“It was apostasy that led the early church to seek the aid of the civil government, and this prepared the way for the development of the papacy—the beast.
Said Paul: ‘There’ shall ‘come a falling away, … and that man of sin be revealed’ (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
So apostasy in the church will prepare the way for the image to the beast.
The special characteristic of the beast, and therefore of his image, is the breaking of God’s commandments.
*Says Daniel, of the little horn, the papacy: ‘He shall think to change times and the law’ (Daniel 7:25 R.V.).
*And Paul styled the same power the ‘man of sin’ (2 Thessalonians 2:3), who was to exalt himself above God.
--One prophecy is a complement of the other."
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Said Paul: ‘There’ shall ‘come a falling away, … and that man of sin be revealed’ (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
So apostasy in the church will prepare the way for the image to the beast.
*Says Daniel, of the little horn, the papacy: ‘He shall think to change times and the law’ (Daniel 7:25 R.V.).
*And Paul styled the same power the ‘man of sin’ (2 Thessalonians 2:3), who was to exalt himself above God.
--One prophecy is a complement of the other."
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