Antichrist Documented
Who is Antichrist? Let's go to 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 of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
In the Greek Manuscripts 'son of perdition' is 'apoleia' from the word 'apollumi' from 'apo' and 'olethros'. 'Apo' is a primary particle 'off', i.e. 'away' (from something near) in various senses (of place, time or relation); it denotes separation, departure. 'Olethros' means punishment, death destruction, ruin.
The Greek word 'Apollyon' meaning 'a destroyer', i.e. Satan, used in Rev 9:
11 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.
is from the same root as 'apoleia'. 'Abaddon' is the Hebrew name for Satan as we see. And guess who the angel of the bottomless pit is?! You only have one guess. Did you make it? Yes! That is Satan. Well done!
So what do we have now? We are starting to understand, that 'the son of perdition' is Satan. Let's go to 2 Thess 2:
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,
Talking about Christ's return of course.
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Paul wrote the second letter to the Thessalonians to make sure they didn't misunderstand his first.
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,
It is saying that you shall be very careful, so no one deceives you. Don't trust any man, including this man. Check it out in the Scriptures yourself. That means in fact even, don't totally trust any Bible translation. Read the preface to the 1611 King James Bible, where the translators warn the reader to believe everything they translated, because they say, they don't understand everything and have therefore most certainly mistranslated things here and there. You have to check it out from the Manuscripts. You can do that with a Strong's Concordance for example. You have to be a little familiar with the Hebrew, Caldee (Aramaic) and Greek, and the Massorah.
Falling away here is the Greek word 'apostasia' = apostasy. In the Greek manuscripts 'perdition' here is 'apoleia', the same as mentioned above. So it is talking about Apolyon, which is one of Satan's names. It is talking about Satan. Satan is going to be here before Christ returns. What is he going to be doing here? Let's read on.
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.
He is going to sit in God's Temple and play God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Paul discussed these things with the Thessalonians when he was with them.
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
Michael is holding him, Satan, back.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
'The mystery of iniquity doth already work' is talking about the deception by the Kenites and their 'four hidden dynasties': education, religion, economics and politics. The Kenites are Cain's children, who is Satan's child from the Garden of Eden. Cain and Kenites is the same Hebrew word 'Qayin' in the Manuscripts. A subject for an another time.
'Letteth' is the Greek word 'katecho' = hold fast, as verse 6. Supply the Ellipsis by 'there is one who holds fast', instead of by repeating the verb 'will let'. But 'katecho' is a transitive verb, and an object must be supplied too. See all the occ. verse 6. If the subject be Satan, the object must be his position in the heavenlies, Eph 6:12, from which he will be ejected by Michael, Rev 12:7-9. Believe it or not, it is Satan it is talking about.
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 wicked' is of course Satan. We just talked about it. The rest is self explanatory.
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.
Satan, when he is here five months just before Christ returns, Rev 9:5, 10, is going to perform 'wonders', Rev 13:13. He can do it. He is not in flesh. He is a cherub, Ez 28:
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;....................
Satan was the protector of the Mercy Seat. That's what 'covereth' means.
and Ez 28:
12.........king of Tyrus,............................'Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
There is more about 'the king of Tyrus' in Ez 28 than can be attributed to a human being. The words can be understood only of the mightiest and most exalted supernatural being that God ever created.
The king of Tyrus is Satan before his fall. Tyrus, Hebrew, 'Tzor' (now the modern town
Sur, is a little island, now a peninsula because of landfill out to the Island, the way the Island once was concurred, outside the cost of Israel, where the Kenites started there trade business 6000 years ago; now we have the World Trade Center in New York, with the same people, the Kenites, ruling it) means 'a rock'. Satan is the false rock though. Christ is the True. Look in the song of Moses in Deut 32:4 and 31, for example. The song of Moses is the song we are singing, who have the victory over Satan and his political system, Rev 15:3.
To understand who 'a man' is in Ez 28:2 let's go to Is 14:
12 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!
Lucifer is one of Satan's names. It means 'morning-star' and worshipped by the Assyrians as male at sunrise and female at sunset.
Lucifer is deceiving people and nations everywhere.
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Antichrist, Satan, is coming by the north gate. He likes that place for the Throne of God is there. Christ is coming by the east gate, Zech 14:
4 And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, ..............................
Back to Is 14:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the MOST HIGH.'
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Now back to the comments on Ez 28:12.
Satan is using his wisdom wickedly.
Satan is beautiful. He looks like Jesus almost. He does not have horns, a pitch fork in his hand and long red underwear. That's why so many can't 'see' the difference. You need to know the Scriptures to 'know' the difference. You have to study the Word.
Read the whole chapter 28 in Ezekiel, and you will understand. Use your Strong's Concordance and look up words that you don't understand. Just a little home assignment. Now back to 2 Thess 2:
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
They believe in the Rapture Theory for example.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
If you don't love the truth, God is going to help you to be deceived. Sounds hard but that's how it is. I mean to love the truth is to really dig and scrape and do everything that's in your power to find it.
You see, you can not play church. You have to be serious about God's Word.
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Talks for it self. Self explanatory.
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Paul talking about the Thessalonians and himself.
Now let's go to Rev 12:
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;
The woman here is Israel in the zodiacal signs, representing the nation in embryo. The stars are numbered and named. That's what the Zodiac is. There are twelve signs of the Zodiac, called 'the stars' in Gen 37:9 (eleven of which bowed down to Joseph's, the twelfth). The word Zodiac means the 'degrees' or 'steps', which mark the stages of the sun's path through the heavens, corresponding with the twelve months. The stars were all named by God (Ps 147:4). They are for signs, Gen 1:14. The whole Bible is written in the stars. God did that so man can not change it. I can not go in deeper about this here for I will digress then.
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
The child is Christ.
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.
The dragon is of course Satan. He has his power structure with him. That is what heads and horns and crowns mean.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
We see here that this is happening in the first earth age, at Satan's rebellion, the katabole, at the foundation of the world, this earth age (explained in my chapter Sealing), Ez 28, for Satan took a third of the souls, 'stars', about 4 Billion, with him in his rebellion. In this earth age, Satan, Antichrist, is going to have a little different power structure, Rev 3:1, ten in stead of seven crowns. Then we jump right in to the second earth age, the one we have now, when Satan is trying to murder Christ. Herod murdered every child, two years or younger, in trying to get 'The new born King of the Jews' killed. You have read about this in Matt 2 and other places. See also the prophecy in Jer 31:15.
Now we go to Rev 17:
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
The 'whore' is the deceived church. The reason they are called 'whore' is that they believe that Satan, Antichrist, is the true Christ. We saw in 2 Thess 2 that Satan is coming before Christ returns. Most Christians don't know that, so when Satan is cast out of heaven into the earth, they think he is Christ and worship him as if he were Christ. That is to be 'whoring', when you, because of ignorance, do not know to wait for the true Bridegroom, Christ. Cp. Mark 13:
17 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Which means that they are with a sucking child, spiritually, with the wrong husband, Satan, when Christ returns.
Back to Rev 17:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
I think this is pretty much self explanatory. Fornication is of course spiritually, and thereby religiously 'drunken'.
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.
The wilderness is the confused world, and specifically, with Satan, Antichrist, playing God, and with the 'one world order' with the 'four hidden dynasties': religion, education, politics and economics. This is the tool, to deceive the world, of the Kenites, who are the children of Cain, Satan's son from the Garden of Eden. This is the negative part of God's plan. This is how God is testing us, if we really love Him and study His Word enough to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If we don't, we fall into the traps of the Kenites, and most people and churches are there, unfortunately. The Scriptures are in fact prophesying this also, Rev 13:3, where it says that 'all the world wondered after the beast'. The 'beast' here is the 'one world order'. Just one example of many addresses about this.
Again, horns and heads is the political power structure. Blasphemy talks for it self.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
I mean, she is dressed up like a real whore.
This is talking for it self pretty much. The golden cup is written about also in Jer 51:7.
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
This verse should be read: 'And upon her forehead (she had) a name written, a secret symbol (musterion), BABYLON THE GREAT, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth'. The name of the woman is therefore a secret sign or symbol of 'that great city' which she personifies (verse 18).
It is talking about the confused, deceived, church in the end times. 'Babylon' means 'confusion'.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
The 'woman' persecutes the Christians that know the whole truth. Remember, we are talking here about confused Christians persecuting Christians that know the truth. Has it happen yet? Well, it is about there.
'Admiration' here is a poor translation. It shall be 'astonishment'.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carried her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Here we can see that Satan and the Kenites' 'one world order' is carrying the 'woman', the 'whore', the confused church, the 'rapture'-people more specifically.
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.
Satan, the beast here, is affiliated with the 'one world order' as we know now. That the beast, Satan, was, and is not, and yet is, means that he is condemned to perish, that's why 'perdition', but still lives and have more to accomplish, until he is cast into the lake of fire, Rev 20, which is the blotting out of him, Ez 28:18-19.
The 'foundation of the world' is the 'katabole', the casting down of Satan in the first earth age, at his rebellion against God, also written about in Ez 28. Read the whole chapter. I have explained this in my chapter called 'Sealing'.
9 And here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Mountains are countries, in this case continents. The 'woman' sits on the whole earth in other words. There are seven continents on this earth.
10 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.
We will know and understand who these kings are when it happens. 'The other' is Satan, and he has some things to accomplish for God, still, but not long.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Satan has things to accomplish after the millennium, Rev 20:7-8, and this is what 'he is the eighth' means. Then he goes into perdition, Rev 20:10. He is blotted out as never existed. That's what the idioms '......tormented day and night for ever and ever.,' and '..........bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth ............., and never shalt thou be any more, Ez 28:18-19, mean.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
'Horns' means 'power'. We see here a political power structure (in this case supernatural beings, fallen angels, not kings in the flesh, for Satan is not going to work with flesh kings. These angels are from the ones cast out with Satan during the five months tribulation, Rev 9 and 12 etc.) that is going to receive power first when Satan is here as antichrist, five months, Rev 9:5,10, = one hour, 'the hour of temptation'.
Cp. Daniel 7:7.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
The political system 'one world order' has one mind of course, and they are going to give the 'one world order' to Satan, Antichrist, when he is here.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
They shall try to defeat Christ of course when He returns. That doesn't work, naturally. The called, and chosen, and faithful are the elect, Rom 8:26-33.
15 And he saith unto me, 'The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth,' are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
The whole world in other words.
Let's now go to what Paul is saying in 2 Cor 11:
1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
'Espoused' means 'engaged'.
The 'husband' is Christ of course. Paul doesn't want the Corinthians to be deceived, by anybody.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
'Beguiled' here is the Greek word 'exapataho', which only meaning is 'wholly seduced'.
That's what happened in the Garden of Eden when Satan, the serpent, 'wholly seduced' Eve, and Cain was conceived, from where the Kenites come. Remember that 'Cain' and 'Kenites' is the same word 'Qayin' in the Hebrew Manuscripts. Also remember that 'touch' in Gen 3:3 is the Hebrew word 'naga', which means 'lie with a woman' when it is used in an euphemistic way, which means used as a nicer word than the real one.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
The word 'transformed' here is a very poor translation. It shall be 'disguised' instead, for it is the Greek word 'metaschematizo'. Satan is going to 'disguise' himself to Christ, five months, just before Christ returns, 2 Thess 2. Antichrist means 'instead of Christ' in the Greek. The same way Satan's preachers 'disguise' themselves, also, to true Christians, but they are false.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
We know where they are going if they are aware of what they are doing.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Now let's continue in Rev 12:
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.
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.
We see here how Satan is cast out of heaven, by Michael, into the earth. This is when he
is going to be here five months, playing Christ, the first tribulation, 2 Thess 2. We also
see that 'his angels were cast out with him'. What angels? The fallen angels, 'the sons of
God', of Gen 6 and Jude 6: they who couldn't wait to be born in the flesh, but came to
earth anyway and took 'the daughters' to wives, and giants were born. That's why the
end times, just before Christ returns, is going to be as in the time of Noe (Noah), Gen 6 ,
Matt 24:37-38: they were.....marrying and giving in marriage, to the fallen angels.
That's why a woman shall cover her head, with Christ, the Truth, have power on her
head, 1 Cor 11:10, to protect herself from being deceived, wholly seduced, by these
angels, 'Nephilim' in the Hebrew tongue.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 'Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Satan cast down into the earth.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
'They' are the elect, who are overcoming Satan with their testimony, in the way it is written in Mark 13:
9 But take head to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them.
10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).
These three verses need to be explained.
The elect, the ones that are sealed in Rev 7:3, are going to be brought up into the synagogues of Satan, cp. Rev 2:9 and 3:9, the deceived, false church, the church that believe in the 'rapture', and that Satan is Christ, 2 Thess 2, and be browbeaten there, while they are witnessing about Christ. They will also be brought up before rulers and kings for the sake of Christ and witness about Him for them.
This is how the Gospel really is going to be spread over the world. Not the way it is done now by evangelists and missionaries and others. It is, as we see in the next verse, through the tongue written in Acts 2. Everybody in the world can understand that tongue in his own home dialect, Acts 2:8, even if only one person is talking. That is the evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit, when several languages can be heard at the same time from only one person talking.
In Luke 12:10-12 and 21:12-15 we can see the same future event recorded by Luke. See specifically Luke 21:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
See also Luke 12:
10 ......................: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.
To blaspheme the Holy Spirit, is for the elect to refuse to let the Holy Spirit talk through them, when they are brought up in the synagogues as mentioned above, when Satan is here during the five months, the first tribulation, playing Christ. It has not happened yet and can only be committed by the elect. So only the elect can commit the unforgivable sin. All other sins are forgivable. Very 'innerest'n' as they say in Texas.
The elect will not commit this sin, for they don't love their lives in the flesh enough, 'they loved not their lives unto death', to be tempted by Satan, in any way, during this time. Satan is coming...... peaceably......and..... by flatteries....., as we know from Dan 11:21, and.....he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches:......, Dan 11:24; ......and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper,......., Dan 8:24; ..........he shall cause craft to prosper.......and by peace shall destroy many:......., Dan 8:25.
Let's go back now to Rev 12:
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath , because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Satan only has the five months before Christ returns and a little season after the Millennium, Rev 20:3,7.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
The woman is Israel with her elect.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
The 'wilderness' is the world. A time, and times, and half a time, is 3,5 years. This is shortened, Mark 13:20, by Christ, to five months, Rev 9:5,10.
They who have the seal of God in their forehead, Rev 7:3, are protected from being hurt by Satan, during the first, Satan's, tribulation, Rev 9:4.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
The flood is a flood of lies, trying to deceive of course, Is 59:
19 .......................When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
Remarkable is that this flood, of lies, is as long as Noah's flood.
Back to Rev 12:
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
'The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up' here is the 'lift up a standard', which is the elect witnessing against Satan as mentioned above: the Holy Spirit talking through the elect.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The dragon is Satan, and I don't think I have to mention that again.
The remnant is the elect, witnessing, giving the testimony of Christ, with the Holy Spirit talking through them as mentioned above.
Now we are going to Mark 13: (same is recorded in Matt 24 and Luke 12 and 21)
14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
When Christ is saying: 'let him that readeth understand', He is addressing the elect.
'The abomination of desolation' is better translated 'the abominable desolater'. Of this follows that 'it' shall be 'him' instead. Who is 'he'? Satan of course! Do as Christ is saying in this verse, go to Dan 9:
27 .......................and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.'
This is better translated: on the wings of an eagle, with abominations, Satan, antichrist, the instead of Christ, the little horn in Dan 7:8, 8:9, shall make the Temple of God desolate, defile the sanctuary. 'Until the consummation' means 'unto a full end'. The reference is Is 10:22-23.
'That determined', which simply is God's plan, 'shall be poured upon' has to do with the consummation of this earth age. The end, which is part of God's plan, shall take care of Satan, the desolater. Christ takes care of Satan when He returns, as we ought to know at this point.
15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment.
This is a figure of speech, that it is not much time left of this earth age. It is only five months left.
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
This doesn't mean literary being with child and give suck, but alludes to that the deceived have jumped in bed with Satan, spiritually, the wrong husband.
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
If the 'flight', which is a figure of speech, or an analogy if you wish, is in the winter, it is out of season. Harvest is not in the winter. Therefore it can not be the True Christ, but the false.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom He has chosen, He hath shortened the days.
It is talking about the first tribulation: see verse 24. We are all going to be here. The so called 'rapture' is a lie, which I have documented from the Scripture in my chapter 'Rapture and more'. In fact this very chapter, Mark 13, is one of the many, many documentations.
It's going to be a rough time, spiritually, because of deception. They, who believe Satan is Christ, are going to have a great revival with Satan. Remember here, that it is not a rough time, physically, but spiritually. As we know from Dan 11:24, Satan is entering peaceably and prosperously, so most people, including the deceived Christians, the 'whore', are going to think they are OK. I mean, they think Christ is here and everything goes well for them: all debts paid off, a chicken in every pot, etc.
They who have the seal of God in their forehead, Rev 7:3, the elect and the very elect, are protected, Rev 9:4-5, from deception. Why? If you know the truth, who can deceive you? No one, of course! But they are going to be persecuted, browbeaten, Mark 13:9.
Here we also see that the Lord has shortened this tribulation, from 3,5 years, 42 months, to 5 months, Rev 9:5,10. That it's going to be a rough time, we can see from, that even the elect would be deceived if the time was not shortened: see Mark 13:22. We know from other scripture that the very elect will not fall away, but the elect will, for a little while, and then come back again to the truth, during the five months tribulation. A subject for an other time.
Remember, that as long as You have a flesh body, Christ is not here. We are changed to our celestial, heavenly, body when Christ returns, 1 Cor 15:40, 52, 1 Thess 4:17, both the just and the unjust people, Acts 24:15.
21 And then if any man shall say to you, 'Lo, here is Christ;' or, 'lo, He is here;' believe him not:
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Antichrist, Satan, is coming, and 'all the world', Rev 13:3, are going to think it is Christ, Messiah.
We have to be careful so we are not deceived by false teachers. There are lots of them today. Many people, because they are Biblically illiterate don't see that: I would say most people, for the Scriptures say so, Rev 13:3, and I can witness to it from my own little life experience. Cp. 2 Pet 3:2-3 and many other places.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
We have to study the Scriptures in depth, so we are not deceived. We are foretold everything there. Don't listen to any man, including this one: me. I could be wrong, but I hope not. Check every teacher out, carefully.
24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
Here we see that after the first tribulation, the Son of man (Quoted from Dan 7:13, cp. Joel 2:31; this title, when used of Christ, always has the Article; and the word for man is 'anthropos'), which is Christ of course, is coming. This is the second tribulation: a very short period in the very beginning of the Second Advent. This is the real rough time for those who thought Christ was here already, when they see the true Christ coming. A lot of disappointments I think, Rev 6:
15 And the king s of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him That sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The elect will stand. For others: 'there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth', Matt 24:51.
27 And then shall he send His angels, and shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of the heaven.
Pretty self explanatory.
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
The 'parable of the fig tree' is from Jer 24. It is about how Judah (Judah and Benjamin,
not the other ten tribes, Israel; for they are split now from Judah, see 1 Kings 11:28, 31-32, 12:19, 2 Kings 17:23, 19:32. They join again when Christ returns, Ez 37:15-28) returns when Israel becomes a nation again, which happened May 1948. With Judah returns also the false Jews, the Kenites, the bad figs. Read Jer 24. Christ just told you to learn it.
29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
So when we see these things happening, we know that the Second Advent is near.
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
In the generation of the fig tree, in the generation when Israel became a nation again, all these things are going to happen, including Christ's return. How long time is that? Well! The Scriptures have three different time spans for a generation: 40, 70 or 120 years. Within these time spans Christ is back; 40 has already past: that was 1988, so it is either before 2018 or 2068.
Conclusion:
This is one way to document antichrist. He is mentioned so many places in the Old Testament, it would take a much longer chapter, than this, to document all that. I might do it some time. If you look at Satan's names below, you may with a Strong's Concordance find the places, through the whole Bible, where Satan is addressed, and that way you can make your own study.
Satan has many names, or 'offices' if you will:
little horn = a horn of small beginnings; this identifies the vision with those of Dan 8,9,11,12. The first of twelve titles given to the power commonly known as 'the Antichrist' : it is used again in Dan 8:9; Cp. Dan 11:21-30.
Note the other titles:
'the king of Babylon', Is 14:4; 'the Assyrian', Is 14:25; 'Lucifer, son of the morning', in opposition to 'the bright and morning star', Is 14:12; 'the Prince that shall come', Dan 9:26; 'the king of fierce countenance', Dan 8:23; 'the vile person', Dan 11:21; 'the willful king', Dan 11:36; 'the man of sin', 2 Thess 2:3; 'the son of perdition', 2 Thess 2:3; 'that wicked (or lawless) one', 2 Thess 2:8, Rev 13:18;
More names for Satan:
'the Devil', 'that old serpent', 'the great dragon', Rev 12:9, Gen 3:1; 'the tree of knowledge of good and evil', Gen 2:17; 'beast with two horns like a lamb', Rev 13:11; 'king, the angel of the bottomless pit', 'Abaddon' and 'Apollyon', Rev 9:11; '666 is his number, for he appears in the sixth seal, sixth trump and the sixth vial', Rev 13:18, 'false prophet', Rev 19:20; 'the beast that was, and is not, and yet is', Rev 17:8; 'the eighth' and 'of the seven', Rev 17:11; King of Babylon, the type in Daniel; desolater (in the Manuscriptes), KJV = the abomination of desolation, Mark 13:14; destroyer, 1 Cor 10:10; father, one of them in Malachi 4:6, the other One is YHVH, God.
I have left some of them out, but you can find them in the Scriptures.
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