Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:3
* "Then the world changed its tactics; it became nominally Christian, and Antichrist came forth in all its blasphemous glory. The Pope of Rome put on the triple crown, and called himself the Vicar of Christ; then came in the abomination of the worship of saints, angels, images, and pictures; then came the mass, and I know not what, of detestable error."
* “We are not praying against Babylon, we are not praying against the Man of Sin, ... it is time we started to pray again.
It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is, no sane man ought to raise an objection.
If it be not popery in the Church of Rome, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name."
* “We must have no truce, no treaty with Rome. War!... Peace there cannot be. She cannot have peace with us—we cannot have peace with her. She hates the true Church;...”
Charles Spurgeon