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Futurism: A Jesuit

Deception

The doc trines of the Fu tur ist School of pro phetic in ter pre ta -
tion have been one of the great hin drances to a cor rect un der -
stand ing of proph ecy. Many have been blinded by these to the
pur pose and man ner of YEHOVAH God’s deal ings with His
peo ple Is rael as sep a rate and dis tinct from Ju dah.

W. F. Finlayson

O ne of Sa tan’s great est achieve ments in An 18th cen tury Je suit, Emanuel

for ward
Ribera’s in ter -
these last hours of the last days has been Lacunza, had car ried
his de cep tion of the Evan gel i cal pre ta tion add ing a few fur ther de cep tions of his
Churches through the Fu tur ist in ter pre ta tion of own, pub lish ing it un der the ti tle: The Com ing
Bi ble Proph ecy. of Mes siah in Glory and Maj esty. To de ceive
Prot es tants its au thor was falsely named Ben
The orig i na tor of this false teach ing Ezra -- sup pos edly a con verted Jew.
was Je suit Fran cisco de Ribera, who pub lished
it in 1585 in or der to op pose the Historicist in - In this work La cuna laid the foun da tion
ter pre ta tion which iden ti fied the Pa pacy as the for the false Fu tur ist teach ing that Je sus
Antichrist and the Church of Rome as “Bab y - (Yeshua) is com ing again -- twice! Once in se -
lon.” cret to rap ture the Church and take it to Heaven
-- the fi nally -- three-and-a-half years later to
The Re formers were in spired by the judge the world.
fact that the proph e cies re gard ing the great
Antichrist in Dan iel 7:2, 2 Thessalonians 2 A copy of the book was stra te gi cally
and Rev e la tion 13 are to tally ful filled in the Pa - pre sented to the li brary of the Arch bishop of
pacy. Can ter bury. The Li brar ian, Dr. R. Maitland,
stud ied it and was de ceived by it and pub lished
To op pose the be lief of the Prot es tants a se ries of tracts prop a gat ing its er rors. Then
(which in cluded the Churches of God) that the the fa mous Scot tish preacher, Ed ward Irving,
popes were Antichrist, Ribera for mu lated the was like wise de ceived and trans lated it into
teach ing that Antichrist would ap pear in the fu - Eng lish and be gan preach ing its er rors.
ture at the close of the Chris tian Dis pen sa tion --
re build the Tem ple -- abol ish Chris tian ity -- be One of the found ers of the Brethren
ac cepted by the Jews -- pre tend to be God and Move ment, J. N. Darby, was also de ceived by
con quer the world in three-and-a-half-years. it and preached its er rors in Brit ain and Amer -
ica with great suc cess. Fu tur ism also suited the
Ribera’s false in ter pre ta tion was un suc - pur pose of the Tractarian or Ox ford Move -
cess ful with Prot es tants un til the 19th cen tury. ment, which was brought into be ing to bring

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