ST. PETER’S CATHEDRALROME

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THE GREATAPOSTASY

ACTS 20:28-30I TIMOTHY 4:1-4

FROM AMONG YOUROWN SELVES

• ELDERS - ONE CONGREGATION• ELDER - ONE CONGREGATION• ELDER - SEVERAL CONGREGATIONS• FINALLY, TWO CENTERS -- ROME

AND CONSTANTINOPLE• ROME BECAME PRE-EMINENT

DEVELOPMENT OFTHE MAN OF SIN

• MAN OF SIN• SON OF PERDITION• EXALTETH HIMSELF• SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD• SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD• THE APOSTLE PAUL, II THESS. 2:1-8

THE FIRST POPE

• BECAME KNOWN AS THE “UNIVERSAL BISHOP”• DECLARED BY THE EMPORER

PHOCAS - 606 A. D.• BONIFACE III (NOT PETER)

BECAME THE FIRST POPE

THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDINGOF THE MAN OF SIN

• PAUL STATED THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS ALREADY BEGINNING (II THESS. 2:7).• CHRIST WILL DESTROY WITH THE

BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING (II THESS. 2:8).

APOSTASY FROMGOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN

• PROPHESIED BY INSPIRED MEN• FULFILLED IN THE EVENTS OF

CHURCH HISTORY• MATCHED THE SIGNS REVEALED

BY THE APOSTLES OF CHRISTTOO PLAIN TO BE DENIED

MARKS OF THE APOSTASY

• FORBIDDING TO MARRY• COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM

MEATS• DEVELOPMENT OF THE “MAN OF

SIN”• FALLING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH

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