The Catholics have not understood the meaning of this sign, and that is a tragedy...
The most ancien Fathers taught that the woman, in chapter 12, symbolized the Church. Of course she is Our Lady in a spiritual sense, but she is the Church in an eschatological sense; and Father Gallois theorized that the male son was the Pope in an eschatological sense, at the same time as Our Lord in a spiritual sense. Fathers Berry and Kramer adopted this idea, and they said that it should be a given pope, not only the Pope in an abstract sense.
In chapter 12, all angels are gathered in heaven; and since angels allude to bishops and heaven alludes to the Church in the Apocalypse, it means that this chapter describes an oecuмenical council, during which all bishops of the earth are gathered. There is a fight between the wicked shepherds and the good ones. When the wicked are defeated, Satan is rejected from heaven and "cast out upon the earth": it is a metaphor of the excommunication of the modernist clergy. And this excommunication is depicted in the following words: "he has been cast out, the accuser of our brethren". This phrase alludes to the Book of Zachary, when Joshua the high priest came back from the Babylonian Captivity and restored the Jєωιѕн theocracy. It thus means that a legitimate pope will come back from the captivity of the new Babylon (the false Church) to excommunicate the modernist clergy. But who is this Pope? Chapter 12 of the Apocalypse gives us the answer: he is the "male son" (the Pope) elected during the oecuмenical council, which means that this Pope can only be Paul VI. And the latter truly went through the captivity of the new Babylon, because he remained imprisoned in the Vatican from 1972 until 1981. In some way we are also spiritual captives of the counterfeit Church, because she exerts her wicked influence over the world.
Chapter 12 predicts the triumph of the Martyr Pope, because verse 5 tells us that the male son is given back to God's throne; and in chapter 4, God's throne symbolizes the headquarters of the theocracy, the papacy. Therefore, the Martyr Pope will be given back to the headquarters of the Church, just as Our Lord was given back to His Father.
The refuge of the woman means the exile of the Pope; and the 42 months are to be heard in years, just like the weeks of Daniel. Now, between the date when Paul VI was replaced with a double and the date when he will reappear, there will be 42 years (1975-2017). The alternative replacement of Paul VI with a double occured in 1972, and the definitive replacement in 1975. There are 1260 years between the donation of the Papal States and the false canonization of Wojtyla, and there are 42 years between the alternative replacement of Paul VI with a double and this false canonization. In the Apocalypse, this gruesome ceremony marks the imminence of God's chastisement, and the end of the Papal States until the end of the world.
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