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2781 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 407.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“These tales have been craftily devised to beguile our eyes, that, whilst we think upon these guesses, and so occupy ourselves in beholding a shadow or probable conjecture of antichrist, he which is antichrist indeed may unawares deceive us.
2782 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 407.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of antichrist as if he should be one man, because he calleth him ‘the man of sin.’ But we may not so take him. The manner of the scripture is oftentimes, and in divers …
2783 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 407 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. ANTICHRIST A COVERT ENEMY WITHIN THE CHURCH
2784 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 407.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Although he is Antichrist, he will not be an open enemy, “spit ting at” the gospel of God or defying Christ, but be a vicar of Christ. He will come in the name of Christ, yet do things against Christ.
2785 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 408.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… know antichrist? His coming shall be notable, it shall astonne the world. By this mark you may know him: he shall be contrary to Christ. To shew you at large this …
2786 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 408.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of antichrist. Behold his birth, his place, his chair, his estate, his doctrine, his disciples, and all his life: you shall see nothing but pomp and glory. Gregory …
2787 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 408.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… is antichrist. This is his power. Thus shall he work and make himself manifest. So shall he sit in the temple of God. The people shall wonder at him, and shall have …
2788 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Declaring, “The people shall receive his [Antichrist’s] doctrine, and believe his word. They shall fall down before him and worship him. They shall say, ‘Who is like unto the beast?’ What creature is so beautiful as he?” Jewel logically observes:
2789 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… .” The Antichrist shall forbid lawful marriage, according to 1 Timothy 4 and Daniel 11, and Jewel comments, “This is the practice of antichrist.” He shall build …
2790 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
7. ANTICHRIST SUCCEEDS TO POWER AND TERRITORY OF ROME
2791 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Pagan Rome was the hindering power preventing the development of Antichrist. That passing, then Antichrist shall possess a great part of that empire.
2792 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… saith, antichrist shall not come yet; for the emperor letteth him: the emperor shall be removed; and then shall antichrist come,
2793 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of antichrist, who he shall be.” Ibid., p. 914.
2794 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
8. ANTICHRIST MUST SIT IN SEVEN-HILLED CITY
2795 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 409.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Asking where Antichrist should appear—and setting aside such “guesses” as Babylonia, Syria, Chaldea—Jewel clinches his prophetic argument thus:
2796 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 410.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… then antichrist shall come and invade the church. But the empire was great and wide, it reached over a great part of the world. It did contain England, France …
2797 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 410.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… is antichrist. The empire shall be divided and weakened: then antichrist shall come. ‘He shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall consume the …
2798 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 411.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
There remains only the ruin and fall of Antichrist to be preceded by the message of Revelation 14:6-14, then the over throw of Babylon portrayed in Revelation 17 and 18. Ibid., pp. 930-932.
2799 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 411.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
In this Defence, Jewel expands upon Christ’s prophesied “abomination of desolation,” which is declared to be the same as Paul’s Man of Sin, or Antichrist, sitting—or standing—in the church.
2800 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 411.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… say, ‘Antichrist shall sit within the church.’ In like sense Christ saith: ‘Antichrist shall sit in the holy place.’ By which words many of the best-learned fathers …