Book Review by Terry James

One senses the fear building. “The end is near!” A mental image of the little bearded man in a long robe holding a placard affixed to a wooden stake with those words in broad red letters comes to mind. Only it isn’t a cartoon we are facing, but the end of the world as we’ve known it. Planet earth is about to—because of powerful astral alignment dynamics—most likely suffer instant pole reversals, thus horrific tectonic plate shifts. This will cause the catastrophic end for most, perhaps all, human life. This is the fear of proponents of ancient Mayan Calendar predictions.

The year 2012 is but some twenty-seven months away, and the hype is on. December 21, at 11: 11 pm Universal Time of that year will…well, we don’t really know. But, it will—according to pundits from scientists, astrologers, and religionists to new agers, fiction writers, and documentarians—be very bad indeed for inhabitants of the earth.

My favorite writer in the Bible prophecy genre has tackled the hoopla surrounding the 2012 specter and, with his always calming perspective based thoroughly on what the Bible has to say, makes unmistakably clear and understandable the truth regarding the Mayan Calendar prophecy. Dr. Mark Hitchcock, in 192 pages, gets to the heart of the doomsday prediction presented by shamans who have been dead for centuries. In this masterful work, while other authors of voluminous tomes on the 2012 matters consider writing second, even third volumes, Hitchcock points with precision in this tightly crafted book to where the reader should devote concentration about 2012.

The author points out the explosion of information about the subject of 2012. He writes that 187 books appeared when he searched Amazon on the topic. He indicates that when he Googled “2012,” there were almost 60,000 hits. He writes that new books are appearing on the Internet and in bookstores almost every month.

Hitchcock writes:

So, why another book? What could I possibly say that has not already been said? Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to point to the title of the book. As the title suggests, my focus is to examine the 2012 phenomenon from a biblical perspective, primarily from the vantage point of end time Bible prophecy….While many other 2012 books mention the Bible or Bible codes, they don’t look at 2012 through the lens of Scripture; rather, they look at Scripture through the lens of 2012. They pick and choose selected verses from the Bible, especially from the Book of Revelation, to support their vision of what the future holds….This book is written with one purpose in mind: to examine and expose the 2012 deadline in light of Bible prophecy and present what I believe the Bible reveals about the end of the age.

I agree with the author. My own recent interview for The Nostradamus Effect documentary on the History Channel will doubtless be cut and shaped to   point to how Bible prophecy such as that involving the rapture (the primary subject about which they quizzed me) might contribute to giving credence to the “prophecies” of Nostradamus, and to the Mayan 2012 prediction. I’ve never known a secular documentary to use the Bible in checking for truth of the prophecies that are non-biblical. The Bible, in such cases, is used in such a way as to presume its support for those extra-biblical foretellings. Always they look at Scripture through the lens of whatever non-biblical prophecy they are presenting.

Mark Hitchcock, in dynamic fashion—yet with his trademark graceful use of reason tempered by a profound understanding of God’s prophetic Word—shines the spotlight of truth on the ominous things of the 2012 prophecy. To get a quick, thorough, and easy-to-read, Bible-based understanding of what the growing 2012 hysteria is all about, this is the only book you need.

2012: The Bible and the End of the World is the book on the 2012 matter I can without reservation recommend to best bring you, the reader, understanding of what the future holds.

Book Review by Terry James

Following hard on the heels of their powerful best seller, Petrus Romanus, Tom Horn and Cris Putnam present for the reader’s quest to know what on earth—and in the heavenlies—is going on a book involving ominous and apocalyptic possibilities–even probabilities.

By delving into the most secretive and influential organization of any sort—the Jesuits of Catholicism—the authors illuminate cabalistic intrigues designed to, perhaps, bring in the world system of control long ago disrupted. The Jesuit order of the Catholic system, so little understood by most, have constructed, it seems, their very own tower as did the Babel builders of the post-antediluvian world.

This tower, however, resides, not on the plains of Shinar in the Middle East, but in the form of Earth’s most powerful telescope atop a mountain in America’s southwest desert. It reaches into the heavenly sphere, according to spectacular research performed personally by Horn and Putnam, to bring down powers that, the searchers believe, will be the savior for this destruction-bent planet.

Written with the highest scholarly acumen, the story of what is truly going on in the Vatican, and why, is nonetheless given in plain, understandable language that will hold the attention of every reader from front cover to back.

Interspersed within these dynamic, fascinating pages is information thought to be part of the perennially taboo blueprints from deep within the bowels of the Vatican. Those designs meld science and spiritism, and make clandestine, connective application to the cult-like ritual, liturgical machinations of the Catholic Church. The blueprint for mankind, as is implied within this book’s title, is supernaturally drawn to specifications that will assure that the Jesuit hierarchy will rule a new world order from the Vatican in Rome.

Horn and Putnam carefully explore how the inner sanctum of the Vatican projects to the outermost reaches of the cosmos in an attempt to form an alliance not unlike Nimrod pursued millennia ago. From the first flying, triangle-shaped, unidentified flying objects reported by a highly respected military flyer in 1947 to reports of  a massive, slowly moving UFO seen by thousands, including the governor of the state in which it was sighted, increase of UFO activity is progressing geometrically. The Vatican-alien connection appears, according to the authors’ research, to be a common thread running throughout the phenomena involved.

More troubling in their findings is the accumulating evidence that, like in the times before the Flood of Noah’s day, sinister forces beyond the human realm are again insinuating themselves into the bloodline of mankind. Like was reported in Genesis chapter 6, these beings are in process, the authors believe the evidence indicates, of mingling their seed with the seed of man.

The intentions of the powers and principalities from the earliest days of human beings populating planet Earth, according to the Bible, was to replace the God of Heaven with their own rule of this fallen sphere. Some Catholic clergy have expressed thoughts that such an alliance of the Vatican with alien consorts could be a counter-salvation methodology or an extra-salvation methodology to redeem mankind.

One statement from a Catholic father offered: “[The extraterrestrials’] version of salvation might be based on a savior other than Jesus…even a messianic member of their own race. These beings, closer to God than man (perhaps even unfallen), would possess superior theology that could ‘expand markedly’ our terrestrial understanding of redemption and knowledge of God.”

The part the Vatican is playing in this grand scheme to control what some would-be masters perceive will be a universal utopia, under the benevolent auspices of fellow beings from far-flung places in the cosmos, is examined in depth in this volume. For me, Exo Vaticana goes a long way toward providing insights into these strange times in which we find ourselves.

I highly recommend you read and re-read this extremely well-researched and well-written book.