CHAPTER  VI

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PART I:

X.76    Henry's successor. NOTE:
Senat: senate; decerner: to award; pompe: ceremony; apres: afterwards; vaincu: vanquished; chasse (chasser): to hunt, shoot; adherans (adherent): supporter, follower; trompe: trumpet, horn; a son de trompe: to the sound of the trumpet, with full publicity; bien: goods, benefit; publiez (publier): to publish, make public; dechausser: to expose the root. COMMENT: King Henry's successor shall be dishonorable leader who shall be disfavored and disappeared.

I.94    The fate of Muslim nations after the World War.

NOTE:
Selin: (Greek) moon or Muslim; pourtant: however; recouvree: recovered; vindicte: prosecution; remort (remords): remorse; frayeur: fear. COMMENT: The Iranian leader shall be executed near Persian Gulf after the War but Muslim societies are still very totalitarian. New wars shall start due to Western persecution and old wounds or frictions between Western and Muslim countries. The role of women in Muslim societies shall be honored and improved due to Western pressure.

III.28  Muslim leader shall be an Egyptian woman after the World War III.

NOTE:
Foible: feeble; pauvre: poor; parentelle (parente): kindred, relatives; bout: fragment, remaining portion; paix: peace; parviendra (parvenir): to attain ,reach; jeunne: young; onc: ever, never; survint: surviving; pire: worse. COMMENT: During the period of peace the remnants of the earth shall try to survive and heal deep wounds. Egypt ,who shall be unscathed through-out the War shall become the new leader of the defeated Muslim fraction, shall be ruled by a poor young female leader for a long time. They shall be allowed to participate in the world body led by France but shall be mistreated and remain in poverty.

I.15   The Seventy years of wars during the period of False Crusade.

NOTE:
Nous: us, each other; bellique: warlike; septante: seventy; foi: time, occassion; respandre: to pour, shed; auge: augment, division; eux: they, them; rien: nothing, anything; entendre: to understand, to intent, listen. COMMENT: After the period of peace for fifty seven years, a period of seventy years of sporadic wars called here as the False Crusade between Western and Muslim factions of the world shall ruin the Church,her authority, and creat much more human sufferings.

III.61  A renowned German leader during the False Crusade.

NOTE:
Crucigere (latin = crucigere): to crucify; dresser: to set up, erect, rise up; Mesopotamie: region between two rivers, here southern Germany between Rhine and Danube; proche: near; fleuve: river; compagnie: company; legere: light, swift, light-armed; telle: such, similar; loi: law; tiendra (tenir): to hold, maintain. COMMENT: The Crusade army who shall start out as a small rebels in the southern Germany shall defeat more powerful Muslim occupying force and to restore the Law of the Cross (Christianity) and papacy. These events shall occur shortly before the antiChrist emerges around 2080 -2150 AD according to my calculation.

V.74   A German leader shall be victorius during the period of False Crusade.

NOTE:
Naistre: to be born; puissance: power; hors: out, outside; gent: race, nation; tournant (tour): to turn, turn about. COMMENT: This German leader shall drive away the Muslim force led by Egypt. This shall happen after the World War (1999-2028AD), after the period of peace (2028 - 2085AD), between 2085AD to 2155AD, and before the coming of the antichrist (2156-2160). These numbers of course are not exact but just my own approximate calculations.

PART II:

III.34   The greatest solar eclipse, the sign of calamities. NOTE:
Deffaut: default, defect; lors: then; plain: on the same level of equality; veu: viewed; tout: totally; autrement: otherwise, differently; on:one; cherte: high price; n'a : not have; garde: guarding, watching; nul: not one, null; pourveu (pourvoir): provided for, supply the need. COMMENT: When the greatest solar eclipse ( greatest since the Crucifixion of the Lord) shall occur, the anti-Christ shall emerge. Not many will be able to interprete the warning sign from Heaven.

I.84     The Sun hidden , the anti-Christ revealed.

NOTE:
Profond: deep; tenebre: darkness; frere: brother: ferrigine: rusty; cache: hidden; sous: under; fer: iron, sword; pluie: rain. COMMENT: When a great solar eclipse occur, the antichrist shall be revealed in about 2155 AD according to my calculation.

II.62   The antichrist shall come after WW III and after the great comet.

NOTE:
Mabus: the name or anagram of the name of the antichrist; puis: then, afterwards; tost (tot): soon, quickly; alors: then; defaite: defeat, undoing; tout a coup: suddenly; on: one; verra (voir): shall see; main: hand; soif: thirst; courir: to run, hurry, speed up. COMMENT: The antichrist shall reign only for three and half years. He is the abomination of desolation mentioned both by our Lord in the Gospel and by the prophet Daniel. He shall come while the great comet is on the course of collision with the earth. The antichrist shall come only because the sinfulness of the world shall reach the climax which yields a fertile ground for him to be incarnated .

I.69    A gigantic meteor shall collide with the earth. the great covenant between God and            men shall be broken.

NOTE:
Montagne: mountain; ronde: round; estades (etat): state, country; paix: peace; inondation: flood; roulera (rouler): to roll up, push; loing (oin): far away; abismant (abimer): to damage, ruin; contrades (contrat): covenant, contract; memes: to mess up, destroy. COMMENT: A gigantic meteor or asteroid shall hit the earth after the great period of chastisements including flood, famine, war, and peace ( The order was listed in reverse by Nostradamus). It probably shall destroy seven coastal countries and its impact shall be great. It shall appear right before the reign of the antichrist, signifying the breaking up of God's Covenant with men. 

VIII.16  The destruction due to tidal waves in Mediterranean due to the collision with a                comet.

NOTE:
Lieu: place; Jieson: (Greek mythology) Jieson built his ship on Mount Olympic; nef: ship; subit: sudden; ataquer (attaquer): to attack, tackle with; onde: wave; monter: to climb, mount. COMMENT: Coastal cities around Mediterranean shall be submerged in flood or tidal waves. Gigantic tidal waves shall be created by the collision of a comet colliding with the earth before the coming of the antichrist.

II.75   Unusual birds shall cry in the sky before the coming of the antichrist.

NOTE:
Voix: voice; ouie (ouire): to hear; insolit: unusual; oiseau: bird, pigeon; canon: canon (gun) or eclesiatic canon (the Church's law); respiral: breathable; estage: floor, stage, rank; froment: wheat; oisseau: bushel; homme: man; homme d'homme: son of man; Antropophage: Antichrist (Antro = anti in latin). COMMENT: Before the emergence of the Evil One, one shall see unusual birds crying in the sky. Famine shall be so widespread that the Antichrist shall become a god-like figure and benefactor to many.

I.87    The great earthquake in California.

NOTE:
Ennosigee: "fire from the center of the earth" or lava; feu: fire; centre: center: terre:earth; autour: around, about; neufue: new; Cite Neufue: modern city; ferot (feroce): fierce, ferocious; puis: afterwards; Areth-usa: usa or USA; rougir: to color red. COMMENT: This is a rare occassion that the prophet Nostradamus interprete for us his own mysterious terminology that most of time only he himself could know the meaning because he made them up himself. Here he informed us that "Ennosigee" meant lava.The Andreas Fault shall rupture and bury California and creat a new geographic landscape with a new river. Two great rocks are the faults rubbing against one another. As being discussed before, the term "Cite Neufue" was only used twice, once here and another time when Nostradamus discussed about the period of peace. Thus the great earthquake might occur right after the World War III or around 2028 - 2030 AD or before the coming of the antichrist.

PART  III:

III.35    The antichrist's origin. NOTE:
Profond: deep; pauvre: poor; gens: people; jeune: young; naitra (naitre): to be born; langue: tongue; seduira (seduire); to seduce; troupe: troop, gang, crowd; bruit: noise, fame; regne: reign. COMMENT: The antichrist shall be born in Attica of Greece (modern Athens). He shall be an eloquent religious leader who attracts great many followers and shall dominate Muslim and Eastern world with his charisma.

V.31   The birth-place of the antichrist.

NOTE:
Attique: Attica, now part of Atthens of Greece; sapience: wisdom; monde: the world; pont: bridge; subdite: sudden; naufrage: shipwreck, total destruction; undes: ( Honestly, I returned the dictionary to the library, therefore, I do not know the meaning of this word, sorry.) COMMENT: Athen , the birth-place of the antichrist shall become one of the centers of the world after the world war III and during the False Crusade.

I.95    The antichrist's background and early profession.

NOTE:
Devant: before; Moustier (monastere): monastery; trouve: found; besson: twin; moyne (moine): monk; vestutisque (vetuste): (latin = vestustico) aged, ancient ; bruit: noise, sensational popularity; que... soit....: whether... or...; elever: elevate, raise up; vospique: (latin = vospiscus) living twin. COMMENT: The antichrist shall be born as one surviving twin whose father shall be a monk and mother a prostitute. He shall be raised and educated as a devout Catholic and later on become a dynamic preacher or speaker of the Church. He shall have a great deal of charismatism.

VIII.79   More on the antichrist background, acitivties, and death.

NOTE:
Fer: iron ,sword; pere: father; perdra (perdre): to lose, waste, (obs.) to kill, destroy; nai (naitre): born; Nonnaire: No-life or Death; gorgon: (Greek myth.) evil repusive woman; perfetant: perfect; taire: to be silent, suppress, bruslera (brusler): to burn, incinerate, scorch; lui: him; meme: same; lui meme: himself; entante: understanding, alliance, agreement. COMMENT: The antichrist shall be born from a prostitue. He shall be begot by Satan. He shall kill his own father, conquer many nations, slaughter vast multitudes and at the end shall be destroyed by heavenly lightning and burnt to death.

IV.31   The antichrist is a spiritual and immortal being begot by Satan.

NOTE:
Nuit: night; sophe: wise man; seul: single, alone; cerveau: brain, intellect, mind; etre: being; semond: summons, admonition; yeux: eyes; au midy: toward the south; sens: sense; mains: hands; corp: body. COMMENT: The antichrist shall be a mystical religious leader as well as a military commander who shall be single-mindedly "consecrated" to serve his master, Satan. He shall come from southern Europe or Greece and his ambition shall lie south toward the Middle East.

I.96    The antichrist's charisma.

NOTE:
Celui: one, he; fantaisise: fancy, imagination, illusion; vivans (vivant): living; nuire: to harm, to injure; ornee: graceful; oreilles: ears; ressaisie (ressaisir): to capture, to regain. COMMENT: The continuation of the preceding quatrain.

VIII.57  The antichrist shall be a brilliant soldier.

NOTE:
Souldat: soldier; parviendra (parvenir): to rise to, obtain; courte: short; vaillant: valiant; eglise: the church; ou: (probably "ne", ne plus means no more; pire: worse, le pire: the worst; vwxer: to vex, harass; prestre (pretre): priest; comme: like; eau: water; eponge: sponge. COMMENT: The antichrist shall start his military career as a simple soldier but later on he shall command an empire. He shall exchange a priestly robe for a kingly one. He shall be a brilliant military commander and shall persecute Christians and priests.

V.84   The background of the antichrist and how he obtain power.

NOTE:
Naitre: to be born; gouphre (gouffre): gulf, abyss; immesuree: immeasurable; nai : born; parens: parents; tenebreux: secret, sinister; reveree (reverer): revered, honored; quand: when; detruire: to destroy. COMMENT: The antichrist shall be born somewhere in Mediterranean or in Jesuralem. The Immeasurable City can be either Athens or Jerusalem. He shall take over the power of a French king to be the leader of the world through cheating using his supporter from Rouen and Evreux (two French towns).

PART IV:

VIII.78     The antichrist, the heretic with a harmful tongue. NOTE:
Bragamas: Bragamas here is the antichrist who shall introduce the false, heretic religion replacing Christianity. Brahma is a Hindu religion in which Brahma is the creator, a divine essence and Siva the destroyer. Brahma is idolized as a red figure with four heads and four arms; langue: tongue; torte: harmful, wrong; viendra (venir): to come; dieux: gods; rompre: to break; sanctuaire: sanctuary; il: he; ouvrir: to open; porte: door, gate; suscitant (susciter): to raise up, create. COMMENT: The antichrist shall propagate the false religion which shall imitate Christianity closely but denying God in Blessed Trinity. He shall destroy the Holy See or the Sanctuary of the Lord. He shall lead a church which shall conquer by military force, not by religious doctrines.

I.97   The antichrist shall destroy the world.

NOTE:
Ce: what; que... ne..: neither.. nor..; sceu (sceau): seal, mark, to put seal on, to crown; paracheuver (parachever): to finish, complete; douce: sweet, soft; repos: rest; songe: dream, illusion; resuer (reuser): to destroy again. COMMENT: The antichrist shall destroy the world through persecution, war, and deception. He shall receive instructions and be instigated by his master, the Evil One through dreams.

III.60   The antichrist shall divide and conquer Minor Asia and Middle East.

NOTE:
Asie: Asia, here Minor Asia; proscription: (latin = proscripto) confiscation; Mysie, Lysie, Pamphylie: regions in Minor Asia; versera (verser): to pour out; dissolution: dissolving, falling apart; remply (remplir): to fill up, full; felonnie: felony, treason. COMMENT: A tyrant possibly the antichrist shall divide and then conquer all Minor Asia and Middle East in a brutal fashion.

VIII.70  The antichrist shall aldulterous women to make friends.

NOTE:
Il: he; entrera (entrer): to enter, come in; meschant (mechant): wicked, evil; infame: infamous; amis: friends; fait: made; terre: terrible; noir: black; physiognomie (physionomie): countenace, appearance, look. COMMENT: the antichrist shall tyrannize Middle East, using women to gain alliance. He shall have a beastly appearance or shall have a devilish look. Nostradamus might just imply that the antichrist was begot by the Beast.

V.67   Daily life and society under the reign of the antichrist.

NOTE:
Rousse (perousse): police or red; osera (oser): to dare, attempt; tunique: tunic, coat; sens: sense; couvert: shelter, cover; nud: nude; expolier (exposer); to expose; print: principal; fait: made, shaped; aristocratique: aristocrat; pere: father; fils: son; collier; collar. COMMENT: This quatrain describes the totalitarian and evil government which shall govern the world during the reign of the antichrist or shortly before that.

II.20    The antichrist can see into a human heart and probe a human mind.

NOTE:
Frere: brother; soeur: sister; lieu: place; trouveront: to find, discover; contempler: to contemplate, observe; entente: understanding, comprehension; ententif: understanding, knowing; plaisant: pleasant, humorous; voir: look; meton (menton): chin; frond (front): forehead; nez: nose; marque: mark, imprint, scar. COMMENT: This quatrain might describe the persecution of the Jews and Christians by German Nazi, Muslim conquerors or by the antichrist or all of the above.

VIII.82   A Christian slave under the antichrist's reign.

NOTE:
Ronge (ronger): to eat away, wear out; sec: dry, dried up; faisant (faire): to work, perform; valet: man servant, footman; parfin: the end; aura: have; congie: dismissal, discharge; poignant: poignant, acutely painful pungent; collet: collar; saisi (saisir): seized, caught; eschappe (echapper): to escape; dangie: danger. COMMEMT: A Christian shall be used as a slave who is indentified with his collar around his neck. When he had nothing left to offer, he shall be killed with poison or electric collar.

V.63   Italians shall rebel against the antichrist and shall be crushed.

NOTE:
Emprise: enterprise, influence; indue: undue, unreasonable, excessive; plainte: complaint, wailing; froid: cold; faime: famine; vague: wave, surge; loing: far; Tymbre: River Tiber where Vatican is located. COMMENT: The readers can find numerous scriptural references for Nostradamus's prophecies from the great prophetic Book of all, the Bible. Here one shall be able to find the very good reference in Daniel 11:30 cited as follows:
" And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him (the antichrist), and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the Sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary."

II.56    The final destiny of the antichrist.

NOTE:
Peste: plague; glaive: two-edged sword; definer: to define, determine; pluie: rain; sommet: top, summit, pinnacle; frappe: striking, inflicting; abbe: abbot, priest; verra (voir): to see; ruiner: to ruin, destroy; naufrage: shipwreck; ecueil: reef, snadbank; vouloir: to will, determine; grapper: to grab. COMMENT: The antichrist, a former priest, shall be destroyed on the top of the mountain in the Holy Land by the Hand of the Lord, but he shall not be destroyed by human hands or by the force of nature. At the same time, his naval force is losing the major battle in the Mediterranean Sea offshore from Mount Sinai.

X.31    The faithful remnants after the reign of the antichrist...

NOTE:
Viendra (venir): to enter, come; Germaine: Germany; Ismael: Muslim name of Isaac; Ismaelite: Israelite, the chosen people; trouver: to discover, find; lieux: place, occassion; ouvert: open, unfortified, free; asne (ane): ass; aussie: also; Carmanie: Carmania, province of ancient Persia, now modern Afghanistan; soustenans: defender, supporter. COMMENT: After the reign of the antichrist and all the chastisements, the remnants of the Church, the new Israelites, shall come out of their hiding places located in arid terrains, shall once again multiply on earth. The center of the Church shall be in Germany.

PART V:

X.74    The human history and the end of the world. NOTE:
Revolu: revolution; nombre: number; septiesme: seventh; apparoistra: shall appear; temps; time, period; hecatombe: hecatomb, massacre, slaughter; eloigne: far; miliesme: millenium; sortir: to come out; leur; their; entrez: entrance (of tomb). COMMENT: The earthly creation began at about 4000BC or the first millenium and shall end at the seventh millenium or after 3000AD. The grand millenium is our lifetime and beyond or beginning at about 2000 AD in which mankind shall reach the climax of evils and of the course of human history. During the sixth milenium, there shall be many bloody wars or chastisments. In the prophetic language used in the holy Scripture, number 6 stands for evilness and imperfection , and number 7 for completion and perfection.

I.48   Nostradamus's prophecies shall be completely fulfilled at the end of the world.

NOTE:
Vingt: twenty; sept mil: seven thousand; prendre: to take up, grasp; laissez (laisser): to leave behind; lors: then; fin: the end. COMMENT: The Eastern kings (Russian and Muslim) shall dominate, control, and ruin Europe and the world for twenty bloody years. At the end of the world, another bloody period shall take place with Satan reigning the world himself. Seven thousand years symbolize the completion of human hsitory. then Nostradamus's prophecies shall be fulfilled. According to the seer, the End of the world shall come at about 3900 AD.

VIII.28    The Final Judgment.

NOTE:
Simulachre: phantom, illusion, mirage; or: gold; argent: silver; enflez (enfler): to swell, increase in volume or enflammer meaning to inflame; rapt: rapture or enticement; lac: lake; furent (fureur): furious, in rage; jeter: to throw, toss; decouvert: discovered; estaint: stained; troublez: to disrupt, trouble; marbre: marble; escript: script, hand-writing; prescript: predestined, predetermined; interiettez: (not known).

The images loaded with gold and silver
Who after the rapture ( or enticement ) shall be tossed in the lake of burning fire
Shall be discovered as totally stained and troubled
Script written in marble, interiorly predetermined
(Names written in scripts and marble. predetermined interiorly)

COMMENT: At the Final Judgment, the damned shall be tossed into the hellfire and emerge from it as a beastly figure. On the other hand, the names of the saints are engraved by the Fingers of God into the Marble Book of Life (Rev. 2:17).

V.79   The Second Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ as the Judge.

NOTE:
Sacree: sacred; pompe:ceremony; baisse (baisser): to lower, bow; aisle (aile): wing; venue: arrival, advent; Legislateur: the Judge; hausser: to raise up; vexera (vexer): to humuliate; aucun: (not) any; semulateur: imitator, here deceiver. COMMENT: The Glorious Second Advent of our Lord at the End of the World is described here in all Its Glory. He shall come back as the Just Judge.

VI.18    Jesus Christ shall reign in Heaven with His Chosen Ones.

NOTE:
Physique: materialistic; delaisse: forsaken, neglected; fort; strength; art: art, here man-made idols; Ebrieu: Hebrew; vie: life; Lui: Him; genre: gender, sort, kind; haut: high; pousse: shoot, growth; pousser: to advance, promote; donne (donner): to bestow, give; envie: desire, want.  

Humbly summitted,
The Fifth Sunday of Easter of 1997.

 
 
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