John Yurich wrote: It is totally false that the Pope is the ANTICHRIST. No Pope or anybody else has ever been the one and only ANTICHRIST. There will only be one ANTICHRIST. There are many antichrists. And the Pope is not an antichrist because the antichrist means against Christ. And since when is the Pope against Christ? And I am not serving the Pope because I have dispensed with the unscriptural doctrines and unscriptural parts to the Mass.
The Second Beast of Revelation (Rev. 13), which comes as a lamb (the Lamb of God) but speaks as the dragon (Satan), is commonly called Antichrist. Until relatively recently, the church has always taught that this is a counterfeit church, one that claims to be the church of Christ but is not. And no organization fits that description in the whole context of Scripture than Roman Catholicism; not one Pope, but the institution of the Papacy. This is what the church has always taught since the Papacy first manifested itself. It was only until the 19th century that this was even questioned by anyone outside the Roman faith.
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