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Follow on Google News | Did a 12th Century Abbess Visualize the 21st Century?An interpretation of St. Hildegard of Bingen's vision of the end times.
By: R. J. Turner In Scivias: Book III Vision 11, a vision of the end times, Hildegard describes five symbolic beasts which represent brief and successive historical periods of time that immediately precede the Antichrist. She adds that each era is identified by a unique social evil intended to produce a spiritual crisis with the aim of inflicting damage on the Roman Catholic Church in preparation for the final battle that follows. Turner had a hunch that we are living through one of these periods: “After reading about a dozen histories on the 20th century, it was an easy task to divide up the century into four separate historical eras and define the unique character of each. The result was unnerving; Hildegard's detailed descriptions of the eras represented by the first four beasts matched the 20th century with disturbing accuracy.” Hildegard described the first era, the “Fiery-Red Dog”, as a period of social injustice (the rise of communism, 1870-1914); the second, the Yellow Lion, a period of “unjust wars” (WWI-WWII,1914- Mr. Turner received a B.A. in Biblical Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN and pursued graduate studies at Bethel Theological Seminary and The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He blogs at https://thefivebeasts.wordpress.com/ The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard: Prophetic Symbols of Modern Society is available on Amazon.com. End
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