Forgotten Ages Research

Prophecies Through the Ages on the Coming Earth Changes

Report Topics:

• Christian Chronicler Hepidanus (11th Century) on a Coming Global Mega-storm
• Medieval Visionary Johann Friede (1204–1257) on Major Changes in Climate
• Vision of England’s Inundation by 16th Century Balthassar Mas
• York Seeress Mother Shipton (Ursula Sontheil, 1488–1561) on London’s Sinking
• Isaiah and the Apostle John on Coming Greater Heat from the Sun
• Hindu Prophecies of an “Explosion” in the Indian Ocean—A Coming Meteor Fall?
• Mother Shipton’s Vision About the Future Passage of a Deadly Comet
• A Night Three Days Long Seen by the Arabian Final Signs of Islam, 10th Century
• More Portents on the Coming Three Days of Darkness

Full Report:

Isaiah and Ezekiel on Modern Humanity’s Disastrous Effects on Our Planet

“The Earth is defiled by its people. They have disobeyed the (natural) laws. Therefore a curse consumes the Earth. And very few (representatives of life) will be left.” Isaiah 2:4–6.

“The Earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, who have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant. Therefore a curse devours the Earth, and its inhabitants pay for their guilt. They who dwell on the Earth shall turn pale, and few men are left.

“For the windows on high will be opened and their foundations will shake. The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.” Isaiah 24:16–19.

“A third of your people shall die of pestilence and perish from hunger. Another third shall fall by the sword. And a third I will scatter in every direction.” Ezekiel 5:12.

Egyptian Seer Hermes Trismegistos (2nd Century) on Uncertain Planetary Future

“In those days the earth wil not be stable, and men will not sail the sea for fear, nor will they be able to perceive the stars in heaven, being covered over.”

Prophecy from the Lost Gospel of the Epistle of James, 2nd Century

“There shall be wonders and strange appearances in heaven and on Earth before the end of the world comes. The sun and moon fighting with the other, a continual rolling noise of thunder and lightning, thunder and earthquakes, cities falling and men perishing in their overthrow, a continual death for lack of rain, a terrible pestilence and great mortality, mighty and untimely. In those years and days shall war be kindled upon war, the four ends of the Earth shall be in commotion and fight against each other. Thereafter shall be quakings of clouds, darkness and persecutions. Thereupon shall come doubt and strife and transgressions against one another.”

The Vision of the Apocalypse of Thomas, 3rd Century

“At that time shall be a very great rising of the sea, so that no man shall tell the news to any man. The kings of the Earth and the princes and captains shall be troubled, and no man shall speak freely. Gray hairs shall be seen upon boys, and the young shall not give place unto the aged.

“In those days there shall be all manners of evils, even the death of the race of men from the East and even unto Babylon (Middle East). And thereafter death and famine and sword in the land of Canaan (Israel) and even unto Rome (Italy, Europe).

“Then shall all the fountains of waters and wells boil over and be turned into dust and blood. The heaven shall be moved, the stars shall fall upon the Earth, the sun shall be cut in half like the moon, and the moon shall not give us her light.

“On the fourth day at the first hour, the Earth in the East shall make noise, the abyss will roar. Then shall all the Earth be moved by the strength of a great earthquake. In that day shall all the idols of the heathens fall, and all the buildings of the Earth. These are the signs of the fourth day.

“And on the fifth day, at the sixth hour, there shall be great darkness over the world until evening, and the stars shall be turned away from their ministry. In that day all nations shall hate the world and despise the life of the world. These are the signs of the fifth day.”

Future Portents by Early Church Father Saint Ephraim, 4th Century

“When we shall see the fiery river coming out in fury like the wild seething ocean, and the hills and valleys consuming, and all the world and the work therein, then with that fire the rivers shall fall, the springs shall vanish, the sea dry up, the air be agitated, and the stars shall fall out of the sky.

“The skies no longer rain, the Earth no longer bears fruit, the springs run out, the rivers dry up, herbs no longer sprout, grass no longer grows, trees wither from their roots and no longer put forth fruits, the fishes of the sea die out. And then in dread shall moan and groan all life alike when all shall see the pitiless distress that comes to them by night and by day, and nowhere find the food to fill themselves.

“For stern governors of the people shall be appointed, and whosoever bears the seal of the tyrant may buy a little food.”

Christian Chronicler Hepidanus (11th Century) on a Coming Global Mega-storm

“A gloomy cloud will appear, and a terrible tempest will come forth from this cloud. It will consume a third of mankind living at that time. And it will destroy a third of all crops, villages, and cities, and there will be great misery and lamentation. A mighty empire will vanish thereafter, and another will take its place.

“From the east blows the storm, and from the west the same hurricane howls. Woe to those who come into the sphere of this terrible whirlpool. Thrones a thousand years old will fall from the height. Between the Rhine, the Elbe and the Danube there will be a vast morgue, and a landscape of vultures and ravens. When a sign of fire will appear in the heavens (a comet), the time will have come close for these days to engulf humanity.”

Medieval Visionary Johann Friede (1204–1257) on Major Changes in Climate

“When the great time will come, in which mankind will face its last, hard trial, it will be foreshadowed by striking changes in nature. The alteration between cold and heat will become more intensive, storms will have more catastrophic effects, earthquakes will destroy greater regions and the seas will overflow many lowlands. Not all of it will be the result of natural causes, but mankind will penetrate into the bowels of the Earth and will reach into the clouds, gambling with their own existence.”

Coming Earth Changes and Disease According to the Liber Mirabalis, 1524

“All elements will become altered, because it is necessary that the whole condition of the centuries becomes changed. Certainly will the Earth at many places be in a dreadful state of collapse and all living things will be swallowed up. Numerous strong towns and cities will be shattered and collapse in earthquakes. The sea will scream out and raise itself against the whole world. The air will be dirty and be polluted because of the grossness and discord of men. The air will completely change and because of pestilence, illness through it will break out, and will be completely spoiled. Men will become like animals from the various new diseases. They will be overcome and die suddenly. An indescribable plague will break out from a sudden and terrible famine and will torment men. It will be such great suffering in the whole world, and there is no where that this will not find its place. Since the beginning of the world there has been nothing as horrible as this.”

Saint Hilarion (A.D. 291–371) on Britain’s Future Empire and Sinking

“The great empire to come in the sea will be devastated by earthquake, storm and flood. This empire will suffer much misfortune from the sea. It will be divided into two islands and part of it will sink.”

Prophecy of Saint Columbkille (A.D. 521–597) on the Future Flooding of Ireland

“Seven years before the Last Day, the sea shall submerge Eire (Ireland) in one inundation.”

Vision of England’s Inundation by 16th Century Balthassar Mas

A contemporary of Nostradamus, known as Friar Balthassar Mas, saw in a vision given to him an island overwhelmed by a deluge and swallowed by the sea. Soon after the terrible tragedy, the Friar wrote that he saw the waters begin to recede, little by little, and the upper portions of sunken towers and buildings appeared once again. A voice in his vision told him the island was England.

York Seeress Mother Shipton (Ursula Sontheil, 1488–1561) on London’s Sinking

Triumph Death shall ride London through,
And men on tops of houses go (to avoid flood waters, or because the houses have collapsed?),
The time shall come when seas of blood (future warfare?),
Shall mingle with a greater flood (a physical submergence).

Another prophecy attributed to Mother Shipton foretold:

“A time shall happen when a ship shall sail up the Thames till it comes against London, and the master of the ship shall weep, and the mariners of the ship shall ask him why he weeps, since he has made so good a voyage? And he shall say, ‘Ah, what a goodly city this was, none in the world to compare with it, and now there is scarce left a home that can give us a drink for our money.’”

Other Visionary Soothsayings on Disaster in England

English psychic John Pendragon, who died in 1970, foresaw that London in the next century was to be partially submerged, and the lowlands of his native nation will be covered with water.

Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, mystic and psychic, wrote in 1882 that the British Isles would be the first among many victim nations to suffer from earth upheavals and vast flooding.

Likewise the seventeenth century Seeress of Prague prophesied that, “The land of the fog (England) will sink into the ocean.”

Visionary Alois Irlmaier in the nineteenth century foresaw that, “Almost all of England and the European coast to Berlin will sink except for a few mountain peaks.”

There is a fault-like depression along the northern Thames bank which passes beneath the city of London along the Strand, Fleet Street and Cornhill. If enough pressure were exerted upon this depression by an earth movement, the bed would give way and buckle, causing significant damage to city buildings along the river, including Westminster Abbey, Parliament and the Tower of London. Westminster Abbey was built on the site of a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo that was destroyed by an earthquake in A.D. 154.

Mother Shipton’s Other Forecasts Regarding Future World Changes

When great houses stand in far-flung vale (population explosion),
All covered o’er with snow and hail (the impact will cause weather extremes).

When a carriage without horse will go (motorized transportation),
Disaster will fill the world with woe (because of pollution from motors burning fossil fuels).
Those who will live in coming centuries through,
In fear and trembling this shall do:
Flee to the mountains and the dens,
To bog and forest and wild fens.
For storms will rage and oceans roar (major climate changes and global warming),
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born (major geologic upheavals).

Yet greater signs there be to see,
As man nears the latter century (of the millennium, or after 2001),
Three sleeping mountains gather breath,
And spew out mud, and ice and death (major volcanic eruptions),
And earthquakes swallow town after town,
In lands as yet to me unknown (the New World? the Pacific? the Orient?).

Earth Changes—The Vision of Melanie Calvat, 1846

“Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth! There will be sanguinary war, hunger, pestilence and epidemics, terrible rains of insects, thunder which will shake entire cities, earthquakes which will make entire regions uninhabitable. Voices will be heard in the air, and men will wish for death, but instead will receive terrible torture. Blood will flow everywhere. The mountains and all nature will tremble because of the disorder and the misdeeds of men, which will rise to the very heavens.

“For the evil done by men even nature will cry out and earthquakes will occur in protest against those who have committed crimes on Earth. The Earth will tremble and you yourselves will also tremble.

“The seasons will change their intrinsic character. The Earth will be lit with a fiendish red light. Water and fire will cause terrible seismic movements which will engulf mountains and cities. Paris will be destroyed by fire and Marseilles will be inundated by the sea. Other great cities will be destroyed by fire and razed to the ground.

“Mankind will be decimated by epidemics, famines and poison. After the catastrophe they will emerge from their caves and assemble, and only a few will have been left to build the new world. The future is approaching at a quick pace. The world will be destroyed in many quarters and will never be the same as before.”

Serbian Prophet Mitar Tarabic’s Vision of the Last Days, 1880

“When the world starts to live in peace and abundance after the second all-out war, all of that will be just a bitter illusion, because many will forget God, and they will worship their own human intelligence. People will do many stupid things, thinking that they know and can do everything, but they will not know anything. They will believe that their illusion is the real truth, although there will be no truth in their heads. People will be lost and more and more senseless day by day.

“The whole world will be plagued by a strange disease and nobody will be able to find the right cure, which, with God’s help, will be all around them and in themselves.

“Those who will read and write different books with numbers will think that they know the most. These learned men will let their lives be led by their calculations, and they will do and live exactly how those numbers tell them. Among these learned men there will be good and evil men. The evil ones will do evil deeds. They will poison air and water and spread pestilence over the seas, rivers and Earth, and people will start to die suddenly of various ailments. Those good and wise will see that all this effort and hard work is not worth a penny and that it leads to the destruction of the world, and instead of looking for wisdom in numbers they will start to seek it in meditation.

“It will be too late, because the evil ones will already ravage the whole Earth and men will start to die in great numbers. Then people will run away from the cities to the country and look toward the mountains, and there they will be able to breathe and drink water. Those who escape will save themselves and their families, but not for long, because a great famine will appear. There will be plenty of food in towns and villages, but it will be poisoned. Many will eat because of hunger and die immediately. Those who fast to the end will survive.”

John Ballou Newbrough on Future World Chaos, 1889

“All the present governments, religions and all moneyed monopolies are to be overthrown and go out of existence. The increase in unrest in society is an unmistakable sign foreshadowing what is to come to the great masses of people. Various combinations of capital and labor are signs of increasing weakness. Extremes so opposite must culminate in destruction. Our present form of so-called Christian religion will overrun America, tear down the American flag, and trample it underfoot. In Europe the disaster will be even more terrible. Capital will back up the church in persecution, general anarchy will follow and hundreds of thousands of people will be killed. In China and India so terrible will be the fall that words cannot describe it. All nations will be demolished and all the earth be thrown open to all people to go and come as they please.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Predictions, 1930

Just before his death, famed author Conan Doyle had published a letter in which he made the following forecasts for the world of the future:

There will come a period of natural convulsions during which a large portion of the human race will perish, caused by great earthquakes and tidal waves.

The destruction of civilized life upon the Earth will exact a heavy toll.

The total number of years of upheavals and resulting chaos will be three years’ duration.

One of the centers of disturbance will be in the eastern Mediterranean, where five nations will entirely disappear.

Another location will be the Atlantic Ocean where land will suddenly rise causing waves which will bring disasters to the Americas and western Europe, including Ireland and the low-lying British coasts.

These will be accompanied by great upheavals in the southern Pacific and in the region of Japan.

Humanity will only save itself by returning to spiritual values.

Isaiah and the Apostle John on Coming Greater Heat from the Sun

“Therefore Earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left. The light of the sun will be seven times greater.” Isaiah 24:4,6; 30:26.

“The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. He was commissioned to burn men with fire.” Revelations 16:8.

Coming Conflagration of the World, 17th Century “Prophecy of Premol”

“I beheld upon the horizon a brilliant conflagration. Then my vision clouded over and I neither saw nor heard anything more. Then the spirit said to me: ‘This is the beginning of the last days of the Earth.’”

Lacandone Maya Prophecy on the Burning from the Sun

“It will be a storm and it will be the sun which will burn us, which will destroy us. Fast, very fast the end will reach us. It is said, it will only last as long as dawn lasts, as long as the sun needs to reach the treetops. Fast it will be. And nothing will be left us. One hour and we are all gone.

“It is said that in ancient times the old world was destroyed by the Red Storm. But this time it will be the god of the white man who will ordain the end of the world.”

Portent from the Hindu Mahabharata on the Advent of Climatic Disasters

“And the course of the winds will be confused and agitated, and innumerable meteors will flash through the sky foreboding evil. And the sun will appear with six other planets in the same sign. And all around will be din and uproar, and everywhere there will be conflagrations. Fires will burn on all sides when the end of the Yuga comes.”

Hindu Prophecies of an “Explosion” in the Indian Ocean— A Coming Meteor Fall?

Hindu tradition predicts that the end of this present World Age will be marked by an event called Vadava, in which there will be a “tremendous explosion in the great southern ocean,” the Indian Ocean. There will also be triggered a seven-year period of global drought and fires, followed by great storms and floods, with the Earth covered by clouds. These could all be the long-range effects of a meteor or comet plunging into the ocean as the planetary weather cycles compensate for the disturbance.

Do the First Four Trumpets of John’s Revelations Forecast a Meteor Impact?

“The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and a third part of the trees was burnt up and all the green grass was burnt up.”

Could this “hail” be the initial swarm of meteorites to precede the main celestial body before its plunge into the planet?

“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and a third part of the sea became blood; and a third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third part of the ships was destroyed.”

The “great mountain burning with fire” which is “cast into the sea” sounds very much like Nostradamus’ “great round mountain” that “rolls end over end,” to some day “sink great nations”—the fiery meteor or comet predicted to strike the Indian Ocean.

“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is call Wormwood; and a third part of the water became wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

The “great star” burning like a “lamp” might be another figurative description of the “burning mountain” of the Second Trumpet. It is interesting that in some of his predictions, Nostradamus repeatedly made mention of a “bearded star” or “flaming torch” to be seen in the sky. According to the Revelations depiction, the “great star” will cause the waters of the world to be polluted with a bitter substance. Nostradamus, in another of his poems, described a “great celestial stone” the “fires” of which will one day “make the sea gritty.”

“And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the Sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”

The diminishing of light by a third of all the heavenly bodies, as well as the light of day and night, sounds very much like a great cloud layer that will form to produce extreme darkness.

Medieval Prophet Johann Friede on the Future Approach of a Celestial Object

“The nebula in the great Bear will arrive in the vicinity of Earth, and will fill the space of five hundred suns at the horizon. It will more and more cover up the light of the sun until the days will be like nights at full moon. The illumination will not come from the moon, but from Orion, which constellation, by the light of Jupiter, will send forth its rays on the Greater Bear and will dissolve its nebula with the force of light. Finally, complete darkness will set in and last for three days and three nights.”

Mother Shipton’s Vision About the Future Passage of a Deadly Comet

A fiery Dragon will cross the sky (a comet),
Six times before this earth shall die (a comet with a periodic orbit),
Mankind will tremble and be frightened by,
For the sixth appearance (Halley’s Comet? Its sixth appearance since 1561 will occur in 2061) heralds this prophecy—

For seven days and seven nights,
Men shall watch this awesome sight,
The tides will rise beyond their ken (tsunamis?),
To bite away the shores and then,
The mountains will begin to roar (volcanic eruptions),
And earthquakes split from plain to shore (major earth movements along fault lines).
Then flooding waters, rushing in,
Will flood the lands with a mighty din.

And then when the Dragon is sent back (swings round the sun for another pass),
To light the sky, his tail will crack,
Upon the earth and rends the earth,
Then every man shall flee—King and Lord and Serf.

But slowly back they are routed out,
To seek the diminishing water spout (great drought),
And men will die of thirst before,
The oceans rise to mount the shore (more tsunamis or storm surges).
And lands will crack and rend anew (new series of earthquakes),
You think it strange, but it will come true.

The dragon’s tail is but a sign,
For mankind’s fall and man’s decline.
And those that live will ever fear,
The dragon’s tail for many a year,
But time erases memory,
You think it strange, but it will be.

The Apostle John on a Meteor Storm and Earth Axis Shift

Among the Last Plagues in the apostle John’s Book of Revelations, there is a description of warring forces to be slain by a terrible hail storm: “And there fell upon earth a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent,” or over 50 lbs. each, which sounds more like the size of meteorites. Besides this skyfall, John also foresaw that the Seventh Plague will include a tremendous earth movement:

“There followed lightning flashes, loud rumblings, peals of thunder, and a tremendous earthquake. Nothing like it has ever occurred since men dwelt on the earth, so severe and far-reaching was that earthquake. The mighty city fell apart, and the cities of the nations fell. And

every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.” Old and New Testament Prophets’ Visions of an Axis Shift and Great Darkness

“The Earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall tremble, the sun and moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.” Joel 2:10.

“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord.” Joel 2:30–32.

“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the Earth in the clear day.” Amos 8:9.

“For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light. The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.” Isaiah 13:10, 13.

“The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is utterly moved, the earth is staggering exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be shaken like a hut, and its transgressions shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again.” Isaiah 24:19, 20.

“He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove asunder the nations, and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow.” Habakkuk 3:6.

“That is the day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds, a day of the trumpet of alarm.” Zephaniah 1:15–16.

“The stars and the constellations of the heavens send forth no light, the sun is dark when it rises, and the light of the moon does not shine.” Isaiah 13:9–11.

“Darkness shall cover the Earth.” Isaiah 60:2-3.

“For near is the day, a day of clouds, doomsday for the nations shall it be.” Ezekiel 30:2–3.

“And I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light.” Ezekiel 32:7–8.

“The sun will go down at noon and will darken the Earth in the clear day.” Amos 8:8–9.

”Immediately after the sufferings of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light and the stars will be moved out of place, and the power of the heavens will be shaken.” Matthew 24:29.

“And there will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, and on earth distress of the nations and confusion because of the displacement of the sea.” Luke 21:25.

“There was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the Earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.” Revelations 6:12–14.

Catacysmic Darkness Foretold in the Apocrypha Second Book of Esdras

“The nation that shall then rule the world will become a trackless desert, laid waste for all to see. The sun will suddenly begin to shine in the middle of the night, and darkness in the daytime. Trees will drip blood, stones will speak, nations will be in confusion, and the courses of the stars will be changed. The Dead Sea will cast up fish, chasms will open up in many places and spurt out flames incessantly, fresh springs will run with salt water, and even the birds will fly away.”

A Night Three Days Long Seen by the Arabian Final Signs of Islam, 10th Century

The ground will cave in
In the east
And in the west
And in Arabia.
Fog or smoke will cover the skies for forty days.
The unbelievers will fall conscious
While Muslims will be ill.
The skies will then clear up
A night three nights long will follow the fog.
It will occur in the last month of the calendar
Near the Festival of Sacrifice
And cause much restlessness among the people.
After the night of three nights
The following morning the sun will rise in the west.

Prophecy from the Islamic Holy Book, the Quran

“Suddenly Allah will darken the whole world with smoke. The night will last 72 hours longer. The sun will rise in the west instead of the east, and it will travel only one-third of its course before setting again. On the next day, the sun and moon will resume their normal course. This will be the last opportunity to repent to Allah, for then he will close the door of mercy.”

Ancient Iranian Sacred Book, the Anugita, on Final Events

“A threefold day and threefold night concludes the world age.”

More Portents on the Coming Three Days of Darkness

In 1819, Sister Sarah de Lorraine recorded she witnessed a vision of three days and nights of continuous darkness. It would begin, she said, with a blood-red cloud covering the sky, causing the earth to tremble like thunder, and the waves of the sea to grow violent. The cloud would then grow thicker, with rays and flashes of lightning destroying many buildings, while people caught outside will succumb to noxious fumes. Soon the sun and moon will be blotted out, and the pitch blackness will be so great that only candles will penetrate the void, with all other forms of illumination failing. When finally the cloud disperses, the bodies of the dead will cover the entire globe. The majority of humankind will not have survived.

Less than twenty years later, in 1837, the visionary Anna Marie Taigi repeated the same warning. She too foresaw the horrible blackness to last for three days, and forbade the pious to open their windows or go into the streets—or they would drop dead on the spot. The air, she said, shall be “laden with pestilence,” and will not discriminate between the holy and the unbeliever, taking the lives of both equally.

In the very same year that Anna Marie Taigi received her impressions, Saint Gaspare de Bufalo, of the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood, had a startling revelation in which he likewise saw three days of darkness, and weeping survivors as they mourned over bodies strewn over the surface of the Earth.

According to Sister Palma Maria d’Oria, “There shall be a three days of darkness, during which the atmosphere will be infected by innumerable devils, who shall cause the deaths of large multitudes of unbelievers and wicked men. Supernatural prodigies shall appear in the heavens. There is to be a short but furious war, during which the enemies of religion and of mankind will be universally destroyed.”

In 1878, Sister Marie of the Crucified Jesus reiterated the same portent of three awful days of darkness, only she added the sobering prediction that only one-fourth of humanity will survive.

About the same time, the Prophecy of Passau warned, “A winter will come, darkness for three days, lightning, thunder and clefts in the earth. A poisonous breath will fill the night with dust, black pestilence amid the worst human battle.”

In 1891, French visionary Marie Julie Jehanney of La Fraudais warned, “There will come three days of continued darkness. Red clouds like blood will pass in the sky, the crash of thunder will make the Earth tremble, lightning will flash through the streets at an unusual time of the year. The Earth will tremble to its foundations, the ocean will cast its foaming waves over the land, the Earth will be changed into an immense cemetery, and the corpses of the wicked and the just will cover the face of the Earth.”

In 1943, a revelation of the Madonna given to Berthe Petit of Belgium included this ominous forecast:

“The punishment will approach like a cloud, which will increase in size and spreads out until it will cover everything. Sparks will then descend out of it, annihilating people by fire and blood.”

The Sibylline Oracles (2nd Century B.C.E.) on the End of the Present World

“When God dwelling in the firmament shall roll up the heaven, which like a scroll shall be put away, and all the many shaped vault of heaven shall fall on the vast Earth, and on the deep shall flow a ceaseless torrent of glowing fire, and shall consume the Earth, (then) the sea, and the pole of heaven, the nights, the days, and even the creation, shall fuse all in one, and be set apart for purification.”

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