The Pope was not seen by most as Antichrist until the Reformation. Thats a long time for people to latch on.
Henry Grattan Guinness
The persecuted Waldenses were students of prophecy from the oldest times. How did they interpret the prophecies concerning "Babylon" and the "man of sin"? Here in this book of Leger's is their Treatise on Antichrist, written in the year 1120, or nearly 800 years ago. It is written in a language now extinct; Leger gives a French translation in parallel columns (here it is at p. 71). In simple, telling terms that treatise brands the Romish Church as the harlot Babylon, and the Papacy as the "man of sin" and antichrist. That was the faith and confession of the Waldenses.
So what occurred , once the Roman Catholic Church found out upon these truths , and how did the Papacy address this issue that confronted the Bride of Christ enemy ...
Thus began the tremendous war against the saints foretold in Daniel and the Apocalypse, and thence forward it was murderously prosecuted from century to century. Early in the thirteenth century was founded the Inquisition, and full persecuting powers entrusted by the popes to the Dominicans.
A remnant of the Vaudois escaping from the south of France took refuge in the Alps, where the light of the Gospel had been preserved from the earliest times.
I believe you will have to continue to search out this matter , for much of what you have written , on this post is in heavy error , your post is directly stating , that Anti- Chirst was in hiatus for well over 900 years. Then suddenly appears at the reformation depending on your starting point , when the protest began.
The protest did not begin at Luther , nor did it begin at John Wycliffe but at a earlier time , Just as Paul and John Thee Apostles of Jesus Christ our Lord , wrote to the churches in there letters ...
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Hippolytus , Irenaeus , Cyprian , Jerome along with many others , that were alive , persecuted by Roman Caesars understood the prophecy very clearly ...
Due to your bearing of false accusations against me , on one , of my particular thread located here :
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Waldensian Treatise on Antichrist
You will have to search this on your own ...
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You will have to search this on your own ...
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