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Early Church Fathers on the Timing of the Rise of Antichrist

https://www.biblelightinfo.com/fathers-on-antichrist.htm

Roman War Criminal and his friends also refuse to discuss this as well, because it directly contradicts the Pre-trib rapture. Am I making it up? Nope. Historical fact. Early Church Fathers stated that The Restrainer of the Antichrist was the ROMAN EMPIRE.

(Just one of the article’s examples:)

Tertullian (2nd-3rd Century)

ON THE RESURRECTION, CHAP. XXIV

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now hinders must hinder, until he be taken out of the way.” What obstacle is there but the Roman state, the falling away of which, by being scattered into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist upon (its own ruins)? “And then shall be revealed the wicked one, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.”

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0316.htm

APOLOGY, CHAP. XXXII.

There is also another and a greater necessity for our offering prayer in behalf of the emperors, nay, for the complete stability of the empire, and for Roman interests in general. For we know that a mighty shock impending over the whole earth—in fact, the very end of all things threatening dreadful woes-—is only retarded by the continued existence of the Roman empire. We have no desire, then, to be overtaken by these dire events; and in praying that their coming may be delayed, we are lending our aid to Rome’s duration.

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm