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IS ‘ANTICHRIST’ YET TO COME OR IS ALREADY HERE? Part VIII
The Jesuits Undermine the Truth Regarding the Antichrist.
Dr. Martin Luther, the godly and scholarly Roman Catholic priest whom God called and empowered to strengthen and drive the cause of the Protestant Reformation forward, clearly revealed in his time that Antichrist is the Papacy and that its various ecclesiastical orders (Dominicans, Franciscans, etc.) are his “disciples.” One of the most prominent of these is the Society of Jesus, Jesuits, in short.
“The Rev. Joseph Tanner, B.A. says: ‘So great hold did the conviction that the Papacy was the Antichrist gain upon the minds of men, that Rome at last saw that she MUST bestir herself, and try, by putting forth OTHER SYSTEMS OF INTERPRETATIONS to counteract the identification of the Papacy with the Antichrist.
‘Accordingly, towards the close of the century of the Reformation, TWO of her most learned doctors [theologians] set themselves to the task, each endeavoring by DiFFERENT means to accomplish the SAME end; namely, that of diverting men’s minds from PERCEIVING the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Antichrist in the papal system.
FUTURISM & PRETERISM: ‘The Jesuit ALCASAR devoted himself to bring into prominence the PRETERIST method of [prophetic] interpretation…..that the prophecies of Antichrist were fulfilled BEFORE the Popes ever ruled in Rome, and therefore could not apply to the Papacy,
‘On the other hand the Jesuit RIBERA tried to set aside the application of these prophecies to the papal power by bringing out the FUTURIST system, which asserts that these prophecies refer properly not to career of the Papacy, but to that of some FUTURE SUPERNATURAL INDIVIDUAL, WHO IS YET TO APPEAR, AND TO CONTINUE IN POWER FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. Thus as Alford says, THE JESUIT RIBERA, ABOUT A.D. 1580, MAY BE REGARDED AS THE FOUNDER OF THE FUTURIST SYSTEM in modern times.’ – ‘Daniel and the Revelation,’ pp. 16,17. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898.” Facts of Faith, C. Edwardson, p. 201, Southern Publishing Asso., 1943.
Do we now see how greatly deceived are Christian evangelists, ministers, and pastors who teach their congregants and followers that the “antichrist” is yet to appear, and that he will rule the world for three and a half LITERAL YEARS (which is actually 1260 years, 538-1798 A.D.)!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF
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IS ‘ANTICHRIST’ YET TO COME OR IS ALREADY HERE? Part VIII
