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and persecution for the Church will begin with the martyrdom of this Pope, 

the second Pope after Pope John Paul II. 

    Many Christians will be martyred during the war between the Arab 

nations and Europe. There will also be martyrdoms during the years that the 

Arab forces occupy Europe and parts of Africa. But the greatest number of 

martyrdoms will occur during the 2030's, when the Great Martyrdom 

described in the book of Revelation (Rev 6:9 11) occurs. 

    6.  In the third secret of Fatima, angels take the blood of the many martyrs 

and sprinkle it on the many souls which are making their way to God. This 

means that these many martyrdoms will help to strengthen and purify all the 

faithful servants of God on earth. The Church will increase in holiness and 

all virtue with the help of the prayers and sufferings of these many martyrs. 

    The second part of the secret of Fatima contains a conditional 

statement if Russia is not consecrated, then bad things will happen. But the 

third part of the secret contains no such conditional statement. Furthermore, 

the third part of the secret of Fatima predicts the same Great Martyrdom as 

is revealed in Sacred Scripture (Rev 6:9 11). Therefore, the martyrdoms 

predicted by the third part of the secret of Fatima cannot fail to occur at the 

proper time. 

    7.  How can this prediction of future martyrdoms be known with certainty 

and be inevitable? How can the future be known with certainty when 

freewill decisions have not yet been made?  

    God dwells in Eternity. God is unbounded by Time, unlimited by Time, 

beyond the restrictions of Time and Place. From Eternity, beyond Time, 

God sees what we call the future just the same as He sees the past and the 

present. The past, present, and future are all the same to God.  

    From our point of view, within Time, we have not yet made our future 

decisions. We know not what we ourselves will decide to do. We can decide 

as we see fit and our free will remains free. Yet from the point of view of 

Eternity (outside of Time) these future events and future free will decisions 

have already occurred. And the past cannot be changed. You can know the 

past free will decisions that you made and yet you cannot change these once 

they are past. And so it is with the future. God knows with certainty the 

decisions and events of our future without compromising freewill in the least 

because these future events are to God as the past is to us. 

    Allow me to phrase this same teaching in a different way. God is not 

confined  within Today, remembering what happened Yesterday and using 

some special power to figure out what will happen Tomorrow. God does not