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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

Today, we offer an excerpt from a 1981 documentary film — a film called Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, narrated by the late, great Orson Welles.  Made in 1981, the film introduces the future prophecies of Nostradamus, a 16th century French psychic, chemist and apothecary who served as astrologer for Queen Catherine de Medici.

Nostradamus (short hand for “de Notre Dame,” or, “of Notre Dame”) spelled out his predictions in a series of quatrain verses. They first began to appear in the year 1555, and have been collected together in a book under the heading “The Prophecies.”

There are verses scholars say foretold the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as Adolf Hitler and World War II. Here, we’re most concerned with his prophecies surrounding a third “anti-Christlike figure,” a fighter from the Middle East,  possibly from Iran or Persia, called The Blue Turban.

Nostradamus predicted this figure would ignite a war lasting 27 years, a war involving long-term nuclear and biological warfare, leading not only to chaos across Europe but also the New World. Two of the verses describing this world war talk of “trumpets” sounding alarms. One verse goes:

The trumpet shakes with great discord.
An agreement broken: lifting the face to heaven:
the bloody mouth will swim with blood;
the face anointed with milk and honey lies on the ground.

Is the term “trumpet” signaling a reference to President Donald Trump? Or do you jump to conclusions when making that assumption? How accurately can we interpret Nostradamus? Might his forecasts apply to multiple occurrences over many centuries?

Here’s the part of the film that pertains to the Third World War. Watch and draw your own conclusions. While Nostradamus foresaw much carnage and violence, he believed peace would return following this war. He also foresaw the end of the world, but not happening until the year 3797!