John Paul II to be Next Pope? 7 Reasons

The Next Pope May be John Paul II: 7 Reasons

In a spectacle of intrigue, the Vatican is at the focus of world attention as it meets to choose the next pope. Speculation is rampant, but God is not taken by surprise and the Bible offers clues that might surprise us–it might even take our breath away. Here are clues suggesting the next pope could be the much-loved John Paul II.

#1. The Bible likens governments to political cartoons described as beasts. In Revelation 13:1, the apostle John saw a beast with seven heads arising. Early Americans believed this beast was the papacy. It was an amalgamation of the four beasts from Daniel 7 that it had survived.

Arising as it did with seven heads, it is easy to compare it with the seven kings in Revelation 17:10, because the head of the papal church wears a crown as a king. And one of the heads (kings) was “wounded to death,” Revelation 13:3. Until Benedict, all recent popes have been wounded by death. John Paul II was also wounded by a would-be assassin, but that wound was not “to death.” To be “wounded to death” and have his deadly wound healed implies a resurrection!

#2. John Paul II was the sixth pope since Mussolini reinstated the papacy in the Vatican. As the sixth, he gets special attention in Revelation 17:10 where “five are fallen, one is [John Paul II] and the other is not yet come….and must continue a short space.” Benedict was the “short space” [7th] pope.

#3. The eighth is [one] “of the seven” in Revelation 17:11, but it does not specify which one. We might guess that since John Paul II was so well recognized by the world, he could be the one.

#4. A resurrection of John Paul II would fit “all the world wondered after the beast,” Revelation 13:3.

#5. Hours after Benedict announced that he would resign, lightning struck the Vatican. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qdo0e8ECE Christ said, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.” Luke 10:18. Perhaps we can see in this event the true identity of a resurrected John Paul II who will be charismatic, “sitting in the temple…showing himself that he is God,” 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

#6. There is strange activity below the Vatican where John Paul II is buried. A bright light filled the room on February 27 and expectations are high (see picture above or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgg1jKehYI

#7. In a Vatican so beset by scandals in banking, pedophilia and homosexuality, the papacy offers a poor image to the world. How better to recover a deadly wound than a resurrection that only God would seem to be behind? It would be most amazing for the “Vicar of Christ” to be resurrected as Christ was, and it would help solve some Vatican public relations problems.

None of this information should be taken as a condemnation of sincere Christians who are following Christ as best as they know. We are living when “the times of [our] ignorance, God winks,” but we also see we are coming to a time of judgment when we must repent and be open to Bible truth, because “my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” Hosea 4:6.

May God help us to be like the Bereans who searched the Scriptures daily to avoid the deceptions that are coming with lightning speed. # # #

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