Author Topic: The Smoke of the Antichrist (Read 32179 times)

Persto · « **Reply #25 on:** August 15, 2026, 10:12:31 AM »

POPULARITY
     One of the identifying marks of the Antichrist (as I mentioned before) is the popularity that surrounds him. It is an absolute necessity for him to have followers in overwhelming numbers. It is not enough if somewhere he gains the simple majority, which would leave a minority of large percentage in existence. It would not be enough for the Antichrist.
     - Why?
     - Because a strong minority, having the truth in its possession, could easily undermine the position of the Antichrist by unmasking him. But if he has 99.9% of the crowd among his followers, the truth that the minority would hurl against him could be laughed off, because of the insignificant number of those who profess the truth.
     A clearer picture of this idea can be seen at the so-called "elections" in Communist countries. Those dictators who would never have a chance in a free election have always managed to get approval by 99% or more of the voters.
     The similarity can be observed with the "beast" of Vatican II. When the bishops started to dismantle the Church of Christ, and to substitute in its place the church of the Antichrist, they said they were democratizing the Church. But they have never asked the people if they liked the innovations or not. They have never had a popular vote on any important innovation. The un-Catholic reforms were brutally pushed down the throats of the people. When faithful Catholics expressed their dislike of the innovations, or even protested against them, they were undemocratically silenced and told: "You must obey the Council! You must obey the Pope!"

Persto · « **Reply #26 on:** August 15, 2026, 10:13:32 AM »

REMOVAL OF FAITHFUL PRIESTS

There is no need to cite here actual examples. You certainly remember several cases from your own experience, when this or that old priest, who wanted to remain faithful to the Catholic Tradition, was transferred from his large parish to a small community. Others were forced to go into retirement. Relatively young priests took over the large parishes in order to re-educate the parishioners as to accept the AGGIORNAMENTO, i.e., the adaptation of the Church to the Modernist heresy. - "All the earth followed the beast in wonder" (Apoc. 13, 4).

Persto · « **Reply #27 on:** August 15, 2026, 10:14:08 AM »

THE WEB OF COLLEGIALITY
     - How about the bishops? Why didn't they put up resistance in the defense of the Faith?
     Some of them really tried to do that. But those good old bishops gradually died away. They were replaced with new-breed-priests. The few bishops who still preserved their traditional mind were caught in the web of "Collegiality." The individual bishops were required to follow the decisions of the bishops' conferences, and not their own convictions. E.g., when concerned parents were asking the bishop of the diocese to remove heretical teachers and textbooks from Catholic schools, the bishop assured the petitioners that there is no need to worry, the Catholic religion is still here in the schools; besides, the textbooks have been approved by the National Conferences of Bishops. The justified protest of the faithful against the all-encroaching heresy in the Church has been dismissed countless times by the same bishops who have promoted the heresy. They always managed to elude responsibility by covering themselves with the decisions of the bishops' conferences.
     The reliance of the infallibility of the Church - Tradition has been replaced by the authority of the bishops' conferences. However, by this maneuver the bishops fell into their own trap. They explicitly rejected the concept of Vatican II being a "dogmatic" Council; by this they a priori removed from their decisions the stamp of infallibility, therefore, no Catholic is obliged to accept their decisions in conscience. Those decisions are not supported by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; they are products of human wisdom or human foolishness, as the case might be.
     Thus, finally it came true that the beast of Vatican II gained the support of 99.9% of the bishops. Those one or two lonely bishops who had the courage to stand up for Catholic Tradition, for the true Sacrifice of the Mass, were dismissed as rebels, fanatics, schismatics - without examining their arguments for the truth. In our modern, brainwashed, updated society people are not interested in truth. They respect success.
     However, their success is temporary. Waiting for them at the end is destruction, damnation. Eternal success is assured only by truth, or we can say, by Christ who Himself is the truth. "The truth shall make you free" (Jn. 8, 32).
     Even if 99% of the bishops deny Him, and set up a new Church, it would be a counter-Church, an anti-Church, which could possibly give temporary advantage to its members, promotion to the world, like the membership in Freemason lodges, but would be unable to provide them with eternal salvation. Outside of the true Church of Christ there is no salvation.

Persto · « **Reply #28 on:** August 15, 2026, 10:15:55 AM »

THE REMNANT CHURCH
     Reading the prophesy of the Bible, "All the earth followed the beast," - the question necessarily arises:
     - During the reign of the Antichrist, where will the true Church be? Didn't Christ promise that His Church cannot be destroyed?
     - That is correct. He did promise it. His Church cannot be destroyed, but it can be reduced in size, as it has already been in our days. Today, there are only a few people faithful to Christ; a few people who do not worship the beast, and "whose names are written in the Book of Life" (Apoc. 13, 8). These are the members of the Remnant Church, as St. Paul said: ". . . at the present time there is a remnant left, selected out of grace. . ." (Rom. 11, 5).
     St. Athanasius put it this way: "Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
     The mistake of many misguided Catholics consists in the feeling that belonging to the great majority is an insurance for salvation, because Christ they think, cannot condemn the majority. However, the words of Our Lord seem to indicate the opposite. Didn't he say: "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Mt. 20, 16)?
     You are in a safer place if you are among the few who belong to the Remnant Church, whose members are "selected out of grace." In the Remnant Church you can enjoy the protection of the three invincible shields given us by God. These are:
     The Word of Christ (unfalsified),
     the Sacrifice of Christ (the unchanged, ancient Mass) and
     the Mother of Christ (who will conquer all heresies).

Persto · « **Reply #29 on:** August 15, 2026, 10:16:44 AM »

THE OUTCOME
     - What will happen to the Antichrist? After he gets almost the entire population of the earth on his coattail, will his tyranny be permanent?
     - Not at all! Today, Christ and His true followers are humiliated, despised, persecuted. Martyrdom also is possible for us, but it is not a defeat. It is a triumph.
     St. Paul the Apostle says that in proper time "the wicked one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and will destroy with the brightness of His coming" (Thess. 2, 8).

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