Some
things about the antichrist and his father:
Genesis 3:14 ¶ And
the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle,
and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt
thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 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.
There is
to be the seed of the woman (Jesus Christ born of a
virgin), that will bruise the head of the seed of the
serpent. The seed of the woman was to be God manifest in
the flesh (I Timothy 3:16). The seed of the woman was to
be the Son of God. However, who was the seed of the
serpent to be? Who was going to be that manifested son of
Satan, that would bruise the heel of the Messiah, but
would in the end have his head bruised by that same
Messiah? Now, in a spiritual sense, there are children of
the devil:
Matthew 13: 38 The
field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one;
John 8:44 Ye
are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there
is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
I John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked
one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him?
Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s
righteous.
However,
there was to be a special, unique, prophesied seed of the
serpent. The Messiah was to be called the Son of God (Luke
1:35), but what would they call the seed of the serpent?
John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and
none of them is lost, but the son of
perdition; that the scripture might
be fulfilled.
Judas,
who betrayed the Messiah, and bruised Messiah's heel,
was called the son of perdition. However, then there is
the following:
II
Thessalonians 2:3 ¶ 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;
The son
of perdition, the antichrist, will oppose the Messiah, and
have his head bruised by the Messiah. Only these two times
is the term son of perdition mentioned in the scriptures.
So, either there were to be two seeds of the serpent, two
sons of perdition, two thousand years apart - or somehow,
they are the same son of perdition. What made Judas
different from the other disciples?
70 Jesus answered them, Have
not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
Jesus
didn't say that Judas was like a devil, or had a devil,
but that he was a devil. Something about Judas made him
spiritually different, the son of perdition. Jesus, the
one speaking was both God and man, the other eleven
disciples were only man, but Judas was somehow man and
devil. Although Judas was a devil, he still ended up
having Satan enter him when he betrayed Jesus.
Luke 22:3
Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being
of the number of the twelve.
27 And after the sop Satan
entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That
thou doest, do quickly.
Since
Satan is not a trinity, this is the closest that he can
come to counterfeiting the Trinity, by entering the son of
perdition. However Jesus is God, and God is a Trinity,
therefore with Jesus it was always true, that:
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
John 14:10 Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but
the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Both
Jesus and Judas died. However, after three days and three
nights, the Son of God rose from the dead, but what
happened to the son of perdition?
Acts 1:25 That
he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from
which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to
his own place.
The son
of perdition didn't just go to hell like everyone else,
nor did he go to where the angels which kept not their
first estate were reserved in chains of darkness, but he
went to his own place. This special, unique, and
prophesied son of perdition, went to a special, unique
place, that was his own place. Where is that? It's not
hell, it's not the place of the chains of darkness, it's
not yet the lake of fire, so which other place of the
abode of the damned is mentioned in the scriptures,
besides those other three? There is one other place, the
bottomless pit. The bottomless pit is unique. There are
some monstrous, wicked, spiritual locusts in the
bottomless pit, who are released for five months during
the tribulation, which have a king over them, the angel of
the bottomless pit. So who is this angel of the bottomless
pit? Could it be the son of perdition, that devil that was
sent there when Judas hanged himself? If so, then who
comes up out of the bottomless pit?
Revelation
11:7 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
17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and
shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into
perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world, when they behold the
beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
The
antichrist, who is the son of perdition, comes up out of
the bottomless pit in the tribulation, so is it not too
hard to conclude that the son of perdition was first sent
there, after he had betrayed the Son of God, and then
hanged himself? So then the son of perdition comes back in
some kind of perversion and counterfeit of the
resurrection of the Son of God. And just like the Son of
God had a three and a half year ministry, so also the son
of perdition is given a three and a half year ministry.
It is also interesting to note, that he Son
of God is called the Word, seven times, with a large
"W" (John 1:1,14; I John 1:1; 5:7; Rev 19:13).
Then in
an antitype, the son of perdition is called that Wicked,
with a large "W".
II
Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming:
The Son
of God is the express image of the Father:
Hebrews 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also
he made the worlds;
3 Who
being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person, and upholding all
things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high;
John 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that
hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest
thou then, Shew us the Father?
Like
Father like Son, so also does the enemy attempt to
counterfeit this as well. Ezekiel prophesied to the king
of Tyrus, though it can easily be seen that he is speaking
about Satan, who was in Eden, who was the anointed cherub
that covereth.
Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of
Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou
sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty.
13 Thou
hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius,
topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast
created.
14
Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast
upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the
day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in
thee.
And as we
know that the son of the king is called the prince.
Ezekiel had earlier in that same chapter prophesied to the
prince of Tyrus, and who does this prince remind us of?
Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of
Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted
up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I
sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the
seas; yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Doesn't
this prince, the son of the king (who was shown to be
Satan), look a lot like the son of perdition?
II
Thessalonians 2:3
¶ 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;
4 Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth
in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The son
of perdition, appears to be the "spittin' image of his
father.
His
father is described as red with 7 head an 10 horns:
Revelation
12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven
crowns upon his heads.
9 And the
great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called
the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him.
But then
the son of perdition has a very similar description:
Revelation 13:1 ¶ And I stood upon the sand
of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit
into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
However,
the difference between this father and son, are the
crowns. The crowns of the father are on the 7 heads,
reigning over a spiritual kingdom, whereas the crowns of
the son are on the 10 horns, reigning over an earthly
kingdom.
So that
is why I conclude that the seed of the serpent is the son
of perdition, who was sent to the bottomless pit after
bruising Messiah's heel, but will be let out on the world
again in the tribulation to have his head bruised by that
same Messiah, when the Son of God conquers and destroys
the kingdom of the son of perdition, and then has the son
of perdition cast alive into the lake of fire (an antitype
of the rapture, where some saints are taken alive into
heaven).
Gino