The Signs of the Times Magazine Advocates the Jesuit Futurism Theory, the Idea that the Antichrist Will Arise at Some Point in the Future after the Sealing Work has been Completed

"The Antichrist," written by David Lackey, was the featured article in the Signs of the Times for March 2023. Despite the fact that the article "The Antichrist" contained a total of 2,167 words, it is quite remarkable that the words "Papacy," "pope," "Rome," "Vatican," or "Catholic" don't appear anywhere in this essay. Instead, the current editors and writers at the Signs of the Times are telling us that the Antichrist is Satan and that he will appear in the future, sometime after the sealing work is finished. The article does mention the beast of Revelation, the man of sin, and the Antichrist, but they are not identified with the Papacy. The Signs of the Times writer applies all those terms to Satan when he seeks to impersonate Christ sometime in the future after the close of the sealing message.

How can an article about the Antichrist be published without actually identifying him or, at the very least, showing that the Protestant Churches historically associated the term "Antichrist" with the Papacy? How did the Signs of the Times editorial staff fail to reveal the true nature and objectives of the Papacy?

Ever since the Protestant Reformation, the view that has dominated Protestantism has been that the Papacy is the Antichrist. Among its supporters were the Waldenses, Huguenots, Hussites, Anabaptists, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Tyndale, Latimer, John Wesley (Methodists), George Foxe (Quakers), Menno Simons (Mennonites), John Knox (Presbyterians), and many others, including the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. As the leaders of the Protestant Reformation grew in their understanding and appreciation of the gospel and the Holy Scriptures, they also grew in their recognition that the Papacy was the Antichrist. This was becoming more obvious as their understanding of the truth became clearer.

This became known as the historic Protestant view. Most Protestant prophetic interpretations, from the Reformation of the 16th century all the way down to the rise of Seventh-day Adventists during the 19th century, have identified the Papacy as the Antichrist. And those who reject the historical view of Antichrist are undermining one of the historical pillars of Protestantism. The Reformation would not have happened without the belief that the Pope was and is the Antichrist. If the Pope wasn't Antichrist, then why leave the fellowship of the Roman Catholic Church? What right do we have to be separate if the reasons for being a Protestant don't exist anymore? Why did the Protestants "come out"? We owe our very existence to the Reformers' convictions that the Pope is the Antichrist.

One of the most amazing developments that is assisting in the healing of Rome's deadly wound is the rejection of the Protestant churches' interpretation that the Papacy is the Antichrist. The Papacy has gone from being the Antichrist to becoming our brother in Christ. The churches today are accepting the new Jesuit interpretation, which asserts that the Antichrist will appear in some distant future. It is called futurism. Catholics, Protestants, and even some Seventh-day Adventists are espousing this futuristic interpretation of the Antichrist. How does this happen? Is this the result of our 60-year involvement in the ecumenical movement? Or is it because of Jesuit infiltration? Or is it both?

The Signs of the Times magazine is not giving people the real signs of the end times or the real interpretation of Bible prophecy. Unfortunately, like many of our other publications, it has become a generic, non-doctrinal, ecumenical publication. How can we trust them to tell us who the beast is, what the mark is, and, most importantly, how to avoid it, if they can't even tell people who the Antichrist is?

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