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NARRATOR: Armageddon, Doomsday, the Final Battle,

Apocalypse-- prophesied not only in Scripture,

but forecast by other prophets since the days of the pharaohs.

Prophets with chilling records who call their warning

across the decades, the centuries, and the millennia

to a time that may mark the conclusion of human history,

a time called the End Time, our time, now.

St. Malachy, an Irish priest and prophet of the 12th century.

In 1139, St. Malachy accurately forecast the identity

of every Roman Catholic pope who reigned from his time

to the current pope, John Paul II,

a total of 110 accurate predictions.

And he predicted there would be only

two more popes after this one.

Nostradamus, a French physician of the 16th century,

perhaps the most important prophet

of European civilization.

Nostradamus looked 400 years into mankind's future

and saw a time of unparalleled carnage-- and the man

responsible for it.

He called this man the "second Antichrist." depressed

and pointed to him by name.

Nostradamus' third Antichrist is on our horizon.

Edgar Cayce, the most famous clairvoyant

and psychic healer of 20th century America.

Unique and detailed transcripts of Cayce's thousands

of prophesies, such as the death of John F Kennedy,

demonstrate the uncanny accuracy of Cayce's predictions

up to the present day.

And Cayce has more things to say about our future.

The miracle of Fatima, where three shepherd children

reported having visions of the Virgin Mary.

The children were given three secrets.

The first was a vivid and horrific description of Hell.

The second predicted the outbreak of World War II

and the slaughter that was to follow.

The third prophecy, yet to come to pass,

when read by Pope John XXIII, reportedly

caused him to tremble with fear and almost faint with horror.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built as a tomb 26 centuries

before Christ and studied today as an evolutionary blueprint

for mankind.

Because some believe the Great Pyramid details

almost the whole of recorded history,

marking such milestones in the human experience as the Exodus

of the Israelites, the Crucifixion,

the American Revolution, the campaigns of Napoleon,

and the great wars.

And in man's very near future, in what the Egyptians call

the "Chamber of Ordeal," in our own times,

there's a bottomless pit.

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For as long as human beings have walked the Earth,

they have attempted to divine their future.

Much of this prophecy has concerned the End Time,

the wholesale destruction of life on the planet, even

the destruction of the planet itself,

whether by natural catastrophe, by divine intervention,

or by man's own hand.

And through the overwhelming majority of this prophecy

runs a constant thread-- the End Time will

be in the time of most people living today.

Which could explain the revival of interest

in the words of respected seers across the ages who appear

to have a collective message for man.

Our own journey back across those ages,

examining the prophecy of Armageddon,

begins in the emerald tranquility of rural Ireland,

the home in the 12th century of St. Malachy.

The first formally canonized Irish saint,

Malachy was born into a wealthy and learned family in Armagh.

From early childhood, he was drawn

to the religious and mystical life.

St. Malachy's predictions, including those which concern

us today, were made while he was on a pilgrimage to the Vatican

where here was appointed papal legate to Ireland.

In Ireland, he was credited with performing miracles of healing.

And there he also embarked on a program of church reform.

FRANCIS KING (VOICEOVER): Malachy

founded this abbey in the 12th century.

It was a first rate Cistercian foundation in Ireland

and from it sprang 38 other Cistercian monasteries.

The Cistercians followed the rule created by St.

Bernard of Clairvaux, a personal friend of Malachy's.

And in fact, it was in St. Bernard's arms

that Malachy died.

And it is perhaps significant that Malachy is reported

to have prophesied the day and hour of his own death.

For today, millions believe that Malachy

had a vision of the future-- that through some gap in time

he saw the development of the world we live in

and the end of that world.

In the 16th century, it is reported

that in the archives of the Vatican

were found a series of mysterious prophesies

created by St. Malachy.

These were a few words-- a list of popes and just a few words

describing them, mostly simple mottoes.

Now, it is very easy to come up with an old document

and say, good heavens, this is a marvelous prophecy.

And you point to the successful prophecies in the past.

But perhaps the very fact that the prophecies have proved true

is a proof that the prophecy was,

in fact, written after the event.

But one cannot say this about Malachy's prophecies

because the popes who have followed 1595--

the date of the discovery of the document--

have fitted the mottoes quite as well as those go before.

For example, take Benedict XIV.

The motto for him in Malachy's list

is "religio depopulata"-- religion depopulated,

religion destroyed.

Some conception of hundreds, thousands,

perhaps millions dying.

And when did Benedict XIV reign?

Well, he was elected to the Chair of Peter

in 1914, the very year the First World War broke out.

He died in 1922 at the end of the Russian Civil War.

In those eight years, Europe knew such a slaughter

as it had never known before, even in the Thirty Years'

War that turned half Central Europe into a desert.

Millions died in the blood and agony of the Western Front,

untold millions in the great slaughters of the Eastern

Front, and who knows how many millions in the civil wars

between Whites and Reds, between the Greens of Makhno that swept

Russia between the revolution of October 1917

and the establishment of Lenin's planned new paradise.

But it is not only Benedict XIV of recent popes

who fits this very well.

The motto for the Pope John Paul I, "de medietate lunae"--

roughly, "the middle of the moon," or "the half moon."

And when he came to the papal throne,

commentators said it probably refers to his smile.

It is rather like a lunar crescent.

In fact, the motto had a much more sinister meaning.

John Paul I died between one half moon and the next, one

of the shortest reigning popes of the last 600 years.

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Thank you very much.

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FRANCIS KING (VOICEOVER): But perhaps the most remarkable

of the prophecies of Malachy concerning the present century

is that which gives a motto for the present pope, John Paul II,

the first non-Italian pope for centuries.

The first, or almost the youngest

pope for many centuries-- a matter which was prophesied,

in fact, by other prophets for this coming pope.

Malachy gave to John Paul II the motto

"de labore solis," "of the labor of the sun."

Now this is very curious, because the present pope is

the first pope since the early church who has actually labored

with his hands, earned his living with his hands.

For our Polish pope slaved in the quarries run by the Nazis

in occupied Poland.

He struggled with pickaxes, with hammers,

against the loads burdened on him by the brutal guards.

The first pope-- think of that-- who

has worked with his hands for 1,500 years,

and who sweated in the sun in the Polish summer.

But the motto has another significance.

The pope came from Krakow-- "the labor of the sun"--

and it was in Krakow that Copernicus,

the great 16th century astronomer and mathematician

who revolutionized man's view of the world by showing that

the Earth went round the sun and not, as we previously thought,

the sun round the Earth.

Copernicus labored for many years in Krakow,

and here we have a pope, a Polish pope from Krakow--

"the labor of the sun"-- the very place where

the labor of the sun took place.

Now, there is rather a sinister follow-on from this,

for Malachy's list does not go on and on.

There are only two more papal mottoes

given after our present pope.

"Gloria olivae"-- "the glory of the olive,"

which perhaps means peace or perhaps means an olive-skinned

pope from South America, or even a black pope from one

of the Catholic churches so active in Africa.

And then the last pope in Malachy's list.

Malachy gave the simple name of "Peter

the Roman" to his last pope.

Remember that is the pope after next,

perhaps 20, perhaps 10, perhaps only 5 years from now.

But to this simple title, Peter the Roman, the same name

as the very first pope, he added several Latin sentences

which contain a prophecy of terrifying

and possibly sinister significance.

He wrote, in English translation,

"During the last persecution of the Holy Roman church,

Peter the Roman shall feed the sheep

amidst great tribulations.

And when these are past, the city of the seven hills

shall be utterly destroyed and the awful judge

will judge the people."

The city of the seven hills, of course,

is Rome-- the end of Rome.

And who is the judge?

Will it be some political ruler inflicting

great tribulations on Europe?

Or will it be, as many believe, the Final Judgment?

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NARRATOR: Of all apocalyptic prophesies,

none is more chilling than the three

Antichrists of Nostradamus.

Two of these Antichrists, Napoleon and Hitler,

have already wreaked their havoc on mankind.

According to the prophecies of Nostradamus, the third,

and by far the most terrible, Antichrist walks among us now.

Nostradamus was born at St. Remy, France in 1503,

the son of a wealthy notary public.

He learned astrology from his grandfathers, both of whom

claimed occasional visions of the future.

As a young man, he was a medical student

at the prestigious University of Montpellier

when the Black Plague ravaged southern France.

Nostradamus left medical school to treat victims

of the epidemic, with such success

that his work in arresting the plague won him national fame.

In 1544, he settled in the French town of Salon

where he practiced medicine and astrology.

It was in this house he was said to have

caught glimpses of the future.

He soon began to record these visions.

Nostradamus deliberately wrote in cryptic phrases,

employing anagrams, puns, and scientific jargon

to obscure his meaning.

It is said he considered it dangerous to give people

too clear a picture of the future.

It is also likely that he wisely was keen to avoid offending

church authorities of the day, and thus left

his predictions open to interpretation.

In 1555, he published his famous work,

"Centuries," a book of prophecy said in verse.

Author of several books on the life and prophecies

of Nostradamus, Erika Cheetham.

ERIKA CHEETHAM (VOICEOVER): Nostradamus was indisputably

one of the greatest prophets of all time.

Here in this house at Salon was where

his reputation really became made.

He was sent for by Queen Catherine de Medicis of France

to explain a prophecy he'd made that her husband, the king,

would be killed in a duel.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "The young lion

shall overcome the old one in martial field by a single duel.

In a golden cage, he shall put out his eye.

Two wounds from one, then shall he die a true death."

-Well, this was an impossibility.

Kings were not challenged to duels.

But four years later, the king held a great marriage

celebration for his sister and his daughter

and they had an honorary jousting in Paris.

For two days, it went marvelously.

The king was victorious in his golden helmet.

But on the third day, he jousted twice favorably

against the captain of the Scottish Guard,

despite the fact that Catherine herself had premonitions

and didn't wish him to fight, nor did various other people.

And on the third list, as he turned,

Montgomery's lance tilted, hits the king

through the golden visor, through the eye,

out through the head.

The two wounds in one through the golden helmet

as Nostradamus had predicted, in a duel.

And 10 days later, Henry II of France was dead.

NARRATOR: So Nostradamus' reputation was made,

a prophet with honor in his own land and in his own time.

With the passing of time, future generations

were to have good cause also to heed the words of Nostradamus

when he looked ahead more than two centuries

to describe his first Antichrist,

the first of three-- Napoleon.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "An emperor

shall be born near Italy who shall cost the empire dear.

When it is seen with whom he allies himself,

he shall be found less a prince than a butcher."

[GUNFIRE]

NARRATOR: Nostradamus further predicted--

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "The man with cropped hair

shall assume authority.

In a maritime city held by the enemy,

he will expel the vile men who oppose him.

And for 14 years, he will rule with absolute power."

NARRATOR: Napoleon, unlike previous French rulers,

had cropped his hair short, and had first won fame in 1793

by recapturing the Mediterranean port of Toulon

from the British.

He then expelled the Directoire and ruled France for 14 years.

Nostradamus further prophesied that Napoleon would

be a fearsome ruler, causing to tremble

Italy, Spain, and the English.

But France, he continued--

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "--will have chosen badly.

Its strength will be sacked by him."

NARRATOR: And indeed, the flower of French youth

fell on the road to Napoleonic glory.

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The prophet continued with remarkable accuracy

to predict Napoleon's exile, escape, ultimate defeat

at Waterloo, and lonely death on St. Helena.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "The captive prince,

conquered, to Elba.

He will pass the gulf of Genoa by sea to Marseille.

He is completely conquered by a great effort of foreign forces.

He will end his life far from where he was born, among 5,000

people of strange customs and language,

on a chalky island in the sea."

NARRATOR: Mankind had to wait until the 20th century

for the arrival of Nostradamus' second Antichrist.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "Out of steepest part of Western

Europe, from poor people, a child

will be born who, with this tongue,

will seduce many people."

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[CHEERING]

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "The great squawker

will be elected governor of the army.

They shall pursue crosses of iron, topsy-turvy."

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"He shall cause the furnace to be rebuilt.

Brothers and sisters and shall be slaves in various places."

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"Worse than ever did Nero will see

the spilling of brave human blood."

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NARRATOR: If Nostradamus is right yet again,

man will not have long to wait for the third Antichrist

to making himself known.

-The third Antichrist is one of the most important

of Nostradamus' predictions because he predicted

two other Antichrists, Napoleon and Hitler, both by name

and both of whom have come true.

Therefore, one cannot disregard this third one,

who shall appear at some time in the '80s, though the time he

actually comes to his full power is not wholly clear.

He certainly will arise in the East

for fear of armaments built up in the West,

according to Nostradamus.

And that, of course, is probably where the war in New York

turns up.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "Near the new city,

in the way of the man-made mountains,

shall be seized on and plunged into a ferment.

The sky will burn at 45 degrees.

Fire approaches the great city.

Immediately, a huge scattered flame leaks out."

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NARRATOR: Apocalyptic prophecy is not

the exclusive preserve of our distant past.

One graphic warning comes from the most remarkable prophet

and psychic healer of this century, Edgar Cayce,

who was born in 1877 in an isolated

rural community in Kentucky.

During his lifetime, while in self-induced trances,

Cayce diagnosed illnesses and recommended

treatment for thousands of patients.

And follow-up research reveals an amazing success rate.

His prophecies have also proved uncomfortably accurate.

Cayce grew up in Kentucky a quiet, religious, troubled, and

rather backward child, a condition

that must have been aggravated, if not caused,

by the early discovery by friends and neighbors

that he had odd powers.

At first, full of self-doubt and confusion as to the use

and the effectiveness of his gifts,

Cayce willingly submitted to grueling tests by doctors.

The skepticism of the medical profession

gave way very little, but Cayce himself

came to believe in his powers and devoted

his life to healing and to prophecy.

Even in the early days when Cayce began having his visions

here in the Kentucky countryside,

he reportedly did not like to make predictions.

He believed in free will and did not

like to influence people who might

be susceptible to suggestion.

Certainly, his prophecies were a byproduct

of his desire to help others.

The reluctant prophet's grandson, Dr. Charles Cayce.

-Many people in the United States

consider Edgar Cayce, my grandfather,

to be the most carefully documented

and perhaps the most accurate psychic of modern times--

perhaps the most accurate ever in the United States.

I think part of that is because of the careful documentation

of the psychic readings that he gave.

All of the 14,000 readings that he gave

are in our library here at Virginia Beach

and can be studied by people who are interested.

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NARRATOR: It was back in Hopkinsville, Kentucky

and in the surrounding countryside that Edgar Cayce

first had some of the visions and made some of the prophecies

that would prove so alarmingly accurate-- an accuracy rate,

according to his followers of over 90%.

Cayce often turned his powers to matters financial and economic.

He warned friends with investments in Wall Street

in early 1929 to sell every share they owned,

but they had been doing so well for so long on a rising market.

They attributed their success to their own judgment,

rather than to Cayce's advice.

They did not listen.

Within six months, the stock market crash occured.

$15 billion were lost and millions of investors

wiped out.

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Cayce made wide-ranging predictions

regarding the affairs of nations.

He accurately picked the dates for the beginning and end

of World War I and World War II.

He foretold the independence of India

and he looked ahead to the day when a Jewish homeland would be

established, the day when the state of Israel

would be declared.

When Cayce turned his clairvoyant powers

on his native United States, much of what he saw

was unsettling but, as almost always, accurate.

He saw, in his words, a time in the United States

when "there will be great stress as brother

rises against brother, as group or sect or race rises

against race, yet the leveling must come."

And he foretold during this time of racial unrest of the event

in Dallas, Texas that stunned a nation and the world.

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REPORTER (ON RADIO): The President of the United States

is dead.

NARRATOR: The vast majority of Cayce's predictions

appeared to have come to pass.

And he made more predictions for the last years

of the millennium-- according to Cayce,

a period of unprecedented upheaval.

He prophesied the doctrinaire communism in China

will give way to a more democratic form of government.

[BICYCLE BELLS]

He prophesied drastic and sudden physical changes in the Earth's

surface because of shifts in the polar axis, as a result

of which, Northern Europe will disappear

below the ocean in the twinkling of an eye.

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Japan, he said, will be destroyed

by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

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He prophesied that World War III will erupt,

and he prophesied that within a year of that war's starting,

civilization as we know it will end.

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On January 1, 1945, Edgar Cayce made one final prediction.

He predicted that his own funeral

would take place in four days.

He was correct.

Mother Mary Angelica is the founder and chairman

of the board of the Eternal Word Television Network.

Mother Angelica is also a student of the phenomenon

that took place at Fatima in 1917.

-I think there are many people today that are looking forward

to the great battle, the Armageddon.

I think there is already the beginning of a battle.

There is no question that the battle has begun.

There is no question that there are a separation into camps.

There is no question that there is in the world

more and more development of satanic worship.

In Our Lady of Fatima, the message is very definite.

NARRATOR: When Our Lady of Fatima

appeared at the Portuguese village of Fatima

in May of 1917, she could be seen and heard

only by three shepherd children.

Other observers reported seeing a bright cloud

during the visits.

The children described seeing a young, beautiful being

in the sky.

Our Lady of Fatima, who identified herself

to the children as the Virgin Mary,

told them she would visit again on October 13,

1917, which was to be her last visit.

And at which time, she said, she would perform a miracle

"all shall see so that they may believe."

Our Lady said that she would impart three

secrets to her children on that date.

When the appointed day arrived, upwards of 80,000 people

jammed the village.

The faithful were drawn by the prophecy of the miracle.

A good number of non-believers were in attendance as well,

including reporters from major European newspapers.

The gathering was not disappointed.

The reporters called it a mysterious solar occurrence.

The faithful used the term "the dancing sun."

MOTHER ANGELICA (VOICEOVER): When the miracle of the sun

occurred, when all these thousands of people

had occurred on a very rainy day-- pouring rain,

all with umbrellas, standing in mud--

stood there waiting for something great to happen.

And suddenly, you know, somebody said, look at the sun.

And it began to dance.

And the frightening thing of it was

that as it danced back and forth and beautiful rays began

to emanate from it, it began to almost come

forward as if it were going to fall.

And the people were horrified, just terrified.

You read accounts of that, you see pictures of it,

and you see these people falling on their knees,

asking God for pardon, suddenly seeing themselves

as they really were before God.

And then it seemed to go back again

and suddenly it seemed to fall back again.

It was a phenomenal thing.

NARRATOR: By all accounts, the sun whirled on its axis

like a pinwheel, throwing out white, blue, and green lights.

Our Lady of Fatima revealed to the three children

the reason for this visitation.

She said that she wanted humanity to change its ways

or that three awful prophecies would come true.

The first prophecy was an horrific description

of a very real Hell.

[SCREAMING]

-So it proved to the children that--

and it proved to the people-- that this was an apparition.

These apparitions from May 13 to October 13

was a warning from the Lord that we

must straighten out our ways.

Now, if you look at the world in 1917-- ah--

and you look at it now, you begin

to realize why Our Lady loved us enough to say hey,

straighten out.

You're going the wrong direction.

NARRATOR: The second secret threatened a second World War.

The signal that the war was about to begin

would be a great unknown light in the night skies lighting up

the whole of Western Europe and turning night into day.

"When you see the night lit up by the great unknown light,

know that it is a sign that God gives you of the punishment

of the world by another war, famine,

persecution of the Holy Church and of the Holy Father."

The third secret of Fatima lies ahead.

This third secret was entrusted to the Vatican

with the instructions that it be opened in 1960.

A source inside the Vatican reported that Pope John XXIII

confided to a few friends he had read the secret of Fatima,

and that upon reading it, he had trembled with fear

and had almost fainted with horror.

There has been an alleged text of the third secret published.

The Vatican refuses to either confirm

or deny its authenticity.

MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): "The Great War will break out.

Fire and smoke will fall from Heaven.

The water of the oceans will become vapors.

Millions and millions of men will perish while this is going

on, and those who survive will envy the dead.

The unexpected will follow in every part of the world,

anxiety, pain, and misery in every country.

The time is getting nearer and the abyss

is getting wider without hope."

-I think the times and the signs of the times

indicates, certainly, that there is something definitely going

to happen that will indicate the intervention of God

in our history.

I think that is, that is inevitable.

I think if we pray, we may mitigate whatever

the catastrophes may be coming.

But I think we could do away with it

completely if enough people prayed.

If not-- this is the thing-- if not,

then I think by various things, whether earthquakes, tornadoes,

hurricanes, the Lord will gradually, gradually

give us signs and warnings to repent.

NARRATOR: Atop a hill overlooking the tiny mountain

village of Garabandal in Spain, a small clump of pine trees.

A beautiful place, but otherwise unremarkable,

except for the message that would make this hill the most

famous place on our planet if the message given

to four Spanish girls is true.

A message about a miracle soon to take place

at this spot, a permanent sign for all the world to see.

And one of the girls, Conchita Gonzalez, now a grown woman

and a mother herself, believes that she

was given the exact date of that miracle.

In Conchita's words--

CONCHITA GONZALEZ (VOICEOVER): I was 13 years old then

and I was with my three friends.

We heard a loud noise like thunder.

Suddenly, a very beautiful figure appeared to me.

Then the other girls saw it.

We froze for a moment, then ran towards the church,

very frightened.

Most of the people thought we were making it up.

I was very sad going to bed that night.

When I was saying my prayers, I heard a voice that said,

"Do not be troubled.

You will see me again."

NARRATOR: Over the next four years,

the girls experienced many visions of the Virgin Mary

as they fell into deep trances, sometimes lasting for minutes,

sometimes for hours.

The trances of the girls attracted much attention

to the sleepy village of Garabandal.

Priests, and later, psychologists,

attended the girls in their ecstasies.

There were believers and non-believers,

but few questioned the sincerity of the small girls.

After the girls had been experiencing visions

of the Virgin Mary for about four months,

Conchita announced that she had been told

that there was a purpose to their visions.

The Virgin Mary had chosen them to receive a message which

they were to give to the world.

CONCHITA GONZALEZ (VOICEOVER): We must make many sacrifices,

perform much penance, and receive

the blessed sacrament frequently, Our Lady said.

We must lead good lives.

If we do not, a chastisement will befall us.

The cup is already filling up and if we do not change,

a very great chastisement will come upon us.

NARRATOR: And four years later in 1965, Conchita

was given a second and final message for the world.

Conchita was now 15 years of age.

Her visions would soon cease.

The girls had twice been given a message

for the world about the great chastisement, during which

visions they were heard to scream in terror.

But Conchita was also told of two events that would first

come to pass-- a worldwide warning and then

a miracle for all to see, in the hope

that the chastisement might be averted.

CONCHITA GONZALEZ (VOICEOVER): On the day of the warning,

everyone in the whole world will see a sign.

They will find themselves all alone in the world,

no matter where they are at that time.

Alone with their consciences, the warning

will be very personal.

We will all react differently to it.

To me, I understand, it is like a preparation

to see the miracle.

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On the day of the miracle, the Virgin

said everyone who would go there on that day to Garabandal

would see it.

The sick who go will be cured, no matter what

their disease or their religion.

Those without faith will believe.

Also from that moment, there will

be a permanent sign in the pines.

Everyone present there could view it.

The sign could be visible and could be touched, but not felt.

I can't explain it.

This sign will stay until the end of time.

The Virgin told me the day, the month, and the year,

so I know the exact date.

The Blessed Mother say to tell the date eight days before,

so this is what I'm going to do.

NARRATOR: These visions telling of a worldwide warning, then

a miracle at Garabandal, and the date of that miracle,

and telling of a possible chastisement to follow,

brought to Conchita Gonzalez and to Garabandal

a celebrity that was to change her life irrevocably.

She found herself the center of attention,

caught up in a constant crush of church

officials, the media, the faithful from all over Europe

who flocked to Conchita's small village

seeking advice, reassurance, help.

CONCHITA GONZALEZ (VOICEOVER): The Blessed

mother loves everyone equally.

Some people ask questions, as if I had insight into what

is happening in the world, and I have absolutely none.

I'm not special.

The people of my village were constantly giving me advice.

Do this, give up that.

I thought how I would like to be in a hermitage,

away from everyone.

I love the village of Garabandal,

but there was no way I could live there any longer.

[CAR HORN]

NARRATOR: Conchita left Spain and sought the anonymity one

can find in a crowd among the teeming

millions of New York City.

In 1974, she married the proprietor of a pizzeria

on Long Island.

And there she lives today, in relative obscurity

with her husband and four children, Garabandal

behind her, but carrying with her still the message

that she received at the pines.

And looking with some trepidation towards the time,

eight days before the event, when she can announce

the miracle at Garabandal-- and perhaps the

chastisement to follow.

CONCHITA GONZALEZ (VOICEOVER): I feel afraid.

For this, you know, I try to prepare

my children to have a strong faith.

I am really going to be scared that day.

You know, I think-- I hope the Blessed Mother takes me

with my children after the miracle.

I hope this for everybody.

I hope they do not have to go through the punishment.

There's something terrible.

You know, I hope we don't see it.

I think it is better we die before that.

For me, it is very close.

I think it is very close.

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NARRATOR: Across the Nile from Cairo,

the Great Pyramid of Giza, a monument to the pharaoh Cheops,

founder of the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt,

has presided mute over the shifting sands of time

since the very edge of prehistory.

But today there is a body of opinion

that holds that this wonder of the ancient world covering

a perfectly proportioned 13 acres is anything but mute,

and in fact, speaks volumes about mankind's history

and about his destiny.

A building so perfect in its proportions

and so enormous in its dimensions

that its construction should have been impossible.

It is these perfect proportions that most

fascinates students of the Great Pyramid.

Pyramidologist Peter Lemesurier.

-The theory is that the Great Pyramid in some way

represents the Earth all that the passages through it

represent mankind's passage through the Earth.

So it's-- if you like, it's the history of mankind,

the present of mankind, and the future, all laid out in stone.

As you come up to the original entrance,

you're under this great gable, which is now exposed

and was originally covered by masonry.

And from the original entrance, the passageway

goes down at a width of two royal cubits straight

down into the pyramid and straight

down into the rock underneath it.

It then, at a slightly smaller bore,

starts cutting away horizontally into what's

known as the subterranean passage.

And this leads through a sort of-- almost like a rockfall,

which is known as the Lesser Subterranean Chamber.

And eventually, if you don't watch out,

you fall headlong into the Great Subterranean Chamber,

which is an absolute nightmare.

And which seems to have been known to the Egyptians

as the Chamber of Central Fire or the Chamber of Ordeal, which

has got a sort of bottomless pit in the middle of it.

It's really quite a nightmarish place.

It struck people for at least 100 years

that if you compare the general pattern of the passageways

with the shape of history, there's an extraordinary fit.

Now, for various reasons, some people

thought originally that the whole thing, in a sense,

reflected the Bible.

That if you had a given measure and the beginning was somewhere

around the time of Abraham or something like this, then

the beginning of the ascending passage

would come at about the time of Christ.

And people started to look at the--

what the measurements might be.

The theory, basically, is that the passage is representing

human history and laid out on the basis of an inch per year.

So once you've got a datum, somewhere to start with,

you can actually measure what's going to happen,

when it's going to happen.

If you started counting off the years on the sloping passageway

at an inch per year, you got a surprisingly good

historical fit.

If you carry on down that descending passage, where

the ascending passage starts to climb,

you find that that date comes out at 1453 BC.

And there's a pretty good amount of evidence

to suggest that's about the date of the Israelite Exodus.

If you then, on the same scale, carry

on up the ascending passage, just ignoring those granite

blocks for the moment, you've get to a point

where the route suddenly shoots up into the Grand Gallery.

Now that comes at, on our present Gregorian calendar,

1st of April, 33 AD, which seems to be

a jolly good date for the Crucifixion.

If you carry on up the Grand Gallery from there,

you find that the roof comes back down

and you get to the north wall of the Grand Gallery

in June of 1914, and that seemed to be pretty significant too.

Which does seem to suggest that the King's Chamber complex

at the top does cover our own age in some way.

The same sort of thing happens in the subterranean passages

too.

Where you tumble into the subterranean passages--

once again, the summer of 1914.

So that the Chamber of Central Fire, the Chamber of Ordeal,

which is what the Egyptians apparently

called the Subterranean Chamber, is our own times.

And in the middle of it is a sort of bottomless pit.

We have the period of revolutions--

the American Revolution, all the European revolutions of 1848,

Napoleon's campaigns and the wars and so on.

And in the Subterranean Chamber, for example, you

have what looks like a forecast of a slump around

about the 1970s, a further one beginning of the 1980s,

both of which we've had.

Well, in 1999, there seems to be this indication

in the upper passageways of a totally new spiritual order,

if you like. "Kingdom of Heaven"--

you might think of it in those terms.

But very shortly after that, in the Subterranean Chamber,

is the beginning of this bottomless pit.

It's obviously designed to be like a bit of a bottomless pit

where the carpet is pulled out from under our feet.

Well, the sort of thing that seems to be staring you

in the face in the Subterranean Chamber

is a total collapse of civilization

in some kind in the year 2004, give

or take two or three years.

NARRATOR: Of course, not everyone

accepts as valid this stroll through the halls of history

as laid out inside the Great Pyramid.

But had the Great Pyramid been less accurate,

many would find it easier to shrug off the speculation

of pyramidologists that the course of human history

was revealed to a chosen people and that they then constructed

this record of it in stone-- a record durable enough

to survive until its term of prediction had run out.

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NARRATOR: William Martin is a sociology teacher

at Rice University in Texas, a writer on religious subjects.

-Since the beginning of Christian history,

people have expected Jesus to return again.

Sometimes the scenario varies, but there's probably

been no time in the history of Christianity

when more people have expected Jesus

to return again imminently.

I think it's fair to say that upwards of 20 million Americans

now believe with all their hearts

that Armageddon is just around the corner.

NARRATOR: Hilton Sutton, an American evangelist

and student of biblical prophecy.

-Presently we are in a period in which there

are many prophetic events that are being fulfilled that were

written by one or more of the Old Testament

prophets or the Lord Jesus Christ or one of His disciples.

We have an excellent track record of prophesies that

are within the scriptures being fulfilled

with absolute accuracy and to minute details.

The Battle of Armageddon will occur, as I've pointed out,

in the valley of Megiddo and the plains

of the valley of Jezreel, which really stretch

from the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem

to the city of Haifa, quite a large area in Israel.

There, the armies of the Antichrist, 10 of them,

plus the huge Oriental army that will have come

in from the north, will have merged together.

It is occurring in the final month of that seven year period

we identify as Tribulation.

Of course, it occurs on the final day.

The scene is a dreadful one.

There has been no natural light of sun, moon, and stars

over that area for quite a number of days.

Plagues have been released that have produced boils

on the bodies of the men that are involved.

There has been no water to drink in that area.

All sources of water will have become blood.

If one quenches his thirst or mops his fevered brow,

he must do it with blood.

It's going to be a terrifying hour.

The heat of the sun will be increased many times.

Though the rays of the sun do not get through the darkness,

the heat will.

The people are in a-- and it's only in that area,

it's not worldwide.

The people are in a terrifying condition and a painful one.

The scriptures say they will be gnawing

their tongues because of pain.

And yet, when Christ returns to the Earth,

they will be demonically inspired to attack

the city of Jerusalem.

That's when He, standing on the mount of olives

from the east side of Jerusalem, will speak the word that

is recorded in Zechariah, chapter 14 and verse 12.

And that plague that is released reduces that huge armada

of men to a pool of blood within a period of only one hour.

The battle begins and ends.

Now, what I want to say is that we have much hope that we are

not facing the end of the world.

Even though Armageddon were to occur tomorrow,

which it isn't, but were it to do so,

would not bring the end of the world.

There still must be that thousand year reign of peace

and righteousness of the Messiah over all governments.

RONALD REAGAN (VOICEOVER): I'm accused

of being simplistic at times with some

of the problems that confront us.

I've often wondered within the covers of that single book are

all the answers to all the problems that face us today.

I've always believed that we were put here for a reason.

That there is a path-- somehow, a divine plan for all of us.

And I've also always believed that America

was set apart in a special way.

To preserve our blessed land, we must look to God.

Do we really think that we can have it both ways?

That God will protect us in a time of crisis

even as we turn away from him in our day to day life?

Maybe it's later than we think.

NARRATOR: Not just private citizens but governments too

are starting to prepare for the unthinkable.

Most nations in both East and West

have made provisions for sheltering their government

and military leaders in the event of Holocaust.

The Swiss have gone one step further.

Their aim is to provide shelter for every citizen

in the country.

This tunnel through the Sonnenberg Mountains

near Lucerne serves today as part of a public highway.

Tomorrow, it could have a very different function.

For running off the tunnel, deep into the mountainside,

is an underground city, a city complete with sleeping

accommodation, dining facilities, food and water

supplies, air purification plants, a communication system,

hospital facilities, operation theaters-- a place, perhaps,

to survive for 20,000 people.

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That they would survive, at least briefly, is probable.

What they would find when they emerge

from their concrete cocoon, whether they would be glad

they survived, is debatable.

Apocalypse, Cataclysm, Armageddon.

A 12th century priest, a 16th century French physician,

a 20th century psychic healer, ecstatic visions on the Iberian

Peninsula, the Great Pyramid of Giza,

fundamentalist belief based on the Book of Revelations.

All these vehicles of prophecy have two things in common.

In the first place, each has a record of apparent accuracy.

The second thing these prophecies share

is a common thread that links the end of civilization

as we know it to a point in time that falls within the lifetime

of most of us living today, a point in time

a few short years into our future.

Armageddon-- St. Malachy, Irish priest

and prophet of the 12th century.

St. Malachy accurately forecast 110 Roman Catholic popes,

up to and including the current pope, John Paul II.

Malachy says there will be only two more popes after this one.

Armageddon-- Nostradamus, respected prophet

and physician of 16th century France.

Amongst hundreds of accurate predictions,

Nostradamus foretold of the impact

on civilization of three Antichrists,

the first two being Napoleon and Hitler.

Nostradamus says the third Antichrist walks among us now.

Armageddon-- Edgar Cayce, famous clairvoyant and psychic healer

of 20th century America.

Cayce accurately predicted the establishment of Israel,

the assassination of President Kennedy,

World War I, and World War II.

Cayce also predicted the start of World War III

and the collapse of civilization.

Armageddon-- Fatima, the Portuguese village

where shepherd children were given three secrets

by a vision of the Virgin Mary.

The first, a graphic description of Hell.

The second, an accurate sign for the start of World War II.

It is alleged that the third secret, entrusted

to the Vatican, says the after World War III-- to start

in this century-- the survivors will envy the dead.

Armageddon-- Garabandal, the Spanish village

where Conchita Gonzalez was given,

during years of ecstatic visions,

a message that haunts her to this day.

A message for mankind about a terrible chastisement that

has Conchita fearing for her children.

And she believes she knows the date of that chastisement

and it is in her lifetime.

Armageddon-- the Great Pyramid of Giza, built 4,500 years ago

and studied as a blueprint for history.

Many believe the Great Pyramid accurately

predicted the dates of the crucifixion of Christ,

the campaigns of Napoleon, World War I, World War II,

and World War III, when mankind will

fall into a bottomless pit.

Is it coincidence that all these prophesies

link Armageddon in time?

Possibly.

But there is a further coincidence.

All of these predictions for Armageddon, most of them

centuries old, coincide exactly with that moment

in human history when it is within man's power

to make these horrific predictions come to pass,

to bring the apocalypse upon himself in this nuclear age.

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