Think the Antichrist will be secular, while the False prophet could very well be a Pope!
Reformed Speculation VS Jesus Christ
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by SavedByGrace, Mar 23, 2021.
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All the Reformers believed the Papacy is the Anarchist and some Lutheran and many Reformed creeds state this boldly.
What about the mark of the beast? Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God? The Jews?
Paul says; He would be the “[Man of sin] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in [Greek = as] the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:4) (KJV 1900)
Augustine 354 – 430 first speculated about the Antichrist saying; “Antichrist means not the prince himself alone, but his whole body, that is, the mass of men who adhere to him, along with him their prince; and they also think that we should render the Greek more exactly were we to read, not “in the temple of God,” but “for” or “as the temple of God,” as if he himself were the temple of God, the Church.1405”
NPNF1-02. St. Augustine’s City of God and Christian Doctrine - Christian Classics Ethereal Library -
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OK, @1689Dave, let's not shut the thread down with the infant argument. I was looking forward to ridiculing Premillennialism! :Cool
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