The lawless one is a reference to one of Paul's epistles and refers to the Antichrist. Before the Antichrist is revealed the world must be moved to function under a one world government. The UN, WEF, WHO, etc. are all precursor organizations moving the world to a condition where the masses will accept the New World Order. The NWO is the beast system described in Revelation and elsewhere in the Bible. The NWO will operate as a combination one world government and one world religious system. The pope is involved in the above precursor organizations and the Vatican is the scarlet harlot of Revelation17. The objective of the NWO is worldwide human enslavement through various mechanisms such as implanted microchips that interface with the human mind, total control of all buying and selling, strict regulation of all consumption of all kinds, a "green" agenda as an excuse for denial of rights, and a system of worshipping a created thing rather than the Creator. Either after the NWO is established or as it is rising in power, the Antichrist will be revealed and come to power as the dictator of this world. Through the course of the final chapter of this age, the NWO will destroy the papacy and Catholic church (scarlet harlot of Revelation 17). At the end, Christ will return and smash the NWO, smash the corrupted nations of this earth, and begin restoring the world for His thousand year reign.