[Red Sea Swimmer]

"when the antichrist is made known God will cloud man's mind so that he will believe the deception, and part of that is executing those who will not bow down to the antichrist."

This won't happen. You are interpreting future events through your prism of New Testament Eschatology. The binoculars you are looking through are broken.

[weshess]

The Old Testament also talks about the end times.

[Quix]

The binoculars are not even scratched, much less broken.

[jwpjr]

But God does say that He 'hardened' the Pharaoh's heart so that he would not accept what Moses was telling him. I put this in the category of those things that I simply don't know enough about to be certain of, so I just trust God that the way I am following is true, that I will do my very best to follow it and if I'm wrong judge my intentions, not my actions. If I can't depend on Him for that much consideration then I'm a goner under any circumstances. For the record, that's exactly what I believe and I thank Him daily for all he does for me and seek His forgiveness for those times that I do (can) not meet his expectations.