It was January of 2013....Pope Benedict XVI....celebrating the arrival of a peace caravan in Rome....along with two children....released two doves as symbols of peace from a window in the Vatican. The doves were immediately attacked by gulls. In January of 2014....a year later....Two children released two doves from the same window as Pope Francis watches. The occasion was praying for peace....in the Ukraine. One dove was immediately attacked by a gull....while the other was attacked by a crow. (you can easily Google videos of these events)
It was mid-October of last year when my wife and I went to see the newly released movie....Conclave. As a young Roman Catholic boy raised in heavily Polish and Catholic Buffalo, New York....I remember all the hubbub about the new Pope....John XXIII....and then again in June of 1963 with Pope Paul VI....and then again in September of 1978....(I was then 28)....with Pope John Paul I....and through extraordinary events....again....three weeks later....with Pope John Paul II. Since then the world has watched conclaves that chose Pope Benedict and Pope Francis I....and now....there will be another....the world will watch....and the DVD Conclave will be in high demand.
The passing of Pope Francis will have prophetic significance....we just do not yet know what that significance will be. The following is 1 Thessalonians chapter five....verses one through six in the NKJV:
"But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren....(emphasis mine to point out who these words are given to)....you have no need that I should write to you."
"For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night."
"For when they say, 'Peace and safety'!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape,"
"But you brethren....(emphasis mine again)....are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief."
"You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor the darkness."
"Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober."
