enemy, Israel.

00:16:09.780 So it appears that there is a trap set for Israel to step into. 0.78

00:16:13.160 And the trap appears to be clear.

00:16:15.580 Harsh, vengeful retaliation, which will lead possibly, they hope, to criminal acts of war.

00:16:24.580 At the same time, for Israel, this is a double, an hyper double tranchant. 0.59

00:16:32.720 There is, in fact, two different possibilities, advantage and disadvantages.

00:16:36.780 For Israel, this attack, if they knew about it, I am absolutely certain that they didn't know the extent of it or the level of efficiency it would take.

00:16:47.280 So it's a humiliation of sorts.

00:16:49.280 However, it would be also a tremendous, on the advantage side, a tremendous advantage for Israel to use this and Hezbollah's participation in northern Israel or southern Lebanon 0.87

00:17:02.100 to have a pretext of sorts, to strike at a mastermind, which unquestionably leaves no doubt as to its identity, Iran.

00:17:13.020 Iran, for the past 20 years, has been enriching large volumes of unperved uranium stocks for one purpose and one purpose only,

00:17:23.500 to develop a nuclear arsenal with which they have sworn under all the gods of mythology they would use to, quote-unquote, eradicate the state of Israel. 0.94

00:17:35.020 Already, they have ballistic weapons that have a radius that can reach the French Provence, the region of Provence, Rome, Greece and part of the Balkans.

00:17:46.820 They only need to add nuclear warheads if they want to make a major strike.

00:17:52.200 So this serves the purpose of both Israel, in a way, although they suffered an unspeakable price, and also Hamas.

00:18:05.100 For their purpose, principally, is to inspire all the communities, Shiites, Sunnites, Wallabites, all Muslim communities, against a common enemy, Israel. 0.79

00:18:15.280 So, as you said very rightfully, it appears to me before, there are no right, good or bad guys.

00:18:23.440 It's a war that is thousands of years old, and which has been forewarned as well.

00:18:30.080 This shouldn't be a surprise for my own circles.

00:18:32.580 Indeed.

00:18:34.240 So, we have the possibility of world war looming in front of us, because, of course, Israel is going to be backed by the United States. 0.91

00:18:45.360 Already, the U.S. sent over an aircraft carrier.

00:18:48.120 And Turkish President Erdogan just got on television, basically warning that America is sending that, and that's no means of keeping peace.

00:19:00.980 You don't send aircraft carriers for keeping peace.

00:19:03.880 But also, Iran is into this already.

00:19:09.780 They must have got some indication that Israel might retaliate against them.

00:19:14.960 And this is the message from Iran.

00:19:19.280 Let's play that.

00:19:20.660 The information is just flowing in as I speak to you.

00:19:22.920 The Iran Foreign Ministry has said any foolish Israeli action against Iran will be met with a devastating response.

00:19:29.880 We're already facing a war between Gaza and Israel, and now we're getting threats like that.

00:19:36.160 Your response?

00:19:38.160 Well, the Americans or American officials have been threatening Iran as well.

00:19:42.580 And I think that the Americans know quite well that they've already bitten off more than they can chew in Ukraine, in East Asia with China. 0.90

00:19:53.440 The United States and its allies are on the decline.

00:19:56.600 They're not the powers that they were 30, 40 years ago.

00:20:01.580 The Israeli regime is in no position to threaten Iran because the Israeli regime cannot even destroy the Palestinian people.

00:20:09.460 But the United States, if it does something foolish, then it will be expelled from the region.

00:20:15.660 The United States is very vulnerable. 0.89

00:20:18.020 And the price of fuel will go through the roof.

00:20:20.920 It will destroy the Western economies.

00:20:23.560 Yeah.

00:20:26.600 So, you have all of this playing out, and you can see the factions.

00:20:34.000 Please continue from there, Xavier.

00:20:37.080 Well, it's a very realistic description of the situation.

00:20:39.880 There is an American officer, a hero of the Gulf War, called Conor McGregor.

00:20:48.220 He appears often in a splendid podcast hosted by a retired American judge, Judge Napolitano.

00:20:56.980 The name of the podcast, I believe, is Judging Freedom.

00:20:59.820 Quite remarkable.

00:21:00.540 And this colonel said recently that the American forces, conventional forces, that is, are only a shadow of what they were when he, as an officer in the U.S. Army, were during the Gulf War.

00:21:14.140 The Gulf Wars, plural.

00:21:15.280 So, it appears there is a degeneration, not just of the American conventional forces, but NATOs.

00:21:21.620 And this war in between, that is rather, that is taking place in Ukraine today, has not done anything to help the situation.

00:21:30.100 Both the Americans and the Europeans, in other words, all of the NATO members, including Canada, have sent to Ukraine hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition of all sorts to be able to stop the Russian advances in Ukraine.

00:21:49.800 There was also, in a French show, that was about a week ago or so, a little longer than that, a French general who explained that if today, hypothetically speaking, if there were to be, on European territories, conventional war of the sorts that we are witnessing in Ukraine, France, which is predominantly the most powerful European nation, militarily speaking, in Europe, would last 11 days before the run out of ammunitions.

00:22:17.540 Germany, nine.

00:22:18.740 England, eight.

00:22:19.800 To come back to the situation with the Middle East, I do not see how well can the Americans, indeed, be in a position to deliver the kind of equipment that they've sent to Ukraine, to Israel, although they've already delivered a massive amount of ammunitions to the great sorrow of the Ukrainians, who were expecting their shipment.

00:22:41.840 So, the situation is very dear.

00:22:43.580 If Iran is here, if Iran is struck, there is a very good chance, first of all, it will be unanimous within the Muslim community. 1.00

00:22:52.140 I grew up in a country which is, I would not say invaded, it wouldn't be politically correct with it, but which has a tremendous population of Muslims, of so-called French Muslims.

00:23:03.100 And so, if such a situation were to take place, and the Israelis have been itching to eradicate all the nuclear plants that are hidden underground in Iran, the same way they did in Syria in 1980,

00:23:18.380 that would be a perfect pretext, and this would unquestionably rally every single Muslim nation and organizations together to counter-attack one way or the other.

00:23:33.740 And like World War I, where the game of political and geopolitical alliances played a crucial role in starting World War I, the same thing will happen yet again in these areas.

00:23:46.560 It's not unrealistic.

00:23:48.200 I'll conclude simply by bringing to your attention Marie-Julie Jeuny and Reverend Father Michel Rodrigues, who both of them have brought forth this possibility.

00:23:58.480 And this is quite extraordinary.

00:23:59.620 Do we have time?

00:24:00.600 I would only need two minutes.

00:24:02.000 With Marie-Julie Jeuny, she clearly stated, in a time at the end of the 19th century, when such predictions were completely unrealistic,

00:24:10.720 that the day will come, but first and foremost, there would be geopolitical tensions between England, Palestine, and Persia.

00:24:19.140 Those names were used at the time, for indeed, there was no such country yet.

00:24:23.120 In 1870, of Israel, it was considered Palestine.

00:24:27.520 And Iran did not exist.

00:24:28.700 It was known as Persia.

00:24:29.720 The English in England was mentioned as being, there would be tension between England, Palestine, and Iran, and Persia, rather.

00:24:40.420 At the time when England was mentioned, what was meant in the French language were the Anglo-Saxons.

00:24:45.940 That means also the Canadians, the Americans, and so on and so forth.

00:24:49.200 So, what's more, what gives this tremendous credibility, and what is ever so concerning, is that Marie-Julie Jeuny, who not only was supported openly, but his holiness Pope Leo XIII, and later, but his holiness Pope Pius XII, also mentioned such extraordinary events, such as the rise of the Islamic consortium, alliance of sort, that would unite with far eastern Europeans, the Russians.

00:25:16.240 And to give yet more credibility, this would take place when Europe, and particularly France, would be overtaken by a massive immigration from the Middle East and Muslim nations in Africa, when civil unrest in France would start to take place, when there would be major ecclesiastical reforms within the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church,

00:25:41.100 that would turn later, that would turn later, the Catholic Church, to become, quote-unquote, unrecognizable.

00:25:47.360 In accord with Fr. Michel, and I'll conclude with this simply, Fr. Michel, in the middle of this war that is taking place in Ukraine, when all the logic would lead to believe that if there is a Third World War, it would come from there,

00:26:01.860 remain firm in asserting that the Third World War would start principally from Iran and from North Korea, although the conflict in Eastern Europe will be a catalyst to something considerably bigger and unstoppable.

00:26:18.980 Likewise, Fr. Michel, since the beginning of this year, has announced publicly, and the last time he did was in a video conference call, which I believe you were invited in,

00:26:33.640 where he mentioned in September that October will be the first chapter of the announced tribulations.

00:26:40.080 That is truly unbelievable that that call was a private call to which I was invited.

00:26:49.960 Stunning to see things play out as they have.

00:26:53.680 One more clip I wanted to show.

00:26:55.440 It's just one of the things that hasn't been mentioned yet is the involvement of China.

00:27:01.320 Jennifer Zhang, who is an independent journalist, Chinese journalist,

00:27:05.960 I actually saw her through Stephen Mosher, who writes for LifeSite, who is a great expert on China.

00:27:14.020 He pointed to General Brzezang's work once, and I checked her out.

00:27:18.120 And here's what she has to say with regard to China's involvement in all of this.

00:27:21.840 According to the Chinese-language YouTube channel Lu De Media, Xi Jinping promised unlimited, unrestricted, and full-range support to Hamas

00:27:34.040 when the Palestinian delegation visited China on June 14 this year.

00:27:39.320 As a matter of fact, Xi Jinping's office is in direct contact with both Hamas and Iran's top-authority, Communist Office.

00:27:49.100 It's really unbelievable to see the machinations that could very easily now lead to a Third World War.

00:28:02.160 And already, just the devastation we talked about, you know, over 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas,

00:28:09.200 over 5,000 rockets fired, 2,800 injured Israelis.

00:28:13.720 And then the return fire, of course, going to be costing a similar number of lives.

00:28:20.420 It likely will get to much more, because obviously the Israeli forces are much more, they're much more equipped.

00:28:30.080 Although where Hamas got what it got so far is incredible. 1.00

00:28:34.240 But nonetheless, the retaliation is going to be something.

00:28:37.220 But with Prime Minister Netanyahu promising to make that retaliation something never seen before, something historic,

00:28:44.060 that's where it becomes really concerning.

00:28:47.840 One of the concerning things also is this turning off of the gas, electricity, and water to the Gaza.

00:28:59.380 It's not all Hamas soldiers in the Gaza.

00:29:01.920 There's Palestinians, Christian, and Jewish, and others there.

00:29:09.780 What have you heard about this turning off of the water, turning off of electricity and gas?

00:29:17.440 An ex-ambassador of Israel was interviewed on this particular subject one day, yesterday or the day before,

00:29:25.540 by a French news media.

00:29:28.440 And the same question was being posed to him.

00:29:30.680 He responded, well, in this situation, of course, we understand that there are many innocent civilians

00:29:38.640 that are paying the consequences of this irresponsibility.

00:29:42.380 However, I'd like to bring to your attention the fact that immediately upon this attack,

00:29:49.260 the state of Israel has declared itself in a state of formal war with Hamas,

00:29:55.140 which is unfortunately presently located and using the territory of the Gaza Strip as its military base.

00:30:02.480 As such, we must respond accordingly for one purpose and one purpose only,

00:30:09.140 and that is to safeguard the life of our Israeli citizens, no matter what cost, it will come.

00:30:15.720 Our responsibility is towards the Israeli civilian population.

00:30:20.060 That was his response.

00:30:21.880 And we as Christians, I agree with you.

00:30:23.760 Carry on.

00:30:24.040 Yeah, it's unbelievable because there are about 600,000 people who live in the Gaza Strip.

00:30:32.560 And that's why turning off water, electricity and gas is just, it's unbelievable.

00:30:40.500 It's, so, okay, so one of the things I wanted to get out as well is just the response of the Catholic leadership in the Holy Land.

00:30:53.680 As many people would know that there is a Latin patriarch, there's a Maronite one,

00:30:58.700 there's a different Catholic leadership in the Holy Land, and they're called the patriarchs.

00:31:05.500 Patriarchs, and their message has been very clear.

00:31:10.020 They've been calling for peace, for prayer, but they just released something new today,

00:31:15.440 which I wanted to get out because they're calling for a day of prayer and fasting.

00:31:21.920 We ask, this is from, on behalf of the ordinaries of the Holy Land,

00:31:26.420 I invite all parishes and religious communities to offer a day of fasting and prayer for peace and reconciliation, they say.

00:31:32.060 We ask that on Tuesday, October 17, everyone hold a day of fasting, abstinence, and prayer.

00:31:38.660 Let us organize prayer times with Eucharistic adoration and with the recitation of the Rosary to our Blessed Virgin Mary.

00:31:45.920 Although most probably and most in many parts of our diocese's circumstances will not permit large gatherings,

00:31:51.520 it is possible to organize simple and sober common moments of prayer in parishes, religious communities, and families.

00:31:57.700 And so that is their message, the patriarchs of today.

00:32:02.460 And they are being attacked because they are calling for balance.

00:32:07.420 They're trying to play the very difficult game on both sides of this war.

00:32:13.240 And I guess in all times of war, people want to fight and hit the other side and wipe them out.

00:32:19.880 But they have always called for peace.

00:32:22.220 This is from a 2010, the Vatican did a study on the whole situation around Israel and the Holy Land and the Palestine.

00:32:32.580 And here's what they said.

00:32:34.360 The Holy Land, a place sacred to countless millions around the world, is currently mired in violence.

00:32:40.180 And this is from 2010.

00:32:41.780 And suffering due to the prolonged political conflict.

00:32:45.720 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:32:46.360 This is actually from the statement of the ordinaries of the Holy Land this week.

00:32:50.780 So this is what they're saying.

00:32:52.900 I can get to the other later.

00:32:54.760 But we, the patriarchs, heads of churches in Jerusalem, have time and time again appealed

00:32:59.640 for the importance of respecting historic and legal status quo of the holy shrines.

00:33:06.520 In these trying times, we come together to raise our voices in unity, echoing the divine message of peace and love for all humanity.

00:33:12.180 As custodians of the Christian faith, deeply rooted in the Holy Land, we stand in solidarity with the people of this region who are enduring the devastating consequences of continued strife.

00:33:23.580 Our faith, which is founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, compels us to advocate for the secession of all violent military activities that bring harm to both Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

00:33:36.620 We unequivocally condemn any acts that target civilians, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or faith.

00:33:43.740 Such actions go against the fundamental principles of humanity and the teachings of Christ who implored us to love your neighbor as yourself.

00:33:50.960 So those Catholic officials are being condemned because they are calling for peace, restraint, and everything else.

00:34:01.960 Very, very difficult situations, but nonetheless, they go forward.

00:34:07.320 Xavier, now I want to get to the part that I think a lot of people are waiting for.

00:34:10.200 At times like this, when the whole world seems in uproar, I think a lot of people look to heaven for help, but also for clarity.

00:34:20.780 What's happening?

00:34:22.340 What do the prophecies tell us about these times?

00:34:26.400 And what, in your vast reading of the prophetic writings and apparitions of Our Lady, what is a course for us to steer in this time of tribulation?

00:34:37.140 As far as prophecies are concerned, which we've been working and we've been studying, all of us, and we've been hearing and reading for so many years,

00:34:47.800 we are no longer living the times of admonitions.

00:34:51.420 That time is behind us.

00:34:53.320 Now, we will be actually, literally living the moments of prophecies.

00:34:58.360 And I regret to say that what is ahead of us is most disconcerting.

00:35:03.760 What are we to do?

00:35:06.120 What are we to prepare?

00:35:07.320 How are we supposed to live our lives accordingly?

00:35:09.820 The message from heaven, through Marie-Julie Jeannie, through the children of La Salette, Fatima, the reverend father Michel Rodrigue, and others, is this.

00:35:19.520 Maintain always a cold head.

00:35:21.340 Do not let anger, even hatred, advise you, for those are indeed bad advisors and emotions that are not inspired by heaven.

00:35:30.280 This rage, this feeling of revenge, that the Israelis have ever so capably expressed on the media, will not serve the purpose of peace.

00:35:46.440 But it will engender death that will inspire more death.

00:35:52.220 This will be a catalyst of what is to come.

00:35:56.760 The future, the way it is announced, will be that because of this game of alliances, we need other nations to be involved.

00:36:06.000 No unbalance will be permitted.

00:36:08.200 If Iran is eliminated, this will no longer be tolerable for Russia. 0.76

00:36:12.480 And today, principally because of the war that is taking place in the Ukraine theater, this is no longer, and it hasn't been for a while, a war or a dispute, territorial dispute, between Ukraine and simply Russia.

00:36:28.200 It hasn't been.

00:36:28.760 This is a proxy war that has led two alliances, one through a frontal clash with another, NATO, and an alliance that has been established clearly through Iran, Russia, as of late, North Korea, and yes, China, as the statement of this spokeswoman confirms.

00:36:48.740 If there is a violent clash, a violent attack upon Iran, this cannot be left unanswered, and it is a trap, which was meant from the moment, from the eve of the attack on Israel by Hamas.

00:37:03.760 It was a trap meant to lead Israel to an attack ever so violently. 0.97

00:37:08.960 I do not believe for one moment that Hamas was consumed by the devil to decapitate babies or to rape women.

00:37:18.920 These barbaric actions were meant, for one thing, to inspire hatred and to inspire and lead Israel to walk through straight to a trap. 0.91

00:37:31.480 That of committing the error of committing similar atrocities and lead all the nations of Islam to gather together, and again, playing with the game of alliance.

00:37:41.800 Iran is already openly supporting, through military assistance, Russia.

00:37:46.740 North Korea is doing exactly the same thing with Russia.

00:37:49.580 China as well.

00:37:50.720 The operation of BRICS is no coincidence.

00:37:53.260 This organization now is trying to overbalance the United States petrodollar on the base of a new currency or new currencies, plural, that would be based on the value of gold, no longer on goods and services like the U.S. petrodollar or dollar.

00:38:10.400 So the war has already started in, shall we say, a more civil fashion.

00:38:14.820 Now, this war, in an elegant fashion, in a silk sock, as Napoleon Bonaparte used to call Taleran, has changed the face.

00:38:25.000 It's turned into a gradual, more violent, a great animosity that is inspired by hatred, profound hatred, and a feeling, a desire of utter revenge against the atrocities the Hamas has committed. 0.69

00:38:42.620 The Hamas, the Muslims there, do not care, certainly do not care of the Palestinian population, nor of their own lives. 0.97

00:38:50.160 The only thing they want to do is hurt Israel, lose their lives against paradise, and lead and form an alliance between all the Muslim countries against Israel and their allies, the infidels. 1.00

00:39:02.640 And that is what I pray with all my heart, that Israel will not fall into that trap and will remain civil in a way which Hamas will never be capable of being.

00:39:13.660 If they do, perhaps catastrophe can be avoided.

00:39:17.060 Otherwise, no.

00:39:17.680 And as for prophecies, the prophecies state that these regional conflicts will extend between now and the end of this year.

00:39:26.160 And next year, things will turn for the worst.

00:39:30.060 And what the heaven is requiring in asking the faithful to do is, first and foremost, to keep a cold head, to pray with all your heart, to go to confession.

00:39:38.940 If possible, at the end of every month, on first, well, no, beg your pardon, the first Saturdays of every month, to go to receive Holy Communion.

00:39:47.360 By believing with all your heart that this is not a symbol or a commemoration of the Last Supper, but truly the body and blood, so and the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:39:55.700 to read and live Holy Scriptures, the Catechism, particularly that which was encouraged by His Holiness John Paul II,

00:40:02.960 and to pray the Holy Rosary and fast.

00:40:06.020 Those are the means of salvation and the means to change history.

00:40:10.580 So that is what prophecy is today indicating.

00:40:14.040 If this continues in this path, there will be a major international cataclysm.

00:40:21.280 So we must pray for these are the only weapons that heaven is asking us to use and to avoid hatred or feelings of retaliation for those are not inspired by God.

00:40:31.840 In fact, it's interesting, too, that the attack took place on October 7th, Our Lady of the Rosary, the victory of Lepanto.

00:40:43.960 That's probably why they chose that date.

00:40:47.680 In fact, I think they chose the date, same date, October 6th or so, 7th, 50 years ago as well, when Israel was attacked.

00:40:57.720 Also, these retaliatory attacks from Islam happen usually on these dates.

00:41:06.120 Everybody wonders why September 11th was September 11th, but it was September 11th also because of the battle where Jan Sobieski beat them at the Battle of Vienna, beat the Turks.

00:41:21.940 So Islam chooses these dates because they have a great historical memory.

00:41:28.780 But I think in choosing a date like Our Lady of the Rosary, it's also going to be the date that is the undoing of all violence rather than the generation of violence.

00:41:44.780 Because it's the weapon, as Padre Pia told us, and we must always, always pledge to Sarah Rosary.

00:41:53.700 In the end, Our Lady told us, her Immaculate Heart would triumph.

00:41:57.520 So we're headed toward victory.

00:41:59.840 That day called Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Victories.

00:42:03.160 We are headed toward victory.

00:42:04.620 And we will get there by remaining faithful, thoroughly sacrifice the Mass, and to the prayer of the Most Holy Rosary.

00:42:13.200 Savior, Irel, thank you so much for joining us.

00:42:15.900 May God bless you.

00:42:17.440 And please pray for, please pray all of you for Israel, for the Palestinian people.

00:42:28.920 And especially on October 17th, let's unite ourselves with the patriarchs of Jerusalem and their call for fasting, prayer, and abstinence, for peace, both in Israel and around the world.

00:42:41.120 Thank you for joining us.

00:42:42.760 For LifeSite News, this is John Hinder Weston.

00:42:45.180 May God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - October 12, 2023

Israel’s Fate, Catholic Prophecy, And The Start Of World War 3

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