ST. PETER’S CATHEDRAL ROME

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THE GREAT APOSTASY ACTS 20:28-30 I TIMOTHY 4:1-4

FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES ELDERS - ONE CONGREGATION ELDER - ONE CONGREGATION ELDER - SEVERAL CONGREGATIONS FINALLY, TWO CENTERS -- ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE ROME BECAME PRE-EMINENT

DEVELOPMENT OF THE 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 A. D. BONIFACE III (NOT PETER) BECAME THE FIRST POPE

THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING OF 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 FROM GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN PROPHESIED BY INSPIRED MEN FULFILLED IN THE EVENTS OF CHURCH HISTORY MATCHED THE SIGNS REVEALED BY THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST TOO 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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