Lord's Day: Jan 5, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Scripture: 1 John 2:18–24, 2 Corinthians 11:12–15, 2 John 1:7, Galatians 1:6–9, 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, Daniel 7:8, Revelation 13:18 Series: First John Topic: End Times CORRECTION: I misspoke when I said that the highest blasphemy in Islam is to deny that God had a Son—what I meant was the opposite: the highest blasphemy in Islam is to claim that God had a Son, and it is found in Surah 112, not 114: “In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1 Say (O Prophet), “He is Allah, the One. 2 Allah, the Absolute. 3 He begets not, nor was He begotten. 4 And there is none comparable to Him.”” Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 1 John 2:18–24 The Council of Trent, “On Justification,” CANON IX: “If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification,…let him be anathema.”CANON XX: “If any one saith, that the man who is justified and how perfect soever, is not bound to observe the commandments of God and of the Church, but only to believe [faith alone]; as if indeed the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life, without the condition of observing the commandments; let him be anathema.” 1689 Baptist Confession 26:4: “The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church [the only Head!], in whom, by the appointment of the Father, all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner [exclusive manner];7 neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof, but is that antichrist [singular], that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.8” [7] Colossians 1:18; Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians 4:11-12 [8] 2 Thessalonians 2:2-9 “...the name under which the Papacy “received the Roman empire” was by the Donation of Constantine [BTW: the most famous fraudulent document in history, which falsely claims that Constantine transferred the authority, power and land of Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope!]…and in that Donation, the pope is called the “Vicar of the Son of God,” or in Latin, VICARIVS FILII DEI….the name of the man, when the Roman Numerals are summed up, is 666.” (Timothy F. Kauffman, ‘One Kingdom Too Late’, Out of His Mouth, 2014 [accessed 5 January 2025]) "Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer; in the seventeenth century, Bunyan, the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton... George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, [John Wesley!]; and more recently Charles Spurgeon, J.C. Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; these men among countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist." (Michael de Semlyen, All Roads Lead to Rome, p. 205, 1991) We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am: ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church4712 Montana Ave El Paso, Texas 79903 Contact us at: web: ThornCrownCovenant.Churchcall/text: (915) 843-8088email: ThornCrownCovenantBChurch@gmail.com The Jesuits rallied to the Roman cause by providing two alternatives to the historical [historicist] interpretation of the Protestants. These alternatives, preterism and futurism, were designed to deflect attention from the papacy as Antichrist by making Antichrist exclusively a figure of the past (preterism) or of the future (futurism). In this way the Jesuits attempted to refute the Reformers’ identification of the papacy as Antichrist. The first alternative developed by the Jesuits was Preterism—which is now the view held by many [liberals and] post-millennialists [who tend to deny the inspiration of the Bible or spiritualize away relevant Scriptures]. Luis de Alcazar (1554-1613) of Seville, Spain, devised what became known as the “preterist” system of ...
