Generally, I prefer not to talk much about my thoughts on End Times stuff or the Catholic Church, but I decided to make an exception and talk about both at the same time today!
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Black smoke - try again.
White smoke - a new pope is elected.
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After a recent church service, someone asked for my thoughts on the upcoming selection of the new pope. To be honest, I hadn't
given it much thought.
Not being Catholic, why should I? Then he asked what I thought of St. Malachy's prophecy concerning
"Peter the Roman", but I had to admit I had no idea what he was talking about. I listened as he briefly explained what he understood about these things, offered a few thoughts, and decided to do a little research when I got home.
St. Malachy was the Archbishop of Armagh (Ireland) back in the 12th century, and the legend says that in 1139 AD, he saw a vision predicting who every pope would be from then until the Apocalypse. His
"Prophecy of the Popes" doesn't give names or dates; instead it gives a cryptic phrase in Latin to describe each pope - 112 in all, starting with Pope Celestine II. Supposedly, for several of these, their descriptions have been surprisingly accurate!
The reason this was brought to my attention was because -
did you guess it? - Pope Benedict XVI was Pope #111 since Malachy's day, which means if the prophecy can be trusted, the new pope -
whomever he may be - will be the
last pope before Jesus returns! If that's not exciting enough, apparently many believe this last pope (referred to in Malachy's prophecy as "Peter the Roman") will also be the
second beast - the
false prophet in
Revelation 13 - who rises up and performs miracles in order to cause everyone to worship a false religion and take
the mark of the beast!
Can this be true?!
