Obviously, Nostradamus scholars are still having a field day interpreting who or what the “Great King of Terror” was, especially those who believe it was an “obvious” reference to a fourth Antichrist, or a precursor to the Antichrist, as John the Baptist was to Jesus. To the skeptics who say, “You see? No such thing happened in 1999,” the believers reply, “How do you know he just hasn’t revealed himself yet?”
As for “the Year 1999 and seven months,” many Nostradamus scholars point out that that date shouldn’t be taken too literally. Nostradamus lived in an age when people believed strongly in a correlation between world-altering events and the turn of the millennia. (And let’s face it, after the hysteria of the transition to the year 2000, we haven’t exactly outgrown that belief ourselves.) So it’s possible that Nostradamus saw a vague date in the distant future for that particular prophecy and, because the prophecy involved an event of great global enormity, he assumed that it would happen in close proximity to the dawn of a new millennium.
There are a number of quatrains that are thought to be Nostradamus’s prophecies leading to the end of the world. To quote just a few:
After a great misery for mankind an even greater approaches
The great cycle of the centuries is renewed.
It will rain blood, milk, famine, war and disease.
In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks.
The Sun in 20 degrees Taurus
There will be a great earthquake; the great theater full up will be ruined.
Darkness and trouble in the air, on the sky and land,
When the infidel calls upon God and the Saints.
Saturn joined with Scorpio transiting toward Sagittarius,
At its highest ascendant,
Pest, famine, death through military hand,
The century as well as the Age approaches its renewal.
At a latitude of forty-eight degrees
At the end of Cancer there is a very great drought.
Fish in the sea, river and lake boiled hectic,
[Southern France] in distress from fire in the sky.
In the year when Saturn and Mars are equally fiery,
The air is very dry, a long comet.
From hidden fires a great place burns with heat,
Little rain, hot wind, wars and raids.
The great mountain, 4247 feet in circumference,
After peace, war, famine, and flooding
Will spread far, drowning great countries
Even antiquities and their mighty foundations.
You will see, sooner and later, great changes made,
Extreme horrors and vengeances,
For as the moon is thus led by its angel,
The heavens draw near to the reckoning.
And finally, the quatrain that may give comfort to anyone who’s wondering if they should start putting their affairs in order before the end of days arrives:
Twenty years the reign of the moon shall pass.
After seven thousand years another similar monarchie shall tenure.
When the sun shall take hold of its remaining days,
Then my prophecy shall be finished.
Nostradamus calculated that human history began in 3203 BC. Add seven thousand years to that date and you arrive at the conclusion that Nostradamus predicted this planet will come to an end in the year AD 3797.
The last prophecy of Nostradamus is found in the following quatrain:
On returning from an embassy, the King’s gift safely stored
No more will I labour for I will have gone to God
By my close relatives, friends and blood brothers,
I shall be found dead, near my bed and the bench.
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