The Popes and the New World Order

As the age of the Church of Jesus Christ comes to an end at the rapture and the age of the gentiles comes to a close at the second coming of Jesus Christ, we would expect to see extrabiblical sources that would also point to the same time period for related end-time events. In this posting, I'll introduce several such sources.

Prophecy of Popes
Saint Malachy was born in Ireland in 1094. He lived a religious life as a monk and was ordained priest and finally Bishop. Pope Clement III canonized him in 1199. In 1139 and 1140, Saint Malachy made a pilgrimage to Rome and had a series of visions about 112 Popes from Celestine III, elected Pontiff in 1130 until the last Pope, who is described as Peter Romanus.

The last five popes are mentioned with the following titles: Flos Florum (Flower of Flowers) – Pope Paul VI, De medietate Lunae (Of the half moon) – Papa Jaun Pablo I, DeLabore Solis (From the toil of the sun) – Pope John Paul II, Gloria Olivae (The Glory of the Olive) – Benedict XVI, Petrus Romanus (Peter Roman).

The end of Saint Malachy’s prophecy ends as follows: In the persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations after which the seven hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.

Is Peter the Roman the one who represents the Woman (one-world religion) who sits upon the beast (antichrist) for the first half of the seven-year tribulation period?

Revelation 17:9 “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits... 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

Pope Benedict Signals Coming New World Order
Pope Benedict's calling for a “world political authority” in his encyclical, Caritas in Veritate has created a stir.

67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.

A recent YouTube video, titled "Pope Signals Date of NWO" shows Pope Benedict using hand signs and numerology to reveal both the date he was speaking and a future date, which is believed to be the date the New World Order is to begin. According to the video, the date he signaled for this was March 25, 2012. If the Pope has inside information and is correct, then the rapture is likely to occur on Rosh Hashanah 2011since Scripture indicates that Christ's true followers will not be on earth for the tribulations ahead.