Nostradamus Future Tense (2020) - full transcript

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[narrator] There are some people
who have walked this planet
that leave behind them

a legacy so profound that
their name is remembered
for generations.

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They affect society and
draw around them followers.

Sometimes these people
become messiahs.

Sometimes they
become serial killers.

Nostradamus will be remembered
in the annals of history,

firstly, as a prophet and seer.

Others will remember him as
a con-artist, thief, and liar.



As is ever the case, it is
often a matter of belief.

Welcome to the world of
the world's most famous
and infamous prophet.

Welcome to Nostradamus.

Nostradamus was a
physician who believed
he could predict the future.

He published these
predictions in the prophecies.

Some believe they
have or will come true.

Others believe that they are
the ramblings of a madman or
even a method of making money.

He was born Michel de Nostredame

in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,
France in 1503.

He was one of nine children.

His parents were Reynière
de St-Rémy and her husband
Jaume de Nostredame

who was a grain dealer and
a notary of Jewish descent.

The family name was altered
when his grandfather
converted to Catholicism

to avoid persecution.



We know very little about his
childhood other than he seems
to have been fairly intelligent

and did well in school.

He learned Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, and mathematics,

and some believe he was taught
ancient Jewish mythology

and astrology
by his grandfather.

It is said he studied medicine
and became a doctor.

The story goes that
he treated plague victims
in France and Italy.

The tale gets more interesting
when we read that he had
a kind of psychic awakening

and started to practice
the occult and astrology.

Soon he was making
predictions about the future,

but his journey
into the mystical world

begins at the age of 14 when
he entered the University
of Avignon to study medicine.

After only one year he was
forced to leave because of
an outbreak of the plague.

He claims that he decided
to travel across the
country at this time

seeking out cures and
working as an apothecary.

By 1522 he was once
again back in university, this
time it was in Montpellier

to try and finish his
doctorate in medicine.

The Catholic priests in
authority didn't like his
interest in astrology

and his previous work
as an apothecary and
so he was dismissed.

Other accounts state
that he in fact did finish
his doctorate in 1525,

but this part of the
tale is very sketchy
and not to be trusted.

It was at this time of
reinvention that he changed
his name to Nostradamus

in place of Nostredame
and let this be a point on
the road of this man's life

that he did reinvent himself.

In fact, he created himself.

He wrote his own biography
as he moved along

and so be careful of what
you are told about the man.

Historians often dismiss 99
percent of the tales that can
be found on the Internet.

For the next few years,
Nostradamus traveled
throughout France and Italy.

We are led to believe
that he wandered around
treating the people of plague.

Instead of the usual
bloodletting mercury-poisoned
potions,

we are told that this
clever half doctor instead
introduced hygiene controls

and the removal of infected
corpses from the streets.

He invented a rose pill which
was a lozenge made of rosehips

which is now known
to be high in vitamin C

which may have aided those
with minor plague symptoms.

Through the use of
this lozenge, hygiene,
low-fat diets, and fresh air,

Nostradamus made a
name for himself as a
kind of miracle doctor.

Soon the money started to roll
in from the citizens of Provence
who appreciated his skills.

In 1531 he was invited
to work with a leading
scholar of the time,

Jules-César Scaliger in Agen
in Southwestern France.

There he married, and in the
next few years had two children.

In 1534, his wife and children
died presumably of the plague

while he was travelling on
a medical mission to Italy.

Not being able to save his wife
and children caused him to fall
out of favor in the community,

and with his patron, Scaliger.

By 1538, he was being accused
of heresy and ordered to appear
before the Catholic Inquisition,

and so he duly escaped to Italy,
Greece, and Turkey for a few
years to let the heat dissipate.

During his travels to the
ancient mystery schools, it
is believed Nostradamus

experienced a psychic awakening.

One of the legends of
Nostradamus says that
during his travels in Italy

he came upon a group of
Franciscan monks, identifying
one as the future Pope.

The monk called Felice
Peretti was ordained
Pope Sixtus V in 1585,

fulfilling the prediction
of Nostradamus.

He was soon pretty sure
he'd escape the clutches
of the inquisition

and so returned to France where
in 1547 he settled down in his
hometown of Salon-de-Provence.

He then proceeded to cleverly
marry a wealthy widow
called Anne Ponsarde.

They had six children together,
and he published two
books on medical science.

Things were looking good.

It didn't take long for him
to move more and more
away from medical science

and towards the
world of the occult.

The story goes that
he would spend many
hours alone in his study

staring into a bowl of clear
water whereupon he received
his visions of future events.

By 1550, he had completed
his first almanac of prophecies

based upon his
visions and astrology.

He was in fact cashing
in on one of the most
popular genres at the time.

Almanacs were used
for all manner of things
from farmers and merchants

to just pure entertainment.

His book was very well received,
and fame of this amazing mystic
spread rapidly across France.

And so he wrote more.

By 1554, his focus was almost
entirely on the prophecies,

and he decided to write a
grand opus entitled Centuries.

The plan was for 10 volumes
and to contain 100 predictions

forecasting the
next 2,000 years.

In 1555, he published
The Prophecies

which was a huge
collection of his major
long-term predictions.

He claimed that the obscure
nature of his prophecies

was in order to avoid
the scrutiny of the
Catholic Church.

He wrote them in what
are known as quatrains
or four-line verses.

He mixed in Greek, Latin,
Italian, and Provencal to
confuse things even more.

They were a kind of clever
16th century puzzle book

that allowed readers to see
almost anything they wanted to,

a win-win situation.

There were many accusations.

Some said he was the
servant of the devil,

and others said
he was either a fraud or simply
insane,

but his followers
grew and grew.

Thousands started to
believe that his prophecies
was spiritually inspired.

Soon the elite across
Europe began to demand
his books and presence.

Catherine de Medici, who was the
wife of King Henry II of France

counted herself amongst
his greatest followers.

His 1555 almanac
hinted at a great threat
to the royal family,

and so he was summoned
to appear before Catherine
in Paris to explain himself.

He dutifully explained
and proceeded to draw
up astrological charts

for the royal children.

He was soon made royal
counselor and physician
to King Henry's court.

Nostradamus also explained
to the Royals that one of
his previous predictions

from the book, Centuries I,
told of a young lion

who would overcome the older
one on the field of battle.

The young lion would pierce
the older one's eye.

He explained that in truth
he wanted the King to
avoid a jousting match.

Alas! Three years later,
King Henry, then 41 years old,

died when jousting
and a lance pierced his
eye and entered his brain.

He died an agonizing death
ten days later from infection.

But just how did Nostradamus
manage to come up
with these predictions?

Well, he claimed that
he used what is known
as judicial astrology.

This is when future events can
supposedly be predicted by
calculating the relationships

between stellar bodies
and the earth.

He said he used classical
sources such as Plutarch
and medieval chronicles.

This may, in fact, be true
because modern historians claim
that what Nostradamus really did

was to steal ancient
end-of-the-world prophesies
from places such as the Bible,

and then using his astrological
readings of the past he simply
projected them forward.

Professional astrologers
actually said he was incompetent

and that such a
method would not work.

His skills, however,
did not help him with
his own gout and arthritis,

and in the last few years of
his life he developed dropsy.

This is known as edema
and it simply means that fluid
accumulates beneath the skin

and cavities of the body
and could cause heart failure.

In June 1566, he knew
the end was closing
in and drew up a will

leaving almost everything
to his wife and children.

He told his secretary, "You will
not find me alive at sunrise."

The next morning, he was
reportedly found dead lying
on the floor next to his bed.

His life's work had a profound
effect on the people of Europe.

They mainly dealt with
war, disasters, death,
plagues, earthquakes,

floods, droughts and murder.

Thousands of followers
across the centuries firmly
believe that Nostradamus

created the most accurate
prophecies of any
mystic throughout time.

Others say he was
nothing but a charlatan.

It is believed he predicted
the French Revolution, the rise
of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon,

the attacks of September the
11th, and even the atomic bomb.

The beauty of the
vagueness of his writings

means that almost anything
can be attributed to it.

To this day, the works are
being researched by many

to see if they can
discover future events.

Looking back over them,
it is child's play to attribute
events to past writings

because they can be
taken in so many ways.

However, regardless of our
21st century analytical science
let us ask the question,

"Is it possible that a mystic
from the 16th century could
somehow look into the future?"

He did, in fact, make
over 1,000 predictions

and some followers
claim over half of these
have already come true.

It's now time to investigate
some of these to
seek out the truth.

We turn to the most famous,
the prediction of the death
of King Henry II of France.

Here's what Nostradamus wrote.

"The young lion will overcome
the older one on the field
of combat in a single battle.

He will pierce his eyes
through a golden cage.

Two wounds made one.

Then he dies a cruel death."

As we have already seen,
Henry was warned
not to joust, but he did.

King Henry II, as the older
lion, faced the Comte de
Montgomery, as the young lion.

Both combatants had
lions on their shields.

In the final pass,
Montgomery thrust his
lance through the King's visor.

The lance split into two shots
or, as Nostradamus said,
the two wounds made one.

One went through Henry's eye
and one through his temple.

Ten days later,
the old lion was dead.

So what about another
famous prediction, the
Great Fire of London?

Here's what Nostradamus said.

"The blood of the just will be
demanded of London,
burnt by fire in the year '66.

The ancient lady will fall from
her higher place, and many of
the same sect will be killed."

Here's what's happened.

In 1666 on September
the 2nd, a small fire started
in a bakery in London.

The result was a massive
fire that lasted for three
days and consumed the city.

What exactly the blood of the
just means? Nobody's sure.

Some believe it refers to
the millions of rats that died.

By the way, it seems a pretty
clever and accurate prediction.

An even bigger and far-reaching
prediction is that of the
French Revolution.

Here's what Nostradamus said.

"From the enslaved populace,
songs, chants and demands

while princes and lords are
held captive in prisons.

These will, in the future,
by headless idiots be
received as divine prayers."

Well, the enslaved presence did
rise up with chants and demands,
indeed, they even wrote songs.

They took control of Paris

because they had simply
had enough of the way the
aristocracy were treating them.

These princes and lords
were held captive and did
have their heads taken off

with the infamous guillotine.

However, much of this
could relate to many
periods of revolts in history,

and there is no
mention of specifics.

So what about that famous
Hitler prediction? Here's
what Nostradamus said.

"From the depths of the west
of Europe, a young child
would be born of poor people.

He, who by his tongue,
will seduce a great troop.

His fame will increase
towards the realm of the east.

Beasts ferocious with
hunger will cross the rivers.

The greater part of
the battlefield will
be against Hister.

Into a cage of iron will
the great one be drawn.

When the child of Germany
observes nothing."

Well, this is quite different.

There are plenty of
specifics to play with.

What happened in history
and does it relate
to the prediction?

Hitler was in fact born on
April the 20th, 1889 in Western
Europe to very poor parents.

Nostradamus said he
would be from the depths
of the west of Europe.

A young child
born of poor people.

Well, that's pretty close.

Hitler moved to Germany after
World War I, and did in fact
rise to be a legendary leader

through his amazing
methods of speaking.

Hundreds of experts in
propaganda and marketing

have studied this clever
hypnotizing methods

so when Nostradamus
said "by his tongue will
seduce a great troop,"

he was pretty damn close.

When Nostradamus said
his fame will increase
towards the realm of the east,

was he really talking about
how Hitler created a massive
alliance with Japan?

When Nostradamus said
"beasts ferocious with
hunger will cross rivers,"

was he really talking about
the way the beasts of the
German army crossed river

after river to invade and
conquer France and
most of Europe?

When Nostradamus said "the
greater part of the battlefield
will be against Hister,"

was he really talking about
how the rest of the world
created a grand alliance

to take him and his
Nazi Party down?

Apart from the obvious
misspelling of Hister, this is
a pretty clever set of links

to something that Nostradamus
could never have known about.

In fact, Hister was a name
for the River Danube

and Hitler was born on
the banks of the River
Danube in Austria.

It is also claimed that
Nostradamus predicted
the atomic bomb.

Here's what he said.

"Near the gates and
within two cities,

there will be scourges the like
of which was never seen.

Famine within plague, people
put out by steel, crying to the
great immortal God for relief."

[male voice] The day
of doom is coming!

Your blood will turn to white.

Your face will turn to green.

Your eyeballs will
pop like a mushroom.

[narrator] How can this
really have anything to do
with the atomic bomb?

Well, in 1945, the USA
did in fact dropped two
atomic bombs on Japan,

in fact two cities,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

So this explains the line

"near the gates
within two cities."

"The scourges the likes of which
have never been seen" obviously
could mean a super weapon

such as the atom bomb.

Indeed, thousands survived
the horrendous ordeal and were
crying to the great immortal God

for relief due to their
radiation poisoning.

Even further into the future
for Nostradamus were the
murders of John F. Kennedy

and his brother Bobby Kennedy.

Many saw this golden family
as modern-day royalty coming
to the rescue of the USA

and the world in a time
of Cold War and fear.

They were truly seen
by many as great.

Here's what
Nostradamus predicted.

"The great man will be
struck down in the
day by a thunderbolt,

an evil deed foretold
by the bearer of a petition."

According to the prediction,
another falls at nighttime.

Conflict at Reims, London
and a pestilence in Tuscany.

Well, the great man was
struck down after receiving
many death threats.

Deeds that were foretold.

On November the 22nd, 1963
JFK was gunned down
as if by a thunderbolt.

Five years later, Bobby Kennedy
was killed just after midnight

or as Nostradamus said
"another falls at nighttime."

The date September
the 11th, 2001

is now ingrained in the minds
of all modern people, the
day the terrorists struck.

But did you know many
believe Nostradamus
predicted the attacks?

Here's what he said,

"earth shaking fire from
the center of the earth

will cause tremors
around the new city.

Two great rocks will
war for a long time.

Then Arethusa will
redden a new river."

This is claimed to
actually be about 9/11.

In fact, it is slightly
twisted by modern
conspiracy theories.

The original quatrain
reads "sea of fire
at the world center,

the tower of the
new city will tremble.

Two great blocks will be at war
for a long time, then Arethusa
will redden a new river."

Yes, two towers were
taken out by terrorists

or as the followers believe
the two great rocks.

The World Trade Center
is thought to have something
to do with the statement,

"fire from the
center of the earth."

The problem here is when
Nostradamus wrote these, there
was a new city and it was Napoli

which lies between two great
and powerfully dangerous
rocks known as volcanoes.

He was in fact simply talking
about earthquakes hitting
Napoli as they often have.

This often causes the
sea to rise and redden.

Arethusa was in fact
a Greek water nymph that
would rise, nothing more.

However, while we're on
the subject of earthquakes,

there is in fact a prediction
from Nostradamus about
a coming earthquake

that many believe predicts a
terrible disaster in California.

Here's what he said,

"the sloping park, great
calamity, through the lands
of the west and Lombardy,

the fire and the ship
plague in captivity,

Mercury in
Sagittarius, Saturn fading."

This may not yet have come true.

Followers have to
decide what it may mean.

The "sloping park, great
calamity" is thought to
literally mean earthquake,

sloping earth causing calamity.

"The lands to the west" is
thought to mean California

although why Lombardy in France
is mentioned, we do not know.

The fact remains that this
could simply be yet another
one of the 1,000 predictions

that are so obscure they
could mean almost anything
from any period in history.

Nostradamus explains
that the reason his
prophecies are so obscure

was to avoid persecution
from the inquisition.

He also gives this as the
reasoning why the quatrains
are not in chronological order.

Nostradamus left his predictions

in the form of almost
1,000 four-line verses
called quatrains,

and a collection of six-line
verses called sestets.

The prophesies are not
sequential by date

which makes it easier to
attribute any of them to any
tale you want from any period.

Although there are many
coincidences, it does not
prove accurate prophecy.

There are no accuracies,
no specific dates,

no specific places,
nothing specific actually.

Nostradamus concealed
his meanings in symbols,
anagrams, mythology,

and mixed it up with all the
use of several old languages.

He combined three languages,
mixed it all together with
symbolism and cryptic messages,

and then put them
in four-line verses.

However, followers
repeat that Nostradamus
had to hide his meanings

because of the Catholic Church,
but he did not use magic,

and was followed and
patronized by the powerful
elite and thus he was protected.

He was not prosecuted.

He could have
been more specific.

Followers also say that
his visions into the future

most have been so confusing
to a man of the 16th century.

Seeing the technology of
the 21st century would have
confused him greatly they say.

He would not have had
the language to explain
airplanes, for instance.

In short, his use of language
was chaotic and obscure.

He hid locations and people
in symbolism and anagrams.

He's referenced astrological
readings that most could
not even understand

and thus confused
people even more.

In addition to this,
astrological readings are
by their very nature vague.

Vagueness upon vagueness.

However, we have seen some
the past events that Nostradamus
supposedly predicted.

All their prophecies for our
future, there are indeed, and
one of them is quite scary

and speaks of the coming
three anti-Christs.

Nostradamus speaks of three
powerful and tyrannical leaders
that he calls anti-Christs.

He said they would lead their
people through range of terror

after first seducing them
with promises of greatness.

Napoleon is thought
to have been the first
of these anti-Christs.

Here's what he said
about Napoleon.

"An emperor shall be born
near Italy who shall
cost the empire dear.

They shall say, with what
people who keeps company.

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

Napoleon was indeed
considered a butcher
even by his supporters,

and he did cost the French
Empire dearly in both
manpower and political strength.

From a simple soldier
he will rise to the empire,

from the short robe
he will attain the long.

"Great swarms
of bees shall rise."

Amazingly, when Napoleon
became emperor, he took on
the symbol of the beehive

on his imperial crest.

Was he a simple soldier?
Well, he was born on
the Island of Corsica,

which followers say is an
unlikely place for a future
emperor to emerge.

Napoleon destroyed Moscow
and some believe that is what
Nostradamus was pointing to

when he wrote "a great troop
shall come through Russia,

the destroyer
shall ruin the city."

Napoleon's forces
in fact advanced too
far into the country

and got trapped
in the Russian winter.

Napoleon had to retreat, and
this is what Nostradamus said.

"The rear guard
will make defense.

The exhausting ones will
die in the white territory."

[man] From Red Square
to the battleground.

[narrator] He also said, "The
great empire will soon be
exchanged for a small place

which will soon begin to grow.

A small place of tiny area
in the middle of which he will
come to lay down his scepter.

The captive prince,
conquered, is sent to Elba.

He will sail across the Gulf
of Genoa to Marseilles.

By a great effort of the
foreign forces he is overcome.

Though he escaped
the fire, his bees yield
blood by the barrel."

Amazingly, Napoleon was exiled
to the small island of Elba

from which he
escaped for 100 days.

After a defeat at Waterloo,
he relinquished all power
for exile on tiny St. Helena.

So that's the first anti-Christ.

Who was the second?

Nostradamus wrote about
"a man stained with murder.

The great enemy
of the human race,

one who was worse
than any who had gone
before bloody and inhuman."

Most followers of Nostradamus
agree that he was
referring to Adolf Hitler.

We have already heard the
following quatrain about Hitler.

"Out of the deepest part of the
west of Europe, from poor people
the young child shall be born,

who with his tongue
shall seduce many people.

His fame shall increase
in the eastern kingdom."

Born to poor parents, powerful
speaker, uniting with Japan,

but Nostradamus also tells
us about Hitler, the other
ways. Here's what he said.

"He shall come to
tyrannize the land.

He shall raise up a hatred
that had long been dormant.

The child of Germany
observes no law.

Cries, and tears,
fire, blood, and battle.

A captain of Germany shall come
to yield himself by false hope

so that his revolt shall
cause great bloodshed."

Anybody who knows the history of
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party

will now see the similarities.

This child of Germany
seduced his people and
raised a dormant threat.

He did ignore all the
treaties from World War I

or as Nostradamus said,
"the child of Germany
observes no law."

He did raise false hope, and
he did bring great bloodshed.

One thing we know is that
the death of Hitler has
been surrounded in mystery.

Was his body swept away
by the Russians? Was
it completely destroyed?

Did he live and
escape to South America?

Nostradamus supposedly predicted

the rise, life, death, and
uncertainty of the evil Hitler.

Here's what he said.

"Near the Rhine from
the Austrian mountains

will be born a great man
of the people, come too late.

A man who will defend Poland
and Hungary, and whose
fate will never be certain."

So there we have
two anti-Christs.

What about a third?

This evildoer will be more
hideous than the other two.

Firstly, Nostradamus tells us
where this man would emerge.

"Out of the country of Greater
Arabia shall be born a strong
master of Mohammed.

He will enter Europe
wearing a blue turban.

He will be the terror of
mankind, never more horror."

To our modern Western ears,
this sounds like some kind
of terrible Islamic terrorists.

"From Greater Arabia a strong
master of Mohammed

entering Europe and he will
be the terror of mankind."

Scared yet?

Is Nostradamus telling us that
a great man from Greater Arabia

is going to invade
Europe with his army?

But what will be the outcome?
Well, he explains,
"in the year 1999

and seven months,
from the sky will come
the great king of terror.

He will bring back to life
the king of the Mongols;
before and after war reigns."

Of course, there's a problem
here with the date, isn't there?

Well, not necessarily.

In 1999 and seven months
a great terror comes.

Well, the seventh month is
July, and not a lot happened
in 1999 in terrorist circles.

What did happen was
this, the series of massive
terrorist attacks in Russia

killing more than 300 people
and injuring over 1,000.

The official Russian
investigation of the bombings
was completed in 2002

and concluded that all the
bombings were organized and led

by a Russian who remains
at large and ordered two
infamous Islamic warlords

who have since been killed.

Five of those suspects have
been killed, and six have been
convicted by Russian courts

on terrorism-related charges.

However, according
to historians, the bombings
were coordinated

by the Russian state
security services to bring
Putin into the presidency.

Now, this really is ushering
in a period for instability
of the West and the East,

support opposing sides in
the worldwide terrorist scene,
and Putin has been a big player.

Is he the third anti-Christ
helping to bring Arabian
terrorists army into Europe?

According to Nostradamus,

this will all bring about
a third world war that
will last 27 years.

The world will come face to
face with its final destruction.

Here's what he says.

"The sky will burn
at 45 degrees.

Fire approaches
the great new city."

So 45 degrees latitude and
a new city, this is New York.

A great fire will approach
New York City, and
as Nostradamus says,

"by fire he will
destroy their city,

a cold and cruel heart, blood
will pour, mercy to none."

It doesn't sound
too good, does it?

So how does Nostradamus
believe this will all end?

"When those of the
Northern Pole are united,

in the East will be
great fear and dread.

One day, the two great
leaders will be friends.

Their great power
will be seen to grow.

The new land will be at
the height of its power.

To the man of blood,
the number is reported."

So basically, Nostradamus
is telling us there will be a
peace between East and West.

"This new land" is what
they knew as America,

and "the countries
of the Northern Pole"
is quite possibly Russia.

So it seems these two nations
will use terrorism to bring
about a third world war

and then after 27 years a
peace accord will be signed.

Of course, all of this is wide
open to interpretation.

Things just aren't specific,
and we have to make
huge assumptions.

So-called experts have
been doing this for centuries.

Apparently, the world is going
to end in 1666, 1999, 2012,

and now 2096, even
though Nostradamus never
in fact said any of that.

In fact, he said we would
overcome and survive.

He even said that we could
change the course of these
events if we wanted to.

He did predict the
end of the world,

but the dates are argued over,
and could be 3786 or 3797.

Before we get carried away by
all of this, we have to remember

that the man was not at all
what he seemed and that his
prophecies were so vague

they can and have been
twisted and turned
with every passing year.

There is more to Nostradamus
than his published prophecies.

In fact, he wrote letters and
there's one particular letter

he wrote to his
newborn son called Cesar.

In this letter, he wrote
about future events
and the end of times.

He predicted that the world
would go through a
series of great floods.

These floods would end in a
great catastrophe for mankind.

A huge comet storm
would hit planet Earth.

After this, there is nothing.

It's almost as if he's
telling us there will be
no future for mankind.

Never in the history of mankind
has there been a time when
this could possibly come true.

Now is the time.

Humanity has caused such
utter calamity and destruction
on our beautiful planet

that we have in fact
instigated our own death.

We have caused the earth to warm
through our poisonous behavior,

and this is melting the
icebergs of the world.

The seas are rising.

Coastal regions are
disappearing at alarming rates,

and the poisoned oceans of
the world are heading our way.

Never in the history of
mankind could we safely
predict a storm of comets

because never in the
history of mankind has
there been the technology

for humanity to launch
intercontinental ballistic
missiles at each other.

To a man from the 16th century,

such things would appear
to be comets, great streaming
strands of fire and smoke

falling down to earth

before our eyes and
bringing the end of
mankind as we know it.

This is exactly what Nostradamus
wrote to his child,

"But my son,

I tell you, that I have seen
it thus, there will be
floods of such nature

that no place on this
world will not be affected,

and for a long time

everything will be beneath
the surface of water,

and everything will be
destroyed with the exception
of the weather and space.

After these floods such a great
amount of fire of glowing
stones will fall from the sky

that nothing will be
able to escape this last
destructive firestorm.

The problem is that
the dating is difficult.

It may be that he indicated
this would happen 7,000 years
after his writing of the letter,

but this goes against other
prediction dates for
the end of the world.

Again, the vagueness
causes problems.

The events of flood and glowing
stones falling from the sky

are not vague, and we now
know what these could mean.

There are, though, more
clues about the end times

when we return to his prophecies
about the third anti-Christ.

We turn back to his specifics
about the army employed
by this evildoer.

The army of the enemy of peace
will march towards Europe.

They will emerge from the south
of Russia, and through Turkey
they will invade Europe.

This army will also have a naval
counterpart that Nostradamus
called the Libyan fleet.

It will move into
the Mediterranean

and there will be a massive
naval war in the Adriatic.

Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, and
other islands will be destroyed.

Again, never in the
history of mankind

has there been such
firepower with the ability to
wipe out islands until now.

Throughout this conflict
it is believed that Russia
will be against the West,

although Nostradamus
is not clear.

He does state that the
Russians will be friendly
to the West eventually,

and that their leader
will be the one who
will set things right.

The reason for this is because
Russia soon realizes that
they need to ally themselves

with the West in order
to defeat the Easterners.

These Easterners are, in
reality, the people of China and
various former Soviet nations.

In addition to these Easterners

will be allied with the
Islamic nations of Asia
and the Middle East.

So it appears the West
and Russia will be
at war with the East

in a clear divide of
ideologies and religion.

Again, looking at world
events today, it is not
a stretch of the imagination

to realize that China
and the Muslim world
could easily find themselves

at war with the mainly
Christian materialistic West.

There are already so
many issues that could
spark international conflict.

How could Nostradamus have
known this in the 16th century?

He couldn't.

It seems that this third
anti-Christ will bring the
nondestructive nations

against the armies of Christ,

and he also states
that the Christians

will be faced with terrible
persecution and tortures.

This terrifying war will
last for almost 28 years

and both sides will suffer
horrendous casualties.

Our cities will be struck
by these large shining
rocks that fall from the sky.

In other words, ballistic
missiles will strike New York
and other major centers.

As if this isn't enough,
there will follow a great
and dreadful pestilence

that will wipe out two-thirds
of the world's population.

This could be nuclear radiation
or the spread of disease
as society breaks down.

There are various dates
all of this could happen.

The next is 2024, and roughly
every two years following that.

As Nostradamus tells us,
it all depends on the
actions we take now.

What we do know is
that the predicted flood
we spoke about earlier

comes after the war
with the anti-Christ.

Global warming will melt
the ice, bring about
widespread rainfall,

and following this more
breakdown of society
and spread of disease.

In addition to all of this, it
is thought that global warming
and the melting of ice caps

could cause the planet
to shift on its axis causing
tidal floods to worsen.

Our position in the solar system
would even alter and cause us
to move even closer to the Sun.

In fact, the Earth is actually
overdue for a polar shift, even
without man-made global warming.

There is absolutely no way a
man from the 16th century could
have known about any of this.

He had some way
to see into the future.

The future appears to
be a terrifying prospect

that must have caused
Nostradamus to lose sleep.

There is no wonder
that he tried to tell us.

But his message across the years
is still very strong and true,

that the future does
not need to be this way,

that we can make a
difference and we can stop
these things from happening.

The question is, will we listen?

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