208    The Bible and the Future of the World 

addicted to sin or who are controlled by sin. They will be false prophets, 

wolves in sheep's clothing (Mt  7:15 20). 

    At that time, many priests and religious will become faithless and will 

commit horrible sins, including the sin of accepting the abomination. These 

false disciples can be recognized because in their words and in their deeds 

they reject part or all of the teaching of Christ and His Church. 

    If any priest or religious has an addiction or strong attachment to sinful 

behavior, the devil will be able to use such persons to do great harm to the 

Church, as one uses a handle to move a teapot about. If only all Christians 

could at least avoid mortal sin, so much good would be done, so much evil 

would be avoided, neither could be measured by man. If only all priests and 

all religious would merely believe everything that Jesus Christ teaches 

through His Church and make an attempt to follow that teaching, many 

more souls would be saved from hellfire. 

    The year 1865 in the Islamic calendar coincides with the year A.D. 2431 

in the Christian calendar. The abomination  of desolation (which is a 

perverse imitation of the holy Eucharist) spreads at this time for at least two 

reasons. First, there is no Pope at that time because the people who support 

the Antichrist have killed him (by the year A.D. 2430) and the government 

would not allow an election to replace him. Second, the Antichrist  has 

defeated the Christian king of the South (in A.D. 2430), so that the South, 

which had given Christianity a safe harbor, is now under the power of the 

Antichrist. Those apostates and heretics who had devised the abomination 

some time ago can now spread it throughout the world. Those holy Church 

leaders who oppose the abomination have little power to prevent its spread. 

    Although the abomination of desolation  begins to spread at this time, it 

was devised at an earlier time. Furthermore, the height of the power of the 

abomination of desolation coincides with the last half of the Antichrist's 

reign. The abomination is not devised by the Antichrist, but, during the last 

half of his reign, he promotes it and uses it to replace the Eucharist and to 

attempt to destroy the Church from within. 

The Calendar 

    Both the prophet Daniel (Dan 9:27) and Jesus Christ spoke about the 

abomination; Jesus called it  the desolating sacrilege  (Mt 24:15). The 

Virgin Mary gives the year of the beginning of the abomination as 1865. The 

year which the Virgin Mary revealed to us at La Salette is not a mistake; the 

date has not changed or been delayed. Mary knew the year with certainty 

and told us. But the year is 1865 according to the Islamic calendar. The year 

A.D. 2000 in the Christian calendar overlaps the years 1420 and 1421 in the 

Islamic calendar (used by Muslims). The year 1865 in the Islamic calendar