Peter Thiel Says Pope Benedict XVI Believed He Was Living in the End Times

Billionaire Peter Thiel has published a major essay arguing that Pope Benedict XVI privately believed the power of the Antichrist was already expanding in the world, and that modern society is formulating an anti-Christian creed. The open discussion of the Antichrist at elite levels — including lectures delivered steps from the Vatican — signals a remarkable mainstream acknowledgement that spiritual forces described in end-times Scripture are visibly at work. This aligns directly with biblical warnings about a 'mystery of iniquity' rising before Christ's return, the great apostasy, and the deception of a false messianism that glorifies man in place of God (2 Thess. 2:3–8; 1 John 2:18; Rev. 13).