Could bergoglios sucessor be THE false prophet?
I think so as he would be the seventh antipope and fr Sylvester berry predicted that as the antichrist will be a fake messiah, the false prophet will be a false pope
Thoughts?
Before the person to be known as Antichrist is recognized as such, he will be
THE False Prophet, teaching all manner of heresies as the uncanonically-elected leader of what appears to the eyes of "the world" to be the Roman Catholic Church.
The False Prophet/Antichrist will fake his death. He will
appear to die, but will "miraculously" live (Apocalypse 13).
Here is St. Hildegard von Bingen's somewhat figurative description of his fake death and resurrection:
Hildegard on the Antichrist’s pretended death
From Scivias:
But I [the Antichrist] will die for you and to your glory, and rise again from death; and so I will deliver my people from Hell, that you may live gloriously with me in my kingdom, as that deceiver [Jesus] pretended He had done before." And he will tell his beloved ones to run him through with a sword and wrap him in a clean shroud, until the day of his resurrection. And he will delude them into thinking they are killing him, and so they will fulfill his commands. Then he will pretend to rise again, and bring out a writing as if for the salvation of souls, which is really a dire curse. And he will give this to people for a sign and command them to adore him. And if any person of faith refuses for love of My name, he will kill that person in great suffering and torture. And thus all who see and hear this will be struck with great wonder and doubtful amazement, as My beloved John shows... (Scivias, Book III, Vision 11, 31).
From Book of Divine Works:
For so too will he [the Antichrist] pretend to die, as if to redeem his people by his death, and to raise himself up again to return to life. He will also have an inscription written upon the foreheads of his followers, through which to introduce into them every evil, as too the ancient serpent, after deceiving humankind, kept them captive by stoking them with lust. Through that scripture he will inspire them by magical craft to oppose baptism and the Christian name, so that they will not desire to leave him, and all will style themselves after him, just as Christians are named after Christ. (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 18. St. Hildegard Von Bingen, The Book of Divine Works. Pages 469, Part III, Vision 5, Chapter 31).
Again, prior to his fake resurrection, he is "
the False Prophet." After his fake resurrection, he will be "
the Antichrist." Same guy. Two names.
Just as Jesus was accused of being a false prophet while spreading the Gospel, and only after his resurrection was recognized, by His followers, as "the Christ." Similarly, the Antichrist will be
the false prophet, an antipope, spreading his false Gospel before he is recognized, by his enemies, finally, as the Antichrist. At the same time, the reprobates will see him as their new Messiah, a new Christ.
Here again is St. Hildegard with a description (somewhat figurative) of the teaching of the Antichrist:
Description of the Antichrist in St. Hildegard von Bingen (1173 AD)
The Antichrist will indeed be infused by the devil when he opens his mouth to teach perversity, as described above. He will destroy all that God established with the ancient and the new law, and he will assert that sɛҳuąƖ immorality and other like things are not sins at all. For he will claim that it is not a sin if flesh heats up flesh, just as it is not a sin if a person warms himself by the fire. He will also assert that all commandments concerning chastity were made in ignorance, for since one person may be hot but another cold, they ought to moderate one another with their heat and cold.
And again he will say to the faithful,
“Your law of sɛҳuąƖ restraint was established contrary to the way of nature. Is a person not supposed to be hot, when his very breath is a fire that kindles his whole body? How could he keep his cool when it’s against his nature? Conversely, what reason could a person have to refuse to offer warmth to another’s flesh? For that man who you say is your master gave you a law that goes beyond measure when he bid you to live in such a way. But I say, embrace these two paths of hot and cold, and keep each other in your warm embrace! Consider that the man just mentioned gave you unjust commands, for despite his order that people not embrace one another with such warmth, they still maintained the nature of their flesh. So see here and do not be misled any longer by an unjust teaching, for with me you get to do whatever you want or not. Your master did not set before you correct propositions; he wanted you to be like a spirit that is unbound by the flesh and cannot physically do anything. But that’s not how naturally-born human flesh was created; rather it’s flooded and formed by fire, because if human children weren’t created in that way, they wouldn’t be capable of physical action. So know then what you really are! For your first teacher deceived you and didn’t help you in anything. But I inspire you really to learn about yourselves and to know what you are, for I created you, and I am completely in all things. In assigning all his works to another, meanwhile, that one spoke nothing on his own because he couldn’t do anything on his own. But I speak for myself, and I can do all things by myself.”
With these words and others like them, that wretched son of perdition will mislead people, teaching them to live according to the flesh’s fiery appetite and to achieve their flesh’s every want--despite the fact that both the old and the new law encourage humans to chastity in such a way that chastity does not surpass its proper measure.
The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 18. St. Hildegard Von Bingen, The Book of Divine Works. Pages 466-467, Part III, Vision 5, Chapter 30 (in part).
All of the prophecies will come to pass soon. If you don't see who the guy is yet, just keep watching and praying.
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