3. The Three Antichrists
Throughout Nostradamus’ ten centuries of quatrains he speaks of three powerful antichrists that tyrannize the world from his time to ours. He calls these three individuals the anti-christs and the verses have been variously translated and interpreted as below.
Napoleon is widely thought to be the first of these three anti-Christs. Of Napoleon’s rise to power and years as Emperor Nostradamus wrote -
An Emperor shall be born near Italy.
Who shall cost the Empire dear,
They shall say, with what people he keeps company
He shall be found less a Prince than a butcher.
Napoleon was considered to be a butcher even by his allies and supporters.
From a simple soldier he will rise to the empire,
From the short robe he will attain the long.
Great swarms of bees shall arise.
After becoming Emperor, Napoleon adopted the beehive as his imperial crest.
Nostradamus made other predictions of Napoleon’s fate:
The captive prince, conquered, is sent to Elba;
He will sail across the Gulf of Genoa to Marseilles.
By a great effort of the foreign forces he is overcome,
Though he escaped the fire, his bees yield blood by the barrel.
Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Elba but escaped for 100 days. After he was defeated at Waterloo he traded in his power for exile on tiny St. Helena.
The second anti-Christ Nostradamus wrote about was “a man stained with murder...the great enemy of the human race...one who was worse than any who had gone before...bloody and inhuman.” Experts are in agreement that the sixteenth century prophet was referring to Adolf Hitler
