By Theodore Shoebat (Shoebat Sunday Special)
German scientists are now going to be doing studies on the brains of handicap and disabled people killed in the Holocaust. The brains have been stored up by the German organization, the Max Planck Institute, which worked in collaboration with the Nazis in their social-Darwinist human experiments. The scientists, of course, are doing this all in the name of ‘remembering’ the Holocaust, but if you read some of the history behind this group’s use and storage of the brains, and the lies they made after the Second World War about how sorry they were for what they had done, it is safe to say that you will have doubts.
The Max Planck Institute, which holds thousands of brain samples, slides and other materials relating to the victims, will be funding this project which will, as they say, last for about three years.
The Max Planck society
The Nazis conducted what they entitled as the “Aktion T4” eugenist and euthanasia program, in which they, in the name of “racial hygiene,” studied, experimented and exterminated disabled people, under the ideology that such people would pose a threat to the “gene pool” of the Indo-Iranian Germanic race.
The German Nazis sent hundreds of samples of the brains of their victims to Berlin where they would be examined by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. Whats interesting is that before the Holocaust, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was infamously known as a beacon of biological research and scientific innovation, even winning several Nobel Prizes. This should remind us of the reality of the many scientists today who study animals and human biology and at the same time promote eugenics. Let this be a lesson to us, that these “men of science” who position themselves as gods — dictating who lives and who dies — look to humanity no differently than how they see bacteria and insects under the microscope. They may have knowledge of a certain microbe or bug, but do not forget, that such people, who have cut themselves off from humanity by perceiving mortals as animals, will see mankind as indistinguishable from microscopic organisms, exterminating populations as though they were but insects.
G.K. Chesterton had something to say about this very subject, when he wrote:
“A man can understand astronomy only by being an astronomer; he can understand entomology only by being an entomologist (or, perhaps, an insect); but he can understand a great deal of anthropology merely by being a man. He is himself the animal which he studies. Hence arises the fact which strikes the eye everywhere in the records of ethnology and folk-lore – the fact that the same frigid and detached spirit which leads to success in the study of astronomy or botany leads to disaster in the study of mythology or human origins. It is necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to a microbe; it is not necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to men. That same suppression of sympathies, that same waving away of intuitions or guess-work which make a man preternaturally clever in dealing with the stomach of a spider, will make him preternaturally stupid in dealing with the heart of man. He is making himself inhuman in order to understand humanity.”
What the Nazis did to those they deemed inferior was not some anomaly, rather it was business as usual; for in the first half of the 20th century, they had as well studied the Herero and Nama peoples of Africa. The Germans butchered tens of thousands of people in Africa, many of whom (particularly the Nama) were Christians, and sent crate loads of their skulls, brains, noses, and even penises, back to Germany to be examined by “scientists.” So, when the Germans conducted the systematic extermination of Jews, Poles, Serbs and others, in the Nazi Holocaust, it was really not something they were new to, rather it was business as usual.
Killing of the Herero by the Germans
Now, German scientists want to ‘examine’ the brains of these Holocaust victims, all in the name of ‘research.’ After the Second World War, the Max Planck Institute took over the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and by that obtained all of the brain samples that it ripped from the heads of victims of the Third Reich. But, regardless of the fact that the Nazis were war criminals, German scientists were actually allowed to continue studying these brains, all in the name of ‘researching’ certain disabilities, such as Down’s Syndrome.
The disturbing reality is that for decades after the war, this sick thing they called research was permitted to be done on the brains by these eugenist scientists. These same scientists even wrote “scientific publications” on their findings, but never divulged on the reality that they were examining the brains of people murdered by the Third Reich. The research on the brain samples continued on all the way up to the 1960s. The reason for this license is obviously associated with Operation Paper Clip, in which the US government protected Nazi scientists in order to know about their ‘research.’ The US government was the one that inspired the Nazis to implement eugenist policies in their own country, so it is quite conspicuous that this very nation would protect these Nazi scientists.
Joseph Mengele, Nazi scientist who took part in keep the brains of his victims
But, in the 1980s, the Max Planck Institute decided to take supposedly all of the brain samples dated from 1933 to 1945, and bury them in a Munich cemetery. In the year 1990, the Max Planck Institute erected a memorial for the victims, and in 2001 issued an apology for its involvement in Nazi atrocities and its research on the brain samples after the war.
The apology was all a lie. The idea that the Max Planck Institute had buried all the brain samples of victims in the cemetery, was a lie. For, in the year 2015, it was discovered that tens of thousands of more brain samples were still kept by the Max Planck Institute. Now the Max Planck Institute will be researching the brain samples under the guise of finding out more about the Holocaust victims, so they claim.
It is all quite eerily strange. For decades the Institute had been researching these brains, and then they apologized, supposedly buried the brain samples and then built a memorial, but then it is found out that they have about 24,000 brain samples left in their archives, and now they are going to continue their “research,” but this time to learn more about the Holocaust. It looks like they are simply continuing the same evil research that they were doing for decades after the war, but now they will be doing the same thing only this time it is masqueraded under a more sensitive mask.
I took some time to inquire more on the relationship between the Max Planck Institute and the US government, and I found some interesting archives. One reveals that in the 1990s the CIA took a special interest in the Max Planck Institute’s research on the human brain, or “neuroscience,” as one CIA archive writes:
“In light of these technical and theoretical developments, Neuropsychological research may be regarded as having an extraordinarily high innovation potential. It must also be said that the recent development of neuropsychology has so far largely passed Germany by. The main reason for this loss of ground probably lies in the fact that the disciplines embracing neuropsychology — psychology and neurology/neurobiology — are traditionally assigned to different faculties at German universities and are thus kept separate at the institutional level. This chasm will now be bridged by an interdisciplinary Max Planck Institute.”
Now, its interesting that the very CIA who, as we have shown, worked directly with Nazis to recruit people to create neo-Nazi armies in Europe, and who protected Nazi scientists after the war, was working with the Max Planck Institute, which had been — and still is — keeping and examining the brains of Holocaust victims, to learn more about neuroscience; its very revealing as to the governmental networks involved in the masterplan to impose and advance the cause of Darwin.
There is another document found in the CIA archives, from June of 1955 (when the Max Planck Institute was keeping and examining brain samples of Holocaust victims), showing how the CIA took interest in the activities and work of Karl Wirtz, a Nazi scientist who was actually arrested by the Allies after the war and imprisoned for six months in 1945. During the Holocaust, Wirtz was working for the eugenist Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and then later on in 1946 he worked for the same Institute under its new name, the Max Planck Institute, for which he did research on uranium and nuclear technology. The CIA was interested in this research and on plans to build a German nuclear reactor.
Karl Wirtz,
Earlier this month I published a very in depth and original study on how the Counterjihad movement is a continuation of the CIA plan to reinvigorate Nazism in Europe, and how, in this light, the Counterjihad movement has been a major pusher for the revival and restoration of German militarism. One of the founders of the Counterjihad, Frank Gaffney, was a big promoter of German militarism, while at the same time him, and other major Counterjihad figures, have been working to push for eugenics and social-Darwinism.
Gaffney’s organization, the Center for Security Policy, was financially founded by one of the biggest promoters of eugenics in US history, Richard Mellon Scaife, and he worked directly with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a eugenist organization also financed by the same Scaife. One of the Center for Security Policy’s Advisory Board members, Michael Rubin, is a Resident Scholar for AEI. An Adjunct Fellow for AEI, the eugenist Jon Entine, wrote an article published on the official AEI website, advocating for “the struggle to rid the world of people with developmental disabilities”.
In my study, I show that German militarism and eugenics are being promoted, much of the time within the same ideological networks. What is interesting is that this recent move to study the brains of Holocaust victims, is being done while there is currently a push for Germany to produce nuclear weapons. Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of the German parliament for the Protestant Christian Democrats — the same party of Angela Merkel — wrote an article for the Right-wing publication, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, stating that now is the time to contemplate “the altogether unthinkable for a German brain, the question of a nuclear deterrence capability, which could make up for doubts about American guarantees”.
Roderich Kiesewetter
In another article, published in shoebat.com, I quoted Kiesewetter when he said that Germany “should not wait” to consider accelerating military independence. Kiesewetter is demanding for a “European-only defense against Russia” and believes that such a plan would make Germany stronger in a conflict against Russia as opposed to the current status-quo.
These are all signs that Germany is returning to its militarist and eugenist past, which is not surprising, given the fact that it is still under the influence of that false prophet and antichrist, Martin Luther, and as long as this is the case, Germany will always return to the warpath.
Eugenics, social-Darwinism and Nazism, are all truly part of the religion of the Antichrist. We learn of this truth from the holy words of Eugenio Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII, that most valorous combatant against Nazism and racism. When Nazism began to rise, at the ideological level, in 1925, the date in which Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published, Pacelli read Hitler’s book but did not believe that the Nazis were strong enough to take power, which was a belief that many held in those days. But, in a few years, this view began to change and Pacelli warned: “the conflict between Christ and Antichrist is taking gigantic shape.” (1)
Roderich Kiesewetter
By these words we know that Nazism, which really was just another manifestation of German supremacist ideology, is part of the Antichrist system. The Nazis, however, were trying very hard to portray themselves as people of good, Christian family values. For example, Hitler said that Christianity was “the basis of our collective moral,” and that the family was the “kernel of our people.” Many people fell for this feigned piety, and when you understand how the rise of Bolshevism sparked fear of a Soviet invasion, its easy to see how fear stirred the masses to fanatical adulation for Hitler as a savior. Hitler even had his brownshirts attend religious services and collect money for public charities — a common game all cults play — to show how much the Nazis were for Christianity.
But all of this changed, and the Nazis began to show their true anti-Catholic agenda. They began to impose laws, such as making parents produce a written statement if they wanted to put their children in Catholic schools. The Nazis would send intimidating letters to Catholic parents, trying to discourage them from having their children attend Catholic education. The Nazis wanted to cut off any Catholic involvement in politics.
Catholic parents’ groups were abolished because in their meetings Catholics would make speeches and that made them “political” according to the decrees of the Third Reich. These impositions proved to be very effective. In 1933, 65% of Munich’s families had their children attending Catholic education; by 1935, that number was reduced to 35%, and by 1937, it was lowered to just 3%. The Nazis justified their anti-Christian hatred by describing Christianity as another form of Marxism, with Hitler stating that “the heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.”
Anti-Catholic propaganda. The Nazis began to portray the Catholic Church as an extension of Judaism, and thus as a Jewish enemy
To combat the Antichrist forces of Nazism, Pope Pius XI, alongside Eugenio Pacelli and Bishop Faulhaber, composed the encyclical, Mit brennender Sorge (With burning Concern), against Nazism and its racist and anti-Christian ideology. In one section of the encyclical it declares that racism and ethnocentricity are utterly antichrist:
“Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community — however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things — whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them … is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds.”
The encyclical goes on to condemn mixing nationalism with Christianity:
“None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are ‘as a drop of a bucket.’ (Isaiah XI, 15).”
The encyclical goes on to speak of that most dangerous heresy: the idea of taking Christian morality and severing it from the Faith itself, and from all political life:
“The fool who has said in his heart ‘there is no God’ goes straight to moral corruption, (Psalms 13:1) and the number of fools who today are out to sever morality from religion is legion. They either do not see or refuse to see that the banishment of confessional Christianity, i.e., the clear and precise notion of Christianity, from teaching and education, from the organization of social and political life, spells spiritual spoilation and degradation.”
Pope Pius XI
Who today is claiming to espouse Christian morality, while at the same time ignoring its source, the Church? Who is this but the secular Conservative movement of today? They will push for “Christian morals,” but they will never advocate for the divine law to be imposed on society. They will say that they are against “gay marriage,” but they will also say that they are for toleration of sodomites. They will say that “abortion is murder,” but they will never treat the woman who gets an abortion as a murderer. They are what St. Paul wrote about, “having a form of godliness but denying its power.” (2 Timothy 3:5) The encyclical of Pius XI was describing the Nazis, for it was the Nazis who claimed to be for “family values,” while they at the same time had many sodomites in their ranks, supported eugenics and social-Darwinism. The way Hitler and the Nazis worked fit the vivid description of St. John, looking like “a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.” (Revelation 13:11)
Hitler wanted to work with the bishops of the Catholic Church, he said that he wished to cooperate with the Catholic hierarchy to create a better society. Many Catholics believed this, but the reality was that this despot was a dragon portraying himself as a lamb. This reminds us of what Daniel wrote of the Antichrist's political false friendliness with people within the Church, writing that "Those who do wickedly against the covenant he [Antichrist] shall corrupt with flattery" (Daniel 11:32).
In antiquity, the Germans, for the most part, did not convert from paganism to Catholicism, but from paganism to the Arian heresy. At one point in Medieval history, all of the Germans, or Goths, were Aryan heretics, that is, they rejected the Trinity and the Divinity of Christ. St. Ambrose of Milan, who is amongst the most formidable fathers of the Church, declared that Arianism is the religion of the Antichrist and that the Goths, or Germans, would be a people of the Antichrist. In an epistle written to the Catholic Emperor Gratian, who was at the time warring against the invading German heretics, Ambrose wrote on the Goths, their heresy and cruelty, and how they are the people of Gog:
“John, likewise, saith that heretics are Antichrists, plainly marking out the Arians. For this [Arian] heresy began to be after all other heresies, and hath gathered the poisons of all. As it is written of the Antichrist, that ‘he opened his mouth to blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His Name, and to make war with His saints,’ so do they also dishonour the Son of God, and His martyrs have they not spared. Moreover, that which perchance Antichrist will not do, they have falsified the holy Scriptures. And thus he who saith that Jesus is not the Christ, the same is Antichrist; he who denies the Saviour of the world, denies Jesus; he who denies the Son, denies the Father also, for it is written; ‘Every one which denieth the Son, denieth the Father likewise.’
I Must no further detain your Majesty, in this season of preparation for war, and the achievement of victory over the Barbarians. Go forth, sheltered, indeed, under the shield of faith, and girt with the sword of the Spirit; go forth to the victory, promised of old time, and foretold in oracles given by God.
For Ezekiel, in those far-off days, already prophesied the minishing of our people, and the Gothic wars, saying: 'Prophesy, therefore, Son of Man, and say: O Gog, thus saith the Lord-Shalt thou not, in that day when My people Israel shall be established to dwell in peace, rise up and come forth from thy place, from the far north, and many nations with thee, all riders upon horses, a great and mighty gathering, and the valour of many hosts? Yea, go up against my people Israel, as clouds to cover the land, in the last days.'
That Gog is the Goth, whose coming forth we have already seen, and over whom victory in days to come is promised, according to the word of the Lord: ‘And they shall spoil them, who had been their despoilers, and plunder them, who had carried off their goods for a prey, saith the Lord. And it shall be in that day, that I will give to Gog’-that is, to the Goths-‘a place that is famous, for Israel an high-heaped tomb of many men, of men who have made their way to the sea, and it shall reach round about, and close the mouth of the valley, and there [the house of Israel shall] overthrow Gog and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog: and the house of Israel shall overwhelm them, that the land may be cleansed.’
Nor, furthermore, may we doubt, your sacred Majesty, that we, who have undertaken the contest with alien unbelief, shall enjoy the aid of the Catholic Faith that is strong in you. Plainly indeed the reason of God's wrath has been already made manifest, so that belief in the Roman Empire was first overthrown, where faith in God gave way.
No desire have I to recount the deaths, tortures, and banishments of confessors, the offices of the faithful made into presents for traitors. Have we not heard, from all along the border,-from Thrace, and through Dacia by the river, Moesia, and all Valeria of the Pannonians,-a mingled tumult of blasphemers preaching and barbarians invading? What profit could neighbours so bloodthirsty bring us, or how could the Roman State be safe with such defenders?
Enough, yea, more than enough, Almighty God, have we now atoned for the deaths of confessors, the banishment of priests, and the guilt of wickedness so overweening, by our own blood, our own banishment-sufficiently plain is it that they, who have broken faith, cannot be safe. Turn again, O Lord, and set up the banners of Thy faith.
No military eagles, no flight of birds, here lead the van of our army, but Thy Name, Lord Jesus, and Thy worship. This is no land of unbelievers, but the land whose custom it is to send forth confessors-Italy; Italy, ofttimes tempted, but never drawn away; Italy, which your Majesty hath long defended, and now again rescued from the barbarian. No wavering mind in our emperor, but faith firm fixed.
Show forth now a plain sign of Thy Majesty, that he who believes Thee to be the true Lord of Hosts, and Captain of the armies of heaven; he who believes that Thou art the true Power and Wisdom of God, no being of time nor of creation, but even as it is written, the eternal Power and Divinity of God, may, upheld by the aid of thy Might Supreme, win the prize of victory for his Faith.”
Indeed, prophecy was written for all times, awaiting an ultimate fulfillment in the times of the end. This prophecy about "Gog" is multifaceted. There are many antichrists and there are many Gogs, and many evil northern countries, and just as Turkey will be Antichrist, so shall Germany be Antichrist. Notice how St. Ambrose refers to Italy as a holy land fighting the antichrist; this is paralleled to what Daniel wrote, that the galleys and the Romans shall come upon the Antichrist (Daniel 11:30).
Notice what St. Ambrose says here, “the offices of the faithful made into presents for traitors”, he is speaking of the true priesthood being replaced by the heretical Arian priesthood after invasions by the Goths. This is paralleled with what the prophet Elijah recounted, on how Jezebel and the pagans slaughtered the priests of God and replaced them with the priests of Baal:
“they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.” (1 Kings 19:10)
The ancient Roman historian, Procopius, tells us a very beautiful story of how the pagan king of Libya, Cabaon, honored the God of Israel and defeated the Goths who were slaughtering the Christians of his land. The Goths had invaded North Africa and carried out a systematic persecution and extermination of the Christian population, slaughtering Christians who refused to convert to Arianism, tormenting priests and defiling churches. Cabaon, the king, was a pagan, but he said that if the God of the Christians wanted to end the blasphemies that were being done to His temples, that He bless him with a victory over the Germans. Cabaon, to honor the God of Israel, commissioned spies to conduct this mission: they were to follow the Germans, and every time they defiled a church and attacked the priests inside, they would enter the church and do everything the opposite of what the Germans had done, and then they would continue on, doing this same action. Ultimately, the Libyans struck the Germans and vanquished the heretics. As we read in Procopius:
“There was a certain Cabaon ruling over the Moors of Tripolis, a man experienced in many wars and exceedingly shrewd. This Cabaon, upon learning that the Vandals were marching against him, did as follows. First of all he issued orders to his subjects to abstain from all injustice and from all foods tending towards luxury and most of all from association with women; and setting up two palisaded enclosures, he encamped himself with all the men in one, and in the other he shut the women, and he threatened that death would be the penalty if anyone should go to the women's palisade. And after this he sent spies to Carthage with the following instructions: whenever the Vandals in going forth on the expedition should offer insult to any temple which the Christians reverence, they were to look on and see what took place; and when the Vandals had passed the place, they were to do the opposite of everything which the Vandals had done to the sanctuary before their departure. And they say that he added this also, that he was ignorant of the God whom the Christians worshipped, but it was probable that if He was powerful, as He was said to be, He should wreak vengeance upon those who insulted Him and defend those who honoured Him. So the spies came to Carthage and waited quietly, observing the preparation of the Vandals; but when the army set out on the march to Tripolis, they followed, clothing themselves in humble garb.
And the Vandals, upon making camp the first day, led their horses and their other animals into the temples of the Christians, and sparing no insult, they acted with all the unrestrained lawlessness natural to them, beating as many priests as they caught and lashing them with many blows over the back and commanding them to render such service to the Vandals as they were accustomed to assign to the most dishonoured of their domestics. And as soon as they had departed from there, the spies of Cabaon did as they had been directed to do; for they straightway cleansed the sanctuaries and took away with great care the filth and whatever other unholy thing lay in them, and they lighted all the lamps and bowed down before the priests with great reverence and saluted them with all friendliness; and after giving pieces of silver to the poor who sat about these sanctuaries, they then followed after the army of the Vandals. And from then on along the whole route the Vandals continued to commit the same offences and the spies to render the same service. And when they were coming near the Moors, the spies anticipated them and reported to Cabaon what had been done by the Vandals and by themselves to the temples of the Christians, and that the enemy were somewhere near by. And Cabaon, upon learning this, arranged for the encounter as follows. He marked off a circle in the plain where he was about to make his palisade, and placed his camels turned sideways in a circle as a protection for the camp, making his line fronting the enemy about twelve camels deep. Then he placed the children and the women and all those who were unfit for fighting together with their possessions in the middle, while he commanded the host of fighting men to stand between the feet of those animals, covering themselves with their shields. And since the phalanx of the Moors was of such a sort, the Vandals were at a loss how to handle the situation; for they were neither good with the javelin nor with the bow, nor did they know how to go into battle on foot, but they were all horsemen, and used spears and swords for the most part, so that they were unable to do the enemy any harm at a distance; and their horses, annoyed at the sight of the camels, refused absolutely to be driven against the enemy. And since the Moors, by hurling javelins in great numbers among them from their safe position, kept killing both their horses and men without difficulty, because they were a vast throng, they began to flee, and, when the Moors came out against them, the most of them were destroyed, while some fell into the hands of the enemy; and an exceedingly small number from this army returned home. Such was the fortune which Trasamundus suffered at the hands of the Moors. And he died at a later time, having ruled over the Moors twenty-seven years.”
What the Germans did to North Africa, is this not what the Antichrist will do? As we learn from the prophet Daniel, the Antichrist will invade North Africa. The Antichrist, as we know from our reading of history and of Scripture, will be the head of a revived Ottoman Empire, and knowing of the history of the German warpath, how they sacked the Western half of the Roman Empire, and how the Muslim Turks sacked the Eastern half of the Roman empire, it seems like what we will see in the future is an Ottoman German alliance.
The prophet Daniel says that the Antichrist will make an attack against Egypt but will be struck by the Romans, that is, the people of Chittim or the Southern European peoples such as the Italians and Greeks. As St. Jerome writes:
“As for the Antichrist, there is no question but what he is going to fight against the holy covenant, and that when he first makes war against the king of Egypt, he shall straightway be frightened off by the assistance of the Romans.”
After this, the Antichrist will conspire with them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary, that is, those who, once being Christians, have rejected the Catholic Faith, to persecute the Christians:
“At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the south, but the latter time shall not be like the former. And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.” (Daniel 11:29-30)
There will be a great war between the Antichrist and the Romans, in defense of the Holy Faith, not the vagabonds and renegades that we call Protestant churches, but the Catholic Faith. For in the Catholic Faith there is the covenant, that is, the pledge and the bond to always obey the Church and to continuously partake in the sacraments that Christ established. Those who left the covenant with the Catholic Church -- the Church that has Apostolic succession, which means that it can trace through historical documentation its lineage all the way back to the Apostles and to Christ (this includes the Orthodox Church) -- will side with the forces of the Antichrist.
Protestants will join the Beast, they will become the acolytes of the Antichrist, for they, rejecting the covenant with the Catholic Church, hate the Church’s altars, its sacraments, and they especially hate the continual sacrifice, that is, the sacrifice of the Eucharist given in every Mass. Read the words of the holy and valorous Elijah, and you will see an image of the persecution that is to come from those who reject the covenant:
“I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” (1 Kings 19:14)
Mosaic of the prophet Elijah
Who wanted to destroy the holy faith in Israel? It was Jezebel, who was not of Israel, rather she was a pagan foreigner from Phoenicia. Jezebel was powerless without Ahab, an Israelite who had apostatized from the covenant and thus facilitated and enabled the persecution desired by Jezebel. What does this signify? That Antichrist needs people who were once of the Church to persecute the Church.
This is why I believe that the system of the Antichrist is not just Islam, but Islam in collaboration with other anti-Christian forces, such as Protestantism. We must remember that it was not Islam that destroyed Western Christendom, but Protestantism; for it was the protestant heresy that convinced people to forsake the holy covenant, to reject the sacraments, to despise the Catholic empire, to tear down Catholic culture, to war upon the universality of the Faith and the oneness of humanity; to fragment Catholic unity, to make ugly all of the art conceived in the Catholic imagination; it was the Protestants who sided with the Ottoman Empire to war against the people of St. Peter; it was Protestantism that violently tore away the secular sword from the spiritual sword and replaced them with the tyranny of materialism and the despotic godlessness of State worship; it was the religions of Jan Hus, Luther, Calvin and Zwingli that pushed Europe into the most destructive war it had ever endured before the First World Wars: the Thirty Years War that witnessed the deaths of millions; it was Protestantism that led to that horrid era called “the Enlightenment,” which saw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the saints on the streets of France; and continuing down this sanguinary road of history, one eventually sees the corpse of beautiful Christendom, shot down by a storm of bullets fired from those who forsook the altar.
A Jezebel is powerless without an Ahab, and so the Antichrist will be powerless without apostates. Jezebel and her army of apostates destroyed the altars, and did not the Protestants do the same during the Reformation? For example, when the Protestants arose in Switzerland in the 16th century, they caused immensely violent discord in the country, eventually bringing the whole nation to civil war. They entered the churches and tore down the altars, as we learn from De Haller:
“Everywhere, except at Shaffhousen, a city which was always distinguished for its tranquility and the peaceful character of its inhabitants, seditious armed mobs rushed for their own accord to the churches, broke down the altars, burnt the images, destroyed the magnificent monuments of art, pillaged the sacred vases as well as other objects of value, and put up for public sale at auction the sacred vestments: by such vandalism and by such sacrileges was the religious revolution of the sixteenth century signalized.” (2)
The Nazis also wanted to create its own altar, they tried to replace the Eucharist with their own. In 1938, the Italian publication, Osservatore Romano, took a photo of a Nazi procession in which an altar was presented, and on top of it was a replica of a Catholic monstrance, but instead of a Eucharist being at the center of it, there was put in its place a Swastika. Under the photograph, the Osservatore Romano noted: “Doctrinal parodies; a parody of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar displayed in Hamburg.”
In the encyclical against Nazism, Mit brennender Sorge, Pope Pius XI addressed the Nazi attack on the altar, and said that Catholics, because of the anti-Catholic education spreading throughout Germany, must prepare for the defiling of their churches and altars:
"The Church cannot wait to deplore the devastation of its altars, the destruction of its temples, if an education, hostile to Christ, is to profane the temple of the child's soul consecrated at baptism, extinguish the eternal light of the faith in Christ for the sake of counterfeit light alien to the Cross. Then, the violation, of temples is nigh, and it will be everyone's duty to sever his responsibility from the opposite camp, and free his conscience from guilty cooperation with corruption."
The German Arian heretics attacked the altars; the Germanic Protestants forsook the covenant, and warred against the altars, and they made alliances with the Ottoman Empire to fight the Catholics in the Thirty Years War; in the First World War, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians were allied with the Ottomans against the Entente; in the Second World War, the German Nazis worked with the Muslims of the Balkans to slaughter the Orthodox Serbs and the Catholic Poles.
Its a continual pattern, one that we cannot all of a sudden ignore when contemplating on what evil pacts will be made with the future Gog. The prophet Daniel tells us that he saw that the Beast “took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.” (Daniel 8:11) This means that the Beast, to use the words of St. Jerome, “lifted himself up against God and persecuted His saints.” The Antichrist will attack the continual sacrifice of the Catholic Church, that is the Mass -- the perpetual sacrifice of the holy Eucharist -- and he will work with those who forsook the covenant, that is, he will collaborate with the Protestants, to conduct a persecution against the saints. What the prophet Daniel writes of is the Antichrist devising evil with those who rejected the covenant, and what he describes sounds exactly like the evils of what the Protestants of the past did. Daniel says that after the Romans strike the forces of the Antichrist,
"he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant. And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation. Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits." (Daniel 11:30-32)
The Antichrist will then make war against Africa, invading Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia:
He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels. (Daniel 11:42-43)
Both Turkey and Germany have interests in controlling North Africa. The German Arians invaded North Africa in the Medieval period, and the Nazis also invaded North Africa in the Second World War. During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany, fought for control over North Africa. Now there is tension between Egypt's Al-Sisi and the government of Turkey. In light of this history, it could be that Germany will join the revived Ottoman Empire to fight for Africa yet again.
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