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2021 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 484.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
The “fire out of heaven” which consumes the wicked is the firm refusal of the saints to yield obedience to those who would draw them away to the party of Antichrist.
2022 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 485 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
19. UNCERTAIN WHETHER ANTICHRIST SITS IN CHURCH
2023 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 485.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Setting forth different views held on the identity of Antichrist, or the apostate Man of Sin, and the temple in which he will sit, Augustine inclines toward understanding it to be the apostate body appearing in the church.
2024 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 485.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… passage 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 …
2025 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… means Antichrist.” Ibid., pp. 437, 438.
2026 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
21. FOUR PROPHETIC KINGDOMS FOLLOWED BY ANTICHRIST
2027 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… as Antichrist, and after this the eternal kingdom of the Son of man, that is to say, of Christ.... Some have interpreted these four kingdoms as signifying those …
2028 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Augustine was also unsettled as to the ten kings, doubting whether they would be found simultaneously in the Roman world at the coming of Antichrist, and suggesting that “ten” could merely symbolize totality. Ibid., chap. 23.
2029 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
23. ALLOTTED TIME OF ANTICHRIST’S ASSAULT
2030 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Augustine expects Antichrist to reign three years and a half.
2031 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 486.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist shall fiercely, though for a short time, assail the Church before the last judgment of God shall introduce the eternal reign of the saints. For …
2032 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 519.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Antichrist might appear, in all likelihood, in the very seat of the one who proclaimed himself to be the vicar of Christ on earth. Or, even more specifically …
2033 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 519 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
I. Gregory I-Proclaimer of Antichrist’s Imminence
2034 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 520.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… as Antichrist, now “bound ... by the dispensation of the divine power.” In this he contends that Revelation 20:4 is being fulfilled:
2035 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 522 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
4. ANTICHRIST EXPECTED FROM DAN
2036 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 522.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist and the great tribulation of Matthew 24, which must be shortened. Antichrist, whose forerunner is Antiochus, is identified with Daniel’s Little …
2037 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 522 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. LINKS SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH WITH ANTICHRIST
2038 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 522.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
In a letter written A.D. 602/3, the year before his pontificate closed, in 604, Gregory curiously links the enforced observance of the seventh-day Sabbath and of Sunday with the final acts of Antichrist.
2039 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 522.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist, who, when he comes, will cause the Sabbath day as well as the Lord’s day to be kept free from all work. For, because he pretends to die and rise again …
2040 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 523.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Thus Gregory connects the enforced Sabbath observance with the preachers of Antichrist, and makes it clear that both days were still being observed by some in Rome in A.D. 603.