Excerpt from “The Case for the Pre Wrath Rapture” by Kenneth W. Eckerty
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The testimony of the early church was that they would see antichrist and suffer persecution at his hands.
* Tertullian: "That the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God....Since, then, the Scriptures both indicate the stages of the last times, and concentrate the harvest of the Christian hope in the very end of the world."
* Justin Martyr: "The man of apostasy...shall venture to do unlawful things on the earth against us, the Christians."
* The Pastor of Hermas: "Happy ye who endure the Great Tribulation that is coming."
* Iranaeus: "And the ten kings...shall give their kingdom to the beast, and put the Church to flight."
* Barnabas: "Take heed, lest resting at our ease, as those who are called of God, we should fall asleep in our sins, and the wicked prince, acquiring power over us, should thrust us away from the Kingdom of the Lord."
* Hippolytus: "Now concerning the tribulation of the persecution which is to fall upon the Church from the adversary. That refers to the 1260 days during which the tyrant is to reign and persecute the Church."
* Tertullian: "That the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God....Since, then, the Scriptures both indicate the stages of the last times, and concentrate the harvest of the Christian hope in the very end of the world."
* Justin Martyr: "The man of apostasy...shall venture to do unlawful things on the earth against us, the Christians."
* The Pastor of Hermas: "Happy ye who endure the Great Tribulation that is coming."
* Iranaeus: "And the ten kings...shall give their kingdom to the beast, and put the Church to flight."
* Barnabas: "Take heed, lest resting at our ease, as those who are called of God, we should fall asleep in our sins, and the wicked prince, acquiring power over us, should thrust us away from the Kingdom of the Lord."
* Hippolytus: "Now concerning the tribulation of the persecution which is to fall upon the Church from the adversary. That refers to the 1260 days during which the tyrant is to reign and persecute the Church."
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