The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Mark of the Beast......?

Methinks that the Reformers, generally speaking, and many of the Postmill Puritans put too much emphasis upon Roman Catholicism, which I can certainly understand given the time they existed. And this justified angst toward Catholicism I believe was carried over into their interpretation/application of eschatology and the book of Revelation in particular. That is why I have to disagree sometimes with Calvin &co., Matthew Henry, et al. If one was not particularly familiar with Rome, the Pope, etc., and read through Revelation, I seriously doubt they would insert "Pope" for the beast, Man of Sin, but perhaps one of their own leaders. There is that tendency that exists and I think it is erroneous to do so. And, I often wonder, when those days come to pass if these figures spoken of in Revelation will be seen for who/what they are as the fulfillment of Scripture?