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Pope Benedict XVI about the Antichrist
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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.
Luke 21:8.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Acts 20:30. 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. Matt 11:25. 2 Cor 1:21. 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Mark 8:38. John 8:19.
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Matt 7:15.
Rev 2:2.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 1 John 2:22. 1 Cor 12:3. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 2 Chr 32:7. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. John 15:19.
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For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 4:1.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. The Antichrist belongs to the Church
In 2015, Benedict XVI wrote letter to Catholic statesman Vladimir Palko, urging prayer against the 'expanding power of the Antichrist'.
Rod Dreher
Benedict XVI: It Is The Time Of Antichrist
The consequence of this radical thesis, which divides and at the same time unites a Church of the wicked and a Church of the just, is, according to Ratzinger, that the Church is, until the Last Judgment, both Church of Christ and Church of the Antichrist: “From this it follows that the Antichrist belongs to the Church, grows in it and with it up to the great discessio [separation], which will be introduced by the definitive revelatio”.
Giorgio Agamben
The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days
Benedict is saying that there is no such thing as a spiritual vacuum. If people should one day reject Christianity, then they would come to hate it, and that would usher in the reign of Antichrist, and “the (perverted) end of all things”. No wonder Ratzinger was so apocalyptic!
Rod Dreher
Benedict XVI: It Is The Time Of Antichrist
Now Kant considers the possibility that as well as the natural end of all things there may be another that is unnatural, a perverse end. He writes in this connection: “If Christianity should one day cease to be worthy of love ... then the prevailing mode in human thought would be rejection and opposition to it;
and the Antichrist ... would begin his—albeit short—regime (presumably based on fear and self-interest);
but then, because Christianity, though destined to be the world religion, would not in fact be favoured by destiny to become so, then, in a moral respect, this could lead to the (perverted)
end of all things”[18].
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