The Eighth Secret
What: The Great Martyrdom, which is the fifth Seal of the Book of Revelation.
When: From the late 2020's (about 2028/2029) to the mid 2030's.
Where: Almost exclusively in the territories occupied by the Arab/Muslim extremists: northern Africa, the Middle East (but not Israel), Europe, parts of Eastern Europe, and parts of Scandinavia.
Who: This event is like the Jewish holocaust, but it is mostly Christians who are killed. At this time, almost all Christians will be Catholic, except for some heretics and schismatics; all the Protestant and Eastern Churches will have returned to full unity with the Catholic Church in the early 2020's.
Why: The Arab/Muslim extremists are afraid of the spiritual progress made by the Christian faith during the 2010's and 2020's (in the midst of all their suffering). They fear a loss of spiritual and worldly power. Their efforts to convert Christians to Islam have largely failed. So they undertake a plan to massacre all Christians who refuse to convert to Islam. Millions will be killed before the slaughter is checked by World War 4.
Introduction
Recall that the Warning and the Miracle brought great fear and desperation to wicked and unrepentant persons, spurring them to undertake World War 3. After winning the war and conquering a vast territory, they are not satisfied because, in the midst of suffering, the Catholic Christian faith flourishes. The unification of all Christians in one Catholic Church again brings fear to the extremists, both to the religious and the secular extremist leaders who rule over the conquered nations. They fear a loss of spiritual and worldly power. The extremists are led by two men, one a spiritual leader and the other a worldly (political/military) leader. Their followers also consist of some Muslim extremists and some worldly (nominally Muslim) extremists. After unification (early 2020's), they will increase their persecution and oppression of Christians, and attempt to force them to convert to Islam, but the effect will be an increase in faith among the Christians.
Since most refuse to convert, the extremists move from persecution, oppression, and forced conversion, to an all-out massacre of all those who refuse to convert. They will hunt down priests and religious, and kill them. They will massacre an increasingly large number of Christians. The total number killed will be in the tens of millions. Their stated aim will be to wipe out Christianity within the entire vast territory which they occupy. They plan to have only one religion in their territory: an extremist version of Islam.
Now the moderate and the truly devout Muslims are not a part of this plan. Some of them assist the Christians who are being persecuted; but there is little that they can do. And those Muslims who are caught helping the persecuted Christians will also be killed.
The Eighth Secret in Sacred Scripture
The eighth secret is the fifth Seal of the Book of Revelation, but it is not called the fifth horseman. The first four Seals are called the four horsemen to indicate that they are all related. The war (first seal) is one of the causes of the civil unrest (second seal). The war and civil unrest are two of the causes of the famine (third seal). The war, civil unrest, and famine are among the causes of the fourth seal/fourth horseman (death from a variety of causes, and the fear of death). These four are also related because they occur about the same time period, during the 2010's.
But the fifth seal (eighth secret) occurs at a later time than the previous four. It begins in the late 2020's, about 2028/2029, at the time of the beginning of the great Ecumenical Council (2028 to 2032). And the events of this secret are not directly caused by the famine, or the civil unrest, or the many deaths from a variety of causes. Certainly, without the war (and its victory by the Islamic extremists), the eighth secret would not be able to occur. But the war is not the cause of the eight secret. Rather, its cause is the reaction of the unrepentant wicked persons who control the occupied territories, and the reaction of their supporters, to the success of Christianity in the world.
The Warning and the Miracle scare these extremists into undertaking the upheaval in the Arab/Muslim nations (in 2009), and the subsequent world war (in the 2010's). The unification of all Christians in one Catholic Church (in the early 2020's) scares them into undertaking the severe oppression and persecution of Christians (with the aim of converting them) in the occupied territories after the war (during the 2020's). During the war, they were too busy consolidating power to pay as much attention to the Christians in the occupied nations. But now, in the late 2020's, their efforts at conversion have largely failed, and the Catholic Church calls a great Ecumenical Council to deal with the many problems caused by unification. I believe that this Council will be led by the Angelic Shepherd (Pope Raphael/Zlatko Sudac), who is a true miracle worker. The Council, and the holy Pope who leads it, and their decisions, convince the extremists that they cannot succeed in converting Christians to their extremist version of Islam. Catholics are encouraged in their sufferings by the election of this very holy Pope, and by his calling of the Council, and by its decisions. So the extremists decide to massacre all Christians who do not convert to their extremist version of Islam.
This massacre, the great Christian holocaust, is the eighth secret, which is the fifth seal of the Book of Revelation.
[Revelation]
{6:9} And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw, under the altar, the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and because of the testimony that they held.
{6:10} And they were crying out with a loud voice, saying: “How long, O Holy and True Lord, will you not judge and not vindicate our blood against those who dwell upon the earth?”
{6:11} And white robes were given to each of them. And they were told that they should rest for a brief time, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who were to be slain even as they were slain, would be completed.
When the fifth seal is opened, the souls of those martyred in various previous persecutions of Christians cry out to God, because this time of martyrdom is greater than any other in the history of Christianity. It is more severe than the persecution under Nero. More Christians (well over ten million) will be killed than Jews were killed in the Jewish holocaust (about 6 million). This event is the Christian holocaust. But it is limited, almost exclusively, to the occupied territories.
This great martyrdom of the first part of the tribulation will be exceeded only by the extremely severe, nearly worldwide, persecution of Christians in the distant future (25th century) during the second part of the tribulation, specifically during the last half of the Antichrist's reign.
Now the events of the eighth secret, that is, the great martyrdom of Christians in the occupied territories, itself is the cause (in part) of the ninth secret, which is an all-out nuclear war. The close relationship between all the events of all of the secrets shows that this explanation of the secrets is correct; for God's plan is one plan, a closely-woven tapestry of blessings and sufferings.
by Ronald L. Conte Jr.
published April 9th, 2007
May God give you grace and peace during the difficult years ahead.
