[Apologetics] Adventist material on xanga.com

[Dianne Dawson]

Stuart,
   
  Your mother is referring to The Prophecy of St. Malachy.
   
  About the year A.D. 1139, Saint Malachy O'Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, wrote down a list of Popes. He listed 112 future Popes, each described by a phrase in Latin.  You can read more about it at a number of different sites.  Here are a couple of sites:
  http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp
  http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/future-popes.htm
  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12473a.htm
   
  Dianne
   
  

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:
  Some branch of Adventism has top of the page ads on xanga.com. I followed 
one of the links to this:

http://www.worldslastchance.com/index.php?p=next_and_last_pope.php

My Mom had told me that John Paul II was the next to last true Pope (based
on some obscure interpretation of prophecy. She claimed that John Paul
himself had said this - but I was never able to find a quote.

Anyway, because of that, I clicked the link. It is Adventist (Sunday = false
sabbath). The gist is that the Catholic Church is the harlot on the beast
in Revelation 17. The 7 kings are numbered from 1929, when the Vatican
was created, and Benedict is the 7th. The 8th will be a demon pretending
to be John Paul II raised from the dead.

Most "last pope" theories from a pre-trib eschatology are respectful 
of Catholics (true Catholic Christians are raptured leaving only
the evil ones to be the whore during the tribulation). This one is
rather anti-Catholic and justifies making Catholic Church a "beast"
(persecutor) based on a "wilderness" theory, and history of Catholic
persecution of Protestants ending 1798, whence begins the "wilderness" phase of
the Catholic Church where she gets persecuted in turn. According to the
theory, Benedict will reign a "short time", then the false 8th Pope will make
the church a persecuting beast again.

Quite involved, but a well contructed site that will give those interested
a flavor of anti-catholic adventism.

I checked out the "beliefs" section, and their "faith and works" statement
(#5) is rather Catholic sounding. The preponderence of "de fide" statements
in their catechism, however, are interpretations of phropecy - which makes it
rather shaky theologically. It even includes a "de fide" explanation (#9) of
why the "de fide" adventist prophecy interpretations of 1844 seemed to be
wrong!

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