3 responses to “Does the Antichrist Live Among Us Now? Alleged Visionary and Stigmatist Claims His Name is Alex & He’s Guiding the World’s Elite”

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   April 17, 2025 at 12:10 am

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   Howard

   April 17, 2025 at 1:29 pm

   I read a book about 15 years ago that argued, convincingly enough for me, that there are quite a few prophecies (from Saints, Doctors of the Church, and Popes) that must first be fulfilled and that will take at least a century or two before the final crisis with the Antichrist. Of course, if you were being tortured to death in the Terror of the French Revolution, or by Stalin or Hitler, or by jihadists — you get the idea — the fact that it was just AN antichrist and not THE antichrist who was doing that to you might not seem like an important distinction at the time.

   Having said that, “Alex” as a name is a good fit. According to the Internet, it comes from Greek words meaning “defender of humankind”, which is certainly the role he will pretend to play. However, I would tend to break it up as a-lex, with “a” meaning “no” (as in “atheist” or “anarchy”) and “lex” meaning “law”, so that “Alex” could also mean “the man of lawlessness”.

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      Howard

      April 18, 2025 at 11:43 am

      Actually, some of the prophecies are part of the public revelation given in Scripture, and so are binding.

      One is that “the gospel will be preached to every nation.” That has *almost* been done, but there are still several uncontacted tribes, so it does not seem to have been fulfilled yet.

      Another is that not one stone from Jerusalem, as it was at the time of Christ, would be left atop another. Again, this has *almost* been fulfilled during several destructions of Jerusalem, notably the one in A.D. 70, but not quite — notably, the Wailing Wall still stands. Many years ago, I was discussing such things with a Jewish friend and pointed this out. I asked what he thought would happen if a terrorist bomb destroyed the Wailing Wall. He responded, “My God, that’s all we have left. All hell would break loose!” Exactly.
      This was also the argument St. Cyril of Jerusalem used to Julian the Apostate when explaining why the latter would not be able to rebuild the Temple.

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