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maximizing corporate profits. How then is the looming crisis of
fragmentation in an age of globalism to be resolved?
After a period of relative dormancy, the third geopolitical force
mentioned by Cardinal Wyszynski, Roman Catholicism, is increasingly
flexing its muscle. The Vatican offers a different worldview
than either capitalism or communism. In centuries past it has played
a dominant geopolitical role—and now it aspires to do so again.
In 1981 a private meeting took place in the Vatican between
the pope and American CIA Director William Casey, a deeply
devout Catholic who attended Mass almost every day. Director
Casey and President Ronald Reagan had come to believe that
“there was a potential third superpower in the world—the 109acre
Vatican city-state—and that its monarch, Pope John Paul II,
had at his command a remarkable arsenal that might tip the balance
of the Cold War. In a meeting that wouldn’t be revealed to the
world for another decade, Casey... helped seal an alliance between
the [pope] and the Reagan Administration” (Reader’s Digest, Oct.
1996, p. 213, excerpted from Bernstein and Politi, His Holiness).
The influence of the Vatican was crucial in bringing about the
emergence of a non-communist Eastern Europe in 1989 and,
along with that, the collapse of the postwar, bipolar world order.
Today, Vatican influence is being felt in the Middle East as
well—and is destined to grow markedly.
History Recorded in Advance
Where will the influence of this third force lead? The answer
has been recorded in advance, believe it or not! It is found in what
to most people would seem an unlikely source—the Holy Bible. In
Isaiah 46:10, God tells us that He declares “the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying,
‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.’” Bible
prophecy, which constitutes more than one-quarter of all Scripture,
is simply history recorded in advance! What does it reveal about
the turbulent times in which we live and the days ahead of us?
In the book of Revelation, God reveals that in the end time a
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