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will be forced to flee the Vatican. He will have waited to long to flee 

successfully. He will carry his own baggage on his shoulder. He will flee  by 

the way of the gate between the two walls  of the Vatican by night 

accompanied by members of the clergy ( the sons of Zedekiah ) and 

guarded by soldiers. They are able to get away from Vatican City, but they 

will not reach safety. They will be pursued by Arab forces. 

     The Pope and the clergy with him will be taken captive by the Arab 

forces. They will be taken to Syria (Riblah is an ancient city in Syria) and 

put on trial. The leader  of Iraq ( king of Babylon ) will pass judgment 

against the Pope and the clergy who were captured with him and also some 

members of the clergy of Syria. They will slaughter these members of the 

clergy as the Pope watches. Next, they will put out the eyes of the Pope, so 

that the last thing he sees is the death of his fellow clergy. Then they will 

bind the Pope in fetters and take him to Iraq, where he will be imprisoned. 

The phrase  yet he shall not see it  means that he will be held prisoner 

without being able to see the country in which he is held captive because he 

has been blinded. The Pope will die in a prison in Iraq with no one to rescue 

him. This Pope, Peter the Roman, will die a martyr for the Faith. (What an 

unusual time we live in, when Sacred Scripture itself tells us about one Pope 

after another.) 

Subsequent Popes 

I do not know who will be elected Pope after the Pope called Peter the 

Roman. Peter the Roman will be imprisoned in A.D. 2012 (or early 2013). I 

am not certain how long he will spend in prison before he dies, or when his 

successor will be elected. However, his successor(s) will not reign long. 

The formerly Protestant Pope 

In the late 2010's, the Protestant Churches will move towards unification 

with the Catholic Church. This process of repentance and conversion and 

unification will take years. In the early 2020's, the Catholic Church will be 

restructured into seven parts, five parts for the formerly Protestant Churches, 

one part for the Eastern Churches, one part for the Latin Rite of the Catholic 

Church. After that, there will be elected a Pope who is not a Roman 

Catholic. He will be a convert from one of the Protestant Churches. He will 

be Catholic, but not from the Latin Rite of the Church. The formerly 

Protestant Catholics will be pleased. His election will show them that they 

are truly and fully members of the one holy Catholic Church. But many 

Roman Catholics will be upset at his election and at the unification of the 

Protestant Churches with the Catholic Church. An Ecumenical Council in