Obbe, the brother of the equally famous Anabaptist Dietrich Philips, withdrew from Anabaptism — once he became convinced that it was fraudent. Around 1560, he published his Confession alias his Recollections of the years 1533-1536 — being an account of what had opened his eyes to this fraud.
Obbe’s frank and honest Confession is of very great importance in exposing neo-Anabaptism (such as pseudo-Pentecostalism and other heresies) today. Consequently, we now present important excerpts therefrom.
Wrote Obbe: “The first church of Christ and the apostles, was destroyed and ruined in early times by Antichrist…. All who with us are called ‘Evangelical’ know that the whole of the papacy is a Sodom, a Babylon and Egypt, and an abomination of desolation — the work or service of Antichrist…. Its ordinances…and teachings are false….
