The covid clot shot exposed for all to see that when the real mark of the beast comes along, most people will line up to take it. Especially when refusing it not only means losing your job, but also your head if you are caught and still refuse it.
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Preterists are committed to the view that the majority of the prophecies of the book of Daniel have already been fulfilled and therefore have no significance for the present day. The pertinent points of the preterist view of prophetic interpretation come from the Spanish Jesuit Luis De Alcazar (1554-1613) and the part he played in the Counter Reformation. The Papal Roman Catholic Church commissioned De Alcazar and another Spanish Jesuit Priest to develop false interpretations of prophecy to take the heat off the Pope, who was feeling some discomfort from the Protestant Reformers talk that the Papacy was the Antichrist. The main idea of this novel theological construct was that if the Antichrist had been fulfilled in the past, then it could not be the Papacy. Preterism claims that the apocalyptic prophecies, especially those dealing with the Antichrist, were fulfilled before the Papacy ever ruled Rome. Since they were already fulfilled, the prophecies could not apply to the Papacy.
So basically, the intent of preterism (and futurism, might I add!) was to be diversionary, that is, to counter the Protestant's interpretation and present alternatives, no matter how implausible they might be.
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Francisco Ribera (1537-1591), another brilliant Jesuit Priest and doctor of theology from Spain, puts the Antichrist into a future three and a half literal years, while De Alcazar's preterism identifies the Antichrist as Nero. BOTH of them put Antichrist outside of the Middle Ages and the Protestant reformation period, identified by them as Antichrist's reign of 1260 prophetic years.
Luis De Alcazar (1554-1613) wrote a commentary called Investigation of the Hidden Sense of the Apocalypse, which ran to some 900 pages. In it he proposed that all of Revelation applied to the era of pagan Rome and the first six centuries of Christianity. According to Alcazar (or Alcasar):
Revelation chapters 1-11 describes the rejection of the Jews and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
Revelation chapters 12 - 19 were the overthrow of Roman paganism and the conversion of the empire to the Church.
Revelation 20 describe the final persecutions by Antichrist, who is identified as Cæsar Nero (54-68 A.D.), and judgment.
Revelation 21 -22 describe the triumph of the New Jerusalem, the Roman Catholic Church.
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They are a pair, belonging to the same dialectic of smoke, and total bullshit.
Thank you, that was excellent. I'll be looking into some of this later.
Interesting how often heresies are generated via the Jesuits.