Posted by Bible Probe on July 27, 2005 at 18:10:19:
In Reply to: The 70th Great weeks of Daniel Delusion posted by Bible Probe on July 26, 2005 at 20:56:56:
I'm glad you brought up the 1260 days Kathy.
I'm half Catholic and half Protestant--so what I am about to say --I hope it
does not upset the good Catholics who are on this message board. And I know
there are several.
The 1260 days are in fact the 1260 years in which the Roman Catholic Church did
in fact "war against the saints". This is past history. It was the major reason
for the Protestant Reformation. It all ended in 1798. Since that time, the
Catholic Church was/is not that same "spirit of antichrist" that it was for
those 1260 years. The Catholic Church you are I grew up in is no way the same as
it was when it was in fact an antichrist for 1260 years. It does still have some
of the trappings of that old Church, however. I am thinking on their insistence
on man made traditions. Some of these are beautiful.
Catholics have to stop and think just really who Protestants are. Protestants
are ex-Roman Catholics who saw that the Catholic Church, from 538 AD to 1798 AD
was in fact the antichrist that Daniel prophesized about. Protestants did not
want to break away. But put yourself in their shoes during that
period--indulgences, inquisition, many false and sinful popes, scripture not
being given to the masses to read, and haughty popes claiming they were even
above the kings and princes of Europe.
Like Daniel's earlier prophesy pin-pointing to the day Jesus would ride into
Jerusalem on a donkey and be proclaimed king (happened on the exact day in 32 AD
on Psalm Sunday)---Daniel also prophesized the exact length of time that the
antichrist would be in the church. Daniel said that that the saints would be
given to his hand for "a time and times and half a time". God referred to this
as seven times. A time represents a year in the Hebrew 360-day year. So 3 1/2
times is 3 1/2 years. This equals 42 months based on the biblical 30-day
month--or 1,260 days.
First you have to understand that the antichrist could be both an evil
system, a man, and/or both. In Daniel 7:8,21 he describes the
antichrist as a little horn who makes war against the saints, and prevailing
against them"
What happened and when?
In Thessalonians 2 Paul told us when the 1260 years (called days) would begin.
It was when the "restrainer" was removed.
Who was the restrainer of this antichrist? Nearly all early Catholic church
fathers and early Protestant theologians agree that the restrainer was not the
"Holy Spirit" as many falsely preach. The restrainer that had to be removed
before the arrival of that antichrist (Papacy) was the Roman Empire (the
Caesars).
Why this prophesy of Daniel is also awesome is that it happened exactly as
prophesized. In 476 AD, the Roman Empire fell and the Caesar "restrainer" was
removed (see 2 Thessalonians 2:7). The 1260 year period when the antichrist
(Roman Papacy) would preside over the dark ages, inquisition, etc began a little
later in 538 AD after the Roman Empire had already collapsed and an eastern
empire ruler named Emperor Justinian issued his famous decree that made the Pope
the legal "Head of all the Holy Churches". This began the prophesized reign of
that antichrist (Papacy system).
Add 1260 years to 538 AD and we come out to 1798 AD, when this evil system
ended.
What happened in 1798 AD? A general of Napoleon's (named Berthier) entered Rome
with his French army. The Papacy was abolished, the pontifical ring was removed,
and the sitting Pope--Pope Pius VI was sent to France,where he died in exile.
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