This
magazine has been watching Joseph Ratzinger for a long time. As we have
watched, we have followed his course from chief confidante of the late
Pope John Paul ii, to his enthronement as pope, and then on throughout the past four years of his controversial papacy.
As we have watched this leading religious figure, we have monitored
his involvement in a clandestine project of the Vatican that was
documented in Bible prophecy almost 2,000 years ago and which remained
a mystery until fully exposed within the last two decades. Now, in
light of Benedict xvi’s
visit to Israel in May, his first since being elected pope, it is
crucial that the Vatican agenda for the city of Jerusalem be
publicized.
Hushed About History
Back in the mid-1990s, a statement made by Pope John Paul ii during an interview
in his native Poland, broadcast in Italian over a Polish radio station, was noted by
one of our Italian associates. She sent us a transcript of the interview, which included
one particularly startling reference by the pope regarding the
Vatican’s ultimate goal of transferring its headquarters from Rome to
Jerusalem.
What was unusual about this admission of John Paul ii
was that the Vatican’s intentions to possess Jerusalem are seldom
publicized and little commented-on. In fact, an air of
secrecy—something that the Vatican has a history of creating over
various of its affairs over the centuries—has surrounded this project
since the failure of the Crusades, the most obvious of the overt and
now very historical attempts by the Vatican to seize control of the
Holy City. Those attempts have a long history with strong attachments
to the German nation, right up to the past two world wars, and beyond
to our present day.
As far back as the eighth century a.d.,
emissaries were sent to Jerusalem by Emperor Charlemagne to negotiate
an agreement with the Muslim Caliph Haroun al-Raschid. The result was,
Jerusalem became a protectorate of the Holy Roman Empire.
Historical records indicate that such a protectorate was limited to
the oversight of the welfare of Christians, the care and protection of
designated holy sites, and the properties of the Roman Catholic Church
in Jerusalem. The fact that the caliph would be a financial beneficiary
to this enterprise was a given. Muslim support of the Kaiser’s army in
World War i, and again of the Nazi regime in World War ii, was the end result of a long historical nexus between the Muslims and Germany.
From the time of the Charlemagne/Haroun pact, through the attempt by Kaiser Wilhelm to seize Jerusalem in World War i, to this day, elements within Germany have historically viewed themselves as protectors of the Roman Catholic Church.
From the time of the failure of the great Crusades, German elites
have worked to find ways and means of seizing the plum job of protector
of Jerusalem.
Link With Germany
Recently, courtesy of the actions of Germany’s Vice Chancellor and
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany has aggressively
stepped up its diplomacy in the Middle East.
Vatican and German diplomatic moves in Israel are both linked to a
common end: possession of the Old City of Jerusalem and most of the
eastern half of the city.
The Jews are the pawns in this grand game of international
diplomacy. The Palestinians are the grunts on the ground, eager to help
divide Jerusalem and annihilate the State of Israel in the process.
The Vatican already has a significant presence in Jerusalem. Under
Israeli law, Rome has legal jurisdiction over, and free access to, its
holy sites, including both its institutions and assets in Jerusalem.
The consolidation of these arrangements came in a bilateral agreement
termed “The Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of
Israel,” which the Israeli government signed with the Vatican on Dec.
30, 1993. The terms of this agreement, composed in secret, were
subsequently legislated by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
What remains largely unknown is the secret deal made by current
Israeli President Shimon Peres and the leftist peacenik and former
Meretz party member Yossi Beilin, known widely as “Peres’s poodle.”
On June 15, 1994, six months after signing the bilateral agreement
with the Vatican, the Israeli government inked another agreement with
the Vatican endorsing the Roman Catholic Church’s participation in
negotiations to determine the future of Jerusalem.
This was followed in February 1996 by Secretary General of the
Vatican Serge Sebastian announcing that Rome recognizes Palestinian
sovereignty over East Jerusalem. The Vatican had thus revealed its
hand.
Four years later, the Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat met in
audience with Pope John Paul ii at the Vatican. The two signed an
accord normalizing relations between the Palestinians and the Roman
Catholic Church and agreeing to work toward establishing Jerusalem as
an international city based on international guarantees. Later that
year, the pope visited Israel. Declaring that Jerusalem was the main
obstacle to peace in the region, he publicly called for international
oversight of the holy city to safeguard its sacred sites.
But there is another party that also has an interest in
establishing a presence in Israel. Germany expressed its desire to do
that as far back as 2002. Having an established presence in the
Mediterranean, off the Persian Gulf and in Lebanese waters as well as
Afghanistan, Germany is already encircling the Middle East in its
seemingly benign capacity as “peacemaker.”
It is clear that Germany’s and the Vatican’s Middle East policies
are aligned. Each is patently playing both ends—Israel and the
Palestinians—toward the middle.
Germany and Rome used the same tactic in the Balkan Peninsula to
achieve a desired result with implicit UN agreement, with the Serbs
becoming the pariah in the world’s view. This time, it’s the Jews who
are being pilloried, especially since the Gaza incursion in January.
The result will be the same: the seizure of iconic territory to be
placed under the influence of Berlin and Rome with the willing
acquiescence of the United Nations.
Journalist Joel Bainerman, a wellknown commentator on Israeli
affairs, wrote, “The end goal of the Vatican is to seize control of the
Old City of Jerusalem out of the clutches of the State of Israel. To
that end they have a secret agreement with Israel which obliges Israel
to respect the ‘extraterritorial’ claim to their physical presence in
the city. In short, we have accepted the Vatican’s rights to have
little Vatican sovereign embassies throughout our eternal capital of
Jerusalem. That same Vatican has committed itself, in public and in a
written agreement, to ensure that the Palestinians have sovereignty in
the Old City of Jerusalem” (www.joelbainerman.com).
“Toward the Pleasant Land”
Yet, beyond the proof of the hidden agenda of the Vatican exposed
by commentators, there is the “more sure word of prophecy,” which we
have well documented in our publications, that forecasts this very
reality. In Daniel 8, we read about the coming of an individual who
will be the spiritual head of a great religio-political institution
centered in Europe. The entity he leads is prophesied to spread its
tentacles “toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land” (verse 9).
Believe it or not, your Bible prophesies the hidden agenda of the Vatican!
The press and media remain fixated on what they believe are the
faltering mistakes of a pope out of touch with reality. (Witness the
imbroglio over Benedict’s Regensburg speech and the latest kerfuffle
regarding the lifting of the excommunication of the four Lefebvrist
bishops, including the Holocaust-minimizing Richard Williamson.) Such
diversions are but a smokescreen for those whom Lenin famously called
“useful idiots.” They keep people diverted from following the scent on
the track to the ultimate Vatican story, the coming takeover of
Jerusalem by Rome!
