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Judging by the signs of the times, it is also logical to assume that the antichrist is alive and well and living on planet earth right now, most likely is an adult on the world political scene now. Just like Christ knew He was the long awaited Jewish Messiah, long before He was allowed to reveal Himself as such on the precise day of the Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem, so the AntiChrist may know who he is and is biding his time until he is allowed to take full control of this planet and its inhabitants. mSo if the antichrist is here and walking this planet now, WHO IS HE??? The scriptures give us many clues! Many, if not most of the clues will be apparent or fulfilled during the 7 year Tribulation period. But certainly there will be some if not many requirements that will be fulfilled prior to the day when the Holy Spirit is removed. Lets see what they are! For those who do not think we should study this subject I say: If God didn't want us to know who the antichrist was, why did He give us so many clues and scriptural references to him???? To ignore these passages of scripture would result in NOT taking in the Whole Counsel of God.Obama Fulfillment? Revelation 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number [is] 666."#The number of the antichrist is 666  Fullfilled`Chuck Smith Commentary: Now the number of man in scripture is "six". You're aware with Biblical numerics that each number has a significance. The number seven is the number of completeness. The number six is short of completeness, incomplete man. The number twelve is the number of human government, and number thirteen is the number for Satan. And in Hebrew and Greek it is more meaningful than in English, because in the Hebrew and Greek they also count with their alphabet. In other words the alpha, beta, gamma, delta is one, two, three, four as well as your A, B, C, D. And aleph, bet, gimel, daleth is the same in Hebrew, the one, two, three, four. It is your A, B, C, D also, but it is also the numeric so that every Greek letter has a numeric equivalent. So, you can do fun things with Greek words, such as you can total up the numeric equivalence of a Greek word, or you can total up the numerics in it. And interestingly enough, the number eight, being the number for Jesus, it is the number for new beginnings. Seven is the complete number. Seven notes in a scale, seven days in a week, so that the eighth zbecomes the new beginning. When you come to the eighth day, you have a new week. You come to the eighth note; you have a new scale. So eight is the number of new beginnings. Significantly, it is the number of Jesus. He is a new beginning. And you total up in Greek the letters that spell Jesus and you have the number 888. And every name for Jesus, if you total up the letters, it is always divisible by eight. If you total up the letters in all of the names for Satan in Greek, they are divisible by thirteen. So, there is a lot of interesting games that they can play with these numerics, because there are the numeric values there.Now, here is the mind that has wisdom. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number. It is the number of a man, and the number is 666. It is probably the total numeric value of the man's name, 666.*Chapter 2. THE PAPACY NOT THE ANTICHRIST. 7Chapter 5. THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF THE ANTICHRIST. )Chapter 6. THE CAREER OF THE ANTICHRIST. 'Chapter 7. THE DOOM OF THE ANTICHRIST. %Chapter 8. ANTICHRIST IN THE PSALMS. +Chapter 9. THE ANTICHRIST IN THE PROPHETS. 4Chapter 10. ANTICHRIST IN THE GOSPELS AND EPISTLES. *Chapter 11. ANTICHRIST IN THE APOCALYPSE. .Chapter 12. THE ANTICHRIST IN REVELATION 13 . %Chapter 13. TYPES OF THE ANTICHRIST. (Chapter 14. BABYLON AND THE ANTICHRIST. $Chapter 15. ANTICHRIST AND BABYLON. 0Chapter 16 . ANTICHRIST AND BABYLON. (REV. 18). 'Chapter 17. ISRAEL AND THE ANTICHRIST. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION. by A.W. Pink CONTENTS FORWARD THE ANTICHRIST(Chapter 3. THE PERSON OF THE ANTICHRIST /Chapter 4. NAMES AND TITLES OF THE ANTICHRIST. Antichrist Requirements" 12. One has for the number of His name (the gematria of  Jesus ) 888; the other has for the number of his name 666 ( Revelation 13:18). V1. One is called the Christ ( Matthew 16:16); the other the Antichrist ( 1 John 4:3).  c2. One is called the Man of Sorrows ( Isaiah 53:3); the other the Man of Sin ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3) d3. One is called the Son of God ( John 1:34); the other the Son of Perdition ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3). h4. One is called the Seed of woman ( Genesis 3:15); the other the seed of the Serpent ( Genesis 3:15).  R5. One is called the Lamb ( Isaiah 53:7); the other the Beast ( Revelation 11:7).  ]6. One is called the Holy One ( Mark 1:24); the other the Wicked One ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8).  I7. One is called the Truth ( John 14:6); the other the Lie ( John 8:44).  k8. One is called the Prince of Peace ( Isaiah 9:6); the other the wicked, profane Prince ( Ezekiel 21:25).  e9. One is called the glorious Branch ( Isaiah 4:2); the other the abominable Branch ( Isaiah 14:19).  10. One is called the Mighty Angel ( Revelation 10:1); the other is called the Angel of the Bottomless Pit ( Revelation 9:11).  m11. One is called the Good Shepherd ( John 10:11); the other is called the Idol Shepherd ( Zechariah 11:17).  o1. Christ came down from heaven ( John 3:13); Antichrist comes up out of the bottomless pit ( Revelation 11:7). b 2. Christ came in Another s Name ( John 5:43); Antichrist will come in his own name ( John 5:43).  s4. Christ was energized by the Holy Spirit ( Luke 4:14); Antichrist will be energized by Satan ( Revelation 13:4).  f 3. Christ came to do the Father s will ( John 6:38); Antichrist will do his own will ( Daniel 11:36).  ^5. Christ submitted Himself to God ( John 5:30); Antichrist defies God ( 2 Thessalonians 2:4). Y6. Christ humbled Himself ( Philippians 2:8); Antichrist exalts himself ( Daniel 11:37).  ^7. Christ honored the God of His fathers ( Luke 4:16); Antichrist refuses to ( Daniel 11:37).  c8. Christ cleansed the temple ( John 2:14,16); the Antichrist defiles the temple ( Matthew 24:15).  \9. Christ ministered to the needy ( Isaiah 53:7); Antichrist robs the poor ( Psalm 10:8,9).  f10. Christ was rejected of men ( Isaiah 53:7); Antichrist will be accepted by men ( Revelation 13:4).  \11. Christ leadeth the flock ( John 10:3); Antichrist leaveth the flock ( Zechariah 11:17).  `12. Christ was slain for the people ( John 11:51); Antichrist slays the people ( Isaiah 14:20).  s13. Christ glorified God on earth ( John 17:4), Antichrist blasphemes the name of God in heaven ( Revelation 13:6). v14. Christ was received up into heaven ( Luke 24:51); Antichrist goes down into the Lake of Fire ( Revelation 19:20).  BJesus warned us the the antichrist will be received by the Jews. ?=The last ten verses of this chapter should be read carefully. They furnish a striking foreshadowment of the End-time. Shebna was holding so< me office over (note  government in Isaiah 22:21) Israel. Apparently he was a usurper. God announced that he should be set aside in shame, and the man of His choice  Eliakim  should take his place. These historical figures merge into prophetic characters. In Isaiah 22:22 we read that God says,  And the key of the house of David will lay upon His shoulder, so He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall open . As we know from Revelation 3:7 this refers to none other than the Lord Jesus, and of Him it is here said,  And I will fasten Him as a Nail in a sure place; and He shall be for a glorious throne to His father s house ( Isaiah 22:23). Then, in the closing verse of the chapter we read,  In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the Nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall . Just as Eliakim foreshadowed Christ, so Shebna pointed forward to the Antichrist; and just as in Isaiah 22:23 we have a prophecy announcing the establishment of Messiah s Kingdom, so in Isaiah 22:25 we have foretold the overthrow of the false messiah s kingdom. He will be possessed of extraordinary intelligence. He will be the Devil s imitation of that blessed One  in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge ( Colossians 2:3). This Son of Perdition will surpass Solomon in wisdom. In Daniel 7:20 he is represented as  A horn that had eyes . It is a double symbol. The  horn prefigures strength;  eyes speak of intelligence. Again, in Daniel 8:23 he is referred to as  A King of fierce countenance . who shall  understand dark sentences . That which baffles others shall be simple to him. The Hebrew word here translated  dark sentences is the same as the one rendered  hard questions in <111001> Kings 10:1, where we read of the Queen of Sheba coming to Solomon with her  hard questions in order to test his wisdom. It is also the word that is used in Samson s riddle in Judges 14. It indicates that the Antichrist will be master of all the secrets of occult science. Ezekiel 28:3 declares of him  Beholding, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee . This will be one of his most alluring attractions. His master mind will captivate the educated world. His marvelous store of knowledge, his acquaintance with the secrets of nature, his superhuman powers of perception, will stamp him as an intellectual genius of the first magnitude. There has been so much discussion and concern lately that Obama is the antichrist, I decided it would be helpful to just have a handy check list of all the characteristics the antichrist will have and key actions he will take. Then one can just go down the list and check off fulfillment of key requirements. I looked on the internet for just such a Check List but could not find one, so I am creating one from various sources, mostly from Arthur W. Pink's book: The Antichrist. 6. Christ was, according to the flesh, a Jew ( Romans 1:3); so also will the Antichrist be  for proofs see chapter three, section one. v5. But Christ was more than a man; He was the God-Man; so also will the Antichrist be more than a man: the Super-man.  4. Christ was a Man, a real Man,  the Man Christ Jesus ( 1 Timothy 2:5); so also will the Antichrist be   that Man of Sin ( Thessalonians 2:3). E 3. Christ was revealed only at God s appointed time: such will also be the case with the Antichrist. Of the one we read,  But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son ( Galatians 4:4); of the other it is said,  And now we know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time ( 2 Thessalonians 2:6).C2. The Lord Jesus was typified by many Old Testament characters such as Abel, Joseph, Moses, David, etc. So also will the Antichrist be: such characters as Cain, Pharaoh, Absolom, Saul, etc., foreshadow the Man of Sin. We shall devote a separate chapter to this most fascinating and totally neglected branch of our subject.1. Christ was the subject of Old Testament prophecy: so also is the Antichrist; many are the predictions which describe this coming one, see especially Daniel 11:21-45. f7. Christ will make a covenant with Israel ( Hebrews 8:8); so also will the Antichrist ( Daniel 9:27).m  8. Christ is our  Great High Priest ; so Antichrist will yet be Israel s great high priest ( Ezekiel 21:26). s 13. Christ is shown to us riding a  white horse ( Revelation 19:11); so also is the Antichrist ( Revelation 6:2). 19. The followers of the Lamb will be sealed in their foreheads ( Revelation 7:3; 14:1); so also will the followers of the Beast ( Revelation 13:16,17). mChrist and the Antichrist. Satan is the master-counterfeiter, and in nothing will this appear more conspicuously than in his next great move. He is now preparing the stage for his climactic production, which will issue in a blasphemous imitation of the Divine incarnation. When the Son of Perdition appears he will pose as the Christ of God, and so perfect will b< e his disguise, the very elect would be deceived, were it not that God will grant them special illumination. It is this disguise, this simulation of the true Christ which we shall now examine, pointing out the various parallelisms which Scripture furnishes:Similarities to Christ:o9. Christ was and will be the King of the Jews ( Matthew 2:1); so also will the Antichrist be ( Daniel 11:36).  q10. Christ will be the King of kings ( Revelation 17:14); so also will the Antichrist be ( Revelation 17:12,13).  ' 11. Christ wrought miracles: of Him it is said  approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs ( Acts 2:22); so also will the Antichrist, concerning whom it is written,  whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders ( 2 Thessalonians 2:9).  12. Christ s public ministry was limited to three years and a half; so also will the Antichrist s final ministry be ( Revelation 13:5).  x18. Christ will be the object of universal worship ( Philippians 2:10); so also will the Antichrist ( Revelation 13:4). P17. Christ died and rose again; so also will the Antichrist ( Revelation 13:3).  16. Christ is referred to as Him  which was, and is, and is to come ( Revelation 4:8); the Antichrist is referred to as him that  was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit ( Revelation 17:8). j 15. Christ is entitled  the Morning Star ( Revelation 22:16); so also is the Antichrist ( Isaiah 14:12). 14. Christ will return to the earth as Prince of Peace ( Isaiah 9:6,7); so also will the Antichrist introduce an era of peace ( Daniel 11:21); it is to this that 1 Thessalonians 5:3 directly refers. 20. Christ has been followed by the Holy Spirit who causes men to worship Him; so the Antichrist will be followed by the Anti-spirit  the False Prophet  who will cause men to worship the Beast ( Revelation 13:12). There is no need for us to make any comments on these striking correspondences: they speak for themselves. They show the incredible lengths to which God will permit Satan to go in mimicking the Lord Jesus. EWe turn now to consider: Contrasts between Christ and the Antichrist.$I. IN THEIR RESPECTIVE DESIGNATIONS.!II. IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CAREERS. yThis title connects the Antichrist with the Roman Empire in its final form, and presents him as the last of the Ceasars. THE VILE PERSON.  And in his estate shall stand up a Vile Person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries ( Daniel 11:21). }This contrasts the Antichrist from  the Holy One of Israel . His identity is established by noting what is predicted of him. THE WILFUL KING.  And the King shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done ( Daniel 11:36). The Antichrist will not only be the High Priest of the world s religion, but he will be King supreme at the head of its government. THE IDOL SHEPHERD.  For, lo, I will raise up a Shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young ones, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. Woe to the Idol Shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened ( Zechariah 11:16,17). This is in evident contrast from the Good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep. The Idol Shepherd of deluded Israel will prove himself the monster Desolator, who shall bring upon that people the severest tribulations ever experiences by that race. " THE ANGEL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT.  And they had a king over them, which is the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon ( Revelation 9:11).  Abaddon and  Apollyon mean Destroyer. It is the  Spoiler of Isaiah 16:4 rendered  Destroyer in Jeremiah 4:7. That his name is here given in the Hebrew and the Greek shows that he will be connected with both the Jews and the Gentiles. THE ROD OF GOD'S ANGERTHE UNCLEAN SPIRITTHE LIEA STARTHE VINE OF THE EARTH Isaiah 10:12 Matthew 12:432 Thessalonians 2:11Revelation 8:10 and 9:1Revelation 14:18 HOMOSEXUAL?Daniel 11:37 "He shall regard neither the God [fn] of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above [them] all."CZDaniel 11:38: "But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things."Deb's Notes: Controversy over this passage: "The Desire of Women" could refer to Israelite woman desiring to give birth to Jesus Christ the Messiah. Per J. Vernon Magee http://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/comm_topic.cfm?AuthorID=24&commInfo=35&groupID=27&commTopic=Daniel&SeriesOrder=101 While others suggest that this passage indicates that he will not have any desire for women because he lusts for men, sodomy, which is an abominable sin toward God. So this makes sense too. Since the antichrist will do everything that is possible to be evil, being a homosexual would fit. < http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2261493/posts ; << Psalm 110:6). The context here shows that it must be the Antichrist which is in view. The Psalm opens by the Father inviting the Son to sit at His right hand until His enemies shall be made His footstool. Then follows the affirmation that Jehovah will display His strength out of Jerusalem, and make His people Israel willing in the day of His power. Then, following Jehovah s oath that Christ is a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek (which contemplates the exercise of His millennial and < royal priesthood), we read,  The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; He shall wound the Head over many countries . The  Day of His wrath is the closing portion of the Tribulation period, and in the Day of His wrath. He wounds this Head over many countries. The Head over many countries refers to the Man of Sin as the Caesar of the last worldempire, prior to the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom. THE VIOLENT MAN. c Deliver me, O Lord, from the Evil Man: preserve me from the Violent Man ( <19E001> Psalm 140:1).  This is another Psalm which expresses the plaintive supplications of the godly remnant in the  time of Jacob s trouble . Three times over the Antichrist is denominated the Violent Man. In <19E001> Psalm 140:1 the remnant pray to be delivered from him. In <19E004> Psalm 140:4 the petition is repeated. In <19E011> Psalm 140:11 his doom is foretold. Cry is made for God to take vengeance upon this bloody persecutor:  Let the burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the Violent Man to overthrow him ( <19E010> Psalm 140:10,11). The Violent Man is a name which fully accords with his Beast-like character. It tells of his ferocity and rapacity. THE ASSYRIAN.A O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in their hand in Mine indignation...Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the King of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks ( Isaiah 10:5,12). _We cannot here attempt an exposition of the important passage in which these verses occur  that, in subsequent chapters, we shall treat in detail of the Antichrist in the Psalms, and the Antichrist in the Prophets  suffice it now to point out that it treats of the End-time (see vv. 12,20), and that the leading characteristics of the Man of Sin can be clearly discerned in what is here said of the Assyrian. Almost all pre-millennial students of prophecy are agreed that  the King of Isaiah 30:33 is the Antichrist, and yet in the two verses which precede, this  King is identified with  the Assyrian . THE KING OF BABYLON.  Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ( Isaiah 14:4). m We do not wish to anticipate what we shall discuss at length in our future studies, enough now to state it is our firm conviction that Scripture plainly teaches that there will be another Babylon which will eclipse the importance and glories of the one of the past, and that Babylon will be one of the headquarters of the Antichrist. He will have three: Jerusalem will be his religious headquarters, Rome his political, and Babylon his commercial. For those who desire to anticipate our future expositions, we recommend them to make a minute study of Isaiah 10,11,13,14; Jeremiah 49:51; Zechariah 5, and Revelation 18. SON OF THE MORNING.@ How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer, son of the Morning! ; How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations ( Isaiah 14:12).  Lucifer is a Latin word which signifies the  morning star .  All the ancient versions and all the Rabbins make the word a noun denoting the bright one, or, more specifically, bright star, or according to the ancients more specifically still, the Morning Star or harbinger of daylight (Dr. J. A. Alexander). This term  Lucifer has been commonly regarded as one of the names of Satan, and what is here said of the Morning Star is viewed as describing his apostasy. Against this interpretation we have nothing to say, except to remark that we are satisfied it does not exhaust this remarkable scripture. A detailed exposition must be reserved for a later chapter. Sufficient now to point out that however Isaiah 14 may look back to the distant past when, through pride, Satan fell from his original estate, it most evidently looks forward to a coming day and gives another picture of the Antichrist. In this same passage  Lucifer is termed  the Man that did make the earth to tremble (v. 16), and in his blasphemous boast  I will be like the Most High (v. 14), we have no difficulty in identifying him with the Man<  of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4. The force of this particular title  Morning Star is seen by comparing it with Revelation 22:16, where we learn that this is one of the titles of the God-man. The  Morning Star speaks of Christ coming to usher in the great Day of rest for the earth. In blasphemous travesty of this Satan will send forth the mock messiah to usher in a false millennium. THE SPOILER. } Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the Spoiler: for the Extortioner is at an end, the Spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. And in mercy shall the throne be established: and He shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness ( Isaiah 16:4,5). . It will be observed that the verse in which the Antichrist is spoken of as the Spoiler comes immediately before the one where we read of the throne being established, a reference, of course, to the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom. These two things synchronize: the destruction of Antichrist, and the beginning of the real Messiah s reign; hence we read here  the Spoiler ceaseth . A further reference to the Man of Sin under this title of the Spoiler is found in Jeremiah 6:26:  O daughter of My people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mournings, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the Spoiler shall suddenly come upon thee . This is another title which views the Antichrist in connection with Israel. After the return of many of the Jews to Palestine, and after their rights have been owned by the Powers, and their security and success seem assured; their enemy, filled with satanic malice, will seek their extermination.  The Spoiler contrasts him with the Lord Jesus who is the great Restorer (see Psalm 69:4). THE NAIL.  In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the Nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it ( Isaiah 22:25). " THE BRANCH OF THE TERRIBLE ONES.  Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud; the Branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low ( Isaiah 25:5). The first five verses of this chapter contemplate the Enemy s stronghold  Babylon  and the remainder of the chapter pictures the blessedness of the millennial era. In the fifth verse the Antichrist s overthrow is announced:  The Branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low . With this should be compared Isaiah 14:19, where of Lucifer it is said,  Thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable Branch . This points another contrast. The  Branch is one of the Messianic names:  Behold, I will bring forth My Servant, the Branch ( Zechariah 3:8);  Behold the man whose name is the Branch ( Zechariah 6:12). By placing together Isaiah 4:2 and Isaiah 14:19 the antithesis will be more evident. Of Christ it is said,  The Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious . Antichrist is called  an abominable Branch : Christ is  the Branch of the Lord ; Antichrist is  the Branch of the terrible ones . )THE PROFANE AND WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL.  And thou, profane wicked Prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God; remove the diadem, and take off the crown; this shall not be the same; exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him ( Ezekiel 21:25-27). The Profane and Wicked Prince of Israel here can be none other than the Antichrist, for we are expressly told that his day shall be when iniquity shall have an end . The reference is, of course, to Israel s  iniquity , and their iniquity shall end at the appearing of the Messiah (see Daniel 9:24) when  He shall be a priest upon His throne ( Zechariah 6:13).  Here in Ezekiel we see how the Son of Perdition shall ape the Christ of God, for he, too, will be a priest-king:  Remove the diadem r< efers to the insignia of his priesthood (in every other place in the O. T. where this occurs the Hebrew word here translated  diadem it is rendered  mitre  worn only by the high priest of Israel);  take off the crown is the symbol of his kingship. THE LITTLE HORN.  I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another Little Horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this Horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things ( Daniel 7:8). 1For a full description of the Antichrist under this title see Daniel 7:8-11, 21-26; 8:9-12, 23-25. We must reserve our comments on these verses till a later chapter.  Little Horn refers to the lowly political origin of the Antichrist, and describes him as he is before he attains governmental supremacy.  THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME.  And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ( Daniel 9:26). Obama Scripture  I am come in My Father s name, and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive ( John 5:43). :qTHE ANTICHRIST WILL BE A JEW.  In Ezekiel 21:25-27 we read:  and thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it him . (H\ In Daniel 11:36,37 we are told,  And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers .,He is a Jew, an Israelite, and that his fathers after the flesh were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob  for such is the invariable meaning of  the fathers throughout the Old Testament Scriptures;THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE JUDAS REINCARNATED& ..A BETRAY ISRAEL-5. In Revelation 11:7 we have the first reference to  the Beast in the Apocalypse:  The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit . Here the Antichrist is seen issuing forth from the Abyss. What is the Abyss? It is the abode of lost spirits, the place of their incarceration and torment  see Revelation 20:1-3, and Luke 8:31,  deep is the  abyss and cf. Matthew 9:28. The question naturally arises, How did he get there? and when was he sent there? We answer, When Judas Iscariot died! The Antichrist will be Judas Iscariot reincarnated. In proof of this we appeal to Acts 1:25 where we are told,  that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place . Of no one else in all the Bible is it said that at death he went  to his own place . Put these two scriptures together: Judas went  to his own place , the Beast ascends out of the Abyss. 6. In Revelation 17:8 we read,  The Beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the Bottomless Pit, and go into perdition . xNames are employed to express character; titles are used to denote relationships. It is only as we make a careful study of the various and numerous names and titles of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are in a position to appreciate His infinite excellencies and the manifold relationships which He sustains. From an opposite standpoint the same is equally true of the Antichrist. As we pay careful attention to the different names and titles which are given to him, we then discover what a marvelously complete delineation the Holy Spirit has furnished us with of the person, the character, and career of this monster of wickedness. THE ANTICHRIST &THE MAN OF SIN, THE SON OF PERDITION.  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3). $ This double appellation is probably the most awful, the most important, and the most revealing title given to the Antichrist in all the Bible. It diagnoses his personality and exposes his awful character. It tells us he will be possessed of a twofold nature: he will be a man, and yet more than a ma< n. He will be Satan s parody of the God-Man. He will be an incarnation of the Devil. The world today is talking of and looking for the Super-man. This is exactly what the Antichrist will be. He will be the Serpent s masterpiece.  That Man of Sin . What a frightful name! The sin of man will culminate in the Man of Sin. The Christ of God was sinless; the Christ of Satan will not only be sinful, but the Man of Sin.  Man of Sin intimates that he will be the living and active embodiment of every form and character of evil.  Man of Sin signifies that he will be sin itself personified.  Man of Sin denotes there will be no lengths of wickedness to which he will not go, no forms of evil to which he will be a stranger, no depths of corruption that he will not bottom.  The Son of Perdition . And again we are forced to exclaim, what a frightful name! Not only a human degenerate, but the offspring of the Dragon. Not only the worst of human kind, but the incarnation of the Devil. Not only the most depraved of all sinners, but an emanation from the Pit itself.  Son of Perdition denotes that he will be the culmination and consummation of satanic craft and power. All the evil, malignity, cunning, and power of the Serpent will be embodied in this terrible monster. THE LAWLESS ONE. And then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of His mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of His coming ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8 R. V.).  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel ( Genesis 3:15). 7H Commentary on ScriptureThe reference is to Antichrist breaking his seven-year Covenant with the Jews (see Daniel 9:27; 11:21-24). These verses describe not only the base treachery of Judas toward Christ, but they also announce how he shall yet, when reincarnated in the Antichrist, betray and desert Israel. The relation of Antichrist to Israel will be precisely the same as that of Judas to Christ of old. He will pose as the friend of the Jews, but later he will come out in his true character. THE BEAST As we have seen, in John 17:12 Christ termed Judas  the Son of Perdition , and 2 Thessalonians 2:3 we find that the Antichrist is similarly designated   That Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition . JOThese are the only two places in all the Bible where his name occurs, and the fact that Judas was termed by Christ not a  son of perdition , but  the Son of Perdition , and the fact that the Man of Sin is so named prove that they are one and the same person. PIn John 6:70 we read,  Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Devil? s It is hardly necessary to say that in the Greek there are two different words for  Devil and  demon . There are many demons, but only one Devil. Further, in no other passage is the word  devil applied to any one but to Satan himself. Judas then was the Devil incarnate, just as the Lord Jesus was God incarnate. Christ Himself said so, and we dare not doubt His word.  And your covenant with Death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it ( Isaiah 28:18). The  Covenant referred to is that seven-year one which is mentioned in Daniel 9:27. But here the one with whom this Covenant is made is termed  Death and Hell . This is a title of the Antichrist, as  the Resurrection and the Life is of the true Christ.  Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son ( 1 John 2:22). `This name introduces to us one of the most solemn and foreboding subjects in the Word of God. It brings before us one of the persons in the Trinity of Evil. At every point he is the antithesis of Christ. The word  Antichrist has a double significance. Its primary meaning is one who is opposed to Christ; but its secondary meaning is one who is instead of Christ. Let not this be thought strange, for it accords with the two stages in his career. At first he will pose as the true Christ, masquerading in the livery of religion. But, later, he will throw off his disguise, stand forth in his true character, and set himself up as one who is against God a<nd His Christ. Not only does and-christ denote the antagonist of Christ, but it tells of one who is instead of Christ. The word signifies another Christ, a pro-Christ, an alter christus, a pretender to the name of Christ. He will seem to be and will set himself up as the true Christ. He will be the Devil s counterfeit. Just as the Devil is an Anti-theos  not only the adversary of God, but the usurper of the place and prerogatives of God, demanding worship; so the Son of Perdition will be and-christ  not only the antagonist and opponent of Christ, but His reval: assuming the very position and prerogatives of Christ; passing himself off as the rightful claimant to all the rights and honors of the Son of God. This is another name of the Antichrist which makes manifest his awful character. Each of his names exhibits him as the antithesis of the true Christ. The Lord Jesus was the Righteous One; the Man of Sin will be the Lawless One. The Lord Jesus was  made under the law ( Galatians 4:4); the Antichrist will oppose all law, being a law unto himself. When the Savior entered this world, He came saying,  Lo I come to do Thy will, O God ( Hebrews 10:9); but of the Antichrist it is written  And the king shall do according to his will ( Daniel 11:36). The Antichrist will set himself up in direct opposition to all authority, both Divine and human. THE BEAST.  And when they shall have finished their testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them ( Revelation 11:7).  This is another name which reveals the terrible nature and character of the Antichrist and which places him in sharp antithesis from the true Christ.  The Beast is the title by which he is most frequently designated in the Revelation: there are at least thirty references to him under this name in the last book of the Bible. The Greek word signifies a wild beast. This name  the Beast contrasts the Antichrist from the true Christ as  the Lamb ; and it is a significant fact that by far the great majority of passages where the Lord Jesus is so designated are also found here in the Apocalypse. The  Lamb is the Savior of sinners; the  Beast is the persecutor and slayer of the saints. The  Lamb calls attention to the gentleness of Christ; the  Beast tells of the ferocity of the Antichrist. The  Lamb reveals Christ as the  harmless One ( Hebrews 7:26); the  Beast manifests the Antichrist as the cruel and heartless one. Under the Law lambs were ceremonially clean and used in sacrifice, but beasts were unclean and unfit for sacrifices. It is a point of interest to note that there is one other very striking contrast between the persons in the Holy Trinity, and the persons in the trinity of evil. At our Lord s baptism the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove, and the first mention of the Holy Spirit in Scripture represents Him as  brooding like a dove over the waters which covered the pre-Adamic earth ( Genesis 1:2). How remarkable are those symbols  a  Lamb and a  Dove ! A Dove, not a hawk or an eagle. The gentle, harmless, cooing  dove . Over against this the Devil is termed  the Dragon . 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