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1 | anti-christ revealed before rapture? | 2 Thess 2:3 | A friend of Messiah | 9893 | ||
So does this Scripture reveal that the anti-christ must come first before the rapture occurs, our gathering together unto him 2thess2:1??? | ||||||
2 | anti-christ revealed before rapture? | 2 Thess 2:3 | Tim Sheasby | 22830 | ||
From another posting of mine with slight revisions: One of my brethren believes the man of lawlessness to be the antichrist to be the Pope had an interesting argument based on his own linguistic studies. He said that the word antichrist is made up of the name Christ prefixed with the Greek preposition 'anti'. Anti, he said, does not mean 'against' in Greek but rather 'in the place of'. Since the Pope claims to be 'The Vicar of Christ' (or the one who stands in the place of Christ) he points out that it logically follows that the Pope is the antichrist. Further to this he expressed the idea that the "beast" of Revelation is the Catholic Church. I do know that they no longer preach the gospel as it is written in the Bible and believe the Pope has authority to supercede the Bible. The Pope has, according to their doctrine, the power of spiritual life and death. Is this not 'anti'-in the place of-Christ? Is this not the man of lawlessness? The jury is still out for me as I study further but if this conclusion is true then the man of lawlessness has already been revealed a long time ago. In Christ Tim Sheasby |
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