246    The Bible and the Future of the World 

the early 2030's will reaffirm the validity of the unification of the Churches 

in one Catholic Church. 

The Angelic Shepherd 

The Arabs forces will win World War III and will occupy a vast territory for 

many years. They will oppress and persecute Christians. In the 2030's, this 

persecution will become very severe. The Arab forces will massacre many 

Christians. They will hunt down priests and religious and devout Catholics 

to imprison, torture, and kill them. Millions of Catholic Christians will be 

killed. This massacre will take place over several years. 

In the mid to late 2030's, in World War IV, the Allied nations will attack the 

lands occupied by the Arab forces. This war will be even more severe than 

World War III. Many nuclear weapons will be used. The Allies will win the 

war, at such great cost, and defeat the Arabs even in their own lands. One of 

the principle Allied leaders is called the great monarch. After the war is won, 

and after a series of extreme punishments from God upon the whole world, 

the great monarch will rule over a vast territory (over the lands previously 

occupied by the Arab forces). Beginning in A.D. 2040, the great monarch 

will rebuild this territory, and help rebuild the rest of the world, together 

with the Pope of that time, called the Angelic Shepherd. 

The Angelic Shepherd will be a holy Pope and a true Saint. God will grant 

many miracles in answer to his prayers. His Pontificate will be long and very 

blessed. The Church will have great success in preaching the Gospel and in 

winning the conversion of sinners during his reign. This Pope, and the 

Church in general, will have much influence over the secular leaders of the 

whole world. The Angelic Shepherd will be from Medjugorje. He will have 

spent much time living there as a humble unnoticed priest. 

The Last Pope Before the Return of Christ 

There will be many Popes between the Pontificate of the Angelic Shepherd 

and the last Pope before the Return of Christ. Some of these will be holy, 

and some will be mediocre, and some will be sinners. The last Pope before 

the Return of Christ will be killed by the followers of the Antichrist about 

the year A.D. 2430. He will be killed, most likely in Rome, before the 

Antichrist gains power over the whole world. He will be killed about the 

time of a war between the kingdom of the North (Europe) and the kingdom 

of the South (Israel, the Middle East, northern Africa). The king of the 

South at that time will be a Catholic Christian.