There are many shocking claims about the world's future and what Nostradamus predicts for our future. The most recent is that Donald Trump's election or re-election as president of the United States may herald the end of the world.
Nostradamus 'experts' claim that the 16th-century seer saw it all coming in Century III, Quatrain 81, where he wrote “The great shameless, audacious bawler. He will be elected governor of the army: The boldness of his contention. The bridge is broken, and the city faints from fear.”
Trump is said to fit the description of the “shameless, audacious bawler” because of his loud rhetoric, reckless accusations, and aggressive stance. Many compare him to Benito Mussolini, the leader of Italy's National Fascist Party, who ruled the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943. Some say that Trump is the reincarnation of Mussolini. However, this is not revealed in Nostradamus's prophecies.
Trump Foreseen?
President Trump is the “governor of the army” leading the world’s leading military force. It is his finger that could press the red button to launch WW3.
In Century 1, 40, another Nostradamus prediction says: “The false trumpet concealing madness will cause Byzantium to change its laws." We have the word 'trumpet' here of course. Byzantium was built as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, but before this, it was an Ancient Greek colony. The argument says that this refers to the fact that Greece has become the entry point for immigrants and refugees, which is a central theme of Trump's candidacy. Trump says: 'I will build a great wall -- and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me --and I'll build them very inexpensively.'
Trump Initiates a War?
In Quatrain 50, Nostradamus writes that "the Republic of the big city” will engage in costly military operations ordered by the “trumpet.” Could this refer to a huge, costly war that Trump will initiate? Trump will likely be engaged in War, possibly initially with Russia as allies. I have said in my predictions that Syria will be partitioned, probably by American and Russian agreement with additional help from Turkey. It will not lead to a full-scale nuclear war.
Watch my video from 2017 Baba Vanga and Donald Trump:
Donald Trump: Predictions of Baba Vanga
Did the Bulgarian seer Baba Vanga foresee President Donald Trump? In this video, Craig discusses Baba Vanga's strange predictions and how they may have come true.
DID NOSTRADAMUS FORESEE ISIS?
One interesting theory is that ISIS is predicted in quadrant Q 8-70 where it says:
Il entrera vilain, meschant, infame,
Tyrannisant la Mesopotamie:
Tous amys faits d'adulterine d'ame,
Tertre horrible noir de phisonomie.
Translation:
He will enter wicked, unpleasant, infamous,
Tyrannizing over Mesopotamia:
All friends made by the adulterous lady,
Land dreadful and black of aspect.
Could this refer to ISIS? (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) Mesopotamia is the region's old name, including Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. The man so cruel (wicked) and infamous could refer to the leader of ISIS, who was certainly infamous and unpleasant.
What is most interesting is the reference to the ‘adulterous lady’. Some have interpreted this as the Egyptian goddess Isis - the Goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom. She was married to her brother, so her relationship with her husband could be considered adulterous. Also, they claim the ‘Land dreadful and black of aspect.’ Maybe it is a reference to the flag of ISIS – which is black.
Some interesting ideas but whether this is stretching to point is open for debate in the comment section. It says ‘Land’ not ‘flag’ and talks of ‘Tyrannizing over Mesopotamia’ but what about Paris?
Surely Nostradamus – a Frenchman – would have ‘seen’ the importance of ISIS in these world events and terrorist attacks at the heart of his homeland?
What the Great Seers Say about the Future of the World
Famous Nostradamus Predictions
How would St John the Divine, Nostradamus, or Mother Shipton have interpreted visions of the two world wars, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Vietnam, or Desert Storm? Is it possible to make predictions for the world's future from so long ago? The scale and complexity of these modern events would have been incomprehensible to someone living just a hundred years ago.
A nuclear bomb would look like a world on fire, squadrons of helicopters would look like plagues of locusts, and how would an ancient seer interpret the extermination camps at Belsen or the Killing Fields of Cambodia? It would look as if the world had come to an end. Similarly, who is the 'King of Terror' that Nostradamus mentions? Could this be a terrorist?
Below are some of the most famous predictions for the future of the world. I would be interested to know what readers think of these and whether these seers from the past could have made truly accurate predictions.
NOSTRADAMUS AND WORLD WAR 2
During WW2, Churchill and Hitler used quotes from the prophecies of Nostradamus in propaganda leaflets. And both interpreted the quadrants for their political purposes. Today, many new interpretations of his prophecies of Nostradamus continue to hit the bestseller lists. Prophecies can be interpreted in many different ways. In his own time Nostradamus made many very clear predictions that came true to the letter, however, his later predictions appear to be incorrect. If you read some of the best sellers from ten years ago, they warn that 1998 and 1999 are the years in which the world would be almost wiped out. They were wrong.
Nonetheless, many prophecies have come true, and my work as a medium and the hundreds of letters I receive from readers of my psychic columns suggest that it is possible to foresee the future. There's too much evidence to prove that the future can be foretold. My understanding is that what we see are glimpses of a possible future. We see the future in an embryonic stage.
The future is like a landscape. We see the roads and pathways ahead in prophetic dreams and clairvoyance. We can travel across that landscape in any way we please. We may choose a hard road or an easy road. If we see an obstacle, we can travel over it or around it. Destiny is like the landscape; our journey is our free will, and our prophecies of the future are maps that guide us.
WAR IN IRAN & THE MIDDLE EAST?
In 1984, my mediumistic teacher went into a trance, and I was able to ask his spirit guide about the future of the world and if there would be an apocalypse. The guide told me that the biggest threat to mankind would be the environment. He said that there would be several serious conflicts in the Middle East following an economic world crisis and that we would have trouble with Iraq and Iran. We will be brought to the brink of nuclear conflict, but the countries of the world will come together to save the situation. This was way before there was a likelihood of Western engagement in the Middle East and before the first war with Iraq.
I feel that many bad things are still happening in the world, but this is just a prelude to a Golden Age to come. This will be a time when money and power are put in the hands of the good people and the world is guided by truth and compassion. Humankind will then, at last, embrace the human values of truth, peace, right conduct, non-violence, and love. Terrorism, global warming, and problems that we can only solve by working together may be the catalyst that brings world peace.
I believe that the things we focus our attention on grow stronger. If we think negatively about our lives, we tend to attract misfortune. Similarly, if humanity's vision of the future is one of despair and gloom, we will attract misfortune to our planet. As individuals and as a species, we have free will. The future is in our own hands.
Other predictions made about the future of the world:
Old Mother Shipton
Born in 1488 near Knaresborough, Yorkshire and a contemporary of Nostradamus, Mother Shipton made many predictions that came true in her lifetime, including that London would be ravaged by fire in 1666. She also predicted aeroplanes and that ships would be built of metal. "Carriages without horses shall go,/ And accidents fill the world with woe. / Around the Earth, thoughts shall fly. / In the twinkling of an eye."
She announced that the world would end "in eighteen hundred and eighty-one." Her prophecies hint that one day, America and the United Kingdom will become one nation in an era when "eagles shall be preferred, and there shall be peace over the world, and there shall be plenty."
The Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary herself is claimed to have revealed the apocalyptic teachings to various children tending sheep at Cova da Iria near the village of Fatima, Portugal. A vision of the Virgin Mary was seen, and thousands say they witnessed the sun spinning in the air. The fearsome prophecies for the millennium are now safely locked away in the vaults of the Vatican. However, Pope Pius XII released part of the prophecy to the world in 1942. These told of the Second World War. It is believed that the remaining prophesies predict the imminent downfall of Catholicism.
Kenneth Mackenzie
(also known as Coinneach Odhar Foisaiche)
Born in the seventeenth century on Lewis in the Hebrides, he predicted 150 years before the building of the Caledonian Canal that ships would sail behind Tomnahurich hill near Inverness. At the site of the battle of Culloden, he predicted that in a hundred years hence the land would be stained by the "best blood in the Highlands". For modern times, he predicted how the fall out from Chornobyl would rain on Scotland: "Deer and other wild animals shall be exterminated by horrid black rain". He also predicted that there would be a great revolution in Scotland 'when the water of the Beauly had thrice ceased to run'. It dried up in 1826 and 1946.
Sathya Sai Baba
The most talked-about holy man in India, Sathya Sai Baba, attracts followers worldwide. Fergie recently visited him. Sai Baba performs healing miracles, can raise the dead, and can materialize objects from nothing. He also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For the future, he speaks of ecological disaster and rising sea levels but says that a new spiritual understanding will avert a nuclear holocaust. Devotees say he has materialized a map of the world as it will be in the future. Sai Baba says that despite the global 'adjustments,' there is soon to be a Golden Age when people from all religions will rediscover their oneness in God.
Australian Aborigine Predictions
Prophecies handed down from generation to generation of the Australian aboriginal Elders warned of environmental troubles ahead. Guboo Ted Thomas, an Australian Aboriginal Tribal Elder, says, "You see, that's really what's going to happen to the earth. We're going to have tidal waves. We're going to have earthquakes. That's coming because we don't consider this land as our Mother. We've taken away the balance, and we're not putting it back. I look at the bush, and those trees are alive. They're not dead, they're alive. And they want you to cuddle them."
Edgar Cayce Predictions
The American prophet Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) predicted some of the most worrying environmental calamities. While in a sleep-like trance, Cayce told his followers that the earth's polar axis would shift, causing great flooding and seismic activity.
The prelude to this would begin in 1998 when volcanic activity and earthquakes considerably increased. He also prophesied that the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC and that survivors of Atlantis had concealed beneath it a "Hall of Records" containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the human race.
A new chamber was found in the Great Pyramid, which has yet to be opened. In addition, we have recently witnessed many dreadful earthquakes in places such as Turkey.
Spiritualist Predictions
The most famous Spiritualist was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who sat with many trance and physical mediums and listened to their predictions about the future. Following the great floods, there will be a short period of chaos followed by some reconstruction. The total period of upheavals will be roughly three years.
The chief centres of disturbance will be the Eastern Mediterranean basin, where not less than five countries will entirely disappear. Also, in the Atlantic, there will be a rise of land, which will be a cause of those waves, which will bring about great disasters upon the Americans, the Irish and Western European shore, involving all of the low-lying British coasts.
The Fatima Visionaries
Fatima On May 13, 1917, a luminous apparition appeared to three peasant children and delivered a series of prophecies. The three children - Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco took their flock of sheep to a natural hollow in the ground known as the Cova da Iria to graze, just outside the town of Fatima in Portugal. While the sheep were grazing, they began to play. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning.
The children looked up, bewildered, at the sky. A few meters away stood a Lady of dazzling light. Their eyes were unable to comprehend her brilliance and beauty. The air was filled with the smell of roses. She told them she was the Virgin Mary and gave them three secrets. These secrets were sealed in envelopes and not to be opened until the appropriate time.
In the first, Mary foresaw that a "night illuminated by an unknown light" would precede a "worse war" in which "the good will be martyred" and "the Holy Father will have much to suffer." On January 25, 1938, a remarkable display of aurora borealis was visible across Europe, the year before World War II began.
The Second Secret
The second secret was about the future of Russia. Russia would "spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars," and that "Various nations will be annihilated." (This is a correct prophecy of the spread of communism?) "I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart," continues the revelation. "If people attend to My requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace." Perhaps Pope John Paul II's 1984 consecration of Russia was fulfilling the prophecy. Some say that it paved the way for the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union as the "conversion" of Russia.
Lucia wrote down the third secret, sealed it, and gave it to Portugal's Bishop of Leiria. Her instructions were that it was not to be read until 1960. The Bishop gave the envelope to the Vatican. POPE JOHN XXIII reportedly opened it in 1960 but he refused to divulge its contents, saying, "This prophecy does not relate to my time." Pope John Paul II is said to have also read it and refuses to reveal it because its true spiritual message has been obscured by sensationalism.
Will There Be The Predicted Golden Age?
In astronomical terms, the Millennium signified the central point between the gradual change from the ages of Pisces to Aquarius. The Piscean age heralded the Christian epoch and the Aquarian age is the epoch of humanity and science that began in the Industrial Revolution. Some astrologers say that 2000 marks the point at which Pisces and Aquarius have equality. In India, they talk about the Yugas, and although their dates differ from Western astrology, they too believe that we stand at the threshold of a new era. A Golden Age but preceded by many calamities.
Advances
In recent years, astonishing scientific advances have been seen in the splitting of the atom, the unravelling of the DNA code, and a man walking on the moon. There have been unprecedented advances. However, I feel that, although science is here to stay, the next millennium will not be more of the same. I believe we will go to Mar,s and the advances in science, particularly genetics, will bring great benefits and dangers. The next evolutionary step will be in human values and spirituality. In the Aquarian Age, people were encouraged to have a direct experience of spirituality rather than through a pious intermediary or dogma.
We will see the gradual demise of traditional Christianity, which will be replaced by something much closer to Jesus's original teachings. I predict that in the coming years, we will begin to recognize that there is only one country, and that country is the world. Also, people will begin to see the similarities, not the differences, between our religions. We will come to understand that there is only one God—the God of love—who manifests in every religion according to each cultural tradition.
Resources
- I have dived deeper into these ideas in my book Messages from the Universe and also in my book Be Happy. Both titles are available on Amazon.
