-Westminster Confession of Faith, 25:6
King Constantine in folly gave
The cross, the crown, the sacred stave
That pierced our Lord all to the "Holy See".
The angel mourned this folly so:
Ah woe, ah woe, ah threefold woe!
For Christendom is now in jeapordy.
I see a subtle poison fall.
Their honey will be turned to gall.
On man a heavy burden has been laid.
The princes lose all proper awe.
The highest prince is all of power deprived
By this election which the priests contrived.
Let accusation before God be made.
The clerics are perverting civil law.
It was no falsehood that the angel said.
-Walther van der Vogelweide, 13th cent.
Let no man deceive you by any means: (1) for that day shall not come, except their come a departing first, and that (2) that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
Which is an adversary, and (3) exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: (4) so that he doeth sit as God in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(5) Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
...And now ye know (6) what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.
(7) For the mystery of iniquity doeth already worke: (8) only he which now (9) withholdeth, shall let till he be taken out of the way.
(10) And then shall (11) that wicked man be revealed, whom the Lord shall (12) consume with the (13) Spirit of his mouth, and shall abolish with the brightnesse of his comming,
Even him whose comming is by the effectual working of Satan, with all his power, and signes, and (14) lying wonders.
by Your dear word.
From Pope and Turk
defend us, Lord;
Who both would thrust
out of His Throne
King Jesus Christ,
Your own dear Son.
(2) The one man of sin refers to both the man of evil and his church, which are united like head and body.
(3) We all know which man this is, who brags that he can open and close heaven's gate. He expects even kings and princes to bow down and worship him as if he were a god.
(4) Antichrist doesn't rule outside of the Church, but in the very heart of the Church!
(5) The Ancient Church had repeated warnings about the rise of this Antichrist, yet they forget them.
(6) Something hindered Antichrist and kept him from appearing.
(7) Even during the time of the Apostles, the foundations of pride and tyranny were working, but slowly so that men were deceived.
(8) When the Roman Empire fell, the power vacuum was filled by the Antichrist.
(9) Roman Emperors kept the Pope from claiming universal dominion.
(10) The Antichrist will eventually be destroyed by the truth of the Bible, and the Second Coming of Christ.
(11) "Wicked man" is litearlly "lawless fellow". The Antichrist replaced God's laws with his own.
(12) Jesus will make the Antichrist powerless.
(13) True preachers are God's mouth. They breath out the Bible which crushes all lies.
(14) Satan will give the Antichrist power to deceive many, often through false "miracles", but true believers will not be tricked.
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