Antichrist is the view among certain historic Reformation communities that the papacy or the Pope is the Antichrist. This article is a general overview of the Antichrist in the eschatological view of historicism.
Nine identifying characteristics of Antichrist are found in Daniel 7.
Over time, Protestant Reformers saw these characteristics as matching the papacy. (See below for statements).
The geographical location of the papal power was in Rome,...
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Antichrist is the view among certain historic Reformation communities that the papacy or the Pope is the Antichrist. This article is a general overview of the Antichrist in the eschatological view of historicism.
Nine identifying characteristics of Antichrist are found in Daniel 7.
Over time, Protestant Reformers saw these characteristics as matching the papacy. (See below for statements).
The geographical location of the papal power was in Rome, Italy—the very heart of the territory of Western Europe.
The papacy meets this identifying mark because it does have one man at the head (the pope) who speaks for it.
The emperors of Western Europe were largely Catholic and supported the papacy in its growth and authority. Three Arian kingdoms, however, did not support the papacy—the Vandals, Heruli, and Ostrogoths. So the Catholic emperors decided they must be subdued or destroyed. Here is how Dr. Mervyn Maxwell, a theologian and historian, described the results in volume 1, page 129, of his...
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