Everything proceeds from the divine power of almighty God, from whom all goodness emanates.

Michel Nostradamus

Nostradamus

(image and information source

http://www.world-mysteries.com/awr_5.htm)

His followers say he predicted� the Great Fire of London (1666), the French Revolution, the birth and rise to power of Hitler, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger.

A man from the 16th Century should NOT have been able to write about�these 20th Century things:

*�� Hitler.
*�� U.S. & its Eagle symbol.
*�� Free America to the west.
*�� Napoleon.
*�� Mussolini.
*�� Franco.
*�� Roosevelt.
*�� Pasteur.
*�� Atlantis.
*�� U.S., French & Russian�revolutions.
*�� WWI� &��WWII.
*�� The atomic bomb.
*���Air warfare; ‘flying boats and galleys.’
*���The submarine.
*�� Motors�& antennae.
*�� Man-made mountains.

Speaking of the antichrists, we know that anti christ does not mean people from other religion. It means some one who is unrighteous and does not tread the path of Good; the first one being Napoleon and Hitler , the second anti christ.

Reading Nostradamus again and again is so stunning as we compare it with our own times and find how true it is. He predicts raining fire(bombs) even during his own times.

Did he predict a III world war is the question as the quatrain says-

From brick to marble, the walls will be converted,
Seven and fifty peaceful years:
Joy to mankind, the aqueduct renewed,
Health, abundant fruits, joy and honey-making times.
- Quatrain 10:89

(http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa050602a.htm)

Interpreters say that after the II world war got over in 1945, we have had only peace all these years. Is Seven and fifty 75 or 750? If it is 75 then the time is up by 2020. when the III world war will bring the end of a certain country.

But some interpreters have predicted the war to come as early as 2012, given the kind of situation that we are in.

Nostradamus

Some interpreters say that Saddam Husein or Osama Bin Laden could be the Third Anti christ.

But Husein is not alive and Bin Laden is in hiding. I had a brief doubt that George Bush could be the one. His term is over alright , neither can his aggression on Afghanistan or Iraq be counted as a culmination of the Third World war. It has only impoverished America and demoralized its people.

Many referred to the fall of pentagon and WTC as the beginning of the III world war

In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
two brothers torn apart by chaos,
while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb.
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

But look at the verse. We don’t have any great leader having succumbed to any bomb, nor two brothers. The fortress has not endured, it has actually fallen apart nor do we have any brothers falling dead. Whether the twin towers could be taken for the “brothers” is disputable.

What ever it may be, one thing is clear, the third world war will be the anger of the world against the King of Terror, which it will try to vanquish.

Personally, I strongly disagree to USA being called the City of God. Indians of the past used to jocularly call it, the Pathalalogam(Ground Beneath).

Prosperity is nothing. Tolerance, love, acceptance make a nation a City of God, or the following of many Faiths or many Gods (as the multiple icons of worship in hindu religion; money matters little.

America should be New City or City Liberty, England should be the Maritime City while the City of the Gods is undoubtedly,India.

India’s aggression on Pakistan which is long overdue could cause the inevitable to happen too, couldn’t it? And when it does, there is a possibility of getting global  support.  So it becomes the Third World war.

About America the verse is that “The Citie Libertie will be made servile” he says-

The city of liberty made servile:
Made the asylum of profligates and dreamers.
The King changed to them not so violent:
From one hundred become more than a thousand.

It is more understandable that USA will lose its value as a superpower pretty soon rather than being the harbinger of a III world war.

As the quatrains are purposely vague, what it is we will know only in retrospect.