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1801 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 242 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
II. Irenaeus—Stresses Antichrist, Resurrections, and Millennium
1802 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 246 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. ANTICHRIST IS MAN OF SIN, BEAST, AND LITTLE HORN
1803 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 246.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Irenaeus regards Antichrist as another name for Paul’s apostate Man of Sin.
1804 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 246.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist is it shown that he, being an apostate and a robber, is anxious to be adored as God; and that, although a mere slave, he wishes himself to be proclaimed …
1805 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 247.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
He also identifies Antichrist as John’s Beast, quoting Revelation 13:2-10 :
1806 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 247.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… he (Antichrist) is come, and of his own accord concentrates in his own person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall do according to his own will and …
1807 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 247.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist’s reign. Under the notion that the Antichrist, as a single individual, might be of Jewish origin, he fancies that the mention of “Dan,” in Jeremiah …
1808 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 247.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist.
1809 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 248.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Antichrist’s three and a half years of sitting in the temple are placed by Irenaeus immediately before the second coming of Christ, and are identified as …
1810 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 248.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Beast-Antichrist the “recapitulation” of all apostasy, in whose number 666 he found curious symbolism of Noah’s age and the size of Nebuchadnezzar’s golden …
1811 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 249 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
8. ANTICHRIST DESTROYED AT ADVENT
1812 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 249.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… conqueror’s (Antichrist’s) future three-and-a-half-year reign, when he sits in the temple at Jerusalem, will be terminated by the second advent, with destruction …
1813 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 249 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
9. FIRST RESURRECTION AFTER ANTICHRIST’S COMING
1814 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 249.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Irenaeus plainly states that the “resurrection of the just” takes place after the Antichrist has appeared, and is followed by the reign of the righteous with Christ on earth.
1815 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 249.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist, and the destruction of all nations under his rule; in [the times of] which [resurrection] the righteous shall reign in the earth, waxing stronger …
1816 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 250.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist’s power. Time was foreshortened to his gaze as well. But Irenaeus stresses the prophecies concerning the Antichrist, the resurrection at …
1817 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 252.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , the Antichrist to come upon the heels of Rome’s breakup, the symbolic prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse in their relation to the last times, and the …
1818 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 257 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
6. ANTICHRIST—BEAST—MAN OF SIN IS NEAR
1819 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 257.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Antichrist with the Man of Sin and the Beast. On the one hand he speaks of many antichrists—as indeed John himself does—men who rebel against Christ at any …
1820 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 257 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
7. ROME’S CONTINUANCE DELAYS ANTICHRIST’S APPEARANCE