This world system, so
antithetical to God’s blueprint for
humanity, is winding up for the consummation of
history by every measure examined by students of
Bible prophecy who hold to a pretrib, premillennial
view.
Global politics, government, and socioeconomics are
gushing in the prophet Daniel’s end-times flood
(Daniel 9:26) toward the end of the Church Age (Age
of Grace). But no signal of the approaching
apocalypse presents a more laser-like, focused view
of the end-of-days dynamics than do religious
rearrangements taking place locally, nationally, and
especially worldwide.
The
departure from biblical Christianity is so rampant
and moving at such a furious pace in American
neighborhoods and on a nationwide basis that even
the most ardent, futurist student of
end-times matters is sometimes stunned by
developments. While the astonishing breadth and
depth of material covered within this book take the
reader into regions far beyond our local and
national boundaries, the journey culminates in, I
think, the reader achieving a much more profound
understanding of where American churchianity
stands within the doomed rush toward the harlot
religious system of Revelation 17.
The
story of St. Malachy injects intriguing speculations
and possibilities into the world’s rush into
last-days ecumenism. The twelfth-century Irish
bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, canonized by
Pope Clement III in 1190, presented a most
fascinating line of predictions that many believe
were visions leading to the man who will be the
final pope.
St.
Bernard of Clairvaux was St. Malachy’s biographer.
Clairvaux wrote in his book, Life of Saint
Malachy, that Malachy was said to have the gift
of prophecy. It is claimed that St. Malachy
predicted the exact day and hour of his own death.
Enter into the end-times turbulence Planet Earth is
experiencing this most riveting volume, Petrus
Romanus.
Authors Tom Horn and Cris Putnam have dramatically
exposed to the light of examination St. Malachy’s
enigmatic prophecies about the succession of popes
leading to the very last, Peter the Roman.
Hal
Lindsey (author of The Late, Great, Planet Earth)
wrote for WorldNetDaily (WND) upon the death of Pope
John-Paul II, in 2005, regarding St. Malachy’s papal
predictions:
“According
to his biographer, St. Malachy was visiting Rome in
1139 when he went into a trance and received a
vision. Malachy wrote down this extraordinary vision
in which he claims to have foreseen all of the popes
from the death of Innocent II until the destruction
of the church and the return of Christ.”
St.
Malachy wrote briefly, in Latin, on each succeeding
pope of the future, and then gave the document to
Pope Innocent II, who had it placed in Vatican
archives where it remained for several centuries. It
was rediscovered in 1590 and published.
Lindsey wrote: "[Malachy]
named exactly 112 popes from that time until the
end. The interesting thing is that scholars have
matched the brief 110 descriptive predictions with
each of the 110 popes and anti-popes that there have
been since Innocent II. Though they are a bit
obscure, they have fit the general profile of each
of the popes."
The
bottom line is that the last two popes, John-Paul II
and Pope Benedict XVI, fit the profile that running
string of papal succession seems to accurately
predict. Number 112 is supposed to be the pope who
will head the Roman Catholic Church during the great
time of trouble–the Tribulation, according to the
Malachy prophecy. He will be, the prediction says,
Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman). Pope Benedict XVI
is number 111.
Hal
Lindsey wrote further: “Now, if St. Malachy is
accurate, there will be only two more popes before
the end of this world, as we know it and the Second
Coming of Christ. I do know that the whole prophetic
scenario of signs that Jesus Christ and the prophets
predicted would come together just before His return
are now in view. So what St. Malachy predicted is
certainly occurring in the right time frame.”
Neither Tom Horn nor Cris Putnam–nor I, as your
reviewer of this book—claims that St. Malachy was a
God-inspired prophet in the sense of an Old
Testament or New Testament prophet. He was not.
However, I will tell you without reservation that
the little-known and sometimes previously
undiscovered facts these researchers have uncovered
and constructed into an enthralling picture of the
one who will likely be the last pontiff are
absolutely spellbinding.
Petrus Romanus
Authors: Tom Horn and Cris Putnam
Publisher Defender Publishing
ISBN: 9780984825615
Pages: 544
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