1. The last of the
Major Prophets is Daniel, who carried out the whole of his sacred mission
during the Babylonian captivity. He
was a shining light of holiness, wisdom and upright judgement both at the
imperial court as amongst his own Jewish People in exile.
His good name won for him in old age the special esteem of King
Cyrus who, moved by the spirit of God, decreed at Daniel's request the
rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem as well as the return of the exiled
Jews, whom the King fa-voured with exceptional privileg-es,
returning to them the vessels and other sacred utensils which
Nabuchodonosor had robbed from the Temple in Jerusalem when he took the
Jews captive.
2. After a most
thorough study of the Prophecy of Daniel, we have reached the firm
conclusion that it was written entirely by the Holy Prophet.
Nevertheless, the work of editing the text was carried out after
his death with little attention to chronological order; and as a result
the Book of Daniel is a collection of texts in which the periods of time
appear out of context, without
the proper correspondence between some of the episodes or visions and the
dates furnished for them.
3. God prepared and
enriched Daniel's soul while he was still a child with the indwelling of
the Holy Ghost, as well as with infused graces and the gift of prophecy;
and clothed him too with very great pru-dence.
We affirm that Daniel's sanctification is revealed in chapter XIII,
verse 45 of his Prophecy: "... the Lord raised up the Holy Spirit of
a young boy, whose name was Daniel"; proof that the prophet then
possessed Sanctifying Grace. The
gift of prophecy is mentioned in Chapter I, 17: "... God gave ... to
Daniel the understanding of all visions and dreams".
The sanctification and anointing of the pious youth as prophet was
by means of the Triple Benediction, touched to his lips by the Most Divine
Soul of Christ, according to Chapter X verse 16 of Daniel; we affirm that
this event appears incorrectly placed in his old age, and connected with a
different vision of a later period; and for as much we declare that it
belongs to the Prophet's first vision when he was sanctified.
While the above mentioned verse 16 refers to the actual moment of
Daniel's sancti-fication and annointing as prophet, verse 18 describes
another si-milar happening on the heels of the former; and which we
interpret and affirm to have been a moral and physical comforting as mark
of God's special tenderness and care for the Holy Prophet.
4. An exceptional
prophecy of Daniel is that of the abolition
of the Perpetual Sacrifice,- the Sacrifice of the Mass,-perfectly
fulfilled when the heretical and lamentable `Novus Ordo' was imposed as
binding, - a mass which was produced by Vatican masonry; and this
happened on the 30th of November
of the year 1969, although it had been promulgated beforehand. Here is the scripture text: "And it was magnified even
unto the fortress of heaven: and it threw down of the fortress, and of the
stars, and trod upon them. And
it was magnified even to the Prince of the fortress: and it took away from
him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his
sanctification. And strength
was given him against the continual sacrifice,
because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he
shall do and shall prosp-er" (VIII, 10-12).
These verses clearly evidence the gradual infiltration of masonry
into the Roman Curia with the intention of destroying the Church.
5. Masonry, synagogue
of Satan, set to work with the sub-tlety and cunning which characterize
it. With the affiliation of many cardinals and bishops into its
ranks, Masonry managed to scale and cap-ture the key posts in the Vatican
offices as well as in the dioceses of the world, weakening and nullifying
the out-standing personality of the Pontiff and Saint Paul VI, who became
reduced to the condition of the most abject slave.
Once masonry had gained its principal objectives in the strategic
points of the Church, it continued its work of des-truction more intensely
than before, now in an official way by means of dispositions and decrees,
forging the Pope's signature and misappro-priating his seal; and often
compelling him to sign by means of drugs and threats.
6. In this way masonry
succeeded in producing and promul-gating, under papal signature and seal,
the satanic `Novus Ordo' of Mass; and so the Perpetual Sacrifice became
officially abolished. How
exact and detailed is the Holy Prophet Daniel as he reveals the plot!
He speaks of the fortress over-whelmed,- the Roman Church; of the
fallen stars,- who are the apostate cardinals and bishops; of the weakened
Prince of the fortress,- Pope Paul VI; and of the "place of his
sanc-tification", namely all the churches profaned by sacrilegious
wor-ship. Here we see the
great apostasy of the Roman Church, which verse 13 also speaks of:
"And I heard one of the saints speaking: and one saint said to
another: I know not to whom that was speaking: How long shall be the
vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sign of the desolation
that is made: and the sanctuary, and the fortress be trodden under
foot?".
7. In v. 14, the Holy
Prophet Daniel predicts almost to the day the glorious moment when the
official re-establishment of the Perpetual Sacrifice took place in
practice,- a re- establishment which Pope Gregory XVII would later
proclaim by document; this re-establishment-in-practice took place on the
Sacred Mount of El Palmar de Troya,- true Church Militant - in the early
morning of the 1st January 1976, with the priestly ordination of the
present Pope Gregory XVII and of future Cardinals of his Curia.
Apostolic Succession was assured on the 11th January 1976 with the
Episcopal Consecra-tion of the future Gregory XVII, as well as of various
future Cardinals. Now we
examine and explain the significance
of this verse 14: "And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two
thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed".
Com-paring the number of days prophesied by Daniel with the lapse
of time between the suppression of the Perpetual Sacrifice and its
re-establish-ment, we arrive at the following figures: dividing the 2, 300
days of Daniel by the 365 days of the year, our quotient is 6 years, 3
months and 20 days. On the
other hand, calculating the lapse of time from the 30th November 1969
until the 1st and 11th of January 1976, we obtain the figure of 6 years,
1 month and 11 days; for God shortened those days out of love for
His Church; as He did with the Resurrection of Christ, who said: "For
as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall
the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three
nights" (Mat. XII, 40); a prophecy which was not fulfilled according
to the letter, for He did not remain three whole days and nights in the
tomb: Christ was placed in the tomb late on Friday, and rose from the dead
in the early hours of Sunday morning; here too God shortened the days out
of love for His Church.
8. The Holy Prophet
Daniel was graced with an out-standing prophetic vision of Jesus Christ,
Whom he names `Son of Man', a title which Christ took and used for Himself
on many occasions. Here is a
text of sacred scripture which clearly shows our doctrine, taken from the
account of an apocalyptic vision: "I beheld therefore in the vision
of the night, and lo, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of
hea-ven, and He came even to the ancient of days: and they presented Him
before Him" (VII, 13) - clear proof of the Divinity and Humanity of
Christ.
9. Now we refer to
Nabuchodonosor's dream as told in the Book of Daniel, of great Messianic
importance. The sacred text
tells how Nabuchodono-sor King of Babylonia saw in his dream a great
statue, very tall: the head was of very fine gold, the breast and arms of
silver, the belly and thighs of copper,
the legs of iron and the
feet part iron, part clay. The
sacred text ends the dream thus: "... till a rock was cut out of a
mount without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof, that
were partly of iron and partly of clay, and broke them in pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the copper, the sil-ver, and the gold
broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's
threshing-floor: and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no
place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth" (II, 34, 35).
Daniel interprets the dream saying that the statue represents
certain kingdoms, worldly and therefore perish-able; which God would
overthrow with the establishment of a king-dom which would never be
destroyed, which would break and put an end to all worldly kingdoms, and
would last forever. This Holy
Council interprets, and completes and confirms the true meaning of verses
34 and 35: the Virgin Mary is represented by the Mount from which a rock -
Christ - is loosed without the intervention of a man; and Christ destroys
all the kingdoms of this world with the establishment of His
One, True and Eternal Kingdom.
This Kingdom of Jesus Christ is the Church which He founded, whose
teachings have spread far and wide so as to fill the whole earth; and she
will reach her zenith after the Second Coming of Christ in glory, with the
establishment of the Messianic Kingdom, total and absolute reign of Jesus
Christ.
10. The Holy Prophet
Daniel is outstanding when he speaks of the Messias, particularly as, five
centuries in advance, he fore-tells the very moment of the Coming of
Christ in the following words: "Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy
people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and
sin may have an end, and ini-quity may be abolished; and everlast-ing
justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled, and the
Saint of saints may be anointed. Know
thou therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to
build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ the Prince, there shall be seven
weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the
walls in straitness of times. And after sixty - two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the
people that shall deny him shall not be his.
And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste; and after the
end of the war the appointed desola-tion.
And he shall con-firm the covenant with many, in one week: and in
the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there
shall be in the tem-ple the abomination of desola-tion: and the desolation
shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end" (IX, 24-27). This prophecy was fulfilled to the letter, and is the
clearest proof in the Old Testament with respect to the exact time of the
coming of the Messias.
11. Now we briefly set
out the results of our calcula-tions proving the fulfillment of this
prophecy: in the year 4666 of the Crea-tion of the world,
Daniel was given the prophecy of the seventy weeks of years that
were to pass up until the death of Christ as we read in these verses.
According to the same verses, these seventy weeks of years are to
be counted from the rebuilding of the City of Jerusalem, which took place
81 years after the Prophet's vision, 52 days after the ar-rival in
Jerusalem of Nehemi-as with the edict of Artaxerxes authorizing the
rebuilding referr-ed to, an edict issued in the year 4747 of the Creation,
or 452 before Christ.
12. Verse 25 speaks of
69 weeks of years beginning from the rebuild-ing of the city, which,
according to our cal-culation are 68 weeks of years plus 6 years; and this
fulfills the prophecy, for Christ was thus baptized within the sixty-ninth
week.
13. Verse 26 presents
us with a mysterious apparent contra-diction with respect to the previous
verses, which we resolve in the light of our interpretation.
It speaks of 62 weeks of years after which will occur the Death of
Christ; we explain the
mystery as follows: the 62 weeks have to be counted from the year 4747 of
the Creation when the edict of Artaxerxes was issued.
From this year until 5180 of Creation, year of the Immaculate
Concep-tion of Mary, we have 62 weeks of years; now we must intro-duce the
7 weeks of years from the Conception of the Virgin Mary up until the
Baptism of Christ, in the year 5229.
And thus the mystery is once and for all resolved.
14. Verse 27 is
concerned with the last week needed to com-plete the 70,
but only considers the half week, a period of three years and
various months. Within this
period is the public life of Christ, the institution of Holy Mass,
the end of levitical sacrifices, the death of Christ and the
apostasy of the Jews, all of which took place in the seventieth week.
Synopsis
of Data Showing How Daniel's Prophecy was exactly fulfilled.
From the Edict of
Artaxerxes I in the year 4747 of the Creation of the World, 452 before
Christ, ordaining the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem:
a) Up until the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in the year 5180 of
Creation, 433 years have passed; that is, 61 weeks of years plus 6 years.
The Immaculate Conception of Mary therefore took place in the 62nd
week.
b) Up until the Birth of Christ, in the year 5199 of Creation, 452
years have passed; that is, 64 weeks of years plus three and a half years.
The Birth of Christ therefore took place in the 65th week,
corresponding to the Martyrology of the Church.
c) Up until the Baptism of Christ, in the year 5229 of Creation,
482 years have passed; that is, 68 weeks of years plus 6 years. Therefore the Baptism of Christ took place in the 69th week.
d) Up until the Death of Christ, in the year 5233 of Creation, 486 years have passed; that is, 69 weeks of years plus three years. Therefore the Death of Christ took place in the middle of the 70th week. The destruction of Jerusalem took place 37 years after the death of Christ.
