The Antichrist(beast) Revealed
Bible Scholars of past ages knew that these prophecies unquestionably pointed to only one entity.
Martin
Luther (1483-1546)
“nothing else than the kingdom of Babylon and of very Antichrist…. For
who is the man of sin and the son of perdition, but he who by his
teaching and his ordinances increases the sin and perdition of souls
in the church; while he yet sits in the church as if he were God?
All these conditions have now for many ages been fulfilled by the
papal tyranny.” Martin Luther, First Principles, pp. 196-197
John
Calvin (1509-1564)
“Some persons think us too severe and
censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those
who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same
charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak
and whose language we adopt…I shall briefly show that (Pauls
words in 2 Thessalonians 2) are not capable of any other interpretation
than that which applies them to the Papacy” John Calvin, Tracts,
Vol. 1, pp. 219,220. John Calvin, Institutes.
John Wesley (1703-1791)
“He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases
all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled
the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes,
both of his opposers and followers… He it is…that exalteth
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped…
claiming the highest power, and highest honor… claiming the
prerogatives which belong to God alone.” Albert Close, Antichrist
and His Ten Kingdoms,
London: Thynne and Co., 1917, p. 110.
King James (1566-1625) [Authorized the King James Version of the Bible] “The faithfull
praiseth God for the Popes destruction, and their deliverance,"
and for "the plagues which are to light on him and his followers."
"The Pope by his Pardons makes merchandise of the soules of
men: Heaven and the Saints reioyce at his destruction, albiet the
earth and the worldlings lament for the same"
James I, Paraphrase, in Workes, pp. 47, 57
John
Wyclif (1324-1384) [Completed the 1st English translation
of the Bible] “Why is it necessary in unbelief to look for
another Antichrist? Hence in the seventh chapter of Daniel Antichrist
is forcefully described by a horn arising in the time of the 4th
kingdom. For it grew from [among] our powerful ones, more horrible,
more cruel, and more greedy, because by reckoning the pagans and
our Christians by name, a lesser [greater?] struggle for the temporals
is not recorded in any preceding time. Therefore the ten horns are
the whole of our temporal rulers, and the horn has arisen from the
ten horns, having eyes and a mouth speaking great things against
the Lofty One, and wearing out the saints of the Most High, and
thinking that he is able to change times and laws.” (Daniel
7:8, 25 quoted) …"For so our clergy foresee the lord
pope, as it is said of the eighth blaspheming little head."
Translated from Wyclif's, De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae, vol. 3
pp. 262, 263
William
Tyndale (1484-1536) [1st translator of the Bible from the
Greek] “The pope's forbidding matrimony, and to eat of meats
created of God for man's use, which is devilish doctrine by Paul's
prophecy,… are tokens good enough that he is the right antichrist,
and his doctrine sprung of the devil.” 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Tyndale,
An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue, in Works, vol. 3, p. 171
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John
Knox (1505-1572)
He preached that Romish
traditions and ceremonies should be abolished along with “that
tyranny which the Pope himself has for so many ages exercised over
the church" and that he should be acknowledged as "the
son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks." In a public challenge
he declared: "As for your Roman Church, as it is now corrupted…
I no more doubt but that it is the synagogue of Satan, and the head
therof, called the Pope, to be the man of sin of whom the apostle
speaketh." Knox, The Zurich Letters, p.199
Philipp
Melanchthon (1497-1560)
“Since it is certain that the pontiffs and the monks have
forbidden marriage, it is most manifest, and true without any doubt,
that the Roman Pontiff, with his whole order and kingdom, is very
Antichrist. Likewise in 2 Thess. II, Paul clearly says that the
man of sin will rule in the church exalting himself above the worship
of God, etc."
Translated from Melanchthon, Disputationes, No. 56, "De Matrimonio",
in Opera (Corpus Reformatorum), vol. 12 col. 535
Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531)
“I know that
in it works the might and power of the Devil, that is, of the Antichrist…
the Papacy has to be abolished… But by no other means can
it be more thoroughly routed than by the word of God (2 Thessalonians
2), because as soon as the world receives this in the right way,
it will turn away from the Pope without compulsion.” Principle
Works of Zwingli, Vol. 7, p. 135.
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