En ting som er helt klart er at antikrist må stå fram først.
Det blir som å se etter fluen i huset ditt, men så sitter den på nesen din. Antikrist systemet har vært her i flere hundre år.......
"We are convinced that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist” (What Luther Says, ed. Ewald M. Plass, Vol. 1, 34). “You should know that the pope is the real, true, final Antichrist,...” - Martin Luther (Plass, op. cit., Vol. 1, 36, 37).
"Daniel and Paul had predicted that Antichrist would sit in the temple of God. The head of that cursed and abominable kingdom, in the Western church, we affirm to be the Pope." - John Calvin (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Bk. 4, chap. 2, sec. 12).
"But when the apostolic prophecy in Second Thessalonians 2 is more carefully examined, it seems that this prophecy of Daniel and that prophecy of the apostle belong more rightly to the kingdom of the Roman pope, which kingdom has arisen from small beginnings and has increased to an immense size” - Heinrich Bullinger, (Daniel Sapientissimus Dei Propheta (Daniel the Most Wise Prophet of God), chap. 7, fol. 78v).
"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." -Philip Melanch-thon, “De Matrimonio,” Disputationes, No. 56, in Opera (Corpus Reformatorum), Vol. 12, cols. 535, 536).
"It is so plain that it needeth no probation; the very properties of Antichrist, I mean of Christ’s great and principal enemy, are so openly known to all men that are not blinded with the smoke of Rome that they know him to be the beast that John describeth in the Apocalypse” - John Hooper (Declaration of Christ and His Office, chap. 3, in Works, Vol. 1, 22, 23).