So...what happens when Bergoglio retires and/or dies, and nothing happens? You would look like a false prophet, calling names and dates.
Most say that is not a good idea. Bishop Williamson for example is always adamant that "I don't know the time, you don't know the time..." He is always completely against "calling dates".
The Dimond brothers I believe were quite adamant that JP2 was the Antichrist. Don't they feel stupid now.
Calling dates is the equivalent of clickbait. It gets people excited. You might get clicks, donations, excitement, action -- BUT it comes at a cost. You are repeatedly wrong, and you have to keep coming up with excuses why you were wrong, and try to keep people trusting you again and again (somehow) so as to continue the grift.
One problem: people lose faith in you eventually. See: The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Yes, I believe that's not a good game to play.
Who is calling dates? Who is asking for donations? Not me.
And, there is no doubt. The Antichrist is going to
pretend to die. Here is how St. Hildegard von Bingen describes it:
Hildegard on the Antichrist’s pretended deathFrom
Scivias:
"But I 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 commmand 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 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 the 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).