From the Selection of the Time, one of Nichiren's Five Major Writings with commentary

"The Lotus-like Face Sutra says: “The Buddha said to Ānanda: ‘It is like the case of a lion who has died. No creature that lives in the air, in the soil, in water, or on land will venture to eat the flesh of the dead lion. Only the worms that are born from the body of the lion itself will feed on the lion’s flesh. In the same way, Ānanda, the Buddha’s teachings cannot be destroyed by outside forces. But the evil monks who exist within the body of my teachings—they are the ones who will destroy these teachings that the Buddha has labored over and worked to establish for a period of three great asamkhya kalpas.’”

Daisaku Ikeda states that SGI members are the true priests of the Latter Day. The Nichiren Shoshu state that they are the true priests. I say that today, it is thanks to such priests that the True Law will be destroyed.

What do these passages from the sutras mean? In the past, the Buddha Kāshyapa described to King Kriki the Latter Day of the Law of the Thus Come One Shakyamuni and revealed what sort of people would destroy Shakyamuni’s teachings. Evil men might appear such as King Mihirakula, who burned all the Buddhist halls and monasteries of India and murdered all the monks and nuns of its sixteen major states, or Emperor Wu-tsung of China, who destroyed more than 4,600 temples and pagodas in the nine regions of China and forced 260,500 priests and nuns to return to lay life. But such men could not destroy the teachings preached by Shakyamuni Buddha. It is the priests themselves, who wrap their bodies in the three robes permitted to them, hang a single begging bowl about their necks, store up in their minds the eighty thousand teachings, and with their mouths recite the twelve divisions of the scriptures—they are the ones who will destroy the Buddha’s teachings."

Even the Rajputs and Muslims in India who killed 20 million Buddhists in the Middle Day of the Law could not destroy the Buddha's teachings but the men and women of the Soka Gakkai and Nichiren Shoshu, today in the Latter Degenerate Age, are those who will destroy the Buddha's teachings.

"It is like the case of Mount Sumeru, the golden mountain. Though one might gather all the grass and wood in the major world system, pile them up until they completely filled the heaven of the four heavenly kings as well as the others of the six heavens of the world of desire, and burn them for one year, two years, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, or a million years, the mountain would not suffer the slightest injury. But when the time comes for the great fire that ends the kalpa of decline, a tiny flame no bigger than a bean will break out at the base of the mountain, and not only will Mount Sumeru be consumed, but the entire major world system will likewise be destroyed.

This is what could happen should World War III break out and according to Nichiren, this will be because of the slander of the Law by the so-called Buddhist priests.

"If the Buddha’s predictions are to be believed, then it would appear that the Buddhist priests of the ten schools or the eight schools of our country will be the ones to burn up the Mount Sumeru of the Buddha’s teaching. The priests of the Hinayana schools of the Dharma Analysis Treasury, Establishment of Truth, and Precepts will be the flames of anger that burn with jealous hatred of the Mahayana schools. And priests such as Shan-wu-wei of the True Word school, San-chieh of the Zen school, and Shan-tao of the Pure Land school are the worms that are born from the body of the lion that is the Buddha’s teaching."

And today, it is such "priests" as the men and women of the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priests, the "worms that are born from the body of the Buddha" who are the ones "to burn up the Mount Sumeru of the Buddha's teachings.

The Great Teacher Dengyō in his writings described the eminent scholars of the Three Treatises, Dharma Characteristics, Flower Garland, and other schools of Japanese Buddhism as six kinds of worms. I, Nichiren, would dub the founders of the True Word, Zen, and Pure Land schools the three kinds of worms, and Jikaku, Annen, and Eshin of the Tendai school the three worms who devoured the lion-body of the Lotus Sutra and the Great Teacher Dengyō.

Ignorant though I may be, thinking deeply about the current situation of the world: Today, it is Daisaku Ikeda of the SGI; Nichinyo of the Nichiren Shoshu (the two fake "Nichiren" Buddhists of the Fuji School); and the Nichiren Shu Bishops who follow Nichiki and Nissatsu instead of Nichiren; These men are the current "three worms".

"So long as Nichiren, who is working to expose the root of these great slanders against the correct teaching, is treated with animosity, the heavenly deities will withhold their light, the gods of the earth will be angered, and disturbances and calamities will appear in great numbers. You must understand that, because I speak concerning the most important matter in the entire land of Jambudvīpa, my words are accompanied by portents of the first magnitude. How tragic, how pitiful, that all the people of Japan should fall into the great citadel of the hell of incessant suffering! But how fortunate, how joyous, to think that with this unworthy body I have received in my heart the seeds of Buddhahood!

Not only do these Three Schools treat Nichiren with animosity, what greater hatred could there for Nichiren than to ignore his teachings and replace them with interfaith, a change in Nichiren's Four Dictums, Shingon mentor/disciple and the need for an intermediary, and failing to remonstrate with evil leaders of the World, including Kishida, Xi, Putin, Biden, Trump Zelenskyy, Modi, and others. You will never hear the officials of these fake Nichiren sects remonstrating with these men. They decree either that, "we are apolitical" (SGI's Leader's Manual) or, as the Nichiren Shoshu High priest and the Nichiren Shu priests and bishops, too cowardly to call out the evil leaders of their respective countries and the countries of the world (not to mention the ~320 million provisional Buddhists)

"Just see how it will be! When tens of thousands of armed ships from the great kingdom of the Mongols come over the sea to attack Japan, everyone from the ruler on down to the multitudes of common people will turn their backs on all the Buddhist temples and all the shrines of the gods and will raise their voices in chorus, crying Namu-myoho-renge-kyo, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo! They will press their palms together and say, “Priest Nichiren, Priest Nichiren, save us!”

Equally today, when in the midst of World War III, these fake believers in the Lotus Sutra Buddhism of Nichiren, will all declare, "we have believed from the very beginning, Priest Nichiren, Priest Nichiren, save us!"

"In India King Mihirakula was obliged to press his palms together in submission before King Bālāditya, and in Japan Taira no Munemori was forced to pay reverence to Kajiwara Kagetoki. This is in accord with the principle that men of great arrogance should end by bowing before their enemies"

Today, it is not so easy to ascertain who are the secular men of great arrogance because all those who advocate for Mutual Assured Destruction and war are all men of great arrogance.

"Those vicious and arrogant monks described in the Lotus Sutra in the beginning armed themselves with sticks and staves and used them to belabor Bodhisattva Never Disparaging. But later they pressed their palms together and repented of their error. Devadatta inflicted an injury on Shakyamuni Buddha that drew blood, but when he was on his deathbed, he cried out, “Namu (Devotion)!” If only he had been able to cry, “Namu Buddha (Devotion to the Buddha)!” he would have been spared the fate of falling into hell. But so grave were the deeds he had committed that he could only utter the word “Namu” and could not pronounce the word “Buddha” before he died.

In the 16th century, the warrior Tientai monks slaughtered more than 5000 peaceful Nichiren Buddhists. Then, in the 20th century, the loathsome SGI, Nichiren Shoshu, and Tanaka and his crew, supported the Rape of Nanking and the Great War. Of course today, they all deny it but there is documentary proof of their complicity and now, they say nothing at all.

"And soon the eminent priests of Japan will no doubt be trying to cry out, “Namu Nichiren Shōnin (Devotion to the Sage Nichiren)!” But most likely they will only have time enough to utter the one word, “Namu!” How pitiful, how pitiful!"

It would not be faultless to be gleefull, a witness to the pitiful response of these so-called Nichiren priests. However, I am not equal to the Master Nichiren. 

"In the secular texts it says, “A sage is one who fully understands those things that have not yet made their appearance.” And in the Buddhist texts it says, “A sage is one who knows the three existences of life—past, present, and future.”

World War III and the destruction of the Buddhist Law is but a spark away thanks to the immense slander of the Nichiren sects, if we are to believe Nichiren.