IS ‘ANTICHRIST’ YET TO COME OR IS HE ALREADY HERE? Part VI

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

IS ‘ANTICHRIST’ YET TO COME OR IS HE ALREADY HERE? Part VI

The godly reformer Martin Luther said this regarding the Pope being the Antichrist, and the dedicated efforts of papal apologists to obscure and deflect the bright search lights of prophecy away from exposing the “man of sin” and antichrist of prophecy:

‘But Papists want to divert this passage from themselves, and they say that Christ and Paul speak about the TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, and that Antichrist sit there and rule; that will not do…..It cannot be understood otherwise than of the new SPIRITUAL temple, which he [Paul] says WE are.[See 1 Cor.3:16,17; 2 Cor. 6:14-16].

There shall the Pope sit and be honored, not above God, but above all that is called God….So also we see it before our eyes, many princes and the world regard his law higher and more than the commandments of God….Cannot be this rightly be termed exalting and honoring Antichrist above God?’ – ‘Luther’s Postil,’ ‘Gospels,’ 35th Sunday after Trinity, par. 24,25, Part 3, pp. 734, 735. Stanager, Norway: 1862. Luther further believes:

‘Therefore, let whosoever will doubt, God’s word and the proper divine worship convinces me sufficiently that the Pope is the Antichrist, and the ecclesiastical orders are his DISCIPLES, which DECEIVE the whole world.’- Ibid, Part 1, p. 379.” – Facts of Faith, C. Edwardson, p. 200, Southern Publishing Asso, Nashville, TN: (Revised) 1943.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF