Who Was Pope John Paul II? – By Darryl Eberhart
Introduction by the webmaster:
When I was in my 40s though I had been a born-again Christian for more than 20 years, I was under the influence of Dispensationalism. I was ignorant of the fact that most Christians up to the end of the 19th century looked at the popes of Rome as the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Man of Sin of II Thessalonians chapter 2.
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 ¶Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
When I met a group of young Seventh Day Adventists in a park, I told them that I think Pope John Paul II is a good man. They rolled their eyes at me! I didn’t know then that the SDA church held the same eschatological views of Antichrist as the early Protestant Reformers. They all called the Roman papacy the office of the Antichrist. I didn’t come to that knowledge until some time in the early 2000s when I was in my 50s. It was based on researching the history of the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. I knew a little bit about the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther, but I had never heard of the Jesuit led Counter Reformation until I started to do my own research. It was never taught to me when I was a young Christian.
“Who Was Pope John Paul II?”
A 1-Page Handout // All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. // January 19, 2011
QUESTION: Who was Pope John Paul II?
ANSWER: Karol Wojtyla was born in 1920; he died in 2005. He was pope from 1978 to 2005. Upon assuming the office of pope, he quickly did two things: (1) he helped to cover up the murder of his predecessor (Pope John Paul I); and, (2) he protected then-Bishop Paul Marcinkus (who was, at that time, the head of the Vatican Bank) from the Italian authorities. (They wanted to question Marcinkus about “irregularities” at the Vatican Bank.) Pope John Paul II also presided over the greatest sex scandal in modern Roman Catholic Church history.
Author Milton William Cooper, on pages 89 and 90 of his book, “Behold A Pale Horse” (1991), tells us: “In the early 1940s, the I.G. Farben Chemical Company employed a Polish salesman [Ed.: i.e., Karol Wojtyla] who sold cyanide to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz. [Ed.: Auschwitz is a city in southern Poland that was the site of a Nazi extermination camp during World War II.] The same salesman also worked as a chemist in the manufacture of the poison gas. This same cyanide gas along with Zyklon B and malathion was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other groups. Their bodies were then burned to ashes in the ovens. After the war [Ed.: i.e., World War II] the salesman, fearing for his life, joined the [Ed.: Roman] Catholic Church [Ed.: in Poland] and was ordained a [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priest in 1946. One of his closest friends was Dr. Wolf Szmuness, the mastermind behind the…experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials conducted by the Center for Disease Control in New York, San Francisco and four other American cities that loosed the plague of AIDS upon the American people. The salesman was ordained Poland’s youngest [Ed.: Roman Catholic] bishop in 1958. After a 30-day [Ed.: sic; a 33-day] reign his predecessor [Ed.: i.e., Pope John Paul I] was assassinated and our ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy as Pope John Paul II.”
Dr. Ronald Cooke, on page 14 of his book, “The Death of the Pope of Rome” (2005), tells us: “Pope John Paul II presided over the second ‘pornography of the Papacy’. He presided over the greatest, most widespread, immoral scandal of sexual perversion in church history. Never in the annals of recorded history has such a scandal been displayed for the entire world to see. Documented case after documented case in the courts of the world, joined by thousands of other cases which never came to light as the BAG-MAN, as he was called, bought the silence of thousands of young men whose cases never came to the courts. Combined with other ‘faithful’ souls who, although sodomized as children, in their loyalty to mother church never even complained.”
Dr. Ronald Cooke, on page 15 of the same book, tells us: “The late pope [Ed.: i.e., John Paul II] was the voice of a religious institution which became the reservoir of the most egregious sexual perversion known to man: MEN CALLED PRIESTS PREYING ON THEIR HELPLESS LITTLE ALTAR BOYS [Ed.: Emphasis in original] to satisfy their lust which arose in part from their enforced celibacy, which the Scriptures call a doctrine of demons. So as the chief voice of this reservoir of unnatural perversion, the late pope of Rome was surely the spokesman of a ‘Church’ which was filled with immoral priests under his authority; the spokesman for all the false doctrines of Romanism; and a man who himself claimed to be the Vicar of Christ on earth, making him then without doubt the MOST INFLUENTIAL IMMORAL VOICE OF OUR TIME [Ed.: emphasis in original]. To have a REAL MORAL VOICE [Ed.: emphasis in original] one must proclaim true Bible doctrine and repudiate falsehood, false claims [Ed.: e.g., papal infallibility], and false practices.”
Let us never forget that Pope John Paul II – a man whom some in the Roman Catholic Church want to “canonize” (i.e., to make – to declare – a “saint” of the Roman Catholic Church) – participated in the cover-up of the murder of John Paul I; protected then-Bishop Paul Marcinkus (head of the Vatican Bank) from Italian authorities; presided over the one of the greatest sex scandals in Roman Catholic Church history; and, did as much as he could, with then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s help, to cover up the sex scandals involving Catholic clergy!