It's things like the coming Chastisement and restoration that make me think MHFM may have been right about JPII
The reason I say this is due to Fr. Berry's reading of the timeline of events, wherein the Antichrist precedes the Restoration of the Church, followed by centuries of peace before the final battle of Gog and Magog. It also wouldn't be much of a deception if people weren't deceived by Antichrist to begin with. And given that sins against the first thru third Commandments are the most offensive against God, a man like JPII preaching such a heinous and insidious anti-Gospel has resulted in the deception and death of millions upon millions of souls in Hell. A worse fate than any sort of bodily chastisements.
But, I digress, as there are also things prophesied that were not fulfilled during JPII's reign of terror.
Biggest problem with that theory is that JPII doesn't fulfill all the marks of the Antichrist. He did not issue the Mark of the Beast, nor did achievement world domination in the way that this passage implies that the Antichrist will do (though the blaspheming bit fits quite well with his actions):
And he [the Beast] opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation. And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that shall lead into captivity, shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword, must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
(Apocalypse 13:6-10)
I think that the reading of the Restoration coming after the Antichrist comes off as Millennialist, and that a more suitable interpretation of the thousand years is age of Christendom from approximately 500 AD-1500 AD. This is how Bishop Williamson interpreted it in one of his seminary lectures on the Book of the Apocalypse, when covering the chapter that mentions the thousand years. He says, if I am remembering properly, that it would make less sense for the thousand years to be approximately from the years 2000-3000 (these conferences were given in 1998 and 1999) than the years 500-1500, due to the way man has generally degraded every generation further removed from Adam and Eve since the Fall. I'll find that conference and link it here for reference and maybe make a clip out of his discussion of the subject.