The Identity of the AntiChrist

[james1523]

The Bible reveals that the antiChrist will come from a Jewish background:

Daniel 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

The Bible reveals that the antiChrist will be against religion, that is, any religion other than his own:
Dan 11:36 "The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place.

2 Thess 2:4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

From this, we can know that it is not the president of the USA, the Pope, or any Muslim, neither will the anti Christ be Chinese or asian, African, Indian or any other non-Jewish background. The anti Christ will have no attachment to any religion except for his Jewish ancestry which he, like Hitler did, hides and denies it. The antiChrist will oppose Catholicism, Islam, all of these religions. Just like a dictator like Stalin would. For this reason I don't believe the antiChrist will come from any religion, he will be an atheist, with a Jewish ancestry. He is an atheist because Dan 11:37 says so, and a man that sets himself up as God, cannot acknowledge the existence of any other god except himself.

 

[tulsa 2011]

In Daniel 11: 36-45 "he" is the king of the north, the prototype of the king of the north being the kings of the Seleucid dynasty. The king of the south began in the kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

In II Thessalonians 2: 3-7 Paul is using metaphors to describe the process of falling away from sound doctrine. One key to understanding these metaphors is that Paul says the man of sin - anthropos tes amartias - is to sit in the temple of God. Dispensationalism tends to isolate a set of verses from other scripture and to insist that everything is literal. So when Paul says the man of sin is to sit in the temple of God, for dispensationalism that must mean a real, individual guy will sit in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and desecrate it. This is the beginning of the falling away for dispensationalism.

Dispensationalism does not follow Isaiah 28: 10 and understand one scripture by use of other relevant scriptures, at least not consistently and not for sets of verses that are important for its doctrines..

Acts 7: 48 says God does not dwell in temples. I Corinthians 3: 16-17 says the Christian is the temple of God and I Corinthians 6: 19 says the your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, meaning the born again Christian's body is the temple of God.

A literal, physical building in Jerusalem cannot be the temple where God dwells. So Paul is using temple to mean the individual Christians, that is, their inner life. Something he calls the man of sin is to occupy the inner or spiritual life of the believer in the falling away.

You might say this man of sin is the spirit of anti-Christ of I John 4: 3. And that is very different from saying that a literal political leader, called the Anti-Christ, is to sit in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and desecrate it, marking the falling away and the beginning of the dispensationalist tribulation.

Anthropos can mean man as a collective. Strong's says anthropos, number 444, means "the countenance, man-faced, a human being, man." The man of sin is a spirit which deceives a collective, a number of people. Anthropos can mean man as a species.

The man of sin can also be the spirit of the false prophet, which is seen in Matthew 24: 5, "For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many." The false prophet acknowledges Christ, or a Christ, that is, another Jesus, but the doctrines the false prophet teaches are not all from the real Jesus.

 

[Ezra Allen]

The Antichrist is not a Jew. Revelation 13:1 and 17:15 picture the Antichrist as rising up out of the sea-a scriptural metaphor for the Gentile nations. He will persecute the Jews in the tribulation period. Jeremiah 30:7; Matthew 24:15-21; Revelation 12:6,13-14.

The Antichrist is not a Muslim, Daniel 11:36 tells us that the Antichrist shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 states that the Antichrist "opposes and exalts himself against every so called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.". A Muslim Antichrist who claimed to be God would be trashing the Muslim creed, "there is one God named Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." Muslim teaching avows, "God can have no partners."It is impossible to fathom a Muslim exalting himself to deity in this way.

The Antichrist rises to power in a revived Rome. Daniel 7:3-8. Rome fell to pieces in 5th Century AD It will be revived in the end times comprised of ten nations ruled by ten kings. Once the Antichrist emerges into power in a revived Rome, it is just a matter of time before he comes into complete global domination.

It is my belief that the Antichrist comes out of the central Europe nations. He will be a man with abilities very much like Superman has in the comics. Daniel says he will be a genius in intellect (Daniel 8:23), commerce (Daniel 11:43; Revelation 13:16-17), war (Revelation 6:2; 13:2), speech (Daniel 11:36) and politics (Revelation 17:11-12).

He will make a peace treaty with Israel, which is something that a Muslim would not do.

 

[TRUTH BE TOLD]

It is the world which will be ruled by 10 Men (rev 17:12-13) who then give their one mind and power to bring the antichrist to power.


See club of rome - 10 kings for 10 kingdoms and also the UN has the globe divided into 10 regions....

 

[TRUTH BE TOLD]

Daniel 9:26-27 he is the prince of the romans who destroyed the temple in 70ad making him a roman.

 

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The Antichrist is not a Muslim, Daniel 11:36 tells us that the Antichrist shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 states that the Antichrist "opposes and exalts himself against every so called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.". A Muslim Antichrist who claimed to be God would be trashing the Muslim creed, "there is one God named Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." Muslim teaching avows, "God can have no partners."It is impossible to fathom a Muslim exalting himself to deity in this way.

Magnifying himself above all gods, including allah, isn't going to go over very well, with muslims. They keep trying to have a war
in the middle east. A really big, knock down, kill millions war. Are they wanting to kill off many muslims and destroy their
ability to make war, before the anti-Christ comes on the scene. Or maybe is a big bloody war he steps on the scene and stops.
Just speculation.....

Rev 1:1 states why that book was written, "to show his servants things that must shortly come to pass". (Prophecy)
And that includes the 7 letters to the 7 churches. Yes, that part of Rev, chpt 2 & 3 was relevant to 7 literal churches
with literal issues. But chapters 2 & 3 are part of Rev and are prophecy too. They will have relevance in end times.
Satan's seat is mentioned twice in Rev. The word seat is: a stately seat ("throne"); by implication power or (concretely) a
potentate: - seat, throne

Rev 2:13 where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: (Pergamos) and again in Rev 13:2 and the dragon
gave him his power, and his seat,

Satan's seat wouldn't be mentioned twice like this unless the Lord is pointing in a direction. I think he is coming out
of Turkey, which has had, for the most part, a secular government. It was part of the Roman Empire, which would
fulfill prophecy. Turkey was the place of the Ottoman Empire, that last great empire to rule that land of Israel.
The 7th king? 1. Egypt, 2. Assyria 3. Babylon 4. Persian 5. Greece 6. Rome 7 Ottoman Empire
Revelation 17:10-11 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh,
he must continue a short space. (11) And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven,
and goeth into perdition.

When satan's seat is brought up twice, its something to take note