Yikes – we have another Wikipedia adherent – and NOT a serious student of history.
Why should I be surprised that this drivel came from YOU? As I educated your pal Brakelite - the Early Church Fathers were teaching this stuff over 1200 years BEFORE the Jesuits ever existed, Einstein . . .
And making the statement that ALL Protestant men, women, children, fetuses and zygotes throughout the whole of history profess the Pope to be the Antichrist is JUST as asinine, Einstein.
Get a GRIP . . .
As usual, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and no evidence to back up your nonsense. Put down the satanic dead bread and catechisms and
discover the Early Church Fathers followed what the Protestants taught, not what the
Antichrist's Jesuits taught:
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Hippolytus, 3rd century (comment on the four beasts of Daniel 7):
”The golden head of the (Daniel 2) image is identical with the lioness, by which the
Babylonians were represented; the shoulders and the arms of silver are the same with the bear, by which the
Persians and Medes are meant; the belly and thighs of brass are the leopard, by which the
Greeks who ruled from Alexander onwards are intended; the legs of iron are the dreadful and terrible beast, by which the
Romans who hold the empire now are meant; the toes of clay and iron are the ten horns which are to be;
the one other little horn springing up in their (the ten horns) midst is the antichrist ; the stone that smites the image and breaks it in pieces, and that filled the whole earth, is Christ, who comes from heaven and brings judgment on the world.”
Dead Bread, it is Protestant Historicism, not the lies of Jesuit Preterism and Jesuit Futurism, which teaches that the prophetic elements of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are representative of the same kingdoms.
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Irenasus, 2nd century (“Against Heresies,” chap, xxvi.):
"John, in the Apocalypse, . . . teaches us what the ten horns shall be which were seen by Daniel.”
Dead Bread, it is Protestant Historicism, not the lies of Jesuit Preterism and Jesuit Futurism, which teaches the Ten Horns of Daniel and Revelation are the same.
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Victorinus, 3rd century (claims in his commentary on The Apocalypse (Revelation) of John, the EARLIEST commentary on the book of Revelation as a whole):
- The White horse and the First Seal describe the same thing: the Gospel going forth in victory.
- The woman of Revelation 12 is "the ancient church of the fathers, prophets, and saints and apostles."
Dead Bread, it is Protestant Historicism, not the lies of Jesuit Preterism and Jesuit Futurism, which teaches that the 7 Churches, 7 Seals, and 7 Trumpets chronicle the same time periods and that the woman of Revelation 12 is God's people, not sinner Mary.
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Origen, 3rd century ("Against Celsus", bk. vi., chap. xlvi.):
After quoting nearly the whole of Paul’s prophecy about the
man of sin in 2 Thessalonians, which he interprets of the
antichrist, he says : “Paul speaks of him who is called
antichrist, describing, though with a certain reserve, both the manner and time and cause of his coming. . . . The prophecy also regarding
antichrist is stated in the book of Daniel, and is fitted to make an intelligent and candid reader admire the words as truly Divine and prophetic ; for in them are mentioned the things relating to the coming kingdom, beginning with the times of Daniel, and continuing to the destruction of the world.”
Jerome, 4th century (commentary on the Book of Daniel, vii):
"...it is the
man of sin, the
son of perdition, who dares to sit in the temple of God, making himself as God.”
Dead Bread, it is Protestant Historicism, not the lies of Jesuit Preterism and Jesuit Futurism, which teaches the Little Horn of Daniel, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, the Beast of Revelation 13 are one in the same power: Antichrist.
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Tertullian, 2nd century (commenting on 2 Thessalonians 2):
"'Now ye know what detaineth that he might be revealed in his time, for the mystery of iniquity doth already work ; only he who now hinders must hinder until he be taken out of the way.'
"What obstacle is there but the
Roman state ; the falling away of which, by being scattered into ten kingdoms, shall introduce antichrist...?"
Chrysostom, 4th century (Commentary on 2 Thessalonians):
"One may first naturally inquire what is that which withholdeth, and after that would know why Paul expresses this so obscurely, . . . ‘he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.’ That is, when the
Roman Empire is taken out of the way, then he shall come
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century (Catechetical Lectures, XV):
"But this aforesaid Antichrist is to come when the times of the
Roman Empire shall have been fulfilled..."
Dead Bread, it is Protestant Historicism, not the lies of Jesuit Preterism and Jesuit Futurism, which teaches the Restrainer which Paul mentioned was preventing the rise of the Man of Sin Antichrist was the Roman Empire, not the "spirit filled church" or some other agent of holiness.
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READ WHAT THE ECF SAID FOR YOURSELF:
Early Church Fathers Were Historicist – H. Grattan Guinness
