Who's the anti-Christ? Don't we sorta need him in this deal? Sometimes I wonder if OBL is him. The bible says the anti Christ will have a bad arm and a blind eye due to wounds during war. OBL has a bad arm and I don't know about his eyes. Maybe he will yet get a bad eye in another battle. Many Muslims already believe he is the messiah and Europe seems like it is not far behind. Just wondering not putting this out as fact, at least not yet.
Who's the anti-Christ? Don't we sorta need him in this deal? Sometimes I wonder if OBL is him. The bible says the anti Christ will have a bad arm and a blind eye due to wounds during war. OBL has a bad arm and I don't know about his eyes. Maybe he will yet get a bad eye in another battle. Many Muslims already believe he is the messiah and Europe seems like it is not far behind. Just wondering not putting this out as fact, at least not yet. A lot of people seem to make a sport out of identifying the anti-christ, dating back to the reign of Nero. Personally, I don't think Osama bin Laden makes the best candidate, too clearly identifiable as evil. I'm thinking someon emore underhanded, like George Soros.
As for a timeline, I think we still have a way to go, although I think it could easily be sometime this century.
ANTI-CHRIST!
What does the BIBLE say??
1 John 2:18-26
18. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21. I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
22. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son.
23. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24. See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
25. And this is what he promised us--even eternal life.
26. I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.
1 John 4:1-3
1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
2 John 1:7-10
7. Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
8. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
9. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
10. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.
Are there MAJOR groups that say that JESUS is NOT the CHRIST??
Avoid them!!!
666!
Revelation 13:11-18
11. Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
12. He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.
13. And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.
14. Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
15. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
16. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
17. so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
(Notice NO mention of 'anti-christ' in Revelation!)
Sometimes I wonder if OBL is him. This is just my opinion, but I think it is possible that Satan has been preparing an anti-Christ for every generation since the first century, because he does not know when the second coming will be either.