But you are pushing a similar idea that bro.tan is with that idea that the Antichrist will come from the European Union. Those who believe that usually adhere also to the ten European nations ideas that bro.tan has been pushing.
Brethren in Christ - Beware of the 'good cop/bad cop' routine that bro.tan and Milam above are kind of playing off each other with pushing a European Union Antichrist and Jerusalem false prophet idea, which is still suggesting the pope as the Antichrist for the end.
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Early Church father Hippolytus (170 - c. 235 A.D.), said the following below. Hippolytus was said to have been a disciple of Irenaeus, who was a disciple of Polycarp, whom Irenaeus and Tertullian said that Polycarp was a disciple of Apostle John.
"Christ and Antichrist in parallel
6.1. Now insofar as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was proclaimed beforehand as a lion (Gen 49:9) because he is regal and glorious, in the same way also the Scriptures have prophesied Antichrist similarly as a lion because he is tyrannical and brutal. (a) In every way the Deceiver wants to become like the Son of God. Christ is a lion, so Antichrist is a lion. (b) Christ is a King, so Antichrist is an earthly King. (c) The Savior was shown to be a lamb, so also similarly he will appear like a lamb while being a wolf inside. (d) The Savior came into the world circumcised, so he will come similarly.
2. The Lord sent the apostles into all the nations, so he will similarly send false apostles. (e) The Savior assembled the sheep which had been scattered, so he similarly will gather up the scattered people. The Lord granted a seal to those who believe in him, so he will grant similarly. (f) The Lord was manifest in the form of a human, so he will come in the form of a human. (g) The Savior rose and demonstrated his own flesh as a temple, so he will raise up in Jerusalem a temple in stone. And we shall clarify these deceitful tricks of his later on; let us turn to the proposition at hand."
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Hippolytus, On Christ and Antichrist)
(red and green and letter emphasis is mine)
Breaking down each prophecy that Hippolytus covered above:
(a) -
"In every way the Deceiver wants to become like the Son of God".
Hippolytus was pulling that from Christ's Olivet discourse of Matthew 24:23-26 where Jesus warned of the false one coming at the end of this world that others will claim is Christ, and that will be in the "secret chambers" (i.e. temple in Jerusalem). Jesus commanded to NOT believe on that false one. Apostle Paul covered this same working in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 about the "man of sin" coming to exalt himself as God, and over all that is called God, or that is worshiped. Paul said that must happen prior to Christ's future return and gathering of His Church.
(b) -
"Christ is a King, so Antichrist is an earthly King."
Since Jesus Christ is The KING, also the Antichrist at the end must be a king since the Antichrist will mimic Christ as written. The Daniel 11 prophecy about the "vile person", which is about the final Antichrist for the end, suggests he will obtain the 'kingdom' using flatteries, which would mean he will become a king in Jerusalem.
(c) - "The Savior was shown to be a lamb, so also similarly he will appear like a lamb while being a wolf inside."
Hippolytus is pulling from Revelation 13:11 about the 2nd beast, the "another beast". Apostle John showed there that 2nd beast, an entity, the Antichrist, will appear LIKE a lamb, but speak as a dragon (another title for Satan). Sorry, but these prophecies just cannot apply to a pope who claims to be a Christian.
(d) -
"The Savior came into the world circumcised, so he will come similarly."
Hippolytus says the Antichrist also will, like Jesus, come from among the "circumcised", meaning the Jews. That again rules out a pope that claims to be a Christian.
(e) "The Savior assembled the sheep which had been scattered, so he similarly will gather up the scattered people."
Hippolytus is pulling from what Jesus warned at the end of Luke 17 about the 1st one 'taken'. When His disciples asked Him, "Where, Lord?", about where those 1st ones are taken, He told them that wheresoever the carcase is, that's where the eagles will be gathered. The idea is those gathered to those eagles represent the 'deceived', and they will be symbolically like a 'dead carcase', with those fowls representing Satan's host, feasting on them, spiritually via false worship.
One of the main denominations today that wrongly teaches that the Christian 'wants'... to be the 1st one taken, is man's false Pre-tribulational Rapture theory. They disregard what Jesus taught in that Luke 17:37 verse, which is a warning. The Matthew 24:28 verse is a parallel verse to that Luke 17:37 verse. So Hippolytus apparently knew about the grand illusion leading to deception at the end of this world by the coming false-Messiah-Antichrist.
(f) "The Lord was manifest in the form of a human, so he will come in the form of a human."
That is a common belief by many, but it's not actually written that the coming Antichrist will be born in the flesh, as that idea is suggested by those who think the image of man must always involve flesh. The reality is that the image of man originated from GOD's Own Image Likeness per Genesis 1:26-27. All the angels have that image of man also, and they don't have flesh bodies.
The reason why it's important to understand this is, because Revelation points to Satan, the "dragon", as the future Antichrist that will come to play Messiah in Jerusalem, and work miracles, great signs and wonders, and that he will even ascend out of the bottomless pit to kill God's "two witnesses" in Jerusalem.
(g) "The Savior rose and demonstrated his own flesh as a temple, so he will raise up in Jerusalem a temple in stone."
Note how Hippolytus well understood the 'contrast' between Christ's death and resurrection representing the Spiritual Temple, while the Antichrist will raise up in a physical stone temple in Jerusalem. Hippolytus is pulling directly from 2 Thessalonians 2 about that stone "temple of God" in Jerusalem for the end which the "man of sin" (Antichrist) is come to sit in playing GOD. That stone temple in Jerusalem built by the orthodox Jews at the end of this world is a requirement to fulfill the "abomination of desolation" idol prophecy which Jesus quoted from Daniel about the end of this world.
So brethren, IF... you stick to what your Bible actually teaches, you will find the early Church father Hippolytus being closely aligned within Bible Scripture about the coming Antichrist at the end of this world. And it literally DESTROYS... all doctrines of men about a Catholic pope being the coming Antichrist, and also any orthodox Jewish priest being the "false prophet", which is actually just another 'role' that Antichrist will play.
