Part 4 of 11: The Coming One-World Religion

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Previously, we learned about the critical role the last 5 Popes have played in establishing the world government presently being built through the process of globalization. Now, we are going to learn about the secret relationship between Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II. We will see how they worked together to bring down the Berlin Wall and usher in the New World Order.

Remember, when we say “New World Order”, it's just another name for the world government prophesied in the Bible for the endtime.

In 1917, the Bolshevic Revolution took over the Soviet Union. The Bolshevik Revolution continued in the Soviet Union up until World War II.

In 1942, Communism only ruled one country, the Soviet Union, which means approximately 6% of the world's population. By 1962, Communism ruled 50% of the world's population. It was an amazing revolution sweeping our world.

What happened was at the end of World War II, at Yalta, the Soviet Union was given control over all of eastern Europe. They took control of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and of course East Germany. In addition to that, in 1949 the communist swept through China, taking over the most populist nation on the face of the earth.

From 1942 at 6% to 1962, half of the world's population was now under the iron heel of international Communism. It appeared that Communism was taking over the entire world. Even Henry Kissinger stated that the days of Capitalism were possibly over.

Pope John XXIII, seeing the huge red wave sweeping the world had a decision to make. Does the Church fight against this Communist advance, or is it too powerful? Should we move to make an alliance with Communism?

The Church was really more friendly toward a Socialist type of economy then they were toward free enterprise. They called it social justice and they felt like there were times for legitimate wealth redistribution. Consequently, in 1961, Pope John XXIII appointed Mr. Agostino Casaroli to begin building bridges with the Communist world.

In 1978, Malachi Martin wrote a book called “The Final Conclave”. [Conclave means the eleciton of a Pope.] Malachi Martin was a Jesuit Priest, and he was a Catholic Priest till the day he died. He was the unltimate insider. He actually had taught at Vatican College in Rome for 6 years and was an intimate friend with Pope John XXIII.

On a WBBM radio interview in 1978, he said there was a tremendous struggle taking place inside the Roman Catholic Church. They were believing that the next Pope should be a Communist. Martin believed if the next Pope were a Communist, if Communism captured the Church, that they would gain control over the entire world and would then turn and destroy the Church.

The prophecies of the Bible say that this is what's yet going to happen in the future. The Bible talks about a world government gaining control of the world with an alliance with religion. After they use their alliance with religion to gain control, that the political powers will then turn and destroy the religious element. What Malachi Martin was saying on the radio is exactly what is in the Bible.

Martin went on to say on the radio interview that Pope Paul VI was terminally ill at the time (1978). There was a tremendous jostling for position for choosing the next Pope and gaining control of the powerful entity that we know of as the Roman Catholic Church.

Later on in 1978, Pope Paul VI died. The conclave was called and a new Pope was elected. Pope John Paul I was the name that he took to rule under.

After being elected, Pope John Paul I only ruled for a very short 33 days. He died unexpectedly. What was so amazing was, this Pope was said to be in wonderful health. He was only 65 years old. Never had a day's heart trouble in his life. Yet, they said he died of a heart attack, unexpectedly, during the night.

Then a book appears on the shelves called “In God's Name” by David Yallop. On the heels of that, another book appeared called “Pontiff” by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. Then Malachi Martin wrote another book called “Vatican”. In all of these books, they claimed that the Pope was assassinated. They gave very, very compelling proof.

In the book “Vatican”, Malachi Martin said he was assassinated and then Martin appeared on “Politics & Religion” radio program. [Note: “Politics & Religion” is a daily radio program featuring Pastor Irvin Baxter of Endtime Ministries. You can hear this wonderful program daily on many radio stations and you can connect to it on his website at endtime.com.] Martin said, “There's no doubt to those of us who are inside the workings of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope was indeed assassinated.”

Apparently Pope John Paul I was the Pope that Martin favored who he thought would purge the Church of its corruption. But there were apparently forces inside the Church that were determined, they were this close to gaining control of the Church. They were not going to allow Pope John Paul I to mess it up.

If you have any doubts in your mind, on the day Pope John Paul I died, there was a man in charge of Vatican Bank. His name was Paul Marcinicus. He was accused of wide spread corruption so much so that the Italian government had issued an order for his arrest. He avoided arrest by staying inside the walls of the Vatican. You probably know the Vatican is a sovereign state of it's own, so the Italian government was not allowed to come there to execute this warrant for the arrest. Pope John Paul I ordered the removal of Paul Marcinicus from his control of many billions of dollars per year as head of the Vatican bank.

That same day, he ordered the disciplining of the powerful Arch Bishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody. It had come out two or three years prior to this that Cody had funneled 1.3 million dollars of Church money to a woman in Florida. When this became public, he said she was a distant cousin that needed help. After a little bit of investigative journalism, it was revealed that, in fact, she was a friend of Cardinal Cody's. Knowing this, Pope John Paul I ordered the removal of Marcinicus that day and the disciplining of Cardinal Cody. Neither order was ever carried out. Instead, the Pope died that very night.

Now it's time for another Pope. The Prelates all return to Rome. They go to the Sistine Chapel and when the white smoke comes out of the chimney, the signal that we have a Pope, the announcement was made. Karol Wojtyla of Poland. Everyone said, “Who is that?”

He took the name of Pope John Paul II to rule under. This Pope was the youngest Pope elected in 154 years. He was the first Non-Italian Pope in 455 years. This was a revolutionary choice. Normally the Popes came from Italy since the Church is called the Roman Catholic Church. This is the real important issue … He was the first Pope, ever, from a Communist country; ever. in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

His #1 claim to fame was that he had presided over the Church in Poland for 45 years under Communism. The Church had not only survived, but it had actually thrived under this arrangement; this alliance between Catholicism and Communism.

While the votes were being counted in conclave to determine who won to be the new Pope, to pass the time, Mr. Wojtyla read the “World Marxist Revue”, the official publication of international Communism.

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