Doves,
There is probably no other topic line having more articles and books in Christian print than that of the who, what, when, where and why of....... “the Antichrist”. One would think that with all this research it would be obvious as to who this entity will be but even now a dark cloud of uncertainty remains as to the identity of this character who will play such a huge roll in the end times.
I don't believe that God wanted the identity of this character to be a mystery and I believe that God gave us ample information in scripture to ascertain exactly who will fill this most important end time (evil) ruling position. With this in mind lets list from scripture the characteristics / clues that God has given us in His Word that should (and does) reveal the identity of this being.
Scripture says in....
Revelation 13 that this character will be a beast which “hints” that it's not really human as in what we would consider....... “a God created human” or a member of mankind.
Also in Revelation 13 the characteristics and appearance of this being will be male as opposed to female.
Also in Revelation 13 a figurative clue is given that this being symbolically has 7 heads and ten horns. The mystery to this figurative description is cleared up completely in Revelation 17 where we find out that the 7 heads are 7 kings of a well known world wide organization and the 10 horns are also 10 kings that will come into power during the same time frame as the beast / Antichrist when he takes over world wide control.
Also in Revelation 13 we see where one of the heads of this figurative beast..... meaning one of these 7 kings of this worldwide organization will have been mortally wounded...... meaning that he died. But then it says in Revelation 13:3 and 17:8 that this well known king of a world wide organization will somehow appear to come back to life but will then be considered by God “a beast”......the beast (the king) that was alive, and is not, yet is. 17:8
This entity is now considered a beast and not a man because this entity, this beast, arises / ascends from the bottomless pit which is the place the imprisoned fallen angels are kept. (see Revelation 9:11)
All this will happen to the amazement of all peoples who dwell on the earth whose names have not been written in The Book of Life from the foundation of the world. 17:8 Meaning to me that these people who witness this are the “left behind”. They have been left behind after Jesus's Church has been extracted. So the beast / Antichrist won't appear on the world stage until after the church is gone seemingly agreeing with 2 Thessalonians 2:3 which portrays the same arrangement. They will totally be amazed because they recognize this person who was alive, died, and yet seemingly.....here he is again (as per Revelation 17:8)
More clues about the Antichrist.....
In Revelation 17 we see that this beast / king will be one of 7 kings that are affiliated with a world wide organization. This king will not only be the sixth king of this organization but also become the eighth...... as the Antichrist.
As per Revelation 17 and 18 this king / beast will be directly connected / affiliated with a world wide organization. This organization.....
is referred to figuratively as “a woman”who sits on many waters and interacts with peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues.
She / this organization has committed fornication (was involved with the worship of idols and was involved with great sexual perversions)
She / this organization is recognized by it's primary colors of purple and scarlet
She / this organization is adorned with gold, precious stones, pearls, silver, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of precious wood, bronze, iron, marble, cinnamon, incense, fragrant oil, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots and is involved with the souls of men.
She / this organization is affiliated with golden cups / chalices full of the abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
She / this organization was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.(The estimate is 60 million Jews and true Christians that were martyred in the most horrific of ways by this organization in the Middle Ages. All who would not bend their knee to this organization were butchered in the most hideous manors possible)
She / this organization is located on seven hills / mountains.
She / this organization is affiliated with the word mystery (the sacrifice of the Mass or the Eucharist is referred to as “a mystery”).
She / this organization is affiliated with the term Babylon the Great. This organizations rituals and clothing has a direct link to the evil workings and traditions of ancient Babylon.
She /this organization is affiliated with the term “The Mother of Harlots and the Abominations of the Earth” When one looks at the history of this organization, its tactics, and the conduct of it's personnel......the title is most fitting.
More clues on this beast commonly referred to as the Antichrist....
Paul the apostle when addressing the Thessalonians as written in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 refers to the Antichrist as....the son of perdition.
In Genesis and the Book of Enoch the “sons of God” were the fallen angels that came to earth and interfered with mankind which led to their being locked up in the earth by God.
The word perdition has to do with damnation or hell. So when one looks at the phrase “son of perdition” I believe you could assume Paul was talking about a fallen angel that is being held in damnation / hell or as John portrays it in Revelation 9 and 17 as in.....the bottomless pit.
So when Paul speaks about the end times Antichrist as the “son of perdition”I believe he is addressing exactly the same entity John is speaking of in Revelation.....this being an imprisoned fallen angel. This fallen angel as per Revelation 17 will arise / ascend from the bottomless pit to become “part of” the end times Antichrist.
More biblical clues concerning the Antichrist and his identity.....
In the Book of Daniel much is written about the Antichrist. There we see Daniel refer to him as “The Little Horn”. Daniel states that this little horn will “subdue” three kings from the 10 king confederation which is a controlling force in the end time scenario.. Daniel also states that this little horn king “is different” from the other kings.
If we look at Webster's definition of the word “subdue” that Daniel used we see two very telling definitions. One meaning is to conquer or overtake and the other is to alter in sense and form by association.
So Daniel is saying that when this “little horn”arrives on the world stage he is going to either overtake / conquer 3 kings or he is going to alter them or one of them in sense and form by association.
Lets look at that phrase / definition again......the coming Antichrist is going to alter another king....alter the other kings' sense and form, the other kings' bodily characteristics and he is going to do so by association. That means to me that this “little horn”is going to indwell or take over the body of one of the three kings. In doing so he will alter the senses and form of the other king by the association of him indwelling the body.
Daniel said that this little horn king would be “different” than all the other kings. When one considers what all this implies I believe “different” is not a strong enough word to reflect what is really to happen.
OK....there are many more biblical clues that hint at the identity of the coming Antichrist but this is all I will share with you for now.
From all of these clues...... have you ruled out or qualified in any viable choices as to the identity of the coming Antichrist?
It is my belief that there is ample evidence presented above to exactly tag who will become the Antichrist.
How about just one more major clue. In Revelation 17 God challenged us to solve a riddle concerning the 7 kings of which the Antichrist is one of.
Bearing in mind that a certain ruling scenario would be in place at the time of John the apostle's vision as portrayed in Revelation 17......John said that in his vision...”There are seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he continues a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition”.
The answer to this riddle again goes back to this world wide organization that is directed connected through scripture to the coming Antichrist. This organization also became it's own country but has only been one since 1929.
And since that time / 1929 there have been 7 legitimate kings of this organization / country.
In John's vision he said five had died / fallen, one is (indicating present tense or the king John was focused on to become the beast) the seventh would come and not die but “continue” for a short time. Then the eighth king is described as someone who was one of the prior kings but died (was not) and yet John says, this king, will also become the eighth king and also be tagged as the Antichrist beast by John saying that he will go to perdition.
Does this make any sense from a present world perspective? Yes, a perfect present day reality except a usurper / false king has been inserted into this organization by the Satanic globalists to displace the seventh king. This /the now eighth king was not correctly elected but put into the position by the dark side of this world wide organization and the Satanic globalist elite. The present eighth king is a member of this dark side group.
Now that I made you think a little here are name clues that you can insert into the above riddle that makes it a reality......John Paul, Benedict, Francis and the Jesuit order. Hey...3 kings......the kings to be plucked out...as per Daniel? Or one of these kings that will be subdued as in... altered in sense and form by association?
Another important clue lies in the fact that one of these kings body has been preserved in a cryogenic chamber at the headquarters of this worldwide organization for many years......gee I wonder why? Why would you do this unless you had plans for his body? And they also preserved his blood. Could it have something to do with the preserved body being subdued / taken over and then being altered in sense and form by association?
By the association of whom? Gee....didn't God tell us that a son of perdition / an imprisoned fallen angel / beast would arise / ascend from the bottomless pit / from damnation /from hell to become the true eighth king who was also the sixth king who John tagged as the beast to come? Sounds to me like this entity / spirit being is going to associate / indwell with someone. Who's the obvious choice here?
Could it be any more apparent why God would refer to this conglomeration / Frankenstein mixture as..... a beast. Not a man that God created, not an angel that God created but a combination of both and at some point the spirit of Satan also thrown into the mix. Gee....the word beast works for me.
Will this king / beast be “different” than all the other kings as Daniel prophesied? I think different is just a little understated now that we know this beast's pedigree.
Daniel also states that..... this beast's appearance was greater than his fellows. I believe this will have something to do with a horn somehow embedded in his face because in Daniel 7 he says that....”And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words”.
Taken literally (and I do), Daniel states that the appearance of the beast was strange / greater. And that this strange / greater appearance was due to his eyes and mouth being somehow embedded in a horn like structure. Is that different enough for you. This is not my description but God's.
So, I predict that with all the biblical clues that God has given us which I have listed above that you will and can come to a firm conclusion as to the identity of the end times beast / Antichrist.
If you name any man living on earth presently I believe you are going against the word of God from what has been stated in scripture. And with all the data / clues / scripture presented above I can only see one identity for the coming Antichrist and when he bursts forth on the world stage after the church has been raptured he will subdue three kings. Benedict...gone. Francis....gone. John Paul.....body / shell altered in form and sense by association. Net result 3 kings subdued.
The world will then face a super confident loud mouthed being that will have all the answers to all the worlds problems. He will manifest all manors of lying signs and wonders to mesmerize the world and the world populous will be “all in” with their support for him. He will promote a new world government, a new world religion and a new world currency and smooth out all the worlds conflicts / wars. He will as per Daniel 9 confirm a covenant for 7 years with other world officials. I see this as more of a master game plan to restore order on earth rather than any formal firm signed covenant.
All will then be going well with the world except for the two pesky “unmanageable” end time witnesses which will be preaching the true gospel for the first 3.5 years in a last ditch effort to save all who will listen. But these two end time witnesses will be perceived by the mostly evil left behind inhabitants of earth and especially the Antichrist as trouble makers that need to die. It appears from scripture (Revelation 11) that all attempts to kill them will be met with divine protection and retribution by fire.
During this same first concurrent 3.5 year time frame the Antichrist will make nice / be nice to the world while he maneuvers a strangle hold on world power.
After that initial first 3.5 year period is over the beast / pope / demonic being will declare to the world that he alone is the true God of all creation and over all religions. He will then as per Revelation 13:6 blaspheme the true God, blaspheme the true God's name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. He will as per Daniel 9 “in the middle of the week” or in the middle of this 7 year period or at this 3.5 year half way point bring an end to sacrifice and offering. Meaning what? Meaning that any sacrifice / offering / worship by any religion to their gods will be ordered terminated. From this mid- point forward all worship and offerings by all religions must be directed to this new world leader / pope / Antichrist / demonic being under the penalty of death.
This new mandate will obviously not set well with all the major and minor religions of the world and all the evil left behind people. There will undoubtedly be blow back and major rebellion. At this point even the lying signs and wonders of the Antichrist will fail to quell the rebellion until.....until at that point, the Antichrist is given permission by God (Revelation 13:7) to kill the two witnesses. These witnesses..... that were able to stop the rains / bring drought, turn water to blood, strike the earth with all manors of plaques and devour anyone with fire who tried to harm them.(Revelation 11)
Lets face it the majority of people at this time after the rapture will be evil, they will not want to be preached to by these two witnesses. They will be sick of the power that these fire breathing, plague propagating team had dispatched on the world but obviously were afraid to confront them for fear of becoming a human roasted marshmallow.
When the Antichrist / pope / demonic entity steps forward on the world stage and kills the two witnesses who to this point were invincible that will be a huge game changer and turning point. The people worldwide will then I believe reluctantly embrace the power this beast emanates and knuckle under....so to speak.
At his point, again at the half way point in the seven years, the beast will now demand that all will take his mark on their hand or forehead which will show their allegiance and enable them to buy and sell.
Also a statue of the beast will be erected presumably in Jerusalem at the Jewish temple. This statue will not be inanimate but will be able to breath and speak. All who will not worship this form of AI (artificial intelligence)will be killed. I believe that this is what Matthew warned the Jews about in chapter 24 when he said.......”Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains”.
The Jews there in Judea would be forced to worship the beast or die. And I believe God said if they worshiped the beast they would loose their salvation. So their only recourse is to flee.
The remaining 3.5 year period until the second coming of Jesus will be beyond words horrific for mankind under this beast. It appears at some point all of this beasts' cohorts from the bottomless pit will be released from their captivity to accompany the Antichrist in the terror. Those cohorts being the other fallen angels, the nephilum or half breed giants of old, the demonic spirits and everything else evil that may be released upon mankind....... men's hearts will fail them with fear for what is happening on earth........ A Hollywood horror movie on super steroids.
As per Revelation 9 the leader of the bottomless pit where the fallen angels are kept captive goes by the name Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek. It appears that it is this entity who will arise to embody / indwell the cryogenically persevered shell of the sixth king who will become the eighth.....known to the world as the coming Antichrist also to be spirit filled by Satan himself........so they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast......
So......with all that God has shared with us in scripture as to the identity of the end time beast why is it that so many demand that it's this man or that man especially Obama when scripture so clearly indicates otherwise??
Although I do believe scripture indicates that Obama may be the second beast spoken of in Revelation 13:11-18 and I believe John Tng and others have secured that belief mathematically but that's for a whole other post.
Blessing Doves...........John B
PS....Revelation 13 states that the first beast, the Antichrist, rises up out of the sea.
This statement tells me two things the bottomless pit is located under the ocean and I believe God was also using a play on words because “a part of this beast” will also come from another sea.....The Holy See.....