the defeat of Antichrist as foretold by Isaias: With the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked one." [1] In like manner St. Paul says: Then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth." [2] These passages seem to imply a personal intervention by our Lord but He may send an angel as His instrument of destruction; or, perhaps, Elias will rain down fire from heaven upon Antichrist as he did upon the soldiers of Ochozias and the priests of Baal. [3]
13. As the two prophets are taken up to heaven Jerusalem is shaken with a mighty earthquake in which seven thousand people perish and a tenth part of the city is destroyed. At sight of these prodigies all who survive are converted and begin to praise and glorify God. Here is seen the great mercy of God who punishes not to destroy but to convert and save.
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14. And the second woe is past: And behold the third woe will come quickly.
15. And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever, Amen.
