The End of the present world
Intellectual Conferences regarding the First Beast, the Antichrist
The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life (EPW) by Fr. Charles Arminjon is a compilation of nine conferences that are said to have greatly influenced St. Therese of Lisieux. His second conference is entitled: “The Persecution by the Antichrist and the Conversion of the Jews.”
Arminjon Argues A great apostasy will set the stage for the Tribulation. Based on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, the First Beast, the Antichrist, will be revealed at the time of the Tribulation. “What is clear and undeniable from the passage we have just quoted is that, before the end of the world, there will appear on earth a profoundly evil man…” (EPW, p. 40).
He is a human being The spirit of the antichrist has been at work for centuries. It has formed organizations such as Freemasonry and Illuminati to work towards the elimination of Christianity. However, Arminjon clearly states that The First Beast, The Antichrist, is a human person:
“Almost all the Doctors and Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Thomas, clearly maintain that this terrifying malefactor, this monster of impiety and depravity, will be a human person. The learned Bellarmine shows that it is impossible to give any other meaning to the words of St. Paul and those of Daniel 11:36-37. St. Paul designates this great adversary by a noun, calling him a man: ‘the man of sin, the son of perdition’.” (EPW, p. 41)
Satan has chosen him “What may be safely asserted of this man of iniquity is that, right from his most tender years, he will be completely possessed by the spirit and genius of the Devil. The lion of the abyss, which, in the last ages of mankind, God will unleash in His inscrutable justice in order to punish the infidelity of men, will unite himself with him in a certain way, infusing him with the fullness of his evil.” (EPW, p. 43)
The First Beast, the Antichrist, has free will Satan cannot force human beings to do evil. Donald J. Trump, like all human beings, has always had the freedom to do good or evil. Fr. Arminjon quotes Suarez in Disputationes: “It is plausible, however, that the Antichrist will have such tremendous malice, will be so habituated to thinking and doing evil, and will have so great a bond of familiarity with the Demon that he will scarcely ever have regard for a good inspiration, the spiritual action of the guardian angels, or God’s grace.” (EPW, p. 69-70)
Donald J. Trump has yet to be fully revealed as the First Beast, the Antichrist “Daniel tells us, ‘From the time when the perpetual sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination of desolation shall reign in the holy place, a thousand two hundred ninety days will have elapsed.’ (Dn 12:11) Hence, it follows that the point when Christ will no longer be present on our altars, offering Himself as a victim to His Father’s justice in order to offset men’s crimes, is to be reckoned from the day when the Antichrist has obtained universal dominion: only then will the unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar cease to be celebrated; but, until that day, and during the time taken by the Antichrist to achieve his kingship, the Sacrifice of the Mass (the Holy Eucharist) will continue to subsist.” (EPW, p. 51)
The Eucharist is the Perpetual Sacrifice Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial about to be canonized, spent the later part of his short life documenting Eucharistic miracles. He shows us that the Eucharist is the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Consecrated Host. The “perpetual sacrifice” the Prophet Daniel refers to, is the Eucharist, the Holy Mass, celebrated and adored in catholic churches around the world.
Arminjon Argues A great apostasy will set the stage for the Tribulation. Based on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, the First Beast, the Antichrist, will be revealed at the time of the Tribulation. “What is clear and undeniable from the passage we have just quoted is that, before the end of the world, there will appear on earth a profoundly evil man…” (EPW, p. 40).
He is a human being The spirit of the antichrist has been at work for centuries. It has formed organizations such as Freemasonry and Illuminati to work towards the elimination of Christianity. However, Arminjon clearly states that The First Beast, The Antichrist, is a human person:
“Almost all the Doctors and Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Thomas, clearly maintain that this terrifying malefactor, this monster of impiety and depravity, will be a human person. The learned Bellarmine shows that it is impossible to give any other meaning to the words of St. Paul and those of Daniel 11:36-37. St. Paul designates this great adversary by a noun, calling him a man: ‘the man of sin, the son of perdition’.” (EPW, p. 41)
Satan has chosen him “What may be safely asserted of this man of iniquity is that, right from his most tender years, he will be completely possessed by the spirit and genius of the Devil. The lion of the abyss, which, in the last ages of mankind, God will unleash in His inscrutable justice in order to punish the infidelity of men, will unite himself with him in a certain way, infusing him with the fullness of his evil.” (EPW, p. 43)
The First Beast, the Antichrist, has free will Satan cannot force human beings to do evil. Donald J. Trump, like all human beings, has always had the freedom to do good or evil. Fr. Arminjon quotes Suarez in Disputationes: “It is plausible, however, that the Antichrist will have such tremendous malice, will be so habituated to thinking and doing evil, and will have so great a bond of familiarity with the Demon that he will scarcely ever have regard for a good inspiration, the spiritual action of the guardian angels, or God’s grace.” (EPW, p. 69-70)
Donald J. Trump has yet to be fully revealed as the First Beast, the Antichrist “Daniel tells us, ‘From the time when the perpetual sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination of desolation shall reign in the holy place, a thousand two hundred ninety days will have elapsed.’ (Dn 12:11) Hence, it follows that the point when Christ will no longer be present on our altars, offering Himself as a victim to His Father’s justice in order to offset men’s crimes, is to be reckoned from the day when the Antichrist has obtained universal dominion: only then will the unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar cease to be celebrated; but, until that day, and during the time taken by the Antichrist to achieve his kingship, the Sacrifice of the Mass (the Holy Eucharist) will continue to subsist.” (EPW, p. 51)
The Eucharist is the Perpetual Sacrifice Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial about to be canonized, spent the later part of his short life documenting Eucharistic miracles. He shows us that the Eucharist is the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Consecrated Host. The “perpetual sacrifice” the Prophet Daniel refers to, is the Eucharist, the Holy Mass, celebrated and adored in catholic churches around the world.