As you may know, there are those people who believe that a final Pope of
Rome may be the long-awaited world leader who is prophesied in the
thirteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. While Revelation 13 speaks of
two Beasts -- one rising up out of the sea, and another rising up out of the
Earth -- many people refer to this Endtime world leader as the Antichrist.
However, technically-speaking, Revelation refers to him as the Beast, and
not as the Antichrist. In my view, the Antichrist may be someone entirely
different.

My view, as I amply discuss in my articles, is that the two Beasts mentioned
in Revelation 13 will be a pair who work together towards common goals. The
first Beast will be a political/military leader, while the second Beast will
be a spiritual leader. In fact, the second Beast is synonymous with the
False Prophet, as the Book of Revelation makes clear.

While I am not fully convinced that a Roman Pope will be this Endtime global
political leader, it is interesting to note that in the following article
from the Reuters news service, Pope Benedict XVI clearly indicates that he
supports -- in his own words -- "a true world political authority" that
"would need to be universally recognized", and which "would
have to have the
authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties".

That certainly sounds like a New World Order, or One World Government to me.
If the Roman Catholic Church were to have its way, it could also become the
One World Religion, which in essence, would make the Pope the False Prophet
who works along side of the first Beast.

Think about it!


Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy

By Philip Pullella - Reuters

July 7 2009


VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world
political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government
regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis
and avoid a repeat.

The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy was run
in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose
main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and
poor nations.

Parts of the encyclical, titled "Charity in Truth," seemed bound to upset
free marketers because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism
and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to "thoroughly
destructive" abuse of the system and "grave deviations and failures."

An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing and gives the clearest
indication to the world's 1.1 billion Catholics -- and to non-Catholics --
of what the pope and the Vatican think about specific social and moral
issues.

The pope said every economic decision had a moral consequence and called for
"forms of redistribution" of wealth overseen by governments to help those
most affected by crises.

Benedict said "there is an urgent need of a true world political authority"
whose task would be "to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit
by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the
greater imbalances that would result."

Such an authority would have to be "regulated by law" and
"would need to be
universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure
security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights."

"Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its
decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted
in various international forums," he said.

The United Nations, economic institutions and international finance all had
to be reformed "even in the midst of a global recession," he said in the
encyclical, a booklet of 141 pages.

The pope's call for a supranational body to tackle global economic woes
disturbed some Catholic capitalists.

"There is a difference between coordination and mandate ... a reckless loan
in the United States can and did impoverish people in Latvia. So obviously
coordination is important as long as it is not mandates," said Frank
Keating, CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers and former Governor of
Oklahoma.

LOFTY MESSAGE

The encyclical was addressed to all Catholics and "all people of good will"
and was released on the eve of the start of the G8 summit in Italy and three
days before the pope is due to discuss the global downturn with U.S.
President Barack Obama.

In several sections of the encyclical, Benedict made it clear he had great
reservations about a totally free market.

"The conviction that the economy must be autonomous, that it must be
shielded from 'influences' of a moral character, has led man to abuse the
economic process in a thoroughly destructive way," he said.

"In the long term, these convictions have led to economic, social and
political systems that trample upon personal and social freedom and are
therefore unable to deliver the justice that they promise," he added.

Profit was useful only if it served as a means to a brighter future for all
humanity.

"Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means
and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth
and creating poverty," he said.

He said the current economic crisis was "clear proof" of
"pernicious effects
of sin" in the economy.

"Financiers must rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their
activity ...," he said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had rebuked the pope earlier this year
at the height of the row over a Holocaust-denying bishop, welcomed the
encyclical as important encouragement for world leaders ahead of a G8
meeting in Italy.

"Pope Benedict has encouraged the state leaders to create rules so that this
sort of worldwide economic crisis isn't repeated," Merkel told
reporters. "I
also saw this as an order to work toward a social market economy in the
world."

The pope appeared to back government intervention "in correcting errors and
malfunctions" in the economy, saying "one could foresee an increase in the
new forms of political participation, nationally and internationally."



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