The Father will not turn back from His plan to purify creation. As in the days of Noah, the whole earth has turned away from Him and now lives in a universal uncleaness that can be purged only by His saving action. He hesitates because of the Little Ones. He waits, hoping that the Church can bring the world to repentance. He sends the Woman, allowing her the opportunity to call the nations to repentance. Yet, all these actions have not deterred the world from its chosen path.
Before He purifies, He will provide the Woman with more time, give her greater powers and allow her a worldwide scope of activity. She will claim the Church as her own, taking to herself the power to choose and to raise up a pope according to her own heart.