“Who is the Antichrist?”
Prepared
by Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters // Website: www.toughissues.org
A
1-Page Handout about the Antichrist // All emphasis is mine unless
otherwise stated. // January 1, 2011
“Some persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist.
…I shall briefly show that ([Ed.: the Apostle] Paul’s words in II Thessalonians [Ed.:
Chapter] 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that which
applies them to the Papacy.” – John Calvin (1509-1564;
French Protestant reformer)
“Wherefore it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist
himself. I could prove the same by many other Scriptures, old writers, and
strong reasons.” – Thomas
Cranmer (1489-1556; English churchman; archbishop of Canterbury; burned at the
stake during the reign of Queen Mary I)
“[Ed.: German
theologian and Reformation leader Martin] Luther…proved,
by the revelations of [Ed.:
the prophet] Daniel and St. John, by the epistles of St. Paul, St. Peter, and
St. Jude, that the reign of Antichrist, predicted and described in the
Bible, was the Papacy.”
– J.H. Merle D’Aubigné (“History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth
Century”)
“[Ed.: John] Wycliffe,
[Ed.: William] Tyndale, [Ed.: Martin] Luther, [Ed.: John] Calvin,
[Ed.: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas] Cranmer;
[Ed.: and] in the seventeenth century, [Ed.: John] Bunyan, the
translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster
and Baptist confessions of Faith;
[Ed.: and] Sir Isaac Newton, [Ed.: John] Wesley, [Ed.:
George] Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards; and more
recently [Ed.: Charles
Haddon] Spurgeon, Bishop J.C. Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; these men, among countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist.” – Michael de Semlyen (“All
Roads Lead to Rome?: The Ecumenical Movement”; Publisher: Dorchester House Publications; 1993;
Pages 197, 198)
“[Ed.: The Pope of Rome is] the very
antichrist, and ‘son of perdition’, of whom [Ed.: the
Apostle] Paul speaks.” – John Knox (1505-1572; Scottish Protestant
clergyman and religious reformer)
“We here are of the conviction that the papacy
is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” – Martin Luther (1483-1546;
Former Augustinian monk and Roman Catholic priest; German theologian and
Reformation leader)
“There
are two great truths that stand out in the preaching that brought about the
Protestant Reformation – the ‘just shall live by faith’ (not by the works
of Romanism or any other religion) and ‘the Papacy is the Antichrist
revealed in Scripture.’ It was a message for Christ and against Antichrist.
The entire [Ed.: Protestant] Reformation rested on this twofold testimony…
Iain Murray, in his book ‘The Puritan Hope’, described the Reformers as ‘unanimous in their belief’ that the Papal system is both the ‘man of sin’ and the Babylonian whore of which Scripture forewarns. [Ed.: Papal] Rome was the great Antichrist, and so firmly did this belief become established that it was not until the nineteenth century that evangelicals seriously questioned it.” – Michael de Semlyen (“The Foundations Under Attack: The Roots of Apostasy”; Publisher: Dorchester House Publications; 2006; Page 3)
“If you do not contend with your whole heart against the impious
government of the Pope, you cannot be saved. Whoever takes delight
in the religion and worship of popery
will be eternally lost in the world to come.
If you reject it [Ed.: i.e.,
popery, Romanism], you must
expect to incur every kind of danger, even to lose your lives – but it is far
better to be exposed to such perils in the world than to keep silence! So long
as I live, I will denounce to my [Ed.:
Christian] brethren the sore and
the plague of Babylon [Ed.:
i.e., Papal Rome – the Romish “Babylon”]
for fear that many who are with us should fall back like the rest into the
bottomless pit.” – Martin
Luther (1483-1546; Former Augustinian monk and Roman Catholic priest;
German theologian and Reformation leader; this quote
is taken from the “History of the
Reformation of the 16th Century”
by J.H. Merle D’Aubigné;
Volume 15, Page 208)
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