126    The Bible and the Future of the World 

The Reasons for World War III and IV 

    The Virgin Mary said at Fatima,  Wars are a punishment from God for 

sin!  World War III also is a punishment decided upon by God. This war is 

a punishment from God because of the many sins of Christians, especially 

those who have abandoned the practice of the faith and those who are 

immersed in mortal sins of various kinds. During the Arab occupation of 

Europe, the Arabs will prohibit many sins which are now permitted by law 

and which are now widespread.  That is why the Arab nations will, for a 

time, be unstoppable. Yet along with the war, God will give His people 

consolation, guidance, grace, and the strength to endure. 

    This war also prepares for a future time of peace and holiness, during the 

reign of the great monarch. The Arabs must conquer a vast territory, so that, 

when the great monarch rescues this territory (in World War IV), he can 

then rule over a vast empire and can bring peace and  holiness to many 

peoples and nations. The great monarch will be able to bring Christianity to 

Israel and to the Arab nations. Where Christianity is now weak, then it will 

become strong. And Israel will become a Christian nation. 

    The kingdom of the great monarch then itself prepares for another future 

time. After a time of peace and holiness (beginning in A.D. 2040), the great 

monarch's kingdom will be divided into four smaller kingdoms. Two of 

these four become the kingdom of the North and the kingdom of the South 

described in the Book of Daniel, in chapter 11. Then,  in the 25th  century, 

the Antichrist takes control of the North and fights against the South, 

preparing the way for his control over nearly the whole world. After the 

Antichrist's reign is ended, Christ returns, the wicked are punished, and a 

great time of lasting peace and lasting holiness begins. 

    So, World War III and IV are part of a long process leading to the 

Church's Crucifixion (the last half of the Antichrist's reign), and to the 

Return of Christ, and to the Millennium of peace and holiness. 

The Pope Will Be Martyred 

      `And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his 

shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; he shall dig through the wall and go 

out through it.... And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in 

my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans, yet 

he shall not see it; and he shall die there.'   (Ezekiel 12:12.13). 

      So the city was besieged.... Then a breach was made in the city; the king 

with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two 

walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the 

city.... But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook