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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 5, 2001: The Final Warning - Kathleen Keating

Mar 5, 2001
2h 48m
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Art Bell speaks with investigative journalist Kathleen Keating about her book The Final Warning and its troubled publishing history, including 10,000 invoices lost by UPS for months and books mysteriously vanishing from shopping bags. Kathleen discusses her close relationship with the late Father Malachi Martin and their shared conviction that the Vatican released a false version of the Third Secret of Fatima in June 2000, designed to lull the public into complacency.

Kathleen describes what she believes are coming chastisements including nuclear destruction of a major American city, a catastrophic Midwestern earthquake, and a Russian-Chinese invasion of the United States. She recounts her personal encounter with a figure she identifies as the Antichrist, who appeared uninvited in her fenced backyard in western Nebraska wearing an Armani suit while her guard dog stood frozen and unable to bark. A British author reportedly had a similar visit at her front door.

The conversation covers Bible Code research revealing details about Dick Cheney's heart problems, a dramatic increase in demonic possession cases worldwide, and Kathleen's belief that the Antichrist operates through a UN-funded international organization. Art admits his own struggle to make the leap of faith required to accept the prophetic framework, even as he acknowledges the accelerating signs around him.

Key Moments

  1. Keating: the Vatican lied about the Third Secret of Fatima: Keating tells Art the document the Vatican released in June 2000 as the Third Secret of Fatima was an outright lie, written word-for-word in advance, and that the real text was too long for one piece of paper and described chastisements far worse than a Pope being shot.

  2. Keating: the real Third Secret includes a Chinese-Russian invasion of America: Keating runs through what she says is the genuine Third Secret: the rise of the Antichrist, the destruction of most of the Catholic Church, mass UFO problems, mountains splitting away, and a coordinated Chinese-Russian invasion that ends with American heads on light poles.

  3. Keating: the Antichrist appeared in my fenced backyard: Keating says that after she called the organization she believes is run by the Antichrist, a tall handsome man in a charcoal Armani suit appeared inside her fenced western Nebraska backyard at dawn, her normally aggressive guard dog froze with one paw raised and could not bark, and after she refused to make eye contact he walked off into thin air.

  4. Keating: the Antichrist's organization is funded by the UN: Pressed by an incredulous Art, Keating insists the man she identifies as the Antichrist runs an international organization bankrolled by the United Nations and West London banks, with relief programs in third-world countries and post-earthquake El Salvador, and that the UN sees him as the returning Messiah.

  5. Keating: Catholic exorcism rite has 'removed Satan from the text': Keating says the Catholic Church has revised its exorcism rite, taking out direct references to Satan and softening the language away from naming demons, and warns that with possessions reportedly up about 800 percent in Father Martin's New York alone, the watered-down rite may not work anymore.