The Man of Sin | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1867

The Man of Sin.

“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, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 2 Thess. ii, 3, 4.

BOWER'S History of the Popes, Vol. iii, p. 428, bears the following testimony to the character of the papacy, showing the fitness of the apostolic description given above:

“To one who has become acquainted with true Christianity, as exhibited genuinely in the oracles of God, it is ineffably monstrous and overwhelming to contemplate the orgies and the impieties of the papacy! The man of sin, the son of perdition, that wicked, and other such designations of Holy Writ, are plainly fit and proper; and to a mind well informed and unprejudiced, or uncommitted to the interest of the Beast, their applicability and their truth are plain and indubitable. No wonder the popes oppose the distribution of the Scriptures among the people! It is in their impartial and eternal light, that the abomination of the whole system, both foundation and superstructure, appear in all their lurid horror—the invention and the masterpiece of hell.”