The Spirit of Prophecy

In this all new webcast, Mark Mallett and Prof. Daniel O’Connor reunite to discuss what the real heart of prophecy is — predicting the future, or calling us to the present moment?

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Mark Mallett • 00:00
Hello, I’m Mark Mallett, and welcome to a brand new episode of Countdown to the Kingdom. It’s been a while. And today we want to talk about what the spirit of prophecy is. What’s this website and what is prophecy all about? Well, to join me to talk about this, finally, is my colleague, Professor Daniel O’Connor, next on Countdown to the Kingdom. well that was an abrupt cut off of that the theme music what a way to come back in 2006 but it’s it’s better now that you’re on the screen daniel hello my friend good to be back Hello, brother. It’s been too long. Well, it has. I used to say, you know, from live from Albany, New York, but now today I have to say live from Florida, Mr. Daniel O’Connor. There you are. And what a wonderful way to start 2026 with a cheesy sound effect. That’s my opinion, at least.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 01:12
I trust you have more in store for us today as we continue on here with my awkward backdrop here. Hopefully you guys can hear me and see me okay. But yeah, we wanted to pick up where we left off, right, Mark, from our last webcast there.

Mark Mallett • 01:28
Yeah. What was that again? I honestly do not remember. If you happen to know, people listening, what our last webcast is about, please send us an email and we’ll restart this webcast. No, we really don’t. it’s been that long isn’t it i don’t know six eight months since we’ve been and we’ve received letters from people saying when are you going to be back together well fine and i’ve been i’ve been

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 02:00
bumping into people i’ve been i’ve been bumping into people ran truly randomly like i could do a whole webcast on that here in florida talking about how they’re they’re waiting for us to get the next webcast up and it’s my fault don’t blame mark i’ve been just i’ve been terrible with uh getting back to the routine here with endless trials in my life. But of course, there’s also a bit more to it than that. Trying to discern the signs of the times, navigate them in accordance with God’s will. And that’s what we hope to do with you, just very blunt, very open, very honest

Mark Mallett • 02:33
today. Well, in truth, you and I were so close to doing a webcast when all of a sudden a cold front came into New York. And you could give us just the short summary of what happened because like something from a john candy movie uh things i mean you were digging a hole in your basement or

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 02:51
something i was digging a hole and this is true you know this is not an excuse i truly did have like everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong with my house i was i like i i’ve been i’ve been promising this addition for years to my wife because like we need more room to homeschool so finally i just said i’m doing it all these contractors have bailed on me so i rented an excavator. And I’ve never used an excavator before, but I rented an excavator. And I just don’t know what I’m doing, but I rented an excavator. I started digging a hole in my property. And I’m just going and going. And then the excavator catches on fire. It’s just burning up. I run in, I grab a fire extinguisher. So the rental place that I’m renting from, they brought me a new excavator. The track fell off on that one. I pierced through my septic tank leach field. So I’m swimming in raw sewage as I’m trying to bust through solid bedrock. I hit bedrock after three feet. So I’m trying to dig through bedrock. I had to rent something else to get to the bedrock. And then I busted through my internet line to my house. And I buried my phone. I buried my phone that had a wallet with my credit cards and my ID. And then we had the biggest cold front that New York has like ever had. My pipes froze. My office flooded. Do you want me to go in? Now, finally, I’m taking a brief break

Mark Mallett • 04:21
in Florida for a little bit. In Florida. Oh my gosh. Well, whatever we do, we’re never going to let you touch an excavator ever again. Oh, I’m going to have to.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 04:32
Unless I can find a contractor. You can’t find anyone to do work for you. You just got to do it yourself.

Mark Mallett • 04:38
Yeah, you got to do it yourself. Yeah, it’ll cost you four times as much. Did you find your wallet, by the way, or should people who know you’re in Florida go hunting at your house right now for the phone and wallet?

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 04:48
Yeah, it’s buried under millions of pounds of dirt. Archaeologists will find it years from now. I had to cancel the credit cards, get a new ID, get a new phone.

Mark Mallett • 04:59
We wonder what this was buried for.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 05:03
I know, I’m wondering what they’ll say when they find it.

Mark Mallett • 05:05
Who knows?

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 05:06
It’ll be in the air of peace. We’ll get to you later.

Mark Mallett • 05:11
In the air of peace, yeah. Kind of like a Michael O’Brien novel. They dig up and find this wallet. But it’s a great book, Michael O’Brien’s new book. I’m trying to remember the title now.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 05:21
Everybody’s been telling me I got to read Father Elijah. And I haven’t read it yet. My wife has read it. She says it’s great. Is that the one you have in mind?

Mark Mallett • 05:32
No, Father Elijah is an early book from Michael O’Brien. When I read it, it was like a retreat. Michael O’Brien is coming out now with a trilogy, and the first one was released. And I apologize because I can’t remember the title of it, but this book’s all about people coming into the air of peace. And it’s a riveting read. It’s absolutely riveting and kind of beautiful. Reminded me a bit of how you started one of your books on, I think it was Thy Kingdom Come, and you started with a scenario of what it could be like in the air of peace.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 06:09
I gave a little meditation on what the era of peace could be like. And I remember sitting there on my deck, meditating on what the era of peace could bring, what the kingdom of the divine will could entail. And of course, I’m not a prophet. I don’t know the future. But I’m just seeing the birds and the plants and just thinking, just basking in the glory in the spring there of what God has done for us. and how what we see in creation now is actually a shadow of what god wants to ultimately give when the lion lays down with the lamb and and and and the elements give all of the group of the benefits they contain and uh it’s coming that era of peace is coming when the kingdom of the divine will reigns and his kingdom come and his will is done on earth as it is in heaven that’s coming

Mark Mallett • 07:03
And we’re going to talk about that at the end of this show. We want to get back to that because we want to keep pointing people to the hope that’s coming. Because these are really difficult times right now. In that regard, we did want to, before we get into a bit more of the content of today’s show, about the spirit of prophecy. We feel like we need to talk just a little bit about where do we go? Where did Countdown to the Kingdom go over the past six months? well you found out for one reason is Daniel was stuck in a hole with an excavator trying to find his wallet but and that’s true and that’s true but you know from my perspective I’ll share my point of view and then Daniel you can give yours but I I think a lot of people who follow Count of the Kingdom um some of them are probably aware that there was a time last year where there was really a lot of bickering on the internet um and accusations and almost i don’t know if it was competitiveness or what it was but it was it was there was a lot of attack on you and me um that we didn’t defend i did i don’t even think we could have defended it without creating a real scandal of division on the internet and I think you and I just decided without even talking to each other we just felt pull a pull back from everything because there was a real focus on sensational prophecies and if you didn’t support those sensational prophecies well you were you were stifling prophecy and you were suppressing seers and and I just saw that and I’m like, this isn’t what Countdown of the Kingdom is all about. It’s not about sensational prophecies. It’s really about helping people to live now in the present moment and to follow Christ and to be prepared for what’s coming in the world. We’re not backing away from that at all. But from my heart, Daniel, I just felt I needed to step away from the firestorm that was building on the internet. And it was kind of somewhat, we were just doing what we were doing for the last five years since we launched this on Annunciation in March 2020, which was discerning with the church these seers. And some of them we had to pull back from because, frankly, they were putting stuff out there that was either wrong, it was a complete miss. And we just felt like we weren’t condemning anyone. We were just saying, well, we’re no longer going to be following this particular seer. And that caused a lot of controversy. So anyway, that’s what I needed to do. I needed to really discern, what are we doing on Countdown? What are the fruits out there? And I think we needed to reset. And that’s where you and I are at right now. But I’ll let you step in. And I’d love to know where your heart has been the last six to eight months. Because a lot of people were wondering, where’s Mark and Daniel? Where have you guys gone?

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 10:13
Yeah, and people have been asking me the same thing. and I’ve been in the exact same place. But I wasn’t always mentally in the exact same place because I was ready to just respond specifically to just every attack. I mean, I had a video ready to come out, but then I realized people, they didn’t even say my name, but videos that got tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of views just blatantly attacking me and Mark. And I could have responded, and I almost did. I’m sure you helped me a bit to step back, Mark. And I realized, you know, I don’t have to do that. We can step back a bit, let some of that nonsense die down, and give a time for purification and getting back to the basics and a time for prayer and consideration of what God is really calling us to, which is not fundamentally at all different from what we’ve been doing from the beginning. but um sometimes you just have to let the storm die down sometimes the temptation is to uh wrestle what’s the phrase don’t wrestle with a pig uh they’ll they’ll uh pull you down to the mud and then they’ll beat you from experience do you remember that that there’s a quote something to that effect but anyway you know we’ve stepped but i’ll just i’ll quote you from now on it sounds right right so we’ve stepped back for a bit not at all not not at all because of doubt as as to what we’ve been saying you know in fact i think we’re getting closer incredibly close to the fruition of what we’ve been warning about for several years now but just um you know the the The devil tries to get into everything. And when we discern private revelation based on fruits, that’s from the gospel. That’s, in fact, what Jesus gives as the chief criteria of judging prophecy is by their fruits, you shall know them. And too often we think only of, OK, I see something going on in the world or in the church. I look at what fruits it’s generating in other people, in other places, maybe even in the news. And then I judge based on that. But there’s an even more important aspect to that. And that’s judging the fruits of something in your own life. And you have to just be brutally honest with yourself. With any individual prophecy or private revelation or seer or apparition, what are the fruits of this in my own life? is it making me weird and eccentric and paranoid and avoiding traveling and avoiding going out and doing what God is calling me to do in the world or is it making me fearless and hopeful and is it is it inspiring me to become a saint and I can’t do that discernment for you Mark can’t do that discernment for you but but please always get back to that we’re calling this this episode the spirit of prophecy. And we’re going to share a couple of quotes in a moment as to what the spirit of prophecy is. But you need to be attentive to these fruits in your own spiritual life. And you need to discern them in confession above all spiritual direction. And if something is drawing you closer to Jesus and Mary, to the sacraments, if it’s making you a saint, charge forward. If it’s making you weird and making you, you know, do all these superstitious things, thinking that this or this, this or that like procedure is going to protect you from what’s coming maybe maybe not maybe steer

Mark Mallett • 13:59
somewhere else that’s that is so well said and um you know what you were saying made me think of um saint cyril of jerusalem you know about the bickering and so on that’s been on the internet and St. Cyril of Jerusalem was a church doctor in the early 4th century. And he said, Hatred of the brethren makes room next for Antichrist, for the devil prepares beforehand the divisions among the people, that he who is to come may be acceptable to them. And this is what we’re seeing all over the world, but especially here in North America where we get the English-speaking news. But we’re seeing this in a lot of countries, especially in the West, these divisions. And in America, it’s just gotten really ugly now, the hatred between people. And I just, you know, when Countdown to the Kingdom was being under attack six, eight months ago, whenever that was, I just, we can’t play this game. This is falling into an absolute trap to become divided. And, you know, I’m actually doing an article right now. It’ll be released probably at the same time of this video or the day before. But about the attack on the magisterium. And one of the messages that is given by Our Lady that we’re discerning, this was to Angela. Now, this is Our Lady of Zorro in Italy. And this particular message was on June 8, 2022. And again, for those who are new to Countdown to the Kingdom, Daniel and I, there’s only a select few seers that we put on here. They’re supplied by our translator who’s living right now in France. Peter Bannister has been a great support of giving his time in translations. These seers, as far as we know, they’re in an okay standing. I think they’re still being investigated by their diocese. But in this one particular vision, apparition, Angela, the seer, says the Virgin Mary bowed her head. And after a while, she said to me, look, daughter, I saw St. Peter’s Church in Rome. Then a succession of images of many churches. They were all closed. St. Peter’s Church was shrouded in a big black cloud of smoke. Then mother began speaking again. My dearly beloved children, pray much for my beloved church. pray children, pray for the Holy Father, pray. The church will have to face bad times. There will be a great schism. She saw the whole colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s was shaken by a great earthquake. Everything shook. And at this point, the Virgin Mary said, daughter, do not be afraid. Let us pray together. The warning, and it’s not the first time we’ve heard from seers for decades now of a possible schism in the church. And, you know, in 1 Thessalonians 2, St. Paul speaks about a great apostasy, a great falling away from the faith. You know, there’s a danger now where I’m seeing on mainstream influencers, I’m sure you’re seeing them too, Daniel, mainstream influencers, podcasters, news websites, You know, they’re just throwing out terms like there’s going to be a false pope and so on. But I think that’s reckless because you have to clarify, what does that mean, false pope? Does a false pope just mean a bad pope? Does it mean a pope is just not a good leader, bad judgment? He says things sloppily. He makes bad appointments for bishops. And none of that constitutes a false pope. But in the canonical understanding of a false pope or an anti-pope, it’s simply one who’s been invalidly elected. Otherwise, we could have a pope who’s just a complete outrageous public sinner, and it’s happened in the history of the Church. But what’s happening is we’re seeing this being fomented in the public, where people are going on social media, and they’re starting to run with this old idea that maybe Pope Leo is a false pope, Because they were already saying that Pope Francis was the false prophet of Revelation 13. Well, Daniel, they were wrong because Pope Francis is no longer here. Right.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 18:35
So these are the dangers. Haven’t happened. Right. And, you know, that’s something we need to keep in mind is that if you’re positing something that is tantamount to the assertion that the false prophet is reigning, you better be aware of the fact that you just tied your thesis to the supposition that all of the events that have been foretold will transpire within the next three and a half years because the revelation is clear that the false prophet and the beast will only reign for that period of time so obviously that didn’t refer to pope francis um and you know as mark said a false pope is one who claims to be pope but has not been elected. And if there is not a single cardinal who says that the reigning pope actually was not validly elected, then there is a 0% chance that the reigning pope has not been validly elected. Do you really think, I mean, what you’re saying is that God has left us as orphans. If you think that actually what we need is bloggers and podcasters telling us who the pope is, I mean, that’s nonsense to think that not a single cardinal would be alive on the face of the planet to guide us to who the pope is um no god will never do that and mark you know we’re saying that as people who are aware of the fact that we’re in the end times where what has been prophesied from from ages past is about to happen even mark and i are saying no you don’t have to worry about this idea of a pope reigning who every single cardinal on the face of the planet says is the pope so don’t go there the staying on the straight and narrow path of our lord in these apocalyptic times it’s not a matter of running as far as you can to the left or the right it’s a matter of abiding in the truth which is never going to be one tribe or the other, one ideological camp or the other. Stick with the Pope while at the same time understanding that his personal opinions are not magisterium. For the magisterium, go to the catechism. And of course, for public revelation, go to scripture. If you stick with those, you will be okay. The apocalypse is not an IQ test. It’s a holiness test.

Mark Mallett • 21:00
Amen to that. Our Lady said, again, in this message that we’re discerning with Angela, she says, pray for the Holy Father. Pray, children. It’s really important to notice what she’s saying. She didn’t say, pray that you’ll know who the Holy Father is. You know, Daniel, I’m not aware of a single, credible, authentic prophecy of any Our Lady warns us and says, watch out because someday there’s going to be a Pope reigning in the church who is utterly false, but you won’t know or anything like this. She doesn’t. Throughout all of the messages to Servant of God, Father Stefano Golby, Our Lady kept saying over and over again, remain in communion with the Holy Father. The whole plan and plot of Freemasonry is to actually undermine the papacy. This is their goal. I’m reading a book. I’m just finishing it up right now. It’s called The War of Antichrist on the—forgive me, it’s Monsignor Dillon, and I’m suddenly—the title’s going. But it’s The War of the Antichrist on the Church, basically.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 22:09
Is this the one edited by Joshua Charles?

Mark Mallett • 22:14
Yes, that’s the one, yeah.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 22:16
Yes, he’s a good friend of mine. Yeah, definitely read that book. And yeah, Joshua Charles is great.

Mark Mallett • 22:22
My wife turned to me the other day and she looks at my title of my book like we’re lying in bed reading. And she goes, I can’t believe you’re bedtime reading.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 22:34
You just curl up by the fire with the snow falling up there in Canada and you read about the Antichrist. That’s what you do, right?

Mark Mallett • 22:41
The Antichrist and Freemasonry’s plan to undermine the whole thing. Yeah, no, that’s my bedtime reading. But, you know, I guess there’s a grace for it because I just take every moment I can these days to try and learn and understand what’s going on. But here’s the thing. You want to know who Satan considers to be the enemy. Well, look at the Freemasons, their whole plan. And this book’s brilliant, by the way, that Joshua’s put out, because this book is putting now into our hands documents that really were not really meant to be seen by us. But you see how they planned to take over the media, to take over institutions, to take over leaders, to take over political parties. And by and large, they have done that. Case in point, the coordination that went into COVID-19, into shutting down Catholic churches around the world, into having everybody in lockstep with something that ultimately ended up being on par with the flu bug, is extraordinary what was done. And now, as we were reading just before the webcast today, now we hear that they’re already now in another pandemic-type simulation. I did have a news story up here somewhere.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 23:59
– Yeah, and you know, Mark, we started Countout of the Kingdom the very day, I believe, that the lockdowns hit at least my home state. Sorry, I got something in my eye here. It was like, I think the same day. – Is that a log in your eye or a speck?

Mark Mallett • 24:17
Sorry.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 24:17
– I’m trying to get the log out of your eye, Mark. I only have a speck in my eye.

Mark Mallett • 24:25
– You digress.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 24:27
but you know you might some some people might be wondering okay what what have all those apocalyptic prognostications that we heard several years ago uh to to that i respond they’re reaching their fulfillment now the devil doesn’t actually know the future perfectly because he’s not god and only god knows the future perfectly so he needs to war game he needs to test the waters, see what the response is, and then refine his ultimate strategy. And I remain absolutely convinced that what was going on the day, the literal day we started Countdown of the Kingdom, I remain convinced that that same effort is what we are now reaching the fulfillment of. COVID saw the universal abrogation of the public sacrifice of the Mass as never before in the whole history of the church. And that’s the chief aim of the Antichrist, to get rid of the Eucharist, to get rid of the Mass. And he didn’t completely succeed, obviously, in COVID. There were still private Masses, some good places to allow the public Mass to be said. Some good priests said, no, this is my calling from God. I’m going to say the Mass. I’m going to allow my faithful to come, my flock to come, and I don’t care who says otherwise. And that’s what I hope all priests learned for the next tyranny, whatever it is, but that’s what you need to do. But the devil is going to unleash something again. And the next time it’s not just going to be, I hate to say the word just, because what we saw a few years ago, what was apocalyptic, but it’s not just going to be that it’s going to be even worse. And your life is going to be on the line for remaining a devout Catholic. And yet you must remain a devout Catholic. You must abide in the truth you must continue to frequent the sacraments because it doesn’t matter what the cost is of that it’s worth it and if you’re a priest it’s worth continuing to offer it

Mark Mallett • 26:30
yes and i think daniel what we went through uh during covid and that whole thing was a labor pain um i likened it to to the water breaking at a woman the water breaks and they go to the hospital and they get ready. And I feel we’ve been in this period of getting ready. And I think it’s an interesting period because I think during this time, a lot of people have, ah, countdown to the kingdom, you know, all these predictions, all these prophecies, life’s gone back to normal, it’s going to be normal forever. But from my perspective, I know from your perspective, We see everything unfolding and in place. I mean, one of the keystones of our website at Countdown of the Kingdom was this timeline that shows the labor pains that Jesus describes and that really St. John describes in Revelation 6. The second seal after the first seal is opened, which we describe as kind of the time of mercy, that rider on the white horse who goes out riding to new victories, I think, was it Pius XII? I can’t remember if it was Pius XII who said that that writer symbolizes Jesus. And it’s like he’s leading these painful labor pains because he’s the one who’s going to bring victory out of them. It’s a beautiful analogy. But the second seal seems to be peace is shattered. I mean, right before this webcast, we just threw up, what’s today’s headlines? And today’s headline is nuclear treaty expired in the last day. So we see the nations again bracing for World War III. I mean, they’re plunging headlong toward this. The third seal.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 28:15
Go ahead. Yeah. Sorry, I was just going to say real quick, because, you know, we mentioned that a few years ago when, you know, when Russia invaded Ukraine and some people say, OK, well, that’s old news now. No, it’s the opposite. That means it’s more news now than ever before. Why? Because not a single development since then has backed us away from that precipice. We’ve only gotten closer and closer and closer to it. And yet the devil is banking on you thinking, okay, whatever. It’s normal. Things will be fine. This is just usual. No, it’s not. We have inched closer and closer and closer. And what does scripture say? When everyone says peace and security, sudden destruction comes upon them. And we are so close to forgetting that we are on the precipice that people are about to say peace and security as if we’re fine now. We’re not. We’re closer than ever before.

Mark Mallett • 29:10
You know, it’s interesting that you brought up that scripture. You know, St. Paul says, you know, when people are saying peace and security, then comes destruction. St. Paul then says, stay awake, be sober and alert. In the Garden of Gethsemane, the apostles fell asleep. And of course, you and I have been talking about what’s really coming upon the world is the passion of the church. We will follow our Lord and his own passion to the resurrection as it is taught in the catechism. And keep in mind, too, that the parable of the ten virgins, you’ve got five who are wise, whose lamps are full, and five who didn’t bring oil for their lamps. But noteworthy, all ten of them fell asleep. And so I think we’re in this period right now where people are going, well, nothing’s happening. And they’re falling asleep. So we’re doing these webcasts. We’re keeping this website there for you to nudge you and say, more than stay awake is make sure your lamp is full. And we’re going to get to that at the end of the webcast because that’s the most important thing. I don’t even remember that.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 30:14
So all of them fell asleep. They all fell asleep. But five of them at least had oil in their lamps for when the time came.

Mark Mallett • 30:25
and then they heard the cry the bridegroom has come and then they all woke up and the five could go and they were ready to meet the bridegroom so jesus is giving a very compressed a compact idea of kind of what this is but you know what you can’t give grace i can’t give the grace in my heart to someone else who is outside of grace who may be in mortal sin who has fallen away I can’t give you grace if you’ve refused the truth if you’ve hardened your heart and this is the warning of St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 he says because you have refused to believe the truth that God allows a great deception a strong delusion to come that those who refuse to believe the truth will embrace the lie the great deception and that’s really Daniel one of the biggest things compels me in my blog at the now word and here at countdown is i’m already seeing i know you are too we’re seeing the first signs of this strong delusion where people are buying the globalist lies i’ve i’ve talked an awful lot about what’s going on behind climate change behind global warming we’ve talked about what was going on behind covid and just saying that daniel i’m we’re triggering people right now oh what do you mean what do you mean you’re questioning that narrative what do you

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 31:48
mean you know this is what i mean get me started with strong delusion if you even get me started on that i won’t even stop because right this this idea this is a whole nother ball game but this idea that the extraterrestrials are coming to save us um this it’s it’s suddenly exploding into the mainstream and it sounds absolutely outrageous and of course it is but suddenly obama is going viral in the news for oh you you have it there on the screen oh i didn’t realize you had that yeah so obama just came out saying aliens are real okay they’re not in 50 area 51 but they’re real now this this wasn’t disclosure itself but i think this was obama taunting trump to do disclosure and unfortunately i think trump will do disclosure this great deception and it’s lining up with everything we’ve we’ve had congressional hearings we’ve had uh whistleblowers we’ve had this this dominating even mainstream news as it didn’t used to. It used to be kind of fringe because it is crazy, yes. But now this idea that aliens are here to save us, this outrageous lie, I believe this is one of the chief aspects of the strong delusion that scripture warns of. Why? It’s a punishment, not because God wants it. St. Augustine clarifies this is God’s permissive will, quote, sending the strong delusion because we have refused to love the truth. So it’s like a punishment. God has given us so many opportunities to love the truth. But what have we done as a society? We’ve rejected it. We’ve bought the lie that we’ve bought lies about marriage and family. We have the great apostasy decimating the church itself. We’ve got, I mean, we’ve got no greater tragedy could be imagined than the fact that the vast majority of people are living lives of objective mortal sin. And this has been the case for decades now. So we’ve bought the lie. We’ve refused to love the truth. Therefore, what happens? God sends, meaning allows, a strong delusion with false signs and wonders. So when you see this explosion, of supposed signs and wonders, these almost apparent miracles, these apparent breaking of the laws of physics being paraded in the news, read 2 Thessalonians again. Read the Catechism paragraph, I think it’s 675 again, and consider this has all been foretold. I am not going to succumb to this deception. All in the book of Revelation as well. The beast, the false prophet, the image.

Mark Mallett • 34:38
that’s right and i think right now uh even with artificial intelligence daniel i mean they can the stuff that we’re seeing i mean jesus said satan is a liar and the father of lies and right now on the internet one of the greatest signs of the times is this explosion of artificial intelligence and it’s really interesting in the vaticans uh discernment of it and their discussion of it in their document uh i don’t remember the title but i did do an

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 35:08
article on it say it again antica et nova it was just a year ago this month or last month yeah

Mark Mallett • 35:16
very good and they did they did a little footnote on that where they footnoted to the beast of revelation and the image of the beast and you know so many of us now are just saying you know Every time I see a video now, people are going, oh, is it real? And there’s so much fake stuff, Daniel. And so far, you and I haven’t had to go into a defensive mode yet to say, no, that’s not my voice. That’s not me. I didn’t say that. I have no doubt it’s probably going to come, but we pray that we don’t get to that point. I mean, it might have to be, Daniel, where people, we won’t post anything unless it’s right on this website. And so if it’s not on this website, it may not be real. I don’t know how we can control this. But the point is this. He’s the father of lies. And we read in Revelation chapter 13 about this image of the beast. And right now, Satan’s a liar and the father of lies. And everything’s becoming a lie. By the way, the other thing Jesus said about Satan is he’s a thief who comes to kill and destroy. And I’ll say this as a musician and as an artist, artificial intelligence is stealing from us artists. People think it’s so cool. Hey, I go to this Sodu website or whatever, all these websites. I tell it what I want for a song, and it just reproduces this studio-quality song with studio-quality vocals and all this stuff. But you know what? It’s drawing this from the music that’s already out there, from the artists and the way we sing, the way we inflect, the music we do. And it’s stealing it. And most of these websites charge a fee for you to go deeper into the website. This is theft. So we’re kind of seeing in my mind, Daniel. Okay, let me say one more thing about Satan. Jesus said he’s a murderer, too, from the beginning. A liar, a thief, and a murderer. And all of these things are coming to a head now. You’ve got the lie now with artificial intelligence and we’re poised for a UFO deception. We’ve got the element now of a thief through artificial intelligence and the stealing. And now we’re seeing in countries like Canada, increasingly now in the United States, in Switzerland and other countries, euthanasia, abortion, the culture of death.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 37:42
It just came to New York. Our so-called Catholic governor just signed that into law in New York. And I was right there in the state capitol praying against it. In fact, I put a live stream on my channel about that. And New York, I’m a New Yorker, but I feel like New York is a major domino to fall. I was right there praying the rosary on my knees against gay marriage when that first passed in New York. I think it was back in 2011. That was a major domino to fall. Why? Because it’s symbolic. People think of New York as the capital of the world. My friend and I were praying the rosary against this the moment it passed. and the ap photographers are right there so like the main image splashed on the international headlines is me and my friend praying the rosary against this um but then i the same the same thing when new york passed the most radical pro-abortion bill uh i was i happened to be there praying against it the moment it passed and i heard these demonic screams of joy of false joy from the the pro-abortion people when it passed and then i was there uh it’s just it’s it’s disconcerting um how much i happen to have been there right when new york falls uh to these diabolical evils but euthanasia is unique in there’s a passage in jesus’s words to the servant of god louis speaker at something to the effect of the chastisements coming when man can no longer bear himself and seeks to destroy himself and i wish i could remember the passage right now but i see that as suicide as euthanasia and i see one of the final dominoes to fall if not the final domino before the chastisement start as the the cultural institutionalization of suicide man just definitively giving up on life chesterton gk chesterton called suicide the ultimate evil he said a murderer kills one man but a suicide kills the whole world because he said he the suicide insults every flower for refusing to live for its sake which is profound but but and and this is not this is not something i would say to somebody struggling with suicide they need a friend they They need love. They need someone to care for them. But just philosophically consider the issue, it’s like an existential rejection of God. It’s an existential rejection of his goodness in creating the world. And stay attentive when you see this spreading as it now is almost overtaking the whole Western world, institutionalized suicide. And I think also of the seals of revelation, the uh the men saying to the rocks fall on us and hide us from the wrath of the lamb of course the sixth seal there with with with the warning but but but people preferring death to what’s coming on the world that’s a deception from hell of course the real message is one of hope and inspiration and excitement. These are the best times ever to be alive. For whom? For those who love God. If you love God, everything that happens in your life is specifically chosen for your good. If you hate God, it’s the opposite. And ultimately, those are the only two choices you have.

Mark Mallett • 41:16
We’re really returning to the Garden of Eden, to the very first temptation. Really, Satan doesn’t come up with anything new. And the first temptation is you can be like gods and to eat from the tree of knowledge. Well, the new tree of knowledge today is artificial intelligence. It stands there as the capability to know everything and anything in the world. And it’s to go one step further and just to transplant these chips or whatever they want to do to interface your brain with it so that you would become omniscient. Not omniscient, but is it omniscient

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 41:53
all-knowing? Omnipotence is all-powerful. Omniscient. That’s what they offer to us, certainly. That’s what they’re offering to us, to be omniscient. Same as the Garden of Eden, right?

Mark Mallett • 42:05
But you see, suicide, on the other hand, is to become omnipotent, is to be all-powerful. I declare that I am a God. I can determine my life when I live and when I don’t. Abortion, the same thing. I determine the life of the child in my womb. And you can extend that beyond even to wars, where we are justifying the killing of others for our national interests and that type of thing. And so, you can see how the deception of Antichrist is coming into play. Because as it says in 2 Thessalonians, the abomination is really this one, this son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship so that he takes a seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. So the spirit of Antichrist is really individualism. That’s ultimately what it is, where you declare that I am God, to the point where you can change your body, you can hack off your breasts, mutilate your genitals, determine what your gender is. You can make up a gender nowadays, and that’s who you are. Really, we’re living the spirit of Antichrist, and according to Catholic tradition, we will see a man come, the son of perdition, whom Pius X in 1903 said he may already be on earth. Can you imagine what Pius X would say if he were to hear today? But there’s something else about the Garden of Eden. And that’s that Adam and Eve forfeited this tremendous gift they had. It was the gift of living in the divine will, where the divine will was something that was theirs. God’s will was theirs. Adam’s will was one with the divine will. It was like one single will. And so God, through Adam, was bringing all of creation into perfection and ordering everything through Adam. And there was perfect harmony between all the animals, the birds, between all of creation. But when Adam and Eve fell, when they chose to be gods, this Antichrist deception, which is coming all the way around again to our times, then that harmony fell and death entered into the world. And the rest of the story is there. Look at us. Just quickly going back to our timeline, Daniel, the third seal, economic collapse. Look at what Peter Schiff warns of U.S. economic crisis. I mean, if the dollar falls, you will see a new world order rise. The fourth seal talks about food shortages, famines, plagues, and so on. And we’re seeing that food and inflation prices are going up. Then you talked about, again, plagues. You mentioned that about pandemic simulations happening. The fifth seal that we mentioned in our timeline on Count of the Kingdom seems to be a minor persecution. And we’re seeing Christians facing increasing global persecution. And all of this is leading us toward that warning that Daniel spoke about, this illumination of conscience that really is the final moment of this era when we have to choose whether we’re going to enter into God’s plan, which is to welcome the coming of the kingdom of God, or we welcome Satan’s plan, which is his kingdom, which he wants to bring on earth. It’s the clash of two kingdoms. This is really what we’re living through. John Paul II said, we’re facing the final confrontation between the church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, right? That culture of death between Christ versus the anti-Christ, as Deacon Keith Fournier, who was there in Philadelphia when John Paul II, he said he heard those words. And this is where we’re headed. But ultimately, what Countdown to the Kingdom is for is, we want you to be prepared for the literal fulfillment of the Our Father. And Daniel, I think this escapes people. We’ve been praying this every day, but do people ever think about that? We’re waiting for the literal fulfillment of the Our Father.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 46:26
Yeah, this is the countdown to the kingdom, not the countdown to the chastisements. We acknowledge that the chastisements have to come first. But that’s almost a side note. The message is what we’ve been praying every day. The message is what the catechism describes as the most perfect of all prayers, the summary of the whole gospel. And that’s quoting St. Thomas Aquinas and the fathers of the church. What is that? The Our Father. And what is the climax of the Our Father? Indisputably, the climax of the Our Father is thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And that is the template for your life and for the world. And every single day needs to reflect that. So what is that? Thy will be done on earth as in heaven? Well, how do the saints do the will of God in heaven? Do they struggle and just fight against what they really want for a while and then finally just do what God wants? No. God’s will is the animating principle of their life. And of course, many of us will have to struggle, have to fight, have to battle. But ultimately, we’re called to something even higher. And that’s living in the very will of God. The will of God becoming the animating principle of your life. And that’s what you need to strive for, especially this length, making the Our Father, the life program of your discipleship as a Christian. And that’s actually what Pope Francis said should be the model of the year of hope, which just concluded. You know, the year of hope just ended. So abandon all hope because there’s no more hope left. No, just kidding. so the year of hope is over but that means really that this i see it as an indication that we’re coming very close to the times where the the prophecies will be fulfilled make the our father the your life program thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven your life above all but also be aware of the fact that god’s victory is not in question we’re not we’re not sitting there the prophecies on Countdown of the Kingdom to get the latest play-by-play as if we’re watching the Super Bowl to figure out who we think is going to win so we can place our bets accordingly on Polymarket or wherever they make their bets today. No, like we know God is going to win. The only question is how quickly, how many chastisements have to happen first, and who is going to be on his side. And you can modify, you know, those details are not set in stone. The fact that God is going to win, that his kingdom is going to come, that is set in stone. And we’re going to see a quote that you better not dispute because it’s given from the highest authority you could imagine, from the highest, the greatest prophecy you could imagine in a moment. That’s not in question. The question is how much chastisement first, how quickly, and who will be on God’s side when it comes. Your job is to make it come as quickly as possible with as few chastisements as possible first. And most importantly, to gather in as many people onto the right side as possible. It doesn’t take as much work as you think. You can walk out there into the world with a rosary in your hand, ready for whatever encounter the Holy Spirit puts in your way, ready to hand him that rose in your hand, say, can I give you my rosary? Can I pray for you? Do you believe Jesus? Do you believe that the Our Father means what it says? Proclaim that. Proclaim his mercy. Proclaim his will. Tell people that the Our Father means what it says. Jesus tells Louisa, I am dying to give my kingdom, but I’m waiting for people to want it. As soon as I see it desired, Jesus tells the servant of God, Louisa Picoretta, I will bestow my kingdom as soon as I see it desired. So let’s show him that desire. And Mark, you had a quote there from an extraordinary cardinal.

Mark Mallett • 50:40
All right. Well, that desire is expressed right at the end of the book of Revelation, right? Where it says, the spirit and the bride cry out, come Lord Jesus, Maranatha, come. You know, we can hasten the coming of the kingdom by praying for it and by also preparing our hearts for it. And this is exactly why Our Lady has been appearing, almost like the world is another upper room again, as she prepares us for this outpouring, really, of the gift of living in the divine will. And we prepare for that. And I’ll close the show with what we heard in the first reading last Sunday before Lent. It’s a beautiful, beautiful reading that challenges us. But yeah, we wanted to kind of wrap up this segment about what is the spirit of prophecy? And, you know, it actually says it right in the book of Revelation, chapter 19, verse 10. It says, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And who did, what is, what’s the testimony of Jesus? It’s that I am the way, the truth, and the life. Whoever follows me will have eternal life. Whoever believes in my name, I came that you may have life and have it in abundance. That’s the spirit of prophecy. Follow me, enter me, trust in me, receive me in the sacraments. that’s what Countdown to the Kingdom is all about, is receiving Jesus. As it said in a message we got from Medjugorje, which we both agree, Daniel and I both think that really the heartbeat of prophecy in the world is Medjugorje. And even though the messages are simple, they’re so profound. If you’re looking for the sensational, don’t come to Medjugorje for those messages. But if you’re looking for the essential, the spirit of prophecy, listen to what our lady said on January 25, 2026. I’m calling you to be prayer and a blessing for all those who have not come to know God’s love. She’s not saying, you know, I’m calling you to pray for others. She’s saying, I’m calling you to be prayer. This indicates a transformation that you become another Christ. So it’s no longer I who live, but Christ living in me. That’s St. Paul’s words. St. Paul embodied the spirit of prophecy. He became another Christ on earth. I love also Daniel. She says, be positive people of prayer and love towards God. You know, the world is so dark right now. It’s so gloomy and people are so divided. They hatred. And she’s saying, come on, you guys, be positive. Be a sign of love and joy. That’s what Countdown to the Kingdom is all about. And it’s not that Daniel and I are dissing any of the more dramatic stuff like schism or maybe natural disasters and so on. If heaven is telling us that and it’s a credible prophecy, then we need to not despise prophecy. That’s right on our front page, right? Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything and hold fast to what is good. But the spirit of prophecy is that we would become another Christ and that we would shine with the light of Christ in this age of darkness that’s leading us to an age, an era of peace. And you’re right, I held this catechism in my hand when I went to the Apostolate of the Family Catechism. Did I get a consecration? And I remember picking up, this is in, what state is that, where they have this catechism, the family catechism?

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 54:29
They’ve got the Catholic family land in Ohio. Is that the one you have in mind?

Mark Mallett • 54:34
That’s where my wife and I went and visited many years ago, where the Conacher family, now Servant of God, Gwen Conacher. Servant of God. They have this apostolate there, and I picked up this catechism and I opened it. And I read these words from Cardinal Mario Luigi Chiapet. He’s the papal theologian for six popes up to John Paul II. And I saw his letter that was published in the front of the book, and it said this. Yes, a miracle was promised at Fatima, the greatest miracle in the history of the world, second only to the resurrection. And that miracle will be an era of peace which has never really been granted before to the world. And Daniel, I’ll just summarize it. You can call it a period of peace at Fatima. You can call it an era of peace which has been used in other private revelation. You can call it the reign, the symbolic reign in Revelation 20 of the thousand-year reign of Christ. Whatever you want to call it, the popes have called it the dawning of a new era, a new springtime. There’s all kinds of language for it. Maybe the biggest one is the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. But this is what’s coming after these labor pains, is a beautiful air of peace when God will restore in us the gift He gave Adam and Eve. He’ll restore in us the divine will as it was in Jesus. And the Catechism teaches this, and I’m going to paraphrase it, but it says, as it was in Jesus, so will it be in the bride. And this is what will happen in time in history before the end of the world. We’ve got a few minutes left, Daniel.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 56:14
It’s a guarantee. And please don’t, you know, I’m just some knucklehead, but I hope you’re not tempted to say the same thing of Cardinal Chiapia, the pontifical theologian to five popes from Pius XII onward. And Pope St. John Paul II, I believe it was, gave his funeral homily, And he extolled this cardinal’s ability to interpret the signs of the times. Especially this cardinal was an expert in Fatima. And some people say, oh, Fatima, it’s prophecy. The triumph, the era of peace, that was all just about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or that’s just this kind of vague reference to heaven. No, Our Lady means exactly what she says. There will be the annihilation of nations, which unfortunately were probably on the cusp of. but then her immaculate heart will triumph an era of peace will be granted to the whole world Cardinal Schiap is saying that’s an era of peace the likes of which have never been seen in history that is a miracle second only to the resurrection of God in the flesh you need to understand that this is coming because unless you are convinced of the victory you will not fight with the right zeal, with the same passion, with the same dedication, enthusiasm, optimism. If you’re just a sorry-faced soldier who’s just depressed because all you see is the chastisements and the deception that is ahead, you’re going to be hearing more and more of that because that is what’s immediately ahead. But we need to have the faith. We need to see with the eyes of faith, even when everything we see with the eyes of the flesh says ruin. We need to remember what we’ve been told through the eyes of faith, which is that, yes, our supernatural hope is always in heaven, but there’s also the temporal dimension of hope, which is actually, it’s actual matter, you know, the matter of hope, this temporal, this, this promised triumph of God, of the Immaculate Heart, of the Sacred Heart. You need to know that’s coming. And that knowledge, that faith is going to give you the zeal that you need to fight for Jesus Christ, for his triumph in souls individually and across the whole world. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Mark Mallett • 58:35
And it begins, brothers and sisters, with a choice. And we hear that enunciated clearly in last Sunday’s first reading. You have to make a choice. If you haven’t chosen to follow Jesus, I mean, to really say to Jesus, yes. It says in Serac chapter 15, if you choose, you can keep the commandments. They will save you. If you trust in God, you too shall live. He has set before you fire and water. To whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, good and evil. Whichever he chooses shall be given him. It’s time. This is the time of mercy. It’s the time to choose Jesus. If you haven’t been to confession, go back. If you haven’t been receiving the sacraments, go back to confession. Receive Jesus. Give him your yes. Time is short. The kingdom is coming. And Daniel and I will continue to be here as long as God allows us to walk with you. And we will see you again, hopefully shortly. God bless you. From Daniel and I, we’ll see you again. Pray for us and we’ll pray for you.

Prof. Daniel O’Connor • 59:44
God bless.

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