Alan Fuller's Reviews > The Antichrist

Pink was a Dispensationalist before he rejected that doctrine. This book must have been written during his pre-trib years. He later wrote an excellent critique of that system. He blames Luther and his contemporaries for applying prophecies concerning the Antichrist to Rome, which is responsible for the whole modern system of post-millennialism.

Pink makes extensive use of typological interpretation, which is not the kind of literal interpretation that Dispensationalists sometimes insist on. He makes somewhat contradictory statements about the Antichrist. In one place he says Antichrist will be an imitation Christ. In another place, he says Antichrist will be a political, commercial, military, and governmental genius. Is this an imitation of Christ? Antichrist will have three headquarters: Jerusalem will be his religious headquarters, Rome his political, and a rebuilt Babylon his commercial. He also believes the "Bride," in prophecy is Israel. The idea that the Church is the Bride is a statement nowhere affirmed in Scripture according to Pink. He doesn't discuss Rev 21:2, Eph 5:30-32, Gal 4:25-26, or other related scriptures.