Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic church from 1978 until 2005, was a remarkable figure and the facts concerning his long and fruitful papacy are the stuff of legend. He drew some of the largest crowds and was probably seen in person by more people than anyone in history. He also inspired an entire generation of men into the Roman Catholic priesthood and engendered a huge renewal in Catholic Christian faith. Widely recognised to have been the greatest spiritual leader of our time, John Paul II was perhaps the most influential pope since Saint Peter himself.
Being the reigning head of the Roman Catholic Church at the time of 9/11 would have been enough to ensure for him at least a peripheral role in the huge cluster of synchronicities surrounding 9/11. This is in fact the case. For instance, he was the 264th Pope, 264 being 11 x 24. He was also the 110th Pope from Celestine II to "the end of the world", according to the prophesies of St. Malachy. Both numbers encode the ubiquitous eleven, a number also alluded to by the use of the Roman ‘II’ for ‘the Second’. However, it seems that the part played by this particular pope was central to the entire drama, which was in two acts, with a three-and-a-half year interlude.
9/11 and the Funeral Of Pope John Paul II
Soon after the funeral of Pope John Paul II, I noted a fascinating connection between the date of his funeral, April 8th, 2005, the date of the terrorist attacks on the USA, September the 11th, 2001, and the ordinal and standard values of the title ‘Our Lord Jesus Christ’. 9/11 occurred on the 254th day of the new millennium (which began on 1/1/2001, not 1/1/2000). The funeral of the Pope occurred 1559 days into the new millennium.
Our Lord Jesus Christ (o) ......= 254
Our Lord Jesus Christ (s) .....= 1559
Recall that the ordinal and standard value systems of English gematria are the principal vehicles for conveying the message of the New Bible Code; numbers encoded in the NIV Bible were encoded as ordinal values and nearly always take on meaning as standard values. Therefore to find these two world-changing events encoding the ordinal and standard values for such an important title must surely be highly significant.
The Three-and-a-Half Years
The difference between 1559 and 254 is 1305, which was therefore the number of days between 9/11 and the funeral of Pope John Paul II. This is almost exactly three-and-a-half years, a period of time reiterated in various ways throughout the books of Daniel and Revelation, in connection with end-time prophecy. 1305 days equates to about 3.57 years, slightly over but still very close to the prophesied period of time, which, in any case, is stated in rather vague terms.(note 1) Here are most (but not all) of the relevant passages. Note that “2300 evenings and mornings” means 1150 days. The periods “time, times and half a time”, “forty-two months” and the periods from 1150 days to 1335 days all refer to the three-and-a-half year interval.
Daniel 8:13-14
13Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?” 14He said to me, “It will take 2300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”
Daniel 12:7
The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand towards heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken all these things wll be completed.”
Daniel 12:11
From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1335 days.
Revelation 11:2
And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 13:5
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
So the Bible impresses upon us that the “end times” are associated with a particular period of time: three-and-a-half years. Could the attacks of September the 11th, 2001 and the funeral of arguably the most influential and important pope the world has ever known, both watershed events by any standard, be the markers for this period?
The Three Days
Another period of time repeatedly given in the Bible and reminiscent of the three-and-a-half years is the three days between the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 27:63
“Sir,“ they said,“ we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
John 3:19-22
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20 The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this remple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
As I explained in The Crucifixion, I believe 9/11 to have been a reenaction of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The twin towers represented the beams of the cross itself and also the two criminals crucified alongside Jesus. The Pentagon in both cases corresponded to Jesus himself, the spear wound inflicted on Him by a soldier being symbolised by flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon building. The five wounds received by Jesus were also represented by the five points of the Pentagon and by the encoding of this number into its architecture. For Freemasons, the cross is paired with a rose, itself associated with the number 5 and the pentagon/pentagram. The Knight Rose Croix degree symbolises (among other things), Christ’s passion and resurrection. Could 9/11 and Pope John Paul II’s funeral, taken together, provide a re-enactment of these events?
The Funeral Of Pope John Paul II and the Resurrection
As with 9/11, the funeral of Pope John Paul II was an extraordinary, watershed event. First of all, as I said in the introduction, Pope John Paul II was undoubtedly the greatest spiritual leader of the 20th Century and perhaps the most successful Pope since Saint Peter. Secondly, he died just after Easter 2005, Easter being the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. Thirdly, for the Roman Catholic Church, the funeral liturgy and committal—both of which took place on April the 8th, 2005—have a special significance, focusing on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
On its website, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston makes the following statements about the Christian funeral liturgy and committal:(note 2)
The Roman Catholic Funeral Liturgy is not a memorial service about the deceased. During the Funeral Liturgy, the focus is on one person: Jesus Christ. The Funeral Liturgy centers entirely on the truth that Jesus Christ defeated the power of sin and death through his passion and resurrection.
For us Catholics, the Committal has deep spiritual significance. We recall the important facts of the disposition of the body of Jesus: Joseph of Arimathea's pleading for Jesus' body from Pilate and giving his own tomb, the women's consigning in haste Jesus' broken body, and their amazement at the rolling away of the stone and the garment of death's having been cast aside. It is specifically in the context of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus that we bring the bodies of our loved ones for the Committal.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains the following statements on the meaning of death to Christians. The word “Paschal” refers to the “Paschal lamb”, Jesus Christ:(note 3)
1681 The Christian meaning of death is revealed in the light of the Paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ in whom resides our only hope. The Christian who dies in Christ Jesus is "away from the body and at home with the Lord."
1682 For the Christian the day of death inaugurates, at the end of his sacramental life, the fulfillment of his new birth begun at Baptism, the definitive "conformity" to "the image of the Son" conferred by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and participation in the feast of the Kingdom which was anticipated in the Eucharist—even if final purifications are still necessary for him in order to be clothed with the nuptial garment.
Finally, there is extraordinary significance in the funeral of a pope. The Pope is, for Roman Catholics, Christ’s representative on earth:(note 4)
The Bishop of Rome is the bishop of the Holy See and is more commonly referred to as the Pope[....]Roman Catholic tradition holds that the Bishop of Rome is the successor to the primacy of Simon Peter and thus the "Vicar of Christ" for the entire world.
Therefore, no event could have more fully symbolised the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ than the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II and Gematria
As if to emphasise the extaordinary meaning woven into the Pope’s funeral, the names ‘Jesus Christ’ and ‘Pope John Paul II’ have the same ordinal value. (note 5)
Jesus Christ (o) .........= 151
Pope John Paul II (o) = 151
Recall that 5 and 11 are the two numbers depicted by the twin towers and the Pentagon, whose destruction I believe represented the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Substituting ‘the Second’ for ‘II’ gives us another link to 9/11, through the square of 11, 121:
Pope John Paul the Second (o) = 242 = 121 x 2
Second Coming (o) ................................= 121
Karol Wojtyla was born on 18/5/1920 and died on 2/4/2005. He therefore lived for exactly 31000 days. To live for an exact multiple of 1000 days is remarkable enough, but the number 31 has a special meaning both in Hebrew and English gematria. First of all, 31 is the standard value for the Hebrew root word ‘El’, meaning ‘the Deity’.
Second, 31 is the reduced value of the English word ‘Father’, which is particularly appropriate for the leader described as ‘the Holy Father’.
Father (r) = 31
Pope John Paul II and The Signature Phenomenon
The book of Genesis starts with an account of our origins, appropriately entitled ‘The Beginning’ in the NIV. In The Bookend Encodings and The Signature Of Christ I show that the first twenty-four words of the NIV Bible are the setting for a beautiful pattern of encoded numbers that are standard values for the words ‘Jesus’, ‘Second Coming’, ‘Messiah’, ‘word’ and ‘Yehoshua’. These encodings are summarised below.
The numbers are derived by calculating the ordinal values of strings of six or twelve words formed by cutting the first twenty-four words into four segments of six words. The pattern ends there, so these encodings form a self-contained whole, sitting at the very apex of the NIV bible.
Another way of dividing the block of twenty-four words is by trisecting them into eight-word segments (this is particularly significant because 888 is the number of the Greek word for Jesus). When this is done, then the ordinal values of the blocks are calculated, the following numbers are obtained.
Words 1 to 8 of Genesis (o) ....= 345
Words 9 to 16 of Genesis (o) ..= 391
Words 17 to 24 of Genesis (o) = 433
The ordinal value of middle segment is 391, which, as we have already seen, is the standard value of the Hebrew word transliterated as ‘Yehoshua (Jesus) and the English words ‘Second Coming’. Now, if we sum the first two segments then all three segments to obtain the ordinal values of the first sixteen words and the entire string of twenty-four words, we obtain the standard values of the name of the person whose funeral represented the resurrection of Jesus Christ, this event completing the announcement of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Words 1 to 16 of Genesis (o) ....= 736
Words 1 to 24 of Genesis (o) ..= 1169
Pope John Paul II (s) ................= 736
Pope John Paul the Second (s) = 1169
Given that about half of the world’s Christians are Roman Catholics, it always worried me that the New Bible Code should be contained within a protestant Bible. It is fitting, therefore, that the funeral of the spiritual leader of one billion Christians should play such a conclusive part in the ‘end time’ drama, one that speaks to all Christians, indeed all people, everywhere.
Bill Downie
24/7/06
Latest Update:28/4/09
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