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be a severe and widespread persecution of Christians in nations under Arab 

control and influence. The persecution will be worst in Europe, especially in 

France. This great persecution will occur during the 2030's. 

    Priests and religious will be hunted and put to death. Christians will be 

imprisoned, tortured, and killed.  Very many Christians will be martyred. 

The blood of Christians will flow like the waters of the river Seine. Yet 

Christianity will be strengthened, not weakened, by the blood of these new 

Christian martyrs. The Church will increase in holiness over the course of 

the Forty Years. 

    This great persecution of Christians will be the worst which the world has 

ever seen until that time. Yet this great persecution is but a foreshadowing of 

that greater persecution, which is called the Passion and Crucifixion of the 

Church (in the 25th century A.D.). 

The Loss of the Holy Mass and the Holy Eucharist 

    In the occupied territories, after World War III, churches will be closed, 

destroyed, or desecrated. The Holy Mass and the Holy Eucharist will be 

mostly taken away from the countries under Arab control. Mass will be held 

seldom and then only in secret. Those Christians caught attending Mass will 

be imprisoned, tortured, or put to death. This loss of the Holy Mass and the 

Holy Eucharist foreshadows the similar, more widespread and severe loss of 

the Holy Mass and the Holy Eucharist which will take place during the 

Church's  Passion and Crucifixion, under the reign of the Antichrist (in the 

25th century). This temporary, widespread loss of the Eucharist has been 

predicted by the prophets for thousands of years: 

     Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. 

Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal 

offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.   

(Joel 1:13). 

    A famine will accompany this loss of the Holy Mass and the Holy 

Eucharist (Joel 1:4, 11 12, 17 18). Other passages referring to this event 

include Joel 1:9 10 and Daniel 8:11, 9:27, 11:31, 12:11. This great famine is 

the third horseman and third seal in the Book of Revelation. A famine will 

also accompany the loss of the Eucharist and the Mass during the last half of 

the Antichrist's reign. 

    But at no time does God allow the Holy Eucharist to be taken away from 

every place on earth. And the return of the Holy Mass and the Holy 

Eucharist is also predicted by Holy Scripture.  The L

ORD

 answered and said 

to his people, `Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you 

will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the 

nations.'   (Joel 2:19). The grain, wine, and oil represent the Holy