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Biblical Civil Government Versus Satanic Civil Government In the Bible, Romans 13, John Calvin, by Jim Dodson (Free MP3)

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They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. - Hosea 8:4, KJV

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Prince Messiah's Claims To Dominion Over All Governments: And The Disregard Of His Authority By The United States, In The Federal Constitution, by James R. Willson (Free MP3 and Free Book)

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M'Crie goes on give extracts from THE CONFESSION OF HELVETIA; THE CONFESSION OF BOHEMIA, called the CONFESSION OF THE WALDENSES; THE CONFESSION OF SAXONY; THE FRENCH CONFESSION; THE BELGIC OR DUTCH CONFESSION; THE CONFESSION OF THE ENGLISH CONGREGATION IN GENEVA; THE SCOTS CONFESSION and THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION, all proving that "these confessions harmoniously agree in declaring as with one mouth that civil authority is not limited to the secular affairs of men, and the public care and advancement of religion is a principle part of the official duty of magistrates."


See our publication of Theodore Beza's (Calvin's successor in Geneva) HARMONY OF THE PROTESTANT CONFESSIONS (section 19, "Of the Civil Magistrate", on the Puritan Hard Drive) and the Westminster Confession of Faith (chapter 23) to confirm M'Crie's findings.

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250x250-Faded-Knox-Falconer-Quote And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isa, 2:2-4, KJV, emphases added



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Shall the Number of the Elect Be Great or Small? by Pastor Jim Dodson

(Copyright 2015, used by permission, links added)

Dear G---,


I suppose you have in mind these four places: Matt. 7:13, 14; 20:16; 22:14; Luke 13:23, 24. These, as far as I am aware, are the texts upon which pre- and a-millennialism tries to erect their doctrine of the fewness that shall be saved.


The passages in Matthew 7 and Luke 13 are parallel passages and already contain much of the answer in their contexts.


In the passage as found in Luke, whose Gospel is to instruct us in the character of Christ's perfect humanity, this warning is directly after two parables which express the pervasive success of the Gospel/kingdom of God on earth (cf. Luke 13:18-21). Those parables teach that the kingdom of God would have small beginnings but would one day fill the earth. If you have listened to the series (i.e., "Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism") I am doing on this topic, you have heard me recite many passages throughout the Bible that confirm this teaching of Jesus. Christianity began with a crucified Savior and all men (apostles included) denying him and, I believe Scripture teaches, it will toward the end of time have a millennium wherein the kingdom of God has become a great tree and leavened the three lumps (mixing parables).

Book Cover The Puritan Hope Graphic Matthew, more so than Luke, has emphasized the wideness of the way to destruction, Luke only mentions the narrow, or strait, gate. This is a warning contrasting Christianity with other approaches to God. The word translated "broad" in Matthew 7:13 means "spacious" or "roomy" and carries with it the idea of living comfortably and without troubles. The words "narrow" and "wide," describing the gates are relative terms. In other words, these only derive meaning in contrast to one another. There are two paths, and the two gates, or doors, standing at the head of each, the straight and narrow and the comfortable and wide. In Luke's account, he uses the same word for "gate," as John uses in 10:9 to give a metaphorical description of Jesus, "door." So, Jesus is contrasting salvation through him with other paths of salvation. It is through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God (Acts 14:22).


There are two other contrasting terms used in these passages, "many" and "few." Again, these are relative terms and give no real information as to the actual number of those saved. In Luke's account (which is the chronological Gospel, cf. Luke 1:3, he writes "in order"), this question is raised immediately after we are told that Jesus taught that the kingdom of God would fill the earth. Yet, at the time Jesus spoke, the church was still a "little flock" (Luke 12:32) waiting to receive the kingdom. In Matthew, the warning has been placed in a block of teaching expressing the difficulty of being saved and the ease with which men deceive themselves in this matter. The warning is for men to avoid taking the path that attracts the most and easiest attention of men.


At the time that Jesus spoke these words, it was historically true that neither had most of mankind been saved nor would most of the Jews to whom he preached then be saved. However, it shall always remain true that the preaching of Christianity will be wider than its reception.

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The passages in Matt. 20:16 and 22:14 both rely upon the previous teaching. However, in these passages, there is an explanation offered. "Many" are called but "few" are "chosen." The difference between the many and the few is that between calling and election. The call of the Gospel is always wider than its reception. Hence, the contrast. The reason is because not all who hear the outward preaching are elect of God. The Greek literally reads, "many are called, but few are elect." Throughout most of history, the contrast between the "many" and the "few" has been numerically significant. Yet, the contrast is what we might express by the words "more" or "less." More people are called, or bidden, less people are chosen. Even during the millennium, though the vast majority of men will be saved, the hearing of the Gospel will still be wider than the election of God. The difference is that during the millennium, though fewer will be elect than hear the Gospel, the number of the elect will be greatly increased so as to fill all the world. "The earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (i.e., everywhere). 


Should we look to the parables of the wheat and tares or the ten virgins, we might conclude that the number of elect versus reprobate would be virtually the same. Yet, I am unaware of any who seriously put forth this view because it would entail a wrong interpretation and misusing of the parables. They were not taught to indicate the progress of the kingdom of God on earth (unlike those in Luke 13:18-21); they were taught to encourage other traits in Christians (e.g., watchfulness, in the case of the ten virgins; patience in rooting out hypocrites, in the case of the tares). Matthew, in his Gospel, also emphasizes the progress of the kingdom of God in the middle of teaching the parable of the tares (cf. chap. 13) because the certainty of judgment does not preclude the progressive growth of the kingdom.


If you consider that there are more people alive today than throughout all of human history and, presumably, this will continue to be the case during the millennium, then, if most people living during the millennium are saved, most people in history will be too. One thousand years of ever increasing mankind numerically being brought to faith is layering of twenty generations of men, each larger than the previous, being redeemed. Thus, in heaven, the number of the elect is a number no man can number (cf. Rev. 7:9). During the millennium, Satan will be bound so as not to deceive the nations (not simply individuals; I deal with this in a series I taught on national establishments of religion and why they are biblical and eschatologically important). Nations, in their national capacity, with their natural majorities, will be converted to Christ then. Until then, the church goes through great tribulation. And, after the millennium, the church will endure a short period of tribulation before the end.

History Work of Redemption Edwards Book Cover More always hear than are saved. This is not, however, a concept that necessitates thinking the final number of the saved will be few. Less will be saved than heard the Gospel but, in the end, the overarching theme of Scripture is that Christ came to save the world not just a few scattered individuals. Just as all die in Adam, so all are made alive in Christ. Paul's point challenges credulity if he meant by "all" a number so significantly smaller than the number of people who ever shall exist that the mass of mankind is reprobate and counted for naught. It is clear the tree of humanity is to be pruned of its diseased branches but pruning does not entail cutting off the vast majority of the branches of a tree. If Adam was saved, then we should expect most of his offspring to share in the election of grace (a point to be determined eschatologically, in time; cf. 1 Tim. 2:6).


The importance of missionary endeavor is that this point cannot and will not be testified in due time, until all the nations hear the Gospel. When the seventh trump sounds, "the kingdoms of this world" shall become "the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ."


To paraphrase William G.T. Shedd, we should avoid two errors: first, that all men shall be saved; second, that only few men will be saved. Living in the time in which we find ourselves, it is easy to fall into the second error. During the millennium, men will likely fall into a variation of the first error and the short apostasy at its conclusion will remedy that. In glory, it will be a great multitude of mankind, in contrast to the whole of mankind, that will join in the praises of God to eternity (cf. Rev. 19:6).


The preponderance of Scripture teaches the universal spread and acceptance of the Gospel at some point in history (for proof, listen to my survey of the eschatology of the Bible). Four passages, which represent two teachings, and the second of which is founded upon the first, seems to be a slender thread upon which to erect the doctrine of the paucity of the saved.

Necessity-of-Reforming-the-Church-John-Calvin.jpg As a supralapsarian Calvinist, who believes in limited atonement, I place the sincerity of the Gospel offers in two considerations: First, in the fact that the entire action behind and constituting the incarnation is salvific, men were already condemned apart from Christ coming. Second, in the eschatological reality that most men will be saved. The idea that there is a sincerity, when you really intend most men will be lost, is contrary to all the universalistic passages in the Bible. God so loved the world but saved only a tiny number of men?!? The divine intention is stated throughout the Bible to save innumerable multitudes, nations of men, of which individual believers represent the first fruits. Christ did not die for every individual of mankind but he evidently died for a large enough portion of mankind that it could be considered the "all," "the whole world," "all men," etc. These terms make no sense, from an Augustinian point of view, without adopting some kind of "double-speak" wherein "all," "the whole world," "all men," etc. mean only a small, even parochial, portion of humanity. It appears that no more than one third of the angels fell (cf. Rev. 12:4; it may be less, this may not refer to the whole). Should we suppose that God, who made man in his own image, and the Son of God, who took upon himself not the nature of angels but the seed of Abraham, should have purposed to redeem a lesser percentage of men than angels were kept from apostasy? This seems to belie the claim that God's redemption of men is more exalted than his upholding and confirming of the elect angels (cf. 1 Pet. 1:12).


The problem you perceive in a single teaching, and its implication, may arise from a failure to perceive the part through the whole. The meaning of the individual text is determined by its relation to and context in the whole. This is why, in the series I have been pursuing on eschatology, I have attempted to give an overview to demonstrate that the overwhelming teaching in the Bible contravenes the notion that only a numerical few shall be saved. Less will be saved than hear, or even profess the true religion, but that does not mean the number of saved will be small or even smaller than the total number of the lost.


Grace and peace,

Jim Dodson

 

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The Doctrine of Justification by James Buchanan (Digital Download, Enhanced SWRB PDF)

This classic book contains an outline of the history of the doctrine of justification from the Old Testament to the author's day, as well as a lengthy exposition of it from Scripture. It also soundly refutes Antichrist's doctrine of justification by faith plus works. 520 pages, indexed.

Civil Government: An Exposition of Romans 13:1-7 by James M. Willson and Other Books and MP3s Defending the Classic Reformation Position on Civil Government (Free MP3 Audio Books, Free Online Books and Other Formats)

The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)

Making-Shipwreck-Evangelicals-Catholics-Together-Kevin-Reed.jpg Making Shipwreck of the Faith: Evangelicals and Roman Catholics Together by Kevin Reed (Free Online Book at SWRB.com)

"We take this opportunity to focus upon the preeminent issues of the Reformation. The present essay seeks to redirect the focus of readers to the bigger picture, providing a framework for assessing Roman Catholicism, contemporary evangelicalism, and the ECT document. This book illustrates how both Romanists and evangelicals have rejected scriptural teaching about (1.) the essence of the gospel, (2.) divinely-instituted worship, and (3.) the marks of a true church. By corrupting the gospel, worship, and the church, evangelicals and Roman Catholics together are making shipwreck of the Christian faith." - Kevin Reed, Making Shipwreck of the Faith: Evangelicals and Roman Catholics Together

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"The Counter Reformation is generally considered to have three aspects: the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the Council of Trent. In view of the significance of the Protestant apocalyptic interpretation of history which prophetically pinpointed step by step the events covering the whole Christian era from the beginning to the end (i.e. Historicism-ed.), it seems justifiable to suggest a fourth aspect, namely the preteristic (Preterism-ed.) and futuristic (Futurism-ed.) interpretations launched by Catholic expositors as a counterattack.
Kevin Reed, from his book review titled "The Ecclesiology of John Foxe: A book review by Kevin Reed of John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V. Norskov Olsen, 1973, citing Olsen on p. 47.

Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870) by David Steele (Free MP3s and Free Online Covenanter Book)

Reformed Audio Commentary On the Book Of Revelation by Pastor W.J. Mencarow (115+ Free MP3s)

Reformed Audio Commentary On the Book Of Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday (177+ Free MP3s)

 

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AMAZING FREE MP3 RADIO DEBATE: Ian Paisley Denounces Roman Catholic Pope, Papacy, As the Antichrist, Radio Debate

Antichrist-Papacy-Paisley.jpg This is one of the best debates of which we are aware. Every Protestant needs to listen to this debate at least once, as it contains an uncompromising testimony to one of the most unanimous truths championed by Protestant Reformers during the Protestant Reformation. In fact, the truth that the Papacy is the Antichrist (and/or the Historicism of which this truth is an integral component) is found in every major historic Protestant confession, catechism and covenant -- or was the position of the brave Reformation martyrs and ministers who drew up these important documents. This truth is also found in the writings of all the major Protestant Reformers. Furthermore, it is also certain that anyone who denies that the Papacy is the Antichrist, and/or is not a Historicist, is not holding to the original formulations of these great biblically-based Reformation documents -- and they are also most certainly not upholding the original Westminster Confession of Faith. In short, this soul-stirring free MP3 exhibits one of the strongest testimonies against the Papal Antichrist of which we are aware.

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"Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer; in the 17th century, Bunyan, the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton, Whitefield, Edwards, Spurgeon, Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones and countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist." - M. de Semlyen, All Roads Lead to Rome, p. 205, 1991.

The Pope is the Antichrist: A Demonstration from Scripture, history, and his own lips. Being a Precis of Dr. J. A. Wylie's Classic, "The Papacy is the Antichrist" By Ian R. K. Paisley (Free Online Book)

This free online book is the book mentioned near the beginning of the debate above.

Westminster Confession Of Faith Color Graphic There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. - Westminster Confession of Faith 25:6 (Original Edition), "Of the Church" -- beware of later editions of the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) where you will see that deceived churchmen have edited out the last portion of this biblical testimony against the Papacy as "that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God."

The Papacy is the Antichrist by J.A. Wylie & Others (Free Reformation MP3s, Books & Videos)

Includes, in various formats, The Papacy is the Antichrist (1888) by James A. Wylie, the other book discussed near the beginning of the debate noted above, as well as many other free Reformation resources defending the classic Protestant position on Antichrist.

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Jonathan Edwards On Eschatology, Prophecy, the Last Days, Antichrist, etc. by Jonathan Edwards (Free MP3)

 

Ezra #36, Historicism On the False Prophet, or Second, Earth, Beast Of Revelation 13 #1 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

 

Ezra #37, Historicism On the False Prophet, or Second, Earth, Beast Of Revelation 13 #2 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

Ezra #38, Historicism On the False Prophet, or Second, Earth, Beast Of Revelation 13 #3 by Greg Price (Free MP3) 

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The Antichrist Unveiled, The Man of Sin, the Pope by Richard Bennett (Free MP3)

The Antichrist Unveiled, The Man of Sin, the Pope by Richard Bennett (Free PDF)

 

Identifying the Ten Horns In the Book of Revelation & the Little Horn by Greg Price (Free MP3)

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The Biblical Uncovering of the Pope and the Papacy (Papacy is the Antichrist) by Richard Bennett (Free video by a former Roman Catholic priest who is now a Protestant and preaches God's sovereign grace.)

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How The Church Of The Apostles Was Hijacked By Rome (A History Of Apostasy And The Growth Of Antichrist) by William J. Mencarow (Free MP3)

Rome, Hitler, Fascism, the Jesuits, the Black Pope, the Antichrist (the Papacy), Judas, Sin, Hypocrisy, Hell, the Lake of Fire, Damnation, Nazis, etc. by Ian Paisley (Free MP3)

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Why Were Our Reformers Burned? For Their Adhesion to the Protestant Faith, J.C. Ryle (Free MP3)

 

If contemporary Evangelical leaders and their disciples discount and ignore these utterly basic prophetic and historical facts, they must understand they are placing themselves outside the stream of historic biblical Christianity . They are willingly divorcing themselves from great men of the faith -- Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Tyndale, Calvin, Cranmer, Latimer, Ridley, Bradford, Foxe, Bunyan, Newton, Edwards, Whitefield, ... Spurgeon, Ryle, and Lloyd-Jones to mention just a few. - Richard Bennett, "The Papacy and Islam(Free PDF) 

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Antichrist (Man of Sin, 666) and Eschatology In the Teachings of the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)

Is Popery the Antichrist? or The Tendency of Prophecy to Describe Things According to the Reality, Rather that the Appearance or Profession by Patrick Fairbairn

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Reformation Eschatology On Antichrist by Jonathan Edwards, John Calvin, David Brown, Charles Spurgeon, Richard Cameron, Dr. F.N. Lee, Pastor Greg Price, Iain Murray, David Steele, Pastor W.J. Mencarow, et al. (Many Free Reformed Resources)

The Growth and Fall of Antichrist by Thomas Manton and Other Reformers (Free Reformation MP3s, Books and Videos)

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The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)

Richard Bennett, former Roman Catholic priest, now a Calvinist (Free Videos, MP3s & PDFs)

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The 1615 Irish Articles was authored probably by the Puritan Archbishop James Ussher, who was later appointed a delegate to the Westminster Assembly. In 

its art. 80, it declares: "The Bishop of Rome is so far from being the supreme Head of the Universal Church of Christ, that his works and doctrine do plainly discover him to be 'that man of sin' foretold in the Holy Scriptures, 'whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His Mouth.'" Second Thessalonians 2:3-8.

  

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In his Body of Divinity (4th ed., p. 412), Ussher also wrote: "As Christ is the Head of the Church which is His Body, so Antichrist is the head of the Romish Church which is his body. And this Antichrist is one who, under colour of being for Christ, and under the title of [being] His Vice-gerent: exalteth himself above and against Christ; opposing himself unto Him in all His offices and ordinances both in Church and Commonwealth; bearing authority in the Church of God; ruling over that city with seven hills which did bear rule over Nations and put our Lord to death; a man of sin; a harlot; a mother of spiritual fornications to the kings and people of the Nations; a child of perdition, and a destroyer; establishing himself by lying-miracles and false-wonders. All [of] which marks together, do agree with none but the Pope of Rome."

 

- Dr. Francis Nigel Lee

  

Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, Antichrist, Dispensationalism, Jesuits, Islam, etc. by Richard Bennett (Free MP3)

The Modern History and Tyranny of Roman Catholicism and the Vatican Vision Related To Past and Coming Inquisitions by Richard Bennett (Free MP3)

 

The Roman Catholic (Papal Antichrist) Inquisition, the Tools of Torture and Faithful Christian Martyrs by Richard Bennett (Free Video and MP3)

"I deny that See to be Apostolical, wherein nought is seen but a shocking apostasy -- I deny him to be the Vicar of Christ, who, in furiously persecuting the gospel, demonstrates by his conduct that he is Antichrist."

- John Calvin, The Necessity of Reforming the Church, 1544 (Free Book) 

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Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy (Free Puritan & Reformed Resources)

Why God Hates Easter, One Of the Papal Antichrist's Obligatory High Holy Days by Brian Schwertley, Greg Price, William Perkins, Dr. Dilday, Dr. McMahon, Kevin Reed, et al. (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)

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Antichrist's (Rome's) Idolatry Rebuked 1 of 2 by John Owen (Free MP3)

Antichrist's (Rome's) Idolatry Rebuked 2 of 2 by John Owen (Free MP3)

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Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #1 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free Reformation Resources)

Antichrist's Strategy: Roman Catholic Agenda Embedded In Manhattan Declaration by R.C. Sproul, John MacArthur, James White, Richard Bennett, W.J. Mencarow, Dr. Steven Dilday and Greg Price (Free Reformation Resources)

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Sola-Scriptura-Regulative-Principle-Worship-Schwertley.jpg Everything that Popery touches it converts into sin. It possesses an accursed alchemy by which it transmutes what is good into evil. It has taken all the commandments of the decalogue and converted them into sin. It has taken all the doctrines of the Gospel and converted them into sin; it had taken all the sacraments of the Church and converted them into instruments of sin; it has taken all the offices and officers of the church and made them agents of sin; it has taken all that is subtle in intellect, all that is brilliant in genius, and all that is noble in eloquence, and used them in the service of sin. The policy of Popery is not to deny truth; it ever acts as a Vice-Christ, as a pretended friend; its policy is to pervert truth, to metamorphose it, and make it fight against itself. There is not a doctrine in the Bible which Popery does not in appearance admit; there is not a doctrine in the Bible which Popery does not in reality deny, and the saving effects of which it does not make void. It takes what is wholesome, and by its infernal skill changes it into what is poisonous. The spiritual apparatus which God has set up for His own glory and man's salvation, Popery has laid hold of and works for just the opposite ends even -- God's dishonour and man's ruin. It is a second and greater Jeroboam who has made Israel to sin. Verily, it is the "man of sin."

 

- Wylie, J.A., The Papacy Is the Antichrist, p. 47, SWRB reprint available on the Puritan Hard Drive 

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The Antichrist Unveiled (The Man of Sin, the Pope) by Richard Bennett (former Roman Catholic priest, now a Protestant preacher of the sovereign grace of God)

The Roman Catholic Socialist Offensive & the International Economic Crisis by Richard Bennett and Pastor W.J. Mencarow (Free Video & MP3)

Prophecy, Antichrist, and Eschatology (at PuritanDownloads.com)

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FREE on THE PAPACY IS THE ANTICHRIST & the Classic Biblical & Reformation View of Romanism (SWRB Blog)

Antichrist & His Emissaries Unmasked & Rebuked, Classic Reformation Eschatology by Greg Price (Free MP3)

 

Ezra #34, Preterism Refuted #1, Why Nero Is Not the Beast of Revelation or 666? #1 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

 

Ezra #35, Preterism Refuted #2, Why Nero Is Not the Beast of Revelation or 666? #2 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

 

God's Covenant With Israel #25, Preterism Refuted #9, Time Indicators In Revelation by Greg Price (Free MP3)

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Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom 1/2 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom 2/2 by Greg Price (Free MP3)

Papal Rome, the European Union, Antichrist, Prophecy, Jesuits, Reformation, Martyrs by Richard Bennett (Free MP3)

From Catholicism to Christ: Salvation Testimony By A Former Roman Catholic Priest by Richard Bennett (Free MP3)

Two-Babylons-Hislop.gif "There never has been any difficulty in the mind of any enlightened Protestant in identifying the woman (of Revelation 17) 'sitting on seven mountains', and having on her forehead the name written, 'Mystery, Babylon the Great,' with Roman apostasy. No other city in the world has ever been celebrated, as the city of Rome has, for its situation on seven hills ... To call Rome the city 'of seven hills' was by its citizens held to be as descriptive as to call it by its own proper name. Hence Horace speaks of it by reference to its seven hills alone, when he addresses, 'Thy gods who have set their affections on the seven hills'. Martial, in like manner, speaks of '... the seven dominating mountains' ... Now while this characteristic of Rome has ever been well marked and defined, it has always been easy to show, that the church which has its seat and headquarters on the seven hills of Rome might most appropriately be called 'Babylon,' inasmuch as it is the chief seat of idolatry under the New Testament, as the ancient Babylon was the chief seat of idolatry under the Old."
- Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pp. 1-2, emphases added (on the Puritan Hard Drive) 

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Shall the Number of the Elect Be Great or Small? by Pastor Jim Dodson


The Lord Jesus Christ Controls Empires, the Optimistic Eschatology of the Bible, Etc., by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)


Prince Messiah's Claims To Dominion Over All Governments: And The Disregard Of His Authority By The United States, In The Federal Constitution, by James R. Willson (Free MP3 and Free Book)

 

 Biblical Civil Government Versus Satanic Civil Government In the Bible, Romans 13, John Calvin, by Jim Dodson (Free MP3)

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