Book Review by Terry James

Arno Froese, head of Midnight Call Ministry, has always been right up there as one of my favorite writers, because everything he presents must be predicated upon what God’s Word has to say on the author’s topic of choice. He reminds me of the Apostle Paul just a little bit in that Paul let it be known when what he had to write was his own opinion. He tells us when he diverts from Divine Inspiration to inject his own thoughts. Even then, Paul made sure he had God’s Permission to include his own words.

The author’s writing, of course, isn’t Divinely Inspired, in the sense that the Bible is Divinely Inspired, but, I’ve always found his take on things to be covered by Holy Spirit Integrity and Influence, to say the least. I.e., his thoughts on the important subjects he examines speak directly to my own spiritual understanding. So, it was with considerable expectation to receive something profoundly worthwhile that I began reading Democracy Invades Islam, with thought toward writing this review. I was rewarded—my expectant hope satisfied.

Froese’s purpose for writing the book found its genesis in the pro-democracy uprising in the Arab world. From that has come such terms as “Arab spring,” a term that anyone who has had the slightest contact with news reports in recent months will recognize.

While the world’s understanding and reporting of what is going on with regard to troubles in the Middle East is explained quite succinctly in this volume, the author  recognizes and puts forward all of the matters involved in the uprising and in Islam’s threats from a profoundly illuminating Biblical perspective.

I experienced the light coming on in several areas of pursuit of understanding, while reading Froese’s unveiling of the layers of this great end times spiritual war taking place. The world sees there being some good in humanity; God’s Word says there is none good, no not one.

With this foundational Truth, the author cuts in laser-like precision to the core of what we as a generation face, and where unfolding issues and events are taking us.

He outlines in well-reasoned, scripturally-backed scholarship why humanistic solutions to the self-destructive course mankind has chosen will never work. He is not always exactly comforting in his rather pointed criticism of America’s complicity in moving earth’s inhabitants down the broad way to destruction. But, I found myself having to agree with him in almost every case presented.

Froese dissects the problem of Islam and the so-called democracy movement that is the nucleus of his premise.

He writes:

How can Satan effectively oppose the Church and Israel? First, he must unify the world to create global peace. Second, He must present himself as the Savior of the world and the Messiah of Israel.

How is he to accomplish this feat? One word: deception. That is the real message of this book. In order for the devil to create peace on earth, goodwill toward men, and to guarantee prosperity to all people, he must bring all nations together. That means world unity is his first aim, politically, economically and religiously.

Here is where democracy comes in. The most respected, beloved and yearned for political system granting people to decide their own future is doubtless democracy.

While democracy has caused a relative peace and prosperity throughout the European world (West), the Arab nations have missed out. That is one of the major reasons for the Arab people to revolt against their governments and leaders. Although the Islamic nations are the possessors of the main sources of the world’s energy, the population at large is not benefiting from the oil wealth and is overwhelmingly poor.

Now, the time has come for the people to insist on change. In other words, the democracy invasion of the Arab world has begun.

However, the pages of this book show that behind this pro-democracy movement stands the prince of darkness, the god of this world. He is successfully working out the final details in his attempt to establish a one-world society where all people on earth can live together in peace and harmony…

This is a book you will want to read from cover to cover in one sitting, before starting over in a careful point by point dissection. Democracy Invades Islam has my highest recommendation.

Book Review by Terry James

This world system, so antithetical to God’s blueprint for humanity, is winding up for the consummation of history by every measure examined by students of Bible prophecy who hold to a pretrib, premillennial view.

Global politics, government, and socioeconomics are gushing in the prophet Daniel’s end-times flood (Daniel 9:26) toward the end of the Church Age (Age of Grace). But no signal of the approaching apocalypse presents a more laser-like, focused view of the end-of-days dynamics than do religious rearrangements taking place locally, nationally, and especially worldwide.

The departure from biblical Christianity is so rampant and moving at such a furious pace in American neighborhoods and on a nationwide basis that even the most ardent,futurist student of end-times matters is sometimes stunned by developments. While the astonishing breadth and depth of material covered within this book take the reader into regions far beyond our local and national boundaries, the journey culminates in, I think, the reader achieving a much more profound understanding of where Americanchurchianity stands within the doomed rush toward the harlot religious system of Revelation 17.

The story of St. Malachy injects intriguing speculations and possibilities into the world’s rush into last-days ecumenism. The twelfth-century Irish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, canonized by Pope Clement III in 1190, presented a most fascinating line of predictions that many believe were visions leading to the man who will be the final pope.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux was St. Malachy’s biographer. Clairvaux wrote in his book,Life of Saint Malachy, that Malachy was said to have the gift of prophecy. It is claimed that St. Malachy predicted the exact day and hour of his own death.

Enter into the end-times turbulence Planet Earth is experiencing this most riveting volume, Petrus Romanus.

Authors Tom Horn and Cris Putnam have dramatically exposed to the light of examination St. Malachy’s enigmatic prophecies about the succession of popes leading to the very last, Peter the Roman.

Hal Lindsey (author of The Late, Great, Planet Earth) wrote for WorldNetDaily (WND) upon the death of Pope John-Paul II, in 2005, regarding St. Malachy’s papal predictions: “According to his biographer, St. Malachy was visiting Rome in 1139 when he went into a trance and received a vision. Malachy wrote down this extraordinary vision in which he claims to have foreseen all of the popes from the death of Innocent II until the destruction of the church and the return of Christ.”

St. Malachy wrote briefly, in Latin, on each succeeding pope of the future, and then gave the document to Pope Innocent II, who had it placed in Vatican archives where it remained for several centuries. It was rediscovered in 1590 and published.

Lindsey wrote: “[Malachy] named exactly 112 popes from that time until the end. The interesting thing is that scholars have matched the brief 110 descriptive predictions with each of the 110 popes and anti-popes that there have been since Innocent II. Though they are a bit obscure, they have fit the general profile of each of the popes.”

The bottom line is that the last two popes, John-Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, fit the profile that running string of papal succession seems to accurately predict. Number 112 is supposed to be the pope who will head the Roman Catholic Church during the great time of trouble–the Tribulation, according to the Malachy prophecy. He will be, the prediction says, Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman). Pope Benedict XVI is number 111.

Hal Lindsey wrote further: “Now, if St. Malachy is accurate, there will be only two more popes before the end of this world, as we know it and the Second Coming of Christ. I do know that the whole prophetic scenario of signs that Jesus Christ and the prophets predicted would come together just before His return are now in view. So what St. Malachy predicted is certainly occurring in the right time frame.”

Neither Tom Horn nor Cris Putnam–nor I, as your reviewer of this book—claims that St. Malachy was a God-inspired prophet in the sense of an Old Testament or New Testament prophet. He was not. However, I will tell you without reservation that the little-known and sometimes previously undiscovered facts these researchers have uncovered and constructed into an enthralling picture of the one who will likely be the last pontiff are absolutely spellbinding.