"What's this? The f***in' U.N. now?!"
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Posted on 04/23/2025 6:43:12 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
With the news of Pope Francis’ passing at the age of 88, many believers are once again turning their eyes to an old and mysterious prediction known as the Prophecy of the 112 Popes. For centuries, this prophecy has stirred the imaginations of scholars, skeptics, and saints alike. But as students of Bible prophecy, how should we view it in light of Scripture? What weight should we give it in a time when spiritual deception and end-time confusion abound?
The Prophecy of the 112 Popes
The so-called “Prophecy of the Popes” is attributed to St. Malachy, a 12th-century Irish archbishop. According to legend, Malachy received a vision during a pilgrimage to Rome in 1139, where he saw a procession of 112 future popes.
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Argle bargle. Akin to Nostradamus in its gibberishness
Some sources state there is talk of establishing a “ council” of leadership instead of one Pope to lead the Church. We shall see.
What should we be hoping for?
I’m hoping they choose a Catholic this time.
"What's this? The f***in' U.N. now?!"
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HISTORY OF FALSE PROPHETS AMONG OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
In every generation after the apostles, there have been Christians who mistakenly believed that they were in the last days. They have thought that their generation was the one Jesus spoke of when He prophesied that “all these things” would happen in “this generation.” Failed prognosticators have been a persistent embarrassment to Christianity. Perhaps there is something fundamentally wrong with these predictions.
Francis Gumerlock, in his book THE DAY AND THE HOUR: CHRISTIANITY’S PERENNIAL FASCINATION WITH PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD, lists end times prophecy predictions made by Christians beginning in the early centuries. He catalogs more than a thousand failed predictions since the early days of Christianity, beginning with the apostolic fathers.
For example, Ignatius writes around the year AD 100 that “the last times are come upon us.” Cyprian (200-258) writes that “the day of affliction has begun to hang over our heads, and the end of the world and the time of the Antichrist. . . draw near, so that we must all stand prepared for the battle.”
Martin Luther (1483-1546) made this statement: “I am satisfied that the last day must be before the door; for the signs predicted by Christ and the Apostles Peter and Paul have now all been fulfilled, the trees put forth, the Scriptures are green and flourishing. . . . We certainly have nothing now to wait for but the end of all things.”
Famous among predictors of the end of the world was Christopher Columbus (1452-1506). Columbus wrote a book entitled BOOK OF PROPHECIES in which he called on many of the same passages of Scripture that false prophets cite today to predict the imminent end of the world. He apparently thought that his discoveries marked the beginning of the end.
The famous American Puritan preacher Cotton Mather (1663-1728) believed Christ’s return to be imminent and saw apocalyptic meaning in the conflicts and challenges of the American frontier. Mather was also a date setter. He predicted the Second Coming for 1697, then 1716, and finally 1736. The New Jerusalem, he believed, would be located in New England.
Here are more examples of end-times dating from Christians as well as pseudo-Christian cultists:
―William Miller (founder of Adventism): 1843/1844
—Ellen G. White (co-founder—Seventh Day Adventist Church): 1843, 1844, 1850, 1856.
—Joseph Smith (founder—Mormon Church): 1891.
—Jehovah’s Witnesses: 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1984.
—Hal Lindsey: 1982, 1988, 2007, with contingency dates going as far as 2048.
—Jack Van Impe: 1975, 1980, 1992, 2000, 2012. Also, in May of 1991 he said the Anti-Christ would be revealed and the Great Tribulation would begin within 20 months.
—Chuck Smith (founder of Calvary Chapel): 1981, 1988
―Herbert W. Armstrong: 1965
—Pat Robertson: 1982.
—Edgar C. Whisenant: 1988, 1989.
—Bill Maupin: 1981.
—J.R. Church: 1988.
—Charles R. Taylor: 1992.
—Benny Hinn: 1993.
—F. M. Riley: 1994.
—John Hinkle: 1994.
—Grant R. Jeffrey: 2000.
—Lester Sumrall: 1985, 1986, 2000.
—Kenneth Hagin: 1997 to 2000.
—Jerry Falwell: 2010.
—Louis Farrakhan: 1991.
―John Walvoord: before he died (He died in 2002.)
—John Hagee (at age 71): before he dies.
—Harold Camping: 1994, 2011.
—Ronald Weinland: 2011, 2012.
—Perry Stone: 2009-2015
—Billy Graham: Even this venerable preacher began telling us in the 1940’s to expect the soon return of Christ.
A lot of dispensationalists right in there with cultists. Pastors all across America’s fruited plains have books of some of these authors proudly displayed in their office libraries. The same books, and videos too, fly off Christian bookstore shelves, and the money continues to flow to these authors and many others of the same ilk. While some of these authors may be good teachers on other subjects, their false predictions force us to doubt their views on eschatology. Many of the above people will be forgotten, but whenever you happen to be reading this book, you will probably be hearing from a new generation of false teachers.
All of these prognosticators had something in common: They all thought they knew better than Jesus, who over and over told his followers that his prophecies would come to pass while some of them were still alive (Matthew 10:23; 16:27-28; 26:64; Luke 21:22, 32; Hebrews 10:37; Revelation 1:1-3; 22:5-20; etc.) There are over 100 such time statements in the New Testament that limit fulfillment of prophecy to the first century.
Maybe Christians should stop “newspaper eschatology” and read their Bible―and believe it.
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See these additional lists of false prophets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming_of_Christ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
https://www.truthmagazine.com/date-setters
https://bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm
Ann Barnhardt has covered this deceased Pope’s illegitimate reign for years.
Many Italians had little love for him, the selling out of Italy, witches invited into the Vatican, surrounded by homosexuals,a liberal agenda, the list long…and went unreported.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/author/annb/
“The Romans hated Antipope Bergoglio’s guts. His dripping corruption and facilitation of the invasion of Italy by African and musloid “migrants” was too much for even the cynical Italians.”
The list of climate catastrophe false profits is even longer. And they claim the mantle of “science”, with the whims of governments using their false predictions to remove freedoms and money from the masses.
Look at the “outpouring of grief” in Vatican Square. Almost empty, every time I’ve seen an image of the place, nobody there. To say the least, Catholics were not a fan of Jorge and are glad it’s gone.
Perhaps the most interesting sentence from the article:
“The Prophecy of the 112 Popes is fascinating, but it lacks biblical backing...”
Do we really need popes anymore? Maybe it is time for the papacy to end.
Three ways to look at it:
1. The rational way: There’s no reason to suspect it could be authentic and correct.
2. The reconciliatory way: Nothing ever said that the list of popes was complete to the end of time, and there’s no reason to believe that Peter the Roman comes immediately after the Glory of the Olives.
3. The alarmist, sedevacantist way: Pope Benedict XVI was the last validly elected popes and there are no more popes until Peter the Roman.
4. The inevitably sensationalist way: THIS IS IT!!! IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!!!!
say the least, Catholics were not a fan of Jorge and are glad it’s gone
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Looking at the “ whole” picture, it is easy to see our creators hand in everything unfolding today.
President Trump is exposing all the corruption in our government, cleaning up senile Joe’s ( and liberals) deprivation and immorality, Claus Scwabbs “ removal” ( corruption), the socialist EU collapsing, the liberal Popes “ removal”, a move to return to “ honest money” (Gold), …..the entire corrupted system is collapsing, one event after another.
Do we really need popes anymore? Maybe it is time for the papacy to end.
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Not for Man to decide….have you ever noticed how many churches have splintered, disappeared, and split….and how many sprout?
I have found those not “ pleasing” to our Creator, fade away and disappear.
Oy, vey! So many charismatic TV preachers on your list. Erm ...we used to listen to some of those guys pretty regularly.
It would be wild if there was a board of cardinals. 8 Catholics and 4 of different religions.
Church membership in the US has been on the decline since the early 1990s at about 70% and declining to 47% in 2020.
We never needed any because there's no biblical directive for a pope.
“Some sources state there is talk of establishing a “ council” of leadership instead of one Pope to lead the Church. We shall see.”
We have had that for years.
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