Part 3 - PROPHETIC, PROGRESSIVE EVENTS

By Ron Foutz

UNIVERSAL  IMAGE: SPIRITUALISM
   
Part 1 - Faith of Jesus, Progressive Events
Part 2 - The Image, The Law

   Common points unite Protestants with Rome.
   Spiritualism unites everyone else with Rome.
   Rome is the common denominator.

2Cor. 11:13-15
Rev. 16 13,14

Revelation 13:13-14
	“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
	“And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”

 	Father Gobbi is a Catholic priest who, for the past few decades, "Mary" has been appearing to in apparitions. 
In these apparitions, "Mary" has been giving Father Gobbi messages and instructions for the counterfeit church.

Message to Father Gobbi
Nov. 22, 1992
	"Listen to the words of your heavenly mother, who is gently preparing you and leading you to live through these events. Because the times which were foretold to you by the prophet Zechariah have now come. 'And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God'. "    Zechariah 13:8-9 

Prophecy of the New Times
(Based on  the book, Thunder of Justice, p. 320)
by Ted and Maureen Flynn
	"In 1937, a Polish nun and mystic, sister Faustina, was given a message about a future sign Jesus would give to the world. [Jesus speaking] 'Before I come as the just judge, I am coming as the King of mercy. Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to the people a sign in the heavens of this sort; all light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole earth. Then, the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed, will come forth great lights which will light up the earth for a period of time'. "

Washington Post
8-12-99, p A-1
	"The last full solar eclipse of the millennium today stirred a 70-mile-wide patch of human wonder along an arc of darkness from the English Channel to the Indian subcontinent. For a little more than three hours virtually all routine halted to permit goggle-eyed apprecation,  joyes prayer or ill-concealed dread."
Washington Post
8-8-99, Science Page
	"Because of its path, alignment and timing, this eclipse has unusual appeal for astrologists, numerologists and New Age mystics. During the eclipse, the sun and moon will be aligned with Mars, Saturn and Uranus in a way rarely seen, forming, from the perspective of Earth, the shape of a cross."

	It will be through these great signs and lying wonders that deceives the world to exalt Satan as God (see Isaiah 14:12-14; Testimonies to Ministers, p.62), bringing them in harmony with the Sunday law.

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Rev. 13:13,14

5BC 1105, 1106 (1900)
	"As the second appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ draws near, satanic agencies are moving from beneath. Satan will not only appear as a human being, but he will personate Jesus Christ, and the world that has rejected the truth will receive him as the Lord of lords and King of kings." 

1Kings 18:21, 38,39

Medical Ministry, p.87-88
 	"Satan will come in to deceive if possible the very elect. He claims to be Christ, and he is coming in, pretending to be the great medical missionary. He [Satan] will cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men to prove that he is God."

2SM 51 (1890)
	"It is the lying wonders of the devil that will take the world captive, and he will cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men. He is to work miracles, and this wonderful, miracle-working power is to sweep in the whole world."

 3SM 427- 428
 	"The wicked...declared that they had the truth, that miracles were among them, that angels from heaven talked with them and walked with them, that great power and signs and wonders were performed among them, and that this was the temporal millennium that they had been expecting so long. The whole world was converted and in harmony with the Sunday law."
        
	Satan will work miracles, making fire come down from heaven in the sight of men to prove he is God, to deceive the world. 
Then he will claim to have changed the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day, "saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Rev. 13:14. 
This is Satan's crowning act, which he has been preparing the world for through the apparitions. 
Matt.24:26

Great Controversy, p.624-625
	"As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ. The church has long professed to look to the Saviour's advent as the consummation of her hopes. Now the great deceiver will make it appear that Christ has come. In different parts of the earth, Satan will manifest himself among men as a majestic being of dazzling brightness, resembling the description of the Son of God given by John in the Revelation. Revelation 1:13-15. The glory that surrounds him is unsurpassed by anything that mortal eyes have yet beheld. The shout of triumph rings out upon the air: "Christ has come! Christ has come!" The people prostrate themselves in adoration before him, while he lifts up his hands and pronounces a blessing upon them, as Christ blessed His disciples when He was upon the earth. His voice is soft and subdued, yet full of melody. In gentle, compassionate tones he presents some of the same gracious, heavenly truths which the Saviour uttered; he heals the diseases of the people, and then, in his assumed character of Christ, he claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to hallow the day which he has blessed. He declares that those who persist in keeping holy the seventh day are blaspheming his name by refusing to listen to his angels sent to them with light and truth. This is the strong, almost overmastering delusion.

Great Controversy, p. 588-589
 	"The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join with them, and Satan determines to unite them in one body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism. Papists, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power, and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded.  Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and ushering in of the long-expected millennium. [ever try to make sense?] "                                                         

	It is in sight of the entire world that Satan will appear as an angel of light, claiming to be Jesus. 
This has all to do with the Fatima messages, the "New World Order",  which the pope will claim victor, "ushering in the long-expected millennium". They had a deadline.

Message to Father Gobbi
Dec.5, 1994
	"I [Mary] confirm to you that, by the great jubilee year of 2000, there will take place the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, of which foretold you at Fatima, and  this will come to pass with the return of Jesus in glory to establish His reign in the world. Thus you will at last be able to see with your own eyes the new heaven and the new earth."

 	The 'Great Jubilee 2000' began on Dec. 24,1999 (see Incarnationis Mysterium, p. 3), and ended on Jan. 6, 2001. 

Prophecy of the New Times
 	"In 1962, Cochita Gonzalez of Garabandal, Spain, was told by the Blessed Virgin Mary that after Pope John XXIII there would be only 3 popes until the end times. Then in 1963, after Paul VI became pope, she said 'Now there will only be 2 popes till the end times and one would reign for a short period of time'.  John Paul I had a short reign as prophesied. And now John Paul II is the pope of the end times. Furthermore, St. John Boscoe's famous 1862 vision of the end times battle at the close of the 20th century depicted the reigning pope being wounded and then recovery. This was fulfilled when Pope John Paul II was wounded on May 13,1981, the anniversary of Fatima."

 	On May 13, 1981 in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II saw a little girl wearing a small picture of Mary, as 'Our Lady of Fatima'. As the pope bent over as a gesture to the girl, hired assasin Mehmet Ali Agca shot at him, hitting two other people. 
Had the pope not bent over, these shots would have struck his head. 
The assasin shot two more times, this time inflicting a deadly wound to the pope, which was healed.
 	John Paul had always been a student of Fatima. 
After this incident, he became convinced that Mary was the one who saved his life. 
While he was recovering, he received what he thought to be a vision from God. 
He had the same vision that the three little children received at Fatima. 
He received the same messages first hand in this vision. 
He now began to apply the Fatima messages to his pontificate, to be fulfilled during his reign, within a set time-table. 
                                                  
Keys of This Blood
By Malachi Martin
1990  pp. 47-48
		"Like most Catholics the world over, Karol Wojtyla had been acquainted for as long as he could remember with most of the facts about Fatima. The Virgin Mary had appeared several times to three peasant children; she had confided to them certain admonitions and instructions, including a detailed set of instructions and predictions that were intended for papal action at a certain time in the future; and she had ended her visits in October with a miracle that recalled for many the Bible verse that tells of a 'Woman Clothed with the Sun, and giving birth to a Son who will rule the Nations with a scepter of iron'.
	"Once elected pope in 1978, John Paul had become privy to the papal instructions and predictions Mary had entrusted in confidence to the children of Fatima. That part of her message dealt with matters of tribulation for the Roman Catholic institutional organization, and with the troubled future of mankind in general.
	"Like his two predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI, Pope John Paul had long since accepted the authenticity of the Fatima events of 1917.....Still, as those same predecessors had done, John Paul had always taken the papal instructions and predictions of Fatima as a amatter for the future.
	"Now, however- after what were arguably the very pointed events that had taken place in St. Peter's Square; after exhaustive examination of the documents and living witnesses and participants connected with the Fatima events themselves; and after nothing less than a personal communication from Heaven during his long convalescence- John Paul was all but forced to face the full meaning of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski's familiar maxim that 'certain events are willed by the Lord of History, and they shall take place'.
  	"More, he came face- to- face with the realization that, far from pointing to some distant future time, the contents of the now famous Fatima message- and, specifically, the secret contents directed to papal attention- amounted to a geopolitical agenda attached to an immediate time-table."

The Keys Of This Blood
p.15
 		"As to the time factor involved, those of us who are under seventy will see at least the basic structures of the new world government installed. Those of us under forty will surely live under its legislative, executive and judiciary authority and control. Indeed, the three rivals themselves--and many more besides as time goes on--speak about this new world not as something around a distant corner of time, but as something that is imminent. As a system that will be introduced and installed in our midst by the end of this final decade of the second millennium."

	"As a system that will be introduced and installed in our midst by the end of this final decade of the second millennium."

	Malachi Martin was a former Jesuit and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute.
 He was a Vatican insider and intelligence expert, knowing the goals of Pope John Paul II. 
They had a time schedule. January 1, 2000.  The new millennium. 
They call it the millennium of peace, when Jesus would come with authority, declaring the beginning of the thousand years of peace, handing the keys of the church to the pope.

Spirit of Prophecy calls this the "temporal millennium".

3SM 427- 428
	"The wicked...declared that they had the truth, that miracles were among them, that angels from heaven talked with them and walked with them, that great power and signs and wonders were performed among them, and that this was the temporal millennium that they had been expecting so long. The whole world was converted and in harmony with the Sunday law." 
                                                                        
Great Controversy, p.588-589
 	"Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and ushering in of the long-expected millennium."

 	This 'temporal millennium' is a counterfeit thousand years, not the Biblical millennium. 
The Catholic church has a prophecy which states:  
"When Jesus Christ comes, then the pope will give Him the pope's tiarra, and throne. Jesus will give him [the pope] the keys and then Jesus will bless the pope."  
	
They expected  Jesus to come around Jan. 1, 2000. 
And when Satan does appear as Jesus, he will usher in "the temporal millennium that they had been expecting so long". 
This is why the Spirit of Prophecy states they had expected it. 
It is very clear that this millennium time table is as they interpret it to be, supported by satanic prophecies and visions. 
But it's not supported by the Bible. 

They are in a counterfeit tarrying time.
                                     
Great Controversy, p.321
	"Taking the manner in which the prophecies had been fulfilled in the past as a criterion by which to judge of the fulfillment of those which were still future, he became satisfied that the popular view of the spiritual reign of Christ--a temporal millennium before the end of the world--was not sustained by the word of God. This doctrine, pointing to a thousand years of righteousness and peace before the personal coming of the Lord, put far off the terrors of the day of God."

Desire of Ages, p.633
  	"Christ continues, pointing out the condition of the world at His coming: 'As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.' Christ does not here bring to view a temporal millennium, a thousand years in which all are prepared for eternity. He tells us that as it was in Noah's day, so it will be when the Son of man comes again."

	Pope John Paul's actions are all done in compliance to the fulfillment of the papal messages of Fatima. 
This direction he is taking is due to his belief that he is the vicar of Christ, thinking he is doing His will. 
The pope claims himself as His servant.
 
Keys of This Blood
p. 50
 	"Clearly, the new agenda- Heaven's agenda; the Grand Design of God for the new world order- had begun. And Pope John Paul would stride now in the arena of the millennium endgame as something more than a geopolitical giant of his age. He was, and remains, the serene and confident Servant of the Grand Design."

Keys of This Blood   [MIRACLES]
p.638-639
	"In the final analysis, John Paul II is a geopolitician-pope who spent the first part of his pontificate establishing himself and his Holy See as authentic players in the millennium endgame, which, during the same period of time, has become the 'only game in town' and in this last decade of the second millennium will absorb the energies, the efforts and the vital interests of the great powers in our world.
	"He is a Pope who is waiting..... John Paul is waiting, but not for that city to be built in order, as it were, to find out if there will be a place in it for him. He knows it will not be built, at least not as men have configured it.
	"He is waiting, rather, for an event that will fission human history, splitting the immediate past from the oncoming future. It will be an event on public view in the skies, in the oceans, and on the continental landmasses of this planet. It will particularly involve our human sun, which every day lights up and shines upon the valleys, the mountains and plains of this earth for our eyes. But on the day of this event, it will not appear merely as the master star of our so-called solar system. Rather, it will be seen as the circumambient glory of the Woman whom the apostle described as 'clothed with the sun' and giving birth to 'a child who will rule the nations with a scepter of iron'.
 	"Fissioning it will be as an event, in John Paul's conviction of faith, for it will immediately nullify all the grand designs the nations are now forming and will introduce the Grand Design of man's Maker. John Paul's waiting and watching time will then be over. His ministry as the servant of the Grand Designer will then begin. His strength of will to hold on and continue, and then, when the fissioning event occurs, to assume that ministry, derives directly from the Petrine authority entrusted solely to him the day he became Pope, in October of 1978. That authority, that strength, is symbolized in the Keys of Peter, washed in the human blood of the God-Man, Jesus Christ. John Paul is and will be the sole possessor of the Keys of this Blood on that day."

	Pope John Paul II believes he is the "child who will rule the nations with a scepter of iron". 
This is the prophetic teaching of the Catholic church, based on the messages received from the apparitions given at Fatima. 

These messages given to the popes through the three little children in 1917 were given in the town of Fatima, which was the name of Mohammed's daughter. 

There is a relationship between Catholicism and Islam. 

Mohammed's daughter stated she (Fatima) would be second only to Mary in the kingdom of God. 
Satan has been working at this deception for a long, long time. 
The messages that have been given and that will be given will be accepted totally be the Muslim nations. 
These final messages Satan will give the world through Mary will be readily accepted throughout the world.
 	It will be through spiritualism, these signs and wonders at the beginning of this temporal millennium, that will deceive the Muslims, the Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, etc.... to except Jesus, and to except the pope as His replacement on earth, leading the pope to begin his ministry as the servant of God as the victor of the new world endtime game.

Washington Post
5-7-01, p. A11
	"In the middle stood John's [the Baptist] tomb, covered in a cloth embroidered with Islam's 99 names of God, as well as the Muslim's central creed: There is no God but God. Around it huddled Muslims praying to one of the chief figures of Christianity, supplicating with their hands and scribbling private prayers on the granite walls.
	" 'We welcome Christians all the time here. We are close,' said Ahmed Mohammed,42. 'Jesus is part of Islam, and will come and run the whole world with the peace of God.'
	" 'If people only knew what Islam was about,' said Sheikh Nizzar Khattib, the prayer leader at the Umayyad mosque for 40 years. 'The teachings are the same. That this globe was created by one God. There is right and wrong...Christ and Mohammed and Moses are one.' "

Messengers
by Patricia Treece
       Published by Our Sunday Visitor Press.
p.14, 288, 289
 	"All spiritual traditions make a place for important appearances of the dead....the idea of the dead returning to do God's work is not some weird Catholic notion, but a universal belief."
	"Seeing after-death experiences universally acknowledged I hope will buttress your faith in the reality of life after life....I see the Holy Spirit working, to varying degrees, in and through all faiths and present in all people of good will....
 	"When I speak of saints like Buddha, Mohammed, the Torah's holy men and women, holy Hindus, and certain shamanistic sages, I do so comfortably with the hope of hastening the day when all of us who believe in supernatural realities and moral imperatives change our world through our love for each other and for God...." 
                                                                                                                                         
2Thessalonians 2:1-12
 	"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,
	"That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
	"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 	"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 	"Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
 	"And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
	"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
 	"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:
	"Even Him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 	"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 	"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie:
 	"That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Revelation 13:13-14
 	"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
  	"And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."

Thus the whole world is deceived into making an image to the beast.

"And all the world wondered after the beast."

  	As we have looked at the truths contained in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, comparing them with the counterfeit prophecies and teachings of Satan, we can see a very close relationship. 

Great Controversy, p.640, 641
    “The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like peals of loudest thunder His words roll through the earth. The Israel of God stand listening, with their eyes fixed upward. Their countenances are lighted up with His glory, and shine as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked cannot look upon them. And when the blessing is pronounced on those who have honored God by keeping His Sabbath holy, there is a mighty shout of victory.  
   “Soon there appears in the east a small black cloud, about half the size of a man's hand. It is the cloud which surrounds the Saviour and which seems in the distance to be shrouded in darkness. The people of God know this to be the sign of the Son of man. In solemn silence they gaze upon it as it draws nearer the earth, becoming lighter and more glorious, until it is a great white cloud, its base a glory like consuming fire, and above it the rainbow of the covenant. Jesus rides forth as a mighty conqueror.”

They expected to see Jesus return to usher in the millennium of peace around Jan.1 2000. 
When God does allows this deception to occur, we know from Scripture that it is Satan impersonating Christ.
Could this be proceeded by an apparition of  'Mary', counterfeiting the announcement of the day and hour of Jesus' return? 

But, having a more sure word of prophecy, we know from God's Word that when Jesus does come, He does not set foot on this earth at that time. 

It is after the 1000 years when "His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof,... and there shall be a very great valley".  Zechariah 14:4,9.
 
	All is ready and in place for the closing prophecies to be allowed to be fulfilled. 
But if God finds His people not ready, if He  finds His people not fulfilling the commission He gave His remnant church, taking the three angels message and preaching it with a loud voice to every nation, kindred, tongue and people, He will  have His angels continue to hold back the four winds of the earth, and we will find ourselves in a continuing tarrying time. 

Will God find 144,000 ready to be sealed, or will we continue to sleep? God is waiting on us.

Habakkuk 2:3
 	"For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

Revelation 10:11
"And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings."

CONCLUSION

  	The Bible teaches us that it will be a union of papal Rome, spiritualism, and Protestant United States which Satan will work through to enforce the mark of the beast. For hundreds and hundreds of years, Satan has been establishing the Catholic belief in Mariology, and also setting up a worldwide acceptance of her and her messages. They believed that these things would take place sometime around the turn of the millennium. If these predictions, which have been given through the apparitions, do not come to fulfillment as predicted, or at least near the time that they are expecting and in similar manner, this widespread belief in Mary and her apparitional messages will no doubt fall apart. 
	The image has been completed. If God's people are ready, and God allows these final prophecies to be fulfilled, they will come to fulfillment quicker then we have imagined. We can expect to see a Sunday law go into effect in the United States in the very near future. And at about that time, Seventh-Day Adventists located in the U.S. will receive either the seal of God or the mark of the beast. Their probation will be closed. Those who receive the seal of God will then receive the latter rain in full, proclaiming the Sabbath more fully to those outside of the S.D.A. church, whose probation remains open. The eleventh-hour workers heed the warning found in Revelation 18:4 and join the loud cry. This is the 'little time of trouble'.
 	After the Sunday law is enforced in the United States, we can expect  'Mary' to appear before the world in an apparition, delivering the counterfeit announcement of the time of Christ's return. This unites Islam with Rome. Then Satan will appear as Christ, bringing fire down from heaven to prove he is God, giving blessings, and performing miracles, including his deception of healing. This is the 'Messiah' that the Jewish nation has been waiting for. They unite with Rome. The counterfeit tarrying time is ushered in. Then 'Christ' announces that he has changed the Sabbath, from the seventh day to the first, and commands the world to honor that day. The rest of the world's nations unite with Rome. All the world is in harmony with the papal sabbath. The probation for the Seventh-Day Adventists throughout the rest of the world now closes. Through those that remain faithful to God and receive the latter rain proclaim the Sabbath more fully to those whose probation still remains open through out the rest of the world. The eleventh-hour workers heed Revelation 18:4. The 'little time of trouble' progresses to the remainder of the world.
	Probation for  mankind is now beginning to close. The seven last plagues are beginning to fall. Satan states that the world must be rid of those who chose to keep the seventh day Sabbath to stay the plagues. Death decrees are issued. The 'time of Jacob's trouble' begins.

Seventh-Day Adventist
Bible Commentary
vol. 7, p.989
 	"When probation ends, it will come suddenly, unexpectedly--at a time when we are least expecting it. But we can have a clean record in heaven today, and know God accepts us."

Revelation 22:11-12
 	"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
 	"And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be."

Dan. 12:10, 3