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February 2, 2000: The Final Warning - Kathleen Keating

Feb 2, 2000
3h 9m
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Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Kathleen Keating, a close confidant of the late Father Malachi Martin, to discuss her book The Final Warning. The program opens with breaking news as UFO attorney Peter Gersten announces a federal judge in Phoenix has agreed to hear arguments in the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy lawsuit against the Department of Defense, followed by Peter Davenport reporting on a mysterious circular formation melted into pond ice in Marceline, Missouri.

Keating shares her years of research into prophetic warnings, claiming a convergence of political and spiritual forces is accelerating toward a global crisis. She describes a chilling personal encounter with a man she identifies as the Antichrist, who appeared in her fenced backyard in Nebraska wearing an expensive suit before vanishing into thin air. She discusses infiltration of the Vatican by hostile forces and a predicted papal coup.

The conversation turns to prophesied events including a cross visible worldwide for 24 hours, a coming comet that scientists are allegedly tracking in secret, and three days of darkness foretold across multiple prophetic traditions. Keating connects these warnings to the observatory the Catholic Church built in Arizona, suggesting the Vatican is watching the skies for approaching celestial threats.

Key Moments

  1. A second sun: the hidden comet: Keating claims a comet that will appear as a second sun in the sky is bearing down on Earth, and that scientists have underestimated its speed and are not releasing what they know.

  2. The Antichrist in the backyard: Keating recounts opening her back door in Nebraska and finding a man in a $3,000 Armani suit pacing inside her fenced yard, a figure she recognized from her research as the man over 500 prophets identify as the Antichrist; her dog froze mid-step and could not bark.

  3. Coup in Rome and the anti-Pope: Keating predicts the total fruition of prophecy by 2005, says Pope John Paul II willed himself to live into the new millennium, and warns of a coup in Rome to force him into exile so an 'anti-Pope' can be installed in his place.

  4. The Warning: cross in the sky and three days of darkness: Keating describes the prophesied sequence: a giant cross visible worldwide for 24 hours, birds and small animals vanishing as before an earthquake, and a white mist sweeping the globe at dawn during which every soul will see how God sees them, preceding three days of darkness.