250    The Bible and the Future of the World 

9.  The ninth secret takes a few years to unfold; it begins within a few years 

after the eighth secret. It is worldwide in scope. It is not a natural disaster. It 

is not a supernatural disaster or event. But it is disastrous. Very many people 

will die as a result. Yet it is the will of God. The ninth secret is related to the 

fourth secret, but the ninth secret is far worse than the fourth secret. 

10.  The tenth secret is not the end of the world. It begins soon after the 

ninth secret. It is worse than all the sufferings of the other nine secrets put 

together and results in more deaths than all the other secrets put together. 

But it is not the end of the world. More bad people  will die than good 

people, but very many people, both bad and good, will die. 

On the mitigation of future sufferings through prayer:  From our point of 

view within Time, it seems that future events are altered by God in answer 

to our prayers. This is true, from our point of view within Time. But God is 

present throughout all Time and beyond Time. To God, past, present, and 

future are the same. From God s point of view, the future does not change in 

answer to our prayers. Rather, God has already taken all prayers throughout 

Time into account in His plan for future events. Our prayers are effective 

even beyond the limits of Time because God is beyond all limits.