s--and actually claim to be God; he will be a
scientific spiritualist, able to work miracles, even to bring fire down
from the clouds; he will be very powerful by his alliance, apparent
generosity, and scientific deception; he will be a great liar, making
treaties and breaking them whenever it suits him; he will be very wicked,
guilty of all manner of crime; his reign will be short as a king, only
about three-and-a-half years. Before this he will have been a man of
power and position. He will suddenly be destroyed in the time of a
fearful uprising of the people; he will remain unburied in the streets of
Jerusalem for a time, then, finally, his remains will be burnt up. These
and many other facts inspiration furnish us beforehand of this most
wonderful character.

Against this person our Saviour warned the Jews and all the Church, but
especially the Jews, and He did so for special reasons, which will appear
hereafter in this discourse. Christ said, "I am come in My Father's
name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him
ye shall receive." At the time of Anti-Christ's death there will be
raging a fearful war, and coincident with this war there will be another
Saint Bartholomew massacre in several of the ten-toed kingdoms. The
beast and Anti-Christ are to be destroyed about the same time. It will
be the last plot of the Jesuits, who are hounding to death poor Leo.
XIII. A glimpse of that time the Saviour showed to His disciples, when
He said: "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world, to this time, no, nor ever shall be; and except
those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for
the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then, if any man shall
say unto you, Lo! here is Christ, or there, believe it not; for there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs
and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the
very elect. Behold! I have told you before" (Matt. xxiv. 21-25).

What a warning the Saviour gave the Jews, but how little have they and
the Church heeded it! In the second century appeared the famous Bar
Cochebas, with his thousands of followers, who in his final struggle was
slain with some sixty thousand of his adherents. Also, think of
Antiochus Epiphanes and his terrible delusions, the thousands and tens of
thousands who flocked to his standard. So marvell