The age of Laodicea is typically identified as occurring in the same time period as the expositor.
The non-separatist Puritan, Thomas Brightman, was the first to propose a historicist interpretation of the Seven Churches of Revelation 2–3. Seventh-day Adventists also teach that the Antichrist is the papacy. the "Little horn" of Daniel 7 and 8 and.the Man of Sin (or Man of Lawlessness) in 2 Thessalonians 2.the Antichrist (1 and 2 John) the Beasts of Revelation 13.Some of the debated features of the Reformation historicist interpretations reached beyond the Book of Revelation. The Centuriators of Magdeburg, a group of Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg headed by Matthias Flacius, wrote the 12-volume " Magdeburg Centuries" to discredit the Papacy, and identify the pope as the Antichrist. Some Franciscans had considered the Emperor Frederick II a positive Antichrist who would clean the Church from riches and clergy. Others such as Jerome (347–420): "Says the apostle, ‘Unless the Roman Empire should first be desolated, and antichrist proceed, Christ will not come.’" Jerome also identifies the little horn power of Daniel 7:25 which "shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws" as the Papacy. So rather than expecting a single Antichrist to rule the earth during a future Tribulation period, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Protestant reformers saw the Antichrist as a present feature in the world of their time, fulfilled in the papacy. The Centuriators of Magdeburg, a group of Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg headed by Matthias Flacius, wrote the 12-volume " Magdeburg Centuries" to discredit the papacy and identify the pope as the Antichrist. E.Protestant reformers, including Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, John Thomas, John Knox, and Cotton Mather, felt the early church had been led into apostasy by the Papacy and identified it as the Antichrist. Elliott’s system, appeared (in the Rock, January 7, 1876) within six months of Mr. Bateman, affording a very striking posthumous corroboration of the truth of Mr.
Postscript to Preface of Fifth Edition of the “Horae Apocalypticae ” on the Pope’s own published Testimony to the Fact of the completed Expiration in 1867 of the 1260 Predicted Years of Papal Spiritual Dominancy in the Kingdoms of Western Christendom. The Spirits Of Infidel Lawlessness, Of Popery, And Of Priestly Tractarianism, A.D.Supplemental History Of The True, As Distinguished From The Nominal, Reformed Church.Supplemental History Of The Adversaries Of The Church Continued.Supplemental History Of The Adversaries Of The Church.23 The British Church Amongst The Witnesses.Political Establishment Of The Reformation.Middle Age History Of The Joint Lines, A.D.Early History Of The Eastern And Western Lines.Reformation Of The Ministry And Of The Church.Chronological Notice Of The Reformation.Discovery Of Antichrist The Usurper, A.D. The Epoch Of Antichrist’s Triumph, A.D.The Unrepentant State of Western Christendom. The Faithful Distinguished Amidst Increasing Apostasy, A.D. Dissolution Of The Pagan Firmament - Constantine Establishes Christianity.Last Pagan Persecution Of The Church, Diocletian.Oppression Of The Empire, Military And Civil, And By God’s Four Sore Judgments.Prosperity and Triumph of the Roman Empire in the Era Next Following After the Visions in Patmos, Nerve to Commodus.Recommendatory Notice By The Author Of The “Horae Apocalypticae.”.Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. those lessons in Church History, as well as in Prophecy, contained in the larger four volume Horae Apocalypticae.” - Edward Bishop Elliott “The history of the Christian Church, nowadays more especially, must be considered an essential in education. Begun in 1837, it ran for five editions between 18.”
His Horae Apocalypticae is the greatest historicist exposition of the Apocalypse ever written. He was of the Evangelical school… A first rate scholar, he was deeply interested in bible prophecy and devoted his lifetime to its study. Edward Bishop Elliott (1793-1875) “graduated from Cambridge in 1816 and he served in various positions as a minister for the Church of England.