The Coming Chastisement and Era of Peace Referenced in Old Testament Prophecies

David Martin | The Daily Knight

Many today hold to the idea that the Old Testament prophecies referred only to events to occur later in the Old Testament, but not so. Many of the Old Testament prophets pointed to the days in which we are now living – the latter days just before Christ’s return to earth.

For instance, the prophet Isaias says, “With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.” (Isaias 24:19) Further on in the chapter he says, “And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion.” (23) Both of these prophecies have yet to be fulfilled. They refer to that time when the world will be visited with an intervention from On High.

Following the great intervention (Apoc. 6: 12-15), we will see the great and final chastisement upon the world, which is prophesied in the Biblical Book of Joel.   

“Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand…. Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there anyone that can escape it.” (Joel 2:1,3)

This prophecy too has yet to be fulfilled. The “devouring fire” with a “burning flame” refers to a Ball of fire of supernatural origin that will collide with the earth and leave in its wake the annihilation of 3/4 of the human race. Just prior to this the land will be “like a garden of pleasure” insofar that men will be eating, drinking, partying, and engaging in the forbidden pleasures of the flesh until that time when the burning flame comes through and leaves the earth in a state of desolation.

Only those who remain in grace and who place the image of the living God [Crucifix] on the outside of their doors will be spared this time of darkness just as the Israelites who placed the blood of the lamb on their doorposts were completely protected from the Egyptian Darkness. The passing of the lamb during the Egyptian Darkness prefigured how God’s wrath will pass over any home that bears the Crucifix during the coming “Three Day’s Darkness” that was prophesied by Padre Pio and other saints.

The Blessed Virgin through the late seer Veronica of the Cross also made this point many times (1970-1995), yet the world and the Church have turned a deaf ear to this and other like prophecies despite Saint Paul’s counsel that we “Despise not prophecies.” (1 Thess. 5:20) Ignoring the prophets leads man to ignore God just as the Pharisees knew not God because they ignored Moses and the early prophets.

In many ways the terminology of the Old Testament prefigured the New Testament to come. For instance, terms like “My Holy Mountain,” “Jerusalem,” or “Zion” were often used to prefigure the Church of the New Testament, which would continue after Christ’s Second Coming. For the return of Christ will mark not the end of the world but the end of our era. The second chapter of Isaias discusses that time after the Parousia, which is the Era of Peace predicted by Our Lady of Fatima.

“And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.” (Isaias 2:2-4)  

“The last days” mentioned here refers to the Era of Peace to come, yet some hold to the idea that it refers to the entire span of the New Testament. This is illogical since the text makes it clear that “the last days” refers to that time when God will judge the Gentiles, after which “they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised anymore to war.”

Since the time of Christ wars have not ceased and are becoming even more intense now as we approach the greatest of wars, so the above verse obviously refers to that future time when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they exercised anymore to war.”

But unto that time we will see war and darkness, so it is crucial that we drop worldly aspirations of wealth and acclaim and prepare our souls for judgment against all the temptations of fake mercy that our fallen religious leaders throw at us today.

On that note, we pray that Pope Leo XIV will follow the legacy of Christ to “do penance” and reject Francis’ agenda of fake mercy.