Expert: Griff Ruby - 12/20/2007

Question
Dear Griff,

                Hey, Griff Merry Christmas! I had a dream last night that will make your mouth drop! The dream below:

Possible Antichrist sighting in dream vision: I think the Antichrist is the Russian President elected in March 2000, President Putin, and the Red Dragon that Putin the Antichrist will be allied with is Red China, as well as the green dragon of Muslim Iran. The Antichrist is not Osama bin Laden, because he is too evil; the Antichrist will appear to be a good man.

Osama bin Laden I think is "The Destroyer" or "The angel of the bottomless pit" in Revelation 9, an evil demon from the depths of Hell, who brings about a world crisis that helps bring about the rise of the Antichrist, Russian President Putin.

In October 1999 a white-robed evangelist who is called "Whatsyourname" showed up in Hazleton Pennsylvania.

It is said people listened to his preaching and were changed by it, and he attracted a large following. It is said miracles started to occur there including miraculous healings. It is said he looked like Christ and acted like Christ. Soon he became international news. Who is this mysterious man from Ohio, Whatsyourname? Note that he is from Toledo Ohio, and there is the expression "Holy Toledo".
Note that the last chapter of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, talks about an evil dictator called the Antichrist who will rise to power in the future. Revelation also talks about 2 mysterious prophets, called the two witnesses, who will appear at the time of the Antichrist. Could whatsyourname be one of the two witnesses in Revelation 11?

Revelation 11:3 (King James Version:
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." (they prophesy 3 1/2 years, and they will be simply dressed).
11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will."

I don't know and am not offering an opinion on whether Whats your name is one of the two witnesses. But if he is, then a second mysterious prophet should appear. But if the Antichrist is appearing now (possibly President Putin in Russia) then the two witnesses should be appearing soon.

Why I think Osama bin Laden is an evil demon from Hell called "The angel of the bottomless pit" and "The Destroyer" in Revelation 9:11, but who is not the Antichrist, he is too evil to be the Antichrist. Note that Hazleton is near Bethlehem Pennsylvania! The significance of these numbers could relate to: Revelation 4:1 corresponding to "41", where a door is opened in heaven, and in Revelation 4:6 there is a throne in heaven and a sea of glass. Note that Toledo Ohio is considered to be the glass capital of the world. Note that Toledo has an important cathedral,

"Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral". Toledo in Spain was an ancient city going back to the Roman times. And Hazleton Pennsylvania sits on top of Spring Mountain and is the highest elevation for a city in Pennsylvania. (Possible significance-- Spring Mountain, as a spring is a source of water, which is a source of life, which could relate to Whats-your-name having performed healings.)Also, on this page on 9-11 I discuss why the two towers of the World Trade Center may be the "two candlesticks" in Revelation 11:4 who represent the two witnesses, and in Revelation 11:7 the Beast from the Bottomless Pit (who I think is Osama bin Laden) destroys these two candlesticks.

On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger from Germany was elected as the new Pope, Pope Benedict the Sixteenth. Although very conservative on church doctrine, I think he is an excellent choice for the church, where he is a theological scholar and knows several languages. I am hoping that Pope Benedict will be more concerned about the Muslim threat to the West than Pope John Paul II was. I think that Pope Benedict is more likely to show concern about Islam taking over Europe and the West by immigration, their high birth rate, and terrorism. What I am hoping for is that Pope Benedict XVI will help alert the world's 1 billion Catholics about the great threat that Islam is, so that in a hundred years Islam does not take over the world.

Pope Benedict XVI. First, a New Testament matrix at Matthew 2:7 - Mark 5:40, that includes search words: BENEDICT (ELS=-15782), POPE, and also in this matrix are these relevant words and phrases: JESUS, JOSEPH, and it includes the passage: Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." This indicates that this Pope will be a peacemaker.

The next New Testament matrix is at Luke 8:54 - 2 Corinthians 7:11, and it contains search words:
-- BENEDICT (ELS=39601)
-- POPE
-- XVI
And other relevant words and phrases in this matrix:
-- DOVE (a symbol of Christ)
-- LORD JESUS TO TESTIFY THE GOSPEL
-- CHRIST JESUS WHO OF GOD IS MADE UNTO US
-- BUT WITH THE SPIRIT
-- THE ELECTION (elected as Pope by the Cardinals)
-- KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL (At the intersection of Benedict and XVI, this is John 17:15, about Christ praying for his disciples. I think this passage applies to Pope Benedict VI, since as a young man in Germany he was surrounded by the evil of Naziism, being drafted into the army at 16, and survived the war to become a priest. A good man who wanted to be a priest in a world gone mad, who survived war and the evils of Naziism in Germany. In Pope Benedict XVI we have a man of the Church who has seen and hated the evils of war and Fascism as a young man in Germany, and that is a perspective that most of us do not have, that will help this Pope understand the world today, and help make it a better place as leader of the Church. Pope John Paul II wished this man to be his successor for good reason - the wisdom that Pope Bendedict XVI can bring to the Church as leader of the Church. John 17:14-23:
"14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."

By all means I say the Pope is the sign of Redemption!Also my question is if I have the image of the Virgin Mary & Jesus stained imprinted on the door in my home is it sacred and holy?




The Antichrist will at first appear to be a good man.


Answer
Dreams can be interesting or even exciting, but there is nothing here that shows any divine revelation (remember, the Devil can feign the holy as well...).

More serious however, is that I see no evidence that you have heeded any of my advice about studying a good and solid and basic catechism, and that is what needs to happen.  Learn what the Church knows before venturing off into what the Church does not know, that you may far better discern the spirits that are speaking to you, whether they are good or evil.  Evil spirits can sound very holy but there is error spread throughout as poison.