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
"Signs of the Times published an article written by J. N. Andrews
titled “The Change of God’s Sabbath" (10/13/1881).
This article clearly and
unequivocally identified the Antichrist. We read:
“The nature of the work of this wicked power as here
represented by Daniel, clearly determines whose are the times and laws
which he shall think to change. It is a part of his warfare against the
cause of God. He blasphemes the name of God, he wears out his saints,
and he thinks to change his law … This great Antichrist is the papal power. Of this there can be no just doubt.”
Ever since the Protestant Reformation, the view that has dominated
Protestantism has been that the Papacy is the Antichrist.
Among its
supporters were the Waldenses, Huguenots, Hussites, Anabaptists,
Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Tyndale, Latimer, John Wesley
(Methodists), George Foxe (Quakers), Menno Simons (Mennonites), John
Knox (Presbyterians), and many others, including the founders of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
As the leaders of the Protestant
Reformation grew in their understanding and appreciation of the gospel
and the Holy Scriptures, they also grew in their recognition that the
Papacy was the Antichrist." AdventMessenger