BOB MITCHELL HAS WRITTEN A VERY INTRIGUING ARTICLE ON HIS WEBSITE BLOG AT http://www.bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/. IT IS REPRODUCED HERE FOR YOUR INTEREST AND EDIFICATION.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL. FROM WHERE WILL THE ANTICHRIST ARISE?
FROM NERO TO THE POPES TO NAPOLEON TO HITLER TO MUSSOLINI TO KISSINGER TO CLINTON TO BLAIR TO WHO KNOWS WHO? PEOPLE HAVE, FOR CENTURIES, TRIED TO IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST.
AND GUESS WHAT?
THEY HAVE ALL BEEN WRONG. AND I COULD BE TOO!!
SO I WANT US TO LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THIS MAN (THE GREEK USES THE MALE "HE" TO IDENTIFY HIS GENDER) WHO WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BAD GUY. EVIL PERSONIFIED. YOU THOUGHT HITLER OR POL POT WERE EVIL.
THIS MAN, THE ANTICHRIST, WILL MAKE EVERY MEGALOMANIAC, SADISTIC, MURDERING, CUNNING, CONNIVING, TWISTING, LYING, TWO FACED, BLASPHEMOUS LEADER OF THE PAST LOOK LIKE MOTHER THERESA ON HER BEST DAY.
THE BIBLE DOESN'T SIMPLY CALL HIM THE "ANTICHRIST." IT CALLS HIM THE:
"MAN OF SIN"; "THE SON OF PERDITION"; THE WICKED SHEPHERD"; "THE BEAST"; "THE LITTLE HORN SPEAKING GREAT THINGS"; THE "ONE WHO MAKES DESOLATE"; "THE ASSYRIAN", AND SO ON.
IN FACT THERE ARE AROUND 39 DIFFERENT TITLES FOR HIM IN THE BIBLE.
NOT THE KIND OF GUY YOU WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO BRING HOME FOR TEA!
SERIOUSLY, THIS MAN IS ONE TO BE CAREFUL OF. ONE WITH WHOM WE SHOULD AVOID ANY CONTACT.
I KNOW I'LL BE TOLD "WELL WE WILL BE RAPTURED BEFORE THIS MAN COMES ON THE SCENE." I AM NOT SO SURE!
LET'S LOOK AT THE PLAIN READING OF SCRIPTURE. WHAT JESUS SAID. WHAT THE APOSTLES SAID. NOT ONE OF THEM OR THE FATHERS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER THEM WROTE THAT WE WOULD BE TAKEN BEFORE ANTICHRIST COMES ON THE SCENE.
IN FACT IF YOU READ THE SIMPLE WORDS OF THE MASTER HIMSELF IN MATT. 24 YOU WILL SEE HE CONTINUALLY SAYS "WHEN YOU SEE..." WHEN SPEAKING OF THE COMING OF ANTICHRIST AND OTHER END TIME EVENTS. AND HE WAS SPEAKING TO HIS INFANT CHURCH.
NOT NON BELIEVING JEWS!!
ANYWAY THAT'S MY BEEF. I KNOW DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO BELIEVE OTHERWISE AND THAT'S DOWN TO THEM. WE EACH MUST STAND BEFORE THE LORD AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT.
BUT THE ANTICHRIST.........FROM WHERE WILL HE ARISE?INTERESTINGLY DANIEL MAKES THE POINT IN DANIEL 7 AND 8 THAT HE WILL ARISE FROM ONE OF THE AREAS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S EMPIRE THAT WERE DIVIDED AMONG HIS 4 GENERALS.
THE ONE PORTION THAT IS HIGHLIGHTED AS THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTICHRIST IS THE AREA LEFT TO GENERAL SELEUCID OR THE ASSYRIAN AREA. THE GREEN AREA IN THE MAP BELOW.
SOME WILL ARGUE THAT THESE PARTICULAR PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED BY ANTIOCHUS EPIPAHNES WHO, IN THE 2ND CENTURY BC WHO OUTLAWED JUDAISM AND SLAUGHTERED A PIG IN THE TEMPLE. BUT HE DID NOT TOTALLY FULFILL EVERY ONE OF THE PROPHECIES CITED IN THESE CHAPTERS.
SO ALTHOUGH HE CAME CLOSE, THERE IS A GREATER, TOTAL FULFILLMENT TO COME.
BUT DANIEL 9 SAYS THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE (THE ANTICHRIST) WHO IS TO COME WILL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY (THE TEMPLE).
WE KNOW FROM HISTORY THE ROMANS DID DESTROY THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE SO WE ASSUME THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE A WESTERNER IN A LAST DAYS REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE. YES AND NO!
THE BIBLE IS PRETTY CLEAR HE MUST BE FROM THE SELEUCID / ASSYRIAN AREA.
BUT HOW DOES THAT TIE IN WITH THE ROMANS?
WHAT MANY OF US TEND TO FORGET REGARDING THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS THE FACT THAT THE EMPIRE HAD AN EASTERN AND A WESTERN LEG.
NOW IN THESE DAYS THE EU IS CUDDLING UP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAS CREATED THE MEDITERRANEAN UNION. NATIONS ALONG THE NOTH AFRICAN COAST AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
YOU SEE, FOLKS SAY WELL BECAUSE THE ROMANS DESTROYED THE TEMPLE AS DANIEL 9 SAYS, THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME, THE MAN THE DESTROYERS OF THE TEMPLE REPRESENTED, MUST BE A EUROPEAN, FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
THE ROMANS DID DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY ......BUT........IT WAS THE TENTH LEGION THAT DID MOST OF THE WORK ESPECIALLY WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.
THE TENTH LEGION WERE MAINLY DRAWN UP OF CONSCRIPTS FROM...YOU GUESSED....ASSYRIA.
THE BIBLE ALSO SUGGESTS THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE JEWISH AS HE MAY BE ACCEPTED AS THE MESSIAH. MOST RELIGIOUS JEWS WILL TELL YOU THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN BUILD THE TEMPLE IS THE MESSIAH.
YET WE ARE TOLD IN 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2 HE WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE AS IF HE IS GOD. SO THE TEMPLE MUST BE BUILT!
WILL ANTICHRIST HAVE A HAND IN THIS PROJECT? MANY BIBLE COMMENTATORS SAY YES IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED AS MESSIAH.
SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS: ANTICHRIST MUST:
1. ORIGINATE FROM ASSYRIA OR BE DESCENDED FROM A FAMILY IN THIS AREA.
2. BE A PART OF THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE.
3. BE A PRINCE.
4. POSSIBLY BE A JEW.
5 BE INVOLVED IN THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE TO BE ACCEPTED AS THE MESSIAH.
Written by Bob Mitchell from Shofar Ministries at http://www.bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/.
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