Search for: antichrist
2281 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 877.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… On antichrist, cannot be placed exactly, there are at least strong hints in other documents which are dated.
2282 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 877.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
The Passau Anonymous, writing about 1260 in Austria, does, incidentally, a bit of prophetic interpreting himself by calling the heretics Antichrists. He begins his enumeration of the errors of the Poor Men of Lyons:
2283 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 877 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. ANTICHRIST APPLIED TO CATHOLICS
2284 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 877.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“Whether the Roman church is the Church of Christ or the harlot .... Whether the church of God fell in the time of Sylvester. And who restored it. Whether Pope Sylvester was Antichrist.” Document no.. XX in Dollinger, Beitrage, vol. 2, p. 320.
2285 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 877.9 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… was Antichrist in the distant past hints of the new interpretation of the, Antichrist that was developing, and that was carried further in the treatise on …
2286 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 878.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… term Antichrist applied to the Catholic Church collectively, or at least to, the clergy, and the phrases “Antichristian ceremonies” and “abominations of Antichrist …
2287 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 878.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Note that purgatory is the invention of Antichrist. Further references to the Catholic Church as Antichrist are found in the same letter.
2288 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 878.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrists who do this; but we explain to them as well as we can the spiritual meaning of the sacraments. We exhort them not to put their trust in anti-Christian …
2289 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 878 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
VI. The Treatise on Antichrist
2290 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 879.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… great Antichrist-Paul’s Mystery of Iniquity-not an individual infidel Jew as Antichrist. The principle which grew into the papal system, in its “infancy …
2291 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 879 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
1. ANTICHRIST STIGMATIZED AS FALSEHOOD AND DECEIT
2292 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… say, Antichrist is a Deceit which hides the Truth of Salvation in substantial and ministerial matters; or, that it is a disguised contrariety to Christ and …
2293 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Antichrist is declared to be not an individual but a whole system, as the whole congregation of hypocritical ministers and laity, described under the symbols of Daniel, Paul, and John. Here is the remarkable identification:
2294 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… called Antichrist or Babylon, or the fourth Beast, or the Whore, or the Man of Sin, the Son of perdition.” Ibid., p 143 (see also p. 158); Leger, op. cit., p. 71.
2295 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
After listing the various Biblical expressions that describe the papal clergy and the worldly character of the false church, the treatise declares that Antichrist must embody the combined specifications of prophecy.
2296 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“Antichrist could not come in any wise, but all these forementioned things must needs meet together, to make up a complete hypocrisie and falshood, viz. the …
2297 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Antichrist was conceived already in the Apostles time, yet being but in his infancy as it were, he wanted his inward and outward members; ... he wanted yet …
2298 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 880.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… to Antichrist’s defrauding of God and of “Christ as Mediator,” fostering idolatry, and stirring hate and violence against “those that love the truth,” the treatise …
2299 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 881.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Antichrist “begins even to decay, and his power and authority is abated” by “divers persons of good dispositions, sending abroad a power contrary to his …
2300 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 881.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… ” of Antichrist as taking away the truth, changing it into falsehood, and covering falsehood with a semblance of truth, the treatise Of Antichrist charges …