Just when you think you’ve heard all the 2012 prophecies, another emerges to be added to the Mayan calendar, the Aztec calendar, the Cherokee calendar, and other 2012 warnings. This one concerns the Pope of Rome.

So what does this prophecy say, and who said it?

A 12^th Century Archbishop, Saint Malachy, purportedly received a vision wherein he was given the description of 112 future Popes, then detailed it in a work entitled The Mysterious Prophecy of the Popes. The current Pope Benedict XVI is number 111^th, thus the very next Pope will be the 112^th.  Of this final Pope, Malachy says this: “In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through many tribulations; when they are over, the City of Seven Hills will be destroyed, and the terrible or fearsome Judge will judge his people.”

This Pope is obviously the end-times Pope, the Pope who will oversee the Catholic Church during the seven-year tribulation just prior to the return of the “fearsome Judge” or Jesus, and during which time Rome will be destroyed. It also fingers this end-time Roman Catholic Church as “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots”, the one that ushers in the great apostasy and sets the stage for a one world religion. Vatican II has already paved the way for that with its ecumenism as evidenced by Pope John Paul II in his 1982 Assisi prayer meeting, which included pagans and voodoo priests, and where he said that voodoo possessed “truth and good, seeds of the Word”.

Over the years several Jesuits have worked hard to debunk Saint Malachy’s prophecy as a forgery, then along came respected Belgium professor and Jesuit, Rene Thibaut (1883-1952), who not only asserted it was a valid prophecy but through elaborate computations put the date of 2012 as the time this final Pope will enter the world stage.

But is it possible? Can the 112^th Pope really usher in the end times? Worse yet, can he be the False Prophet of Revelation that Thibaut and others believe him to be?

According to Father Malachi Martin, the answer is “yes”. A Jesuit and eminent Catholic theologian, Martin was a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and a member of the Vatican Advisory Council, as well as the personal secretary to the celebrated Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea. He was also the Vatican researcher on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and spoke seventeen languages. His startling claim is this: an Illuminate-Masonic group (Freemasons) has infiltrated the upper ranks of the Catholic Church and conspires to bring about a one world government. In his book, Windswept House, Martin talked about “prominent clerics who worship Satan” and that “networks . . . had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens,” hence the world-wide cover-up of pedophile clerics by the church establishment. Martin also talked about a secret ceremony, the “enthronement of Satan”, that took place at the Vatican in 1963 in order to ensure two outcomes: 1) Satan’s control over Rome and 2) a demonically controlled end-time Pope. Martin died under “suspicious” circumstances in 1999 while working on another book connecting the Catholic Church with the New World Order.

If considering a Pope of Rome in the role of the future False Prophet or affiliated in any way with the end-time Antichrist is still unthinkable, let me assure you that Malachi Martin wasn’t the only one who believed it possible. The list is long, and includes such notables as Luther, Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards. To learn more, read Petrus Romanus, The Final Pope is Here, by Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam. It’s guaranteed to frizzle your hair.

Let me end by saying I don’t believe the world is going to end in 2012 but I can’t and won’t discard the notion that perhaps something unprecedented will happen this year, something that shakes the spiritual realm. When you realize that 2012 is the year the Mayans and the Aztecs both believed their flying dragon god would return, and the year the Cherokees believed their flying rattlesnake god would return—all pictures of Satan as described in the Bible—and couple it with the prophecy that the final Pope will be an agent of Satan, then you have to wonder if negative spiritual forces are about to shake things up.   

On the other hand it could signal that the time of the rapture and return of Jesus is nearer than we think.

Until next time,

Sylvia

Okay, before I crawl out on this limb let me just say I’m NOT a sci-fi enthusiast.  I don’t follow UFO sightings, don’t subscribe to weird science magazines, don’t believe in aliens. But when the Vatican publically says it’s fine to believe in UFOs then releases their UFO files; and when more than 20 countries, which include France, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, and Spain, begin releasing their previously classified UFO files; and when the UN installs in their “Office for Outer Space Affairs,” a certain professor Mazlan Othman to “conduct negotiations with the first extraterrestrials that might come to this planet”; and when I hear that reports of alien abductions, new crop circles, animal mutilations, and UFO sightings have risen sharply, then I feel the need to do some investigating.

And what did I find?  I found that the Bible is as relevant today as it was when first written.

One of the things Jesus said when talking about the signs of his second coming was that it would be “as in the days of Noah” (Matthew 24:37).  So what was going on in the “days of Noah”?  Well, not only were they “eating and drinking” and going about their life totally clueless that a catastrophic flood was soon to come, the land was also full of violence and every man’s thoughts were continuously evil (Genesis 6: 5-13). 

But if you look just a few verses up at Genesis 6:1-4 we see something else, too, something that most churches never talk about and that, quite frankly, isn’t considered very intellectual even in the Church, and that’s the subject of the Nephilim.  In these four verses of Genesis 6 we see that the sons of God or angels, did something they had no right to do.  They cohabitated with human women and produced giants (Nephilim).  These offspring, according to the Jewish historian, Josephus, were the basis of Greek mythology, and were, in fact, the reality behind the mythical Titans. The Book of Enoch, possibly the oldest book ever written and a well respected tome even up through the seventh century of the Church, goes into even greater detail and tells of these fallen angels taking human wives and having offspring, then, seeking forgiveness, they ask Enoch—the man the Bible says walked with God and who was Noah’s great grandfather—to plead with God on their behalf. In the Bible, Jude 6 also alludes to this when he talks about how the angels who did not keep their “first estate” are now chained in darkness.

So something unusual was going on in the days of Noah; fallen angels were interacting with men. And if they did it then, we can assume it will happen again in the last days.  And that’s what I think is happening now, and it’s just the beginning.  We are being programmed to accept the concept of UFOs and aliens.  And I have to ask, “why?”

I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, and when that happens how is the world going to explain the disappearance of millions of Christians? Well, some in the New Age movement think that in the near future the masters of the universe will remove from the earth all those whose karmas prevent the world from living in peace.  From my point of view these masters are nothing more than fallen angels. So my question is this: Is this how the world will explain the rapture, when God’s people will be removed from the earth?  Will they say the Christians have been taken by UFOs so the world can evolve into what the so-called masters of the universe envision?  Will this be part of the “lying signs and wonders” the Bible talks about?  Could this be the “lie” God says everyone will believe?  Just something to think about the next time you hear of another UFO sighting.  And if you want to know more, few make this case better than L. A. Marzulli or Tom Horn in their numerous books on the Nephilim.

Some may think this is all foolishness, but I think we must consider the possibility that we are in the process of being invaded not by space aliens but by a demonic horde whose purpose is not only to prepare the world for the big “lie” but to turn the attention of believers from the things of God to “lying signs and wonders.”

Until next week,

Sylvia