Introduction

The Bible says of the harlot (Revelation 17), the apostate church, that:

• She committed fornication with the “kings of the earth” (17:18). Later:
• “The kings of the earth have committed fornication” with the harlot (18:3).
• “And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her“ (18:9). Finally, John says:
• “And I saw the beast [who is carrying the harlot], and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him [Jesus Christ] that sat on the horse, and against his army” (19:19).

Who are those kings? What is that beast? Who is that harlot? She is sitting on “seven hills” (17:9), eulogized by Domitian as the Feast of Seven Hills – Rome – shortly before John was banished to Patmos. The beast, then, is a Rome-centered kingdom. Those hills are one of the metaphors for the heads or leaders of the beast the harlot sits on. An apostate church, associated with a "nation" centered in Rome, has illicit relationships with world kings. The prophecy is repeated. It bears full understanding.

In unmistakable imagery, it says that the ten horns of that beast kingdom she rides on are ten kings or kingdoms exegetically (17:12). Ten is a prophetic number meaning “sum total.” In this apocalyptic prophecy, reference to these “kings” alludes to their rule over the “whole earth” (16:13-14, 18:3-4, 19:19).

• They are the kings of the earth with whom the harlot commits fornication.

• These horns give power to that beast centered there in Rome.
• That kingdom, controlled by the harlot church, must then represent the Vatican State.[1] 

A geopolitical coalition is in view between that smallest of states, represented internationally as the Holy See, and ten kings/kingdom divisions of the world ("earth" - 17:19). Many agencies (including the United Nations) and academic centers have divided the world into ten regions for nearly 40 years![2]  

These areas are:

• Administrative geopolitical divisions – in waiting.
• Kingdoms without crowns or defined leaders, waiting for their assigned power.

For decades myriads of leaders from many international organizations have been meeting to discuss a world government with a central head. One example occurred with the Bilderbergers’ annual convention, which met May 17, 2009, at the Astir Palace Hotel Resort in Athens, Greece (the group began in 1954). Those meetings were so secret that they had hundreds of police, navy commandos, Coast Guard speed boats and F-16 fighter planes to guard the area.[3] The latest: June 12, 2011, in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Their agenda? Globalization – of these ten regions.

• “National sovereignty is regressive,” they announced.

Henry Kissinger, a regular attendee, noted on CNBC before the 2009 meeting that conflict across the globe and an international respect for Barack Obama have created the perfect setting for the establishment of a “New World Order.”[4] That term originated from H. G. Wells in his 1940 book by that title, suggesting the possibility of a socialist, unified, one-world government.

• Former President H. W. Bush, during a speech in 1989, noted that one of his objectives was to see a “new world order” emerge.
• In 2008 Kissinger told Charlie Rose of PBS that either with Bush Jr. or the next administration there would be the beginning of a “new order.”[5]

Prior to the Athens, Greece meeting, media baron Rupert Murdock announced, “We are in the midst of a phase of history in which nations will be redefined and their futures fundamentally altered.”[6] 

Kissinger also noted that the use of environmental issues would help to draw the world together. Former Vice President Al Gore recently told the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University that the House of Representatives passed the Waxman/Markey climate bill, which will soon help “drive change” … “through global governance and global agreements.”[7]

A “Silent” Force Driving Globalization

Because of the ten horns on that beast, an important question must be entertained: “In this crescendoing drive towards a world government, has there been any related interest by the papacy? If so, this would heighten a more precise prophetic understanding to these horns and current events!

Beginning in 1994 The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican City, began annual Plenary Sessions on Globalization. Proceedings were published following each convention, where many papers were presented relative to the development of a world government.

After the 2006 Plenary Session, a book was published by Edizione Cantagalli called “Globalizzazione: Una pruspettiva Christiana” (Globalization: A Christian Perspective).

• Cantagalli referenced the first papal encyclical of Pope John Paul II in 1991 – Centesimus Annus.

• One of the pope’s theses and continuing mantras of the Vatican was/is the economic inequality of nations. John Paul II had called for new ethical laws for “a universal solidarity between all people.”

Though the papacy demands “full respect for human liberty” and “human dignity” as part of that solidarity,[8] it restrictively defines those values through the eyes of the “Church” and its “divine authority.” These Holy See principles include:

• The “universal destiny” of all earthly goods – everything must be shared
• The “common good” of all decisions – that is a twin of the “Caiphas Doctrine”
• Global “solidarity,” to insure all people can economically benefit – a call for a world government under one leader

“The Church also proposes the [need for] … moral authority in dealing with globalization.”[9]

Though the Vatican decries too strong of an aggressive geopolitical “head” over such a government, in its “subsidiary” philosophy, it is clear that that is what is seen as its ultimate role.[10]

The 2008 meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (May 2-6, 2008) noted: “It is in a new combination of subsidiarity and solidarity that one can find ‘the key’ for transforming globalization – with its positive and negative effects on society – into a ‘civilisation of the common good.”[11]

The words “common good” are a buzz phrase to drive global decisions for the good of all. This was published in narrative force in the 1985 Catechism. World leaders now use this phrase frequently in speeches.

• For the ten horns or world divisions of the “beast” of Revelation 13 and 17 (cf. Daniel 7) to support the papacy, the posturing of the Roman Church must be powerful and winsome.
• The Catholic International Theological Commission called recently for all globalization leaders to consider the objective existence of Natural Law. A document entitled “The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law” was published in June, 2009.[12]

In that document they intimated that the goods of the world belong to everyone and that there must be an ethical “head” to any global government and that that leader should be in charge of the world’s goods.

• That sounds like one of the Danielic prophecies. “But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt” (Daniel 11:43a). “Egypt” in prophecy refers to the sinful world.
• The “king of the north” is the papacy noted in that prophecy![13] This is another subtle call that they wish to be that world leader.

The Vatican is currently the only organization–country to work on a “Global Ethic” of values for a geopolitical system to adopt! They stand out alone.

• Priest Serge Thomas Bonino, a member of the Theological Commission, explained in a L’Osservatore Romano (Vatican newspaper) article that there is a central need to recognize natural law.”

“These values can guarantee for human rights, for example, a more solid base than fragile juridical positivism.… They should be founded on what defines human beings as humans and in how human nature is concretized [to] each person, regardless of race, culture or religion.”

“Throughout its history, the Christian community, in elaborating its own ethical tradition – led by the Spirit of Jesus Christ and in critical dialogue with the traditions of wisdom that it met – also purified and developed this teaching on natural law as a norm fundamental ethics.”[14] This simply means that the Roman Catholic Church considers herself the sole arbitrator of this philosophy.

The positioning of this church is stunning. It is getting the attention of world leaders and fills a void world politics has not addressed – Christian “moral” traditions as a world government ethic!

In Pope Benedict XVI’s recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (July 6, 2009), he said, “The Church … does not claim to interfere in any way in politics of states.” Yet its history, especially beginning with Pope Pius IX and then Pope Leo XII’s encyclicals in the 1800’s to its present operation reveal the opposite! In the present pope’s document, he is clearly calling for a world order regulated and controlled by a central power that would govern the world economy.

 Paragraph 67, chapter 5:

“There is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of … economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.... This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy … there is urgent need of a true world political authority … Such an authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good” (emphasis added).

• Who might the “true world political authority” be?
• The “king of the north,” the beast of Revelation 17 and 13 (in that order), the little horn of Daniel 8.
• What "law" might he be referring to? The documents pouring out of the Theological Commission.

“Marvelous in her shrewdness and cunning is the Roman Church. She can read what is to be. She bides her time …

“The Roman Catholic Church, with all its ramifications throughout the world, forms one vast organization under the control, and designed to serve the interests, of the papal see....

“History testifies of her artful and persistent efforts to insinuate herself into the affairs of nations.”[15]

The Ten Horns – Divisions

The prophecy says that the horns are first without a kingdom – that’s now. But not for long. Soon they will have “crowns” – civil/national power.

In 1993 the late Peter Drucker, a celebrated author and economist, said in “Post-Capitalist Society,” that a North American economic community built around Canada, the United States and Mexico will soon emerge (that is one of the United Nation’s ten world divisions).[16]

• President Bush did sign a Security and Prosperity Partnership between the three countries in 2005.
• That was reworked and took on a new direction by the U.S. House, approving the establishment of a North American Union [NAU] in 2007.

Much of the work for the NAU came out of the Center for North American Studies at the American University, Washington, D.C., by Professor Robert Pastor and reported in “Respondents of Planned Union to be North Americanists.”[17]

• This work moves forward and will emerge soon as one of the ten horns of the beast of Revelation 17 and 13.
• This is a “premeditated merger.”

Pastor was co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force in 2005 that produced a document, “Toward a North American Community.” That is the “blueprint” that the then President George Bush, Mexico’s then President Vicente Fox and Canada’s then Prime Minister Paul Martin supported.[18] Pastor says the final merger is just a crisis away.

• Recently Jerome Corsi reported on the latest trends in the union of this “horn”:
• “Urge to merge: Obama playing name game?”[19]
• This is a vital document to review. The work to create a North American Union is intense.

There are, again, ten “administrative” divisions to the world. This was first divided by the Club of Rome, then the United Nations and, finally, by many agencies, now even included in recent geography books. Each of these ten horns have been without a king (Revelation 17:12). In Revelation 13 the horns have crowns (Revelation 13:1).

• When these divisions emerge with not only a governing body but with leaders and then a central leader,
• One will know the end is extremely near – the onset of the Revelation 13 prophecy will have begun.

In February 2009 Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, was approached by the European Union to be its first President.

He is a Catholic convert. Everything awaits a crisis. Recently, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain said: “The world needs a Global New Deal.”[21]  – a new world order.

Then, the International Tribune reported on April 5, 2009: "Blair steps up fight to be crowned first ‘President of EU.’"[22]

The geopolitical divisions that will support the global leadership and ethics of a New World Order from Rome are in place. Governance bodies are being positioned. A properly placed crises, a submission to socialism, as is happening in the United States, and surrender to the international ideals, such as what Henry Kissinger has outlined, will soon bring us from Revelation 17 to 13 – it is in that order (17 is an interlude). Henry Kissinger wrote: “While American political judgments have often proved controversial, the American prescription for a world financial order has generally been unchallenged. Now disillusionment with the United States' management of it is widespread.

“The nadir of the existing international financial system coincides with simultaneous political crises around the globe. Never have so many transformations occurred at the same time in so many different parts of the world and been made globally accessible via instantaneous communication. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.

“Every major country has attempted to solve its immediate problems essentially on its own and to defer common action to a later, less crisis-driven point. So-called rescue packages have emerged on a piecemeal national basis, generally by substituting seemingly unlimited governmental credit for the domestic credit that produced the debacle in the first place – so far without more than stemming incipient panic.

“The role of China in a new world order is equally crucial. A relationship that started on both sides as essentially a strategic design to constrain a common adversary has evolved over the decades into a pillar of the international system.

“An international order can be permanent only if its participants have a share not only in building but also in securing it. In this manner, America and its potential partners have a unique opportunity to transform a moment of crisis into a vision of hope.”[23]

The horns will soon be crowned. That is what the dragon on the beach is waiting for (Revelation 13:1). Then – the “coming of Satan” and, finally, the “coming of our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ.

References:

1. Fowler, Franklin S, Jr.; When “The” Church Rides the Beast (Christian Heritage Foundation – 2009).

2. Ten regions by map: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. General Web site from the U.N.: http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm. Map Index: http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y4473E/y4473e0d.htm
   Actual Map: http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/ Y4473Ey4473e0d.htm  10 world division map of UN FAOWorld Net Daily, May 17, 2009.

3. World Net Daily, May 17, 2009.

4. bid., January 6, 2009.

5. infowars.net, December 19, 2008.

6. Drudge Report, February 24, 2009.

7. Gore, Al; U.S. "Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance,’" http:www.climatedepot. com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance.

8. Zenit.org, September 16, 2006.

9. Ibid.

10. Rome Stoops to Conquer (Julian Messner, Inc.; New York – 1935).

11. Vatican City – Asia News – May 2, 2008.
12. Life Site News.com, June 12, 2009.
13. Fowler, Franklin S., Jr.; EndTime Secrets of Daniel 8–12.
14. "True 'Common Ground' Lies in Renewed Appreciation of Natural Law: Vatican Think Tank to Global Leaders."
15. White, Ellen G.; The Great Controversy, p. 580.
16. World Net Daily, May 21, 2007.
17. Ibid., January 1, 2007.
18. Ibid., December 15, 2006.
19. Corsi, Jerome; World Net Daily, “Urge to merge: Obama playing name game?” – July 20, 2009.
20. CNN, February 22, 2009.
21. International Tribune, April 5, 2009
22. International Herald Tribune, January 12, 2009.