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Most Christians today believe in a false interpretation of prophecy systematized by a Spanish Jesuit, Francisco Ribera, in 1590. It is a counter-reformation deception that was rejected by Protestant scholars for centuries but recently adopted and popularized by Darbyism, becoming the dispensational futurism taught almost everywhere today.
O. T. Allis D.D. - Theology Professor Princeton:
The Futurist interpretation is traced back to the Jesuit Ribera (AD 1580) whose aim was to disprove the claim of the Reformers that the Pope was Antichrist. Prophecy and the Church, page 297
Dr. George Eldon Ladd - Professor Fuller Theological Seminary:
Ribera applied all of Revelation but the earliest chapters to the end time rather than to the history of the Church.
Antichrist would be a single evil person who would be received by the Jews and would rebuild Jerusalem, abolish Christianity, deny Christ, persecute the Church and rule the world for three and a half years.
…This futurist interpretation with its personal Antichrist and three and a half year period of tribulation did not take root in the Protestant church until the early nineteenth century. "The Blessed Hope".
A Great Cloud of Witnesses:"Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, Bunyan, the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist confessions of Faith;
Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards; and more recently Spurgeon, Bishop J.C. Ryleand Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; these men among countless others,
all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist."
Taken from All Roads Lead to Rome, by Michael de Semlyen. Dorchestor House Publications, p. 205. 1991.
You can learn more in this article:
The End of the Age and Strong Delusion
https://pinkbunnies.club/whiterabbit/blog/51/the-end-of-the-age-and-strong-delusion