Aaron (guest) 21 May 2011 11:02
A couple of years ago, I saw a website which claimed that through Revelation 17, they had predicted that the next pope would be the final pope. I didn't pay much attention to it, as I am not really religious. It also makes the weird claim that the next pope will be the antichrist impersonating John Paul II, whatever that means. But recently, I heard about these prophecies attributed to St Malachy. I think there's sufficient evidence not to believe it i.e. after 1850 few of the prophecies match up, but the fact that these two predictions come to similar conclusions freaked me out a bit. So I found the former again, and the whole John Paul thing is a bit weird, but it does make the point that Revelation 17 is referring to a woman (who in the Bible always symbolizes a church, apparently) that sits on seven hills (Rome) and seven kings, and the eighth king will be a beast, before the end. Since the 1929 Lateran Treaty, there has been seven popes. I'm not sure whether I would believe in either of these things in isolation, but the fact that they both come to similar conclusions freaks me out a bit. Help! http://gamepirates.net/?p=15966 (this isn't the website I found originally, but the article is exactly the same).
