dp Podcast Episode 9: How Catholicism Abused Bible Prophecy

The popular series Left Behind is based on today’s mainstream Protestant view of apocalyptic prophecy known as Futurism. Although it is now widely accepted in Protestant circles as Bible-based prophecy, it is actually based on Roman Catholic eschatology. And not only that, Futurism was one of Catholicism’s most effective decoys to divert attention away from being identified as Anti-Christ.

In this week's podcast Jesse Sias and Abraham Miranda talk about Catholicism’s attempts to distort the Bible’s prophetic record in order to vindicate itself from the outcries of the reformers. Brute force and persecution no longer proved effective against the reform movement. If the Catholic Church was to survive it would have to provide “prophetic proof” that it was not the Anti-Christ power of Scripture. What kind of proof did they provide? (Click on title to hear podcast).

Study References: Edwin de Kock, The Use and Abuse of Prophecy; L.E. Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers; Daniel 7, The Little Horn Power; Daniel 9, The Seventy Weeks Prophecy