From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated]:

The prophecies about the Church and the World that are already being fulfilled now and are at the door ready to be fulfilled.

Perhaps the most important sign of our time is that the prophecies of the past centuries are being fulfilled.

And that we clearly see how they are linked to the great biblical prophecies, which speak in more generic terms.

At the same time, they point out to us what is the meaning of the things that are happening now in the Church and the world.

And the big events that we will see happen in the short and medium term.

Here we will talk about which prophecies are already being fulfilled today and which prophecies will be fulfilled in the coming times of our generation.

In the book of Revelation chapter 12, verse 7, we are briefly told about Satan’s rebellion against God and his battle with the Archangel Michael, who defeats him.

He and his minions were thrown to earth, and their actions since then have been to fight against the children of the Woman Clothed with the Sun, that is, the Virgin Mary, who appears with that title in previous verses.

Children in the plural are human beings.

And then in verse 12 Saint John will lament over the destruction that the evil one will carry out, saying “Woe to the earth and to the sea! because the devil has come down to you with great fury, knowing that he has little time left»

And why is he short on time?

Because God would send His son to Earth, the one born of Mary, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, to undo the works of the devil and lead human beings to salvation.

And from there humanity will be made up of two types of people, two combatants.

On the one hand, those who follow the devil and the commandments of the world that he promotes, which we could call the Church of the World.

And on the other, those who follow the commandments of God through the following of Jesus Christ, that is, the Church of God.

But there is also a third group that follows the devil while pretending to belong to Christ. 

This third position is the Anti-Church, those who claim to belong to the Church of God, but deep down they work for the evil one, trying to introduce into the Church of God the values ​​of the Church of the World, of the evil one.

The tacit pact between the Church of the World and the Anti-Church is what Saint Paul calls the mystery of iniquity, in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians.

The mystery of iniquity, therefore, is the power of the World and the Anti-Church in combination, against the Church.

But his power was restricted by the merits of the preaching and crucifixion of Jesus Christ for a time, so that the Gospel could be preached to all nations.

That crystallized in the time of Christianity, whose strong core was from the 4th to the 15th or 16th centuries.

Christendom, though founded by Christ, was never intended to defeat satan before Christ’s return.

This will be achieved by Christ himself, in person.

Rather, Christendom restrained satan by being bound by the power of the cross and resurrection of Christ. 

And he allowed the mystery of iniquity to be contained so that the Gospel would grow and expand until it reached all the nations of the Earth.

But while satan was bound, his followers remained and fought against the spread of Christianity to all nations.

Many even hid in Her bosom to undermine her from within; This is the Anti-Church.?

But there will come a time when this power of iniquity will no longer be restricted.

And all the force of the World and of the Anti-Church will be exerted on the Church from without and from within.

The Scriptures indicate that before the return of Christ, satan will again be released for a time.

Because it will be Jesus Christ himself who will defeat him at his second coming.

But the final confrontation between the Church of God and the conjunction of the World and the Anti-Church will be slow and winding.

We are in that period, which in turn will have different stages and loops.

We have some indications of when the demon was released.

In 1846 Our Lady of La Salette told the seer Melanie Calvat that “lucifer, along with a host of demons, will be unleashed from hell and they will put an end to the faith little by little.” 

And he added that it will blind people in such a way, that unless they are blessed with a special grace, they would lose all faith.

Four decades later, Pope Leo XIII had a vision at the end of the mass, on October 13, 1884.

He heard the guttural voice of satan bragging that Jesus Christ could destroy the Church and drag the world to hell.

The Lord accepted the challenge and satan asked for between 75 and 100 years of greater power for himself and his people, and it was granted.

And also the Pope saw a large number of demons attacking the Vatican, which led him to write the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel, which was said at the end of the masses, until the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council.

But even before these two visions, in the 1820s, Blessed Ana Catalina Emmerich had a vision of when Jesus Christ descended into limbo and hell after his resurrection.

And there they told him that satan would be unleashed for a time, and it would be 50 or 60 years before the year 2000.

But that a number of demons would be released long before, to tempt men and serve as instruments of divine testing.

The visionary Mirjana of Medjugorje was also told something similar already in the first apparitions of the Virgin.

One day satan appeared before the throne of God and asked permission to put the Church through a period of tests.

And God gave him permission to test the Church for a century.