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2901 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 497.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , then antichrist will reign 3500 years, which the adversaries do not admit. If we accept one century, the time of antichrist will be 350 years, which they also …
2902 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 497 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
4. EXPLOITS VARIATIONS ON TIME OF ANTICHRIST
2903 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 497.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Antichrist had been reigning in the church for centuries, there should be a recognized, exact, and uniform date of beginning. But, as Bellarmine pointed …
2904 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 498.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , the Antichrist is to destroy Rome. Rome means Babylon, he admitted, but only in its pagan empire, and possibly again in the future, at the end of the world. Ibid …
2905 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 498.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… predicted Antichrist. However, the pope died before the book was printed, and when the Index was issued, Bellarmine’s book was not mentioned.Kidd, The Counter …
2906 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 498 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
V. The Twofold Issue-Antichrist’s Nature and Duration
2907 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 498.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… : (1) Antichrist is an individual Jew, and not an apostate Christian system. (2) Therefore the length of his exploits must harmonize with the life period of one …
2908 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 499.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Bellarmine discussed in detail—his works fill nine ponderous foliotomes the standard prophecies pertaining to Antichrist, and others besides.
2909 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 499.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist, Bellarmine places against the Protestant portrayal of Antichrist as an apostate system (a ruinous, ruling hierarchy in the church) the opposing …
2910 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 499.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , of Antichrist, and who, he contends, would therefore be one man only, and not a kingdom. Ibid., chap. 2, p. 185.
2911 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3 ONLY “FORERUNNERS” OF ANTICHRIST DEPICTED BY PAUL
2912 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist—and therefore could not refer to Antichrist himself. On this argument Bellarmine places Protestant and Catholic teaching in opposition …
2913 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“The apostles teach that Antichrist will not be one person only, but a whole kingdom through false teachers presiding over the temple of God, that is in the Church of God, in the great city, that is in the city of Rome.” Ibid., p. 184.
2914 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Antichrist will be one certain man; but all heretics teach as cited above that Antichrist is expressly declared to be not a single person, but an individual …
2915 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… when Antichrist comes, and assumes that both chapters limit his reign to a literal three and a half years. Hence, both Daniel and John speak of but one single …
2916 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 500.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… will be slain. Thus Bellarmine’s long and tortuous arguments on Antichrist all center on these two interdependent points—Antichrist’s nature and …
2917 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 501.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Antichrist is yet “to come,” and chapter 3 is devoted to showing that “Antichrist has not yet come.” Chapter 5 declares that the Roman Empire is not divided …
2918 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 501 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
6. POPE NOT ANTICHRIST BECAUSE OF LONG DURATION
2919 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 501.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist. On this he cites Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Cyril, Theodoret, Jerome, Augustine, Primasius, Gregory, Bede, Anselm, Haymo, Arethas, Richardus, and Rupertus …
2920 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 502.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… for Antichrist, who has ruled exactly three and one half years; therefore the Pope is not Antichrist. Then Antichrist has not yet come.” Ibid., chap. 8, p. 190.