In the futurist interpretation, the events of Revelation 4-22 are future. This is valid, and I believe it is. However, we cannot discount that prophecies have multiple valid interpretations, and that in the Protestant Reformation they had another view. This other view is that the Antichrist was the Papacy. This interpretation seems strange to those who have not heard about it, and only been brought up in the futurist view, but once the historicist view is studied, there is a lot to show the exact correctness of the historical interpretation.
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