The Final Countdown

USA Today reports that Pope Benedict XVI is using his third encyclical to call for a God-centered global economy.  This one statement alone is fascinating on so many levels.

First, the Bible teaches that there will be a global economy (Revelation 13:16-18), and it will indeed be god-centered. That is ‘god’, with a lowercase ‘g.’ This world economy will be under the control of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:16), who claims to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5-6) and is worshiped as God by billions of people around the globe (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). All of this will be facilitated by the False Prophet (Revelation 13:12-17), predicted for centuries to be the final pope–and the next one after Benedict XVI–by men such as St. Malachy and Pope John Paul II.

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2. Russia calls for global currency; says US rushing to Marxism
3. Pope decries “desert of godlessness”
4. Israel, EU peace talks and the Parliament of World Religions
5. IMF set to expand its reach