Christian Mystery and Prophecies of Malachi
According to WIKIPEDIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_code):
“The Da Vinci Code is a mystery/detective novel by American author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in print (as of May 2006) and has been translated into 44 languages.”
Last year, a pope died in Rome. And according to Prophecies of Malachi, the incumbent pope may be second to the last in history.
No one knows whether the prophecy is true or what becomes of mankind if it is true.
But it seems to have served as an underlying condition for the success of the work by the American author.
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Currently, mankind has oil and foods enough to allow those with power and wealth to give little thought about their future lives. Those people think that their rich lives are assured during their lifetime.
Therefore, people with any degree of wealth and power basically do not mind if we have only two popes left in the human history.
It is because they think there are sufficient amounts of energy and foods in their hands, which no popes can do anything with.
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However, God can do.
In my view, the pope looks like a Roman emperor 2000 years ago. He looks more so than a homeless savior having been preaching to poor or abandoned people 2000 years ago.
In my judgment, the pope is a symbol of the historical fact that Roman Empire was conquered by Jesus Christ. For 2000 years, every successor of the Empire has been forced to commemorate the victory of Jesus Christ; and thus the pope must look like a Roman emperor.
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You might think that a certain secret has been passed from Jesus Christ to his direct disciples and then all the way down to the current pope.
There might be, but it should be only related to those who have been assigned to the commemorating mission. It should be only related to maintenance of discipline in the last remnant of Roman Empire, that is, Vatican City.
For example, the secret might be a Jesus' advice: "Be a Rock."
If such a secret is more important, Jesus Christ should have sent other servants to the human world at any point of history and have them widely announce it.
In any cases, he doesn't need his children in order to pass a secret.
(Anyway, it is not his wife and children that can save the world, if he had any. And if he had such a wife and children that cannot save the world, who would respect Jesus Christ? Therefore, to believers, Jesus Christ has neither a wife nor children.)
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Most of rich people think that they can live rich and die rich in the 21st century even if we don’t have any popes for some reasons.
It is because they are now living in super-mighty systems that are supported by enough oil and foods in addition to modern technology.
Any such work as “The Da Vinci Code” can be an opportunity for entertainment for them, but it looks very pagan.
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If Jesus Christ, himself, comes back to the human world or another Christ comes to this world, no popes will be allowed to exercise the title and its authority any more. It will be the end of the mission of Vatican City.
Prophecies of Malachi might be telling when the Christ will return to the world again, since he left it 2000 years ago.
“No popes” means Christ himself takes the chair. Otherwise, the end of the world may be near, at least, logically.
“GOD’S PROMISE OF MERCY”