Too Much Contempt and Wrath

Sin begets sin. Sin begets sin. As surely as man begets man, beasts beget beasts, birds beget birds, and fist beget fish, sin brings forth more sin. And on this earth, as fertile soil, sin develops until, as Paul writes in II Thessalonians 2:3, it has brought forth the man of sin, the son of perdition. Or, if you will, and as John calls him in I John 2:18, the Antichrist, who will appear and bring sin to its horrible climax. There was an antichrist -- a forerunner of the Antichrist to come,...