Petrus Romanus or The False Prophet? The ‘temple of God’ identified. In order to arrive at a conclusion of Petrus Romanus or false Prophet, we need to establish the who, what, where, when and why of the ‘man of sin,’ and the ‘temple’ where he would sit. We need to understand the author and his background. Saint Paul was converted to Christianity in the year 34 AD. After 3 years (37 AD) he went up to Jerusalem to see Saint Peter, and again after 14 years {51AD} (Ga 1:18; 2:1). He wrote his Second letter to the Thessalonians in the year 52 AD, and this was 18 years after his conversion and 18 years before the destruction of the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. When Saint Paul wrote in 2Th 2:3,4: “Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition who opposes and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God,” he was warning us of the events in 2013. When it says ‘he sits in the temple of God’ it is important to know what or where is the ‘temple of God.’ Saint Paul believed Jesus Christ, and believed that He said of the old temple : “Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed” (Mt 24:2). It is obvious that this ‘temple of God’ was not the one in Jerusalem, but the one which Saint Peter would establish in Rome, that is the Vatican, taken from the Latin word ‘vaticinatio’ meaning to prophecy. When it says ‘a stone upon a stone,’ it means also the Pharisaic laws and rituals of the obstinate Jews.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:04:50 +0000
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