In my book The Three Angels Message: God’s End-Time Warning, I wrote that global catastrophic upheavals could pave the way for a one world religion. Events such as nuclear or biological terrorism, and/ or an economic meltdown could be the trigger. As with the smaller occasion of 9-11, but on a grander scale, people would then flock to churches, looking for answers and protection from God.

I believe that if the current trend of international terrorism continues, and it will, the religion of Islam will be blamed for those catastrophic events. Christianity, with its message of peace and love will be embraced. Because of the perception helped by current world-wide media coverage of his almost every move, the pope will be turned to as the leader of all of Christianity.

The Roman Catholic Church, of course, welcomes the media wandering after the pope and its activities. It once ruled the world, and such attention works with its desire to return to that status. With the current power and influence it has at its disposal, it is laying the groundwork for all religions to come together under its umbrella.

Along that line, one of its most recent undertakings was to reach out to Muslims. This was a statement made about them by Pope Francis…

“We must never forget that they profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day.”

Because true Christians believe that Jesus is God, and Islam doesn’t; the pope, in an effort to bring Muslims aboard, astonishingly is willing to deny Jesus’ deity; claiming that both religions serve the same God.

Further positioning himself and his church as the world’s religious leader, Francis had this to say to other spiritually minded folk…

“In this, we feel close even to all those men and women who, whilst not recognizing themselves belonging to any religious tradition, feel themselves nevertheless to be in search of truth, goodness and beauty, this truth, goodness and beauty of God, and who are our precious allies in efforts to defend the dignity of man, in building a peaceful coexistence among peoples and in guarding Creation carefully.”     

And last, but certainly not least, overtures to come together have been made to Protestants. Recently, the pope sent a video message to Kenneth Copeland and his congregation. Apparently the message had its intended effect. One of the responses to the message came from Anglican Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer who was in attendance: “Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protest is over. Is yours?”

Among cheers, Copeland said to his enthusiastic congregation, “Heaven is thrilled over this…You know what is so thrilling to me? When we went into the ministry 47 years ago, this was impossible.”

Amazingly, several protestant denominations seem to be overjoyed at the possibility of reuniting with the Catholic Church, with the pope as their leader. Why they would want to do so puzzles me. Aside from many known major and critical doctrinal differences that can’t be harmonized, I wonder if these Protestants are even aware that the Roman church has never repudiated its position formalized during its Council of Trent (1545-1563). Its position is that all are condemned to hell who believe in salvation through faith in Jesus alone.

The call to unity by the Catholic Church, of course, is cloaked with “love.” But that’s just a pretext. The real agenda is all about consolidating power. The Catholic Church – even to the point of compromising and ignoring its own teachings – longingly and desperately is simply in pursuit of having again the global, supreme religious and political power it once enjoyed.