Twin Pillars part 2. of # 931.

     Continued from Part #1.

   "They all do meet in the Roman Papacy, so NO OTHER power fits all the criteria given in the Bible. Latin  is the language of the Caesars, and of this power. It is the ONLY Church that is for ever has been named from a city. The Papacy fulfills the first condition therefore. During that time the ten kingdoms were forming, the Little horn grew up among the ten. The Papacy developed synchronously with the Gothic kingdoms."
"Romanism and the Reformation."

    LITTLE HORN--PAUL'S DESCRIPTION.

   Paul's fore view consists of two parts:  First: A general view of a great apostasy
                                                              Second: a carefully drawn portrait of the power in which that                                                                         apostasy would be headed up.
    Acts 20:30  "Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples                              after them.".
FUTURISM: has this found a correct fit in God;'s Word? NO!  This says that the end-times Antichrist arises AFTER  the so-called Secret Rapture, thus Christ's followers have no worries about this nor the tribulations. Remember "OF YOUR OWN SELVES"  means out from Christ's followers these shall come, from within and among us!

   1 Timothy 4:1-5  "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.".

  " Here we have not only a prediction that there would be an "apostasy", or a falling away from the faith in the christian Church, but a description of its origin and character, Its origin was to be satanic; its doctrines were to be doctrines of devils, or demons. It was to assume authority, and to lay down laws and prohibitions. Prominent among these was the prohibition of marriage. Marriage, although divinely ordained, would prohibited, and meats, though created to be received with thanksgiving , would be forbidden.{(JB Fish Fridays} The substitution of an external religiousness, and self-imposed sacrifices, for true holiness of heart,." IBID.
   1 Timothy 4:2  "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;"
  Which church forbids its "Ecclesiastic Members," to marry? Rome, right?  Foods? What about fasting for Lent?  Can YOU find this word LENT in the Bible? Or what about EASTER or Christ's MASS?

"This feature of FALSE Profession reappears in the corresponding prophecy in 2 Timothy concerning "the last days", in the which the abettors and adherents of the apostasy arre described as men "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.".Cont:..
  2 Timothy 3:2-5  "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
Cont: "These men were not then to be open opponents of godliness, but,, on the contrary, they would be great professors."  Ibid.

Please remember, the power behind this Futurism will always appose,  but is  not a confessor! Yet 96% of Christians believe Rome and not the Reformers!

   THE MAN OF SIN VS THE MAN OF GOD:  

    The "man of sin", like the "man of God" had a broad, extended meaning. When we read "that the man of God may  be perfected, thoroughly furnished unto all good works," {2 Timothy 3:17] we do not suppose it means any one individual man, although it has the definite article. It indicates a whole class of men of a certain character, succession of similar individuals. A man of sin could be only one, just as a king of England could only mean one. The King, on the other hand, may include a whole dynasty.
When, in speaking of the Jewish Tabernacle in Hebrews, Paul says that into the holiest of all "Went the high priest alone once every year, he includes the entire succession of the high priests of Israel. That a singular expression in a prophecy may find its fulfillment in a plurality of individuals is perfectly clear from John's words: "  John 2:18  "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

     Grammatically it may mean either and individual or a succession of similar individuals. The context determines that it actually does mean the latter. "The mystery of iniquity." [2 Thess.2:7] in the which this man of sin was latent, was already working in Paul's day.
    So"the pope of Rome", may intimate one single bishop {Overseer]  or a long succession of a perpetual person. So "the man of sin." can one or a long ling of successors. Ibid.

Note the counter argument was "The man of sin is singular, so It can't be the P:ope"  They also continue to say:
    NO duration at all is mentioned i n the prophecy by Paul, only THE two Limits.
"ALREADY", the apostasy was developing, and it would not be destroyed till the advent. Paul's features of anitchrist chronology reveal when it would arise {after the fall of Rome] and that it would exist to the second coming {Compare Daniel 7:26] when he would be destroyed.:    IBID.

Thus the two limits set by Paul agrees with the two limits set , Daniel . However both Futurism and Preteritism =[ anti Christ came out of the 3rd kingdom Greece, thus has already been, teaching] So which is the truth?  The Bible and the Reformation were and are the truth.   Let's go back and read what Martin Luther had to say about this subject,shall we?

     "Oh, Christ, my Lord, look down upon us and bring upon us Thy day of judgement, and destroy the brood of Satan in Rome.. [(jb) that will not endear him to this system, right?] There sits the Man, of whom the Apostle Paul wrote [2 Thess. 2:3-4.] that he will oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, - that Man of Sin, that Son of Perdition [sentenced to die the 2nd death  Revelation 21:8  "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." , Rev.2:11;20:6,14; 21:8]  What else is Papal power but sin and corruption {(jb) then and still today, with rampant homosexuality, while puting up a sinless front?]  It leads souls to destruction under thy name O Lord!.... I hope that day of judgement is soon to dawn. Things can and will not become worse than they are at this time { (jb) Sorry Martin  but they did and shall get much worse still to come!] The Papal See is practicing iniquity to its heights. He suppresses the Law of God and exalts his commandments above the commandments of God"
"Dr. Martin Luther's Sammtiiche Werks" (Erlanger edition-- Vol. 21, p.339.

   [(jb) This is just my writing to you, of what Luther's opinion was at the time, but today this is called 'Hate Speech", yet I repeat his words, in love to and for, my fellow man, even within the Papacy, as christ said Love your enemies! Because no man can save himself, let alone Y O U!  I am only repeating known History]

    Now let's go to more recent printed words, in an effort to show Y O U , just how much things have changed here is Rick Warren's book " Purpose Driven Life" p. 205.

"Completion of our Mission, Today there's a growing interest in the second coming of christ and the end of the world. [(jb) NO! same world, but with a renewed surface made clean and new by the Lake of Fire of revelation. you find it!] When will it happen? Just before Jesus ascended to Heaven the disciples asked Him this same question, and His response was quite revealing, He said: "It is not for you to know the times and dates the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
    When the disciples wanted to talk about prophecy, Jesus quickly switched the conversation to evangelism. He wanted them to concentrate on their mission in the world. H said is essence, "The details of my return are none of your business. What is your business is the mission I have given you. Focus on that!"
    Speculating on the exact timing of Christ's return is futile, because He said, "No one knows about the day or the hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Ibid:     If you want Jesus to come back sooner, focus on fulfilling your mission, not figuring out prophecy.                  P.286
      All the reformers said "Study the Prophecy"! but modern theologians say don't? right? So why this verse?
     Revelation 1:3  "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."

[NOTE (J.B.) Does Rick Warren not want to see Y O U and me, receive this blessing? Remember that Revelation without knowing Daniel's book, shall remain a puzzle? Thus is not all prophecy study relevant? Or else why this.....
    John 14:29  "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe."
    Question, to me JB this seems an obvious question: "Does Rick Warren truly believe in Christ Jesus, not the "Cosmic christ?" Or is it just a big con, on his part, and a a way to make a very good living? Is this the why o f, "I will not allow Revelation to be taught in MY church?"

  Yet is not much of the world "Hooked" on prophecy? Either Futurism or Preterism, meaning the Instead of Jesus will come in the far distant future, or he has already come and gone, from Greece when he soiled the Temple by roasting a pig within it!  Both ideas come from a single source, the Papacy!]

            WHAT, AFTER ALL, DOES THE BIBLE SAY ON THIS?

   2 Peter 1:19-21  "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

    Does not the Bible tell us to study the Prophecies? YES!"Ye would do well"

     MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546) "Luther... proved, by the revelations of Daniel and St. John, by the epistles of St. Paul, st. Peter, and St. Jude, that the reign of Anitchrist, predicted and described in the bible, was the Papacy...And all the people did say, Amen! A holy terror seized their souls. It was Antichrist whom they beheld seated on the pontifical throne. This new idea, which derived greater strength from the prophetic descriptions launched forth by Luther into the midst of his contemporaries, inflicted the most terrible blow on Rome".  J.H. Meric D'aubignc's "History of the Reformation of the Sixteen century, " book vi chapter xii .p. 215.

    Can he also be wrong, as 96% of Christians say, this is not in the Bible? At this point, where are Y O U?

    Yet, no matter where Y O U are, at this time, THIS IS history, and it can;'t be undone, and truth will always come out!  WHY?
     John 17:17 " Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."

     Revelation 13:1-2  "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority."
    Daniel 7:3  "And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another"   Please read all of this chapter 7..JB.

    Question: Who is this Dragon?  Read: 
          Revelation 12:7-9   "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
{Now tie this into that which Y O U have already learned.. So, , ..  who worships whom, on Sun -god-day, Sundays?]

                        A GREAT "CLOUD," OF WITNESSES:
     "WYCLIFFE, TYNDALE, LUTHER, CRANMER; in the 1600's , the 17th Century, Bunyan, the translators of the King James bible (1611)  and the men who published the
Westminster and Baptist confessions of Faith: Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, and more recently 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." P.205. 1991 "All Rads Lead to Rome", Michael de Semlyen,,, Dorchester House Publications.

  Yet, today they are ALL condemned as being in error! but look at their own words:
Cardinal Giorgio Salvadore spoke that this YEAR'S 1,981 ST ANNIVERSARY, is to be the Vatican's last in regards to waiting for the Lord to return to Earth! "We just feel that Jesus is not coming back, by the looks of it", he said, "It's been ages like He's probably flat out doing  other really good things for people somewhere else."
     Nearly 2,000 years ago, Jesus promised his disciples that he would come back again in chapter 14:1-3 of John. But having the ability to turn water into wine has it's ups and downs. adding, m"We all make promises we can't keep when we are drunk, Jesus is no different"
WOW! Is the the message of faith, from a faithful follower of Jesus Christ? Or one who follows another supernatural being?

Let's Review: ATTRIBUTES OF THE LITTLE HORN POWER FROM THE WORD OF GOD:

1: AROSE OUT FROM THE FOURTH BEAST [DANIEL 7:7-8]
2.  AROSE AMONG THE TEN HORNS  [VS. 8]
3. AFTER THE TEN HORNS [another shall rise after them VS. 24] after the division of the Roman Empire
4. DIFFERENT-DIVERSE FROM THE OTHERS. [VS.24]
5 MORE STOUT THAN HIS FELLOWS (OTHERS) [VS. 20] more resolute.
, deposes kings and sets up others via political and religious powers into one office., as in #4.
6 UPROOTED THREE KINGDOMS {Before whom three fell VS20] Heruli 493; Vandals 534; Ostrogoths in 538 all A.D.] {Dan.7:8,20,24.] (Ever heard of these nations?)
7. EYES LIKE THE EYES OF MAN, SPOKE GREAT WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH {VS.               8, AND, 25]
8 HE WILL WEAR OUT THE SAINTS. [7:25]
9. He will THINK to change times and laws  [7:25]
10. time, times and half a time [ 7:25] (see Numbers 14:34- Ezekiel 4:6 One day for a year= 1260 years)

   Today most apply this as 3.5 years, and apply at some future post rapture date, yet how can we split-up, in sections God's prophecy without such instructions to do so????
11. Shall devour the whole earth  [trample it and crush it Vs. 23]
12. It shall exist unto the end [Until the Ancient of days comes  Vs. 22}
13. Dominion taken away.. [vs 26]

    There is NO other POWER on God's green earth, that all these identifiers can possibly fit, but the Little Horn Power whose seat is in the Vatican!

              LUTHER & THE SECOND COMING:

     In 1538, in commenting on the prevalent godlessness, Luther said: "I hope that day is not far of and we shall see it." "Luther's Schhriften" {writings} vol. 22, col.1331
   I hope the last day will not travel over 100 years, because God;s Word will be taken away again and a great darkness will come for the scarcity of ministers of the word" Ibid Vol. 22, col. 16

[(JB) Here I fully agree, even though we have a record number of preachers of the word of God, few there be that believe it in total, other wise none would accept evolution over Creation!] Thus I agree with Walter Veith, when he said, m"These days his words have been fulfilled!" And I say Shame on us all!


TO THE THEN  THE REFORMERS

   HE sits in the temple of God:  The face of the man of sin is the face of a false apostle, the dark face of Judas. Written upon the wall of the temple, "son of perdition." The man of sin is as Judas- secret enemy while seeming a friend- a "familiar friend," yet a fatal foe who betray with a kiss and a "hail m aster."
     Observe the lace occupied by the man of sin-- the "temple our house of God. This is not, and cannot be, any "Jewish Temple".  This blows up the Pretorism teachings that this is all in the far past.

Note: The title "Son of Perdition" appears but twice, #1. for Judas the betrayer. #2. The instead of Christ --antichrist.

TO THE NOW:

    WE HAVE FUTURISM AND DISPENTATIONAISM"
   We must keep our eyes upon Jerusalem, and for the rebuilding of the New Temple, and that's WHERE The antichrist will sit! This is what passes for Bible knowledge in 96% of today "Christian" Churches! How awfully sad!

    Paul, who uses this expression in his prophetic portrait of Romanism, employs it in both Corinthians and Ephesians with reference to the Christian church. In the second Epistle to the Corinthians, writing Gentile Christians, he says, " Ye are the temple of the living God."  2 Corinthians 6:16  "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."  In Ephesians he calls the church   Ephesians 2:21-22 " In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."
    So to Paul emphatically the temple of God was the church of Christ. THIS is the temple in which is his prophetic eye saw the man of sin seated. It is no person in a temple of stone, but a power in the CHRISTIAN CHURCH!  "ROMANISM AND THE REFORMATION"

   It this method not logical, as well as Biblical? Thus it is TRUTH, yet many shall reject it, because of ????  I was taught this for many years, or Grandma believed so do I!  Is that not a type of group think? When we face judgement, our record will speak for us and it alone.

    Ibid:    HIS CHARACTER:

    Just as Jesus Christ acts on God The Father's behalf, so to does the man of sin act for Satan. CONT:
{ In 2014 this pope spoke of the fact that many of his clergy, bishops and cardinals, spoke out for allowing homosexual, and all the derivatives, into the church. His answer: "Who am I to judge"?  {note (JB) guess he never read or understood Ezekiel 4:16-27!]
    Ezekiel 3:18 " When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
CONT:: Christ and he are antagonistic powers: the power of Light, and the power of darkness; the majesty of heaven, and the might of hell. And as the Son of God humbled Himself, so the "man of sin" exalts himself.Cont:

{Pope Leo X111 in a Encyclical Letter June 20, 1894  "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."
      2 Thessalonians 2:4  "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."

Catholic National, July 1895 {thus the same man] The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh." [And Y O U say?]

  Cont:    "There is infinite self-abasement in the One, the Divine nature stooping to humanity; and infinite self-exaltation in the other, the human and satanic assuming the Divine. "He as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God", or Divine or a divine being. There is no article here before the name God, The expression indicate that the man of sin would show himself by acts and professions to be possessed of superhuman and Divine dignity, authority and power." Romanism and the Reformation.

  [ Who can not see, that the Reformers were very through, and complete, in their Bible studies? Can Y O U dear reader, not appreciate the depth of their studies?]

To Be continued in Part 3.

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