ABL referred to this apparition during the '88 consecrations and humbly said that he was not saying it was talking about him.
To say anything else would be absurd, unless he also made the sun stand still or brought a dead man back to life. IOW, what else COULD he say? I am not saying anything BAD about him, just that his comment is not necessarily a proof of humility, if you will.
I am not familiar with the details of this prophecy, so if the following remark is, therefore, off base, c'est la vie...
It is pretty clear that, 45 years after the close of V2, NOTHING has been restored, in any meaningful sense of the word. We are all struggling to survive in an arid, post-apocalyptic, ecclesiastical wasteland...and ABL (+RIP+) has been dead for 20 years, so it makes sense to say, "If THIS is the great 'restoration', I'm a monkey's uncle..."