Effects of the Counter Reformation | Preterism | Futurism

The Roman Catholic effort to suppress the truths of the Reformation has been generally successful. The false teachings of Rome have permeated through the religious systems of the world and Protestant churches are often not only accepting these teachings, but also propagating them in their own seminaries and sanctuaries.

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Jakub Hałun

Virtually the entire Christian world has accepted either preterism, the doctrine that the Antichrist has come, or futurism , the doctrine that the Antichrist has yet to come. The doctrine on the immortality of the soul has opened the way for spiritism and false manifestations.

By accepting these teachings, and thereby unwittingly accepting papal primacy, Protestantism has fallen and become part of Babylon.

Those that followed the reformers did not continue the progress the reformers accomplished. Instead of pushing onward, studying Scripture and being vigilant against papal infiltration, Christians have slowly allowed themselves to be taken over.

This may be a surprise to many living today, but it was not a surprise to Henry Grattan Guinness, author of Romanism and the Reformation, who wrote this:

The Reformation of the sixteenth century, which gave birth to Protestantism, was based on scripture. It gave back to the world the Bible. It taught the Scriptures; it exposed the errors and corruptions of Rome by the use of the sword of the Spirit. It applied the prophecies, and accepted their practical guidance. Such Reformation work requires to be done afresh. We have suffered prophetic anti- papal truth to be too much forgotten. This generation is dangerously latitudinarian – indifferent to truth and error on points on which Scripture is tremendously decided and absolutely clear.

Our reformed faith is thus endangered both from without and from within, and it can be defended only by a resolute return to the true witness borne by saints and martyrs of other days. We must learn afresh from Divine prophecy God’s estimate of the character of the Church of Rome if we would be moved afresh to be witnesses for Christ as against this great apostasy.

We feel constrained to renew the grand old protest to which the world owes its modern acquisitions of liberty, knowledge, peace, and prosperity. We recognize it as a patent and undeniable fact that the future of our race lies not with Papists, but with Protestants. Its leading nations this day are not Papal Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but Protestant Germany, England, and America.

Romanism is apostate Latin Christianity—not apostate Christianity merely, but apostate Latin Christianity.ⁱ

i. Henry Grattan Guinness, Romanism and the Reformation (Hodder and Stoughton, 1887): 8-9.