Pope’s Jerusalem Visit a Bad Omen?

In "The Keys of This Blood" Malachi Martin showed the three-way race for world supremacy between Communism, the Vatican and the Capitalist West. He predicted the fall of communism and shipwreck for Capitalism, and after that, John Paul would become “the servant of the Grand Design.”

The race was a marathon that outlasted John Paul, but we are seeing the shipwreck of Capitalism. Papal visits have been bad. When John Paul toured America in 1987, the stock market crashed 500 points a month later and when Benedict visited America, the crash of ’29 was our only precedent.

John Paul kissed our soil, claiming it for the Church, but God blessed America above every Latin Ameri-can country because we didn’t let the church influence government. Times have changed. Revelation 17:1.

John Paul went to Jerusalem in 2000 and since that fall, Jerusalem has been “compassed with armies” of Palestinians and others hostile to Israel, a sign that “the desolation thereof is nigh,” Luke 21:20.

We’ve missed a lesson from history that "repeats." The disciples understood Christ's warning to mean Rome and they fled when Cestius came to Jerusalem so they were spared the destruction by Titus. Rome fell but the Holy Roman Empire emerged as the little horn in Daniel 7:8-26. But nothing was said about this when John Paul went to Jerusalem in 2000. Could Benedict be like Titus?

Benedict's timing coincides with Christ’s clues, but didn't Christ say, You don’t know the day or hour? The Greek word, eido, means be aware, consider, understand. Christ was saying, You don’t understand and each time He said it, He gave an example that fit a provision in the law (Numbers 9:10,11) for Passover a month later. Passover was a time of Judgment in Bible times, Exodus 12:12.

1. “As in the days of Noah,” the Flood came with Passover timing, but it was in the 2nd month because Noah buried Methuselah whose name meant, “at his death, the sending forth of waters” (Gen 5:21, margin, KJV). Noah entered the ark on the 10th day, the same day the sacrifice was selected for Passover. (Exodus 12:3). People not entering the ark became a sacrifice to the widespread destruction. When Christ said "as in the days of Noah," did He mean we would see destruction as in the days of Noah? His next clue suggests the possibility--

2. “Know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken" [destruction?] Matthew 24:43. The Bible explains itself—there is only one reference to goodman in the O.T. A harlot entices a man saying, “the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey… and will come home at the yom kece (full moon). Proverbs 7:19,20. Passover comes on a full moon, but long journey points to 2nd Passover as a provision for travel in Numbers 9:10,11.

A. The goodman is the pope. His name, Benedict, derives from bene meaning good)
B. Protestants say he is married to the harlot of Revelation 17:1 (Celibacy of priests who are married to the church).
C. He comes to Jerusalem as Titus (conquest for Rome). May 10/11 is 2nd Passover to which these clues coincide.

Each of Christ's wedding parables have imagery that fits Passover.
1. In Matthew 22:7, "burned up their city" was Christ's prophecy of 70 AD when Titus came at Passover.
2. In Matthew 25:6, the cry at midnight is a phrase first found at Passover in Egypt, Exodus 12:29,30.
3. In Luke 12:35,36 "loins girded" is phrase also first found at Passover in Egypt, Exodus 12:11.

God took Israel through calamity in Egypt to a covenant relationship at Sinai. God later said, "I am married to you" (Jeremiah 3:14) and the apostle Paul wrote, "All these things happened unto them for examples, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." 1Corinthians 10:11.

The reader is encouraged to “watch and pray” on the evening of May 10/11 and if calamity comes, seek further information that will be posted at www.TheBridegroomComes.com