A Bible Prophesy

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There’s an article I read that says the world is going to end on June 24 2018.

I just had to peek at the article and it says “conspiracy theorist Matthieu Jean-Mark Joseph Rodriguez” figured this out by Revelation in the passage “He was given authority to act for 42 months.”

The article also says “Supposedly if you add the number in the passage to the crop harvest and price, it gives the date of our last day on Earth.”

Rodrigue says “I heard a voice in the middle of the four living beings. This is wisdom…He who has intelligence can interpret the figure of the beast. It represents the name of a man. His figure is 666.”

Is this just another whackadoo conspiracy theory that isn’t true or does the Catholic Church go for these ways of interpreting the end of the world in Revelation?
 
Last year they said it was 23rd September 2017, that 100 since fatima years mattered and was significant
 
It didn’t say. I posted pretty much all the relevant info. I can’t repost it here because it came off of facebook
 
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People have predicted the end of the world for 2000 years I’m not too worried.
 
Gorgias, what about what Undead Rat said in Post #10?
 
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MrZoom, thank you! I like this section, especially:

<<<<<<<<<9. Should Catholics worry about the prophecy of the popes?

No. It is not an approved apparition, and the evidence is consistent with it being a forgery composed around 1590.

Click here for more information about the prophecy of the popes.

More fundamentally, Jesus indicated that we would not know the time of the end.

In keeping with Our Lord’s warning, predictions of the end of the world based on the Bible have a dismal track record, and trying to predict the time of the end based on an unapproved private revelation that shows signs of being forged is even more foolish.

We should trust God, live according to his word, and leave the future in his hands.

As Jesus said:

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day” (Matt. 6:34).

What do you think?>>>>>>>
 
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Hope1960:
What about what Undead Rat said in Post #10?
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This alleged prophecy is attributed to St. Malachy. It is not approved by the Church, and there is significant evidence that it is a forgery.
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Since 1880 we have known that St. Malachy had nothing to do with composing the list of 113 papal mottoes and that these were not written until sometime after 1557.** But they were published in 1595, and the real question is whether or not those coming after that year show any signs of validity. Here we must note that Pope Pius XII thought enough of this so-called prophecy to choose his own motto, “Pastor angelicus,” to be the title of his 1942 autobiographical film. Many of the mottoes show an astounding confluence with events, but I don’t have time to go into that right now.

I have stated that the mottoes are controversial, and have also stated what they and the visions of Pope St. Pius X predict as a way of testing their validity. This predicted outcome is extremely negative, and we must all pray that I am wrong.

**AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SO-CALLED PROPHECY OF ST. MALACHY, O’Brien, 1880
 
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Well, of course the evidence points to the “prophecy” having been composed by Irish priests on their vino and lunch breaks, and a lot of Irish priests back then came from bardic poet families. So you should give it as much credence as any other bardic prophecy.

And then you should look at what happened to medieval Ireland.

I’m Irish and from a bardic poet family, so I can say this sort of thing and you have to believe me! 🙂
 
Do any of you ever think that maybe the last days refers to maybe our own personal life and not the entire world ending?
 
Seriously, though… in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, deliberately fake prophecies were a thing. In England, there were tons of Merlin and Mother Shipton prophecies, for example. Most of them were taking advantage of the fact that political criticism was difficult to print, but dream books and occult prophecy books were easy to get approval for.

So instead of drawing a political cartoon and printing off copies, you wrote up a whole bunch of political verses. And then you pretended that they were prophecies about 100 years from now, written 300 years ago, by somebody legendary or fictional. Surely nobody could be offended! Surely it had absolutely nothing to do with the current king or mayor, oh no!

So basically, the “St. Malachy pope list” is probably some kind of disguised slam at the cardinals and nobility of Rome at the time of its writing. Some people think it was actually a sort of “papabile score card”.

However, like the horoscopes in a magazine, you can read the list in such a way as to apply to all sorts of people who weren’t alive back then… if you want to do it. It is a sort of in-joke in the Vatican to read it that way, and I presume that is why people bother to keep the thing in print.
 
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Mintaka said:
. It is a sort of in-joke in the Vatican . . .
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Do you really think that the great Pope Pius XII would have selected the title for his 1942 autobiographical film from an “in-joke?” Of course the list of mottoes is controversial. But we have known since 1880 that St. Malachy did not write them, the most likely author being Fr. Arnold Wion, a Benedictine monk.
The validity of the list stands or falls on the success of the mottoes since 1595.
The motto for Pope Francis is:

In psecutione. extrema S.R.E. sedebit.-----(He will reign in the final persecution. of the Holy Roman Church.)

This is ominous enough in itself, but it ties in with the terrible visions of Pope St. Pius X concerning some kind of disaster at Vatican City which will involve a “successor of the same name.” —Giuseppe Sarto—Joseph Ratizinger.

I am quite serious about this. Pray for the safety of our Bishops of Rome, active and retired!
 
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Indeed, we all have a last day coming soon. But, I don’t think it can be said Apocalypse is purely about this.
 
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This is ominous enough in itself, but it ties in with the terrible visions of Pope St. Pius X concerning some kind of disaster at Vatican City which will involve a “successor of the same name.” —Giuseppe Sarto—Joseph Ratizinger.
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Sorry confused - Guiseppe Sarto - is Pius X name. Not Ratizenger’s name - correct?
 
Seconded? It seems like any other private revelation that is ends up being untrue.
 
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