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We seem to have been in the preliminary stages of the "reign of the Antichrist" for quite some time with liberal secular humanism and its brutal campaign for mass abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell slaughter, and cloning offering a foreshadowing of horrors yet to come.

Preliminary? We've been in the midst of it. The signs actually are pointing to the peak already having been. Embryonic stem cell issues will be a problem so long as the medical community is convinced that something good will come of it. That is a problem.

At this point, all we can do is pray and do our best against it.

If "the Antichrist" is alive with plane tickets in hand waiting to be installed as the world dictator, I would certainly be interested in the details and some hint at his location. Otherwise, I will have to stick with the more modest "preliminary" foreshadowings, as suggested.

Are you proposing that the prophecy has already been realized? Which current world leader or international celebrity is "the Antichrist"? Or do you mean by "the reign of the Antichrist" some metaphorical similarity rather than a direct A=A predicational correspondence? If the latter is the case, then, logically, we could not be in "the reign of the Antichrist."

The signs actually are pointing to the peak already having been.

Here are the signs ........

1. Jerusalem will return again to Jewish hands shortly before the Second Coming (Luke 21:24):

2. Sometime before the Second Coming, 2/3 of the Jews in the "whole land" will be exterminated (Zechariah 13:8-9). During the Holocaust, almost exactly 2/3 of Europe's Jews perished.

3. The Jewish nation will be reborn in a single day (Isaiah 66:5-8). This was literally fulfilled on May 14, 1948. The modern State of Israel was born in a single day following the passage of UN Resolution 181.

4. Jews will be regathered to Israel from around the entire world. (Ezekiel 36:22-28) and (Jeremiah 16:14-15). The current return of the Jews to Israel apparently even includes Jews from the ten lost tribes. Over the past decade about 600 "B'nei Manashe", a tribe from the Indian-Burmese border, have immigrated to Israel. They believe themselves to be the lost tribe of Manassah, exiled from Israel by the Assyrians in 723 BC. Their oral tradition speaks of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; they circumcise male children on the 8th day, as required by Jewish law; use prayer shawls with fringes, as do Jews; practice ritual purification as described in the OT; and follow many other ancient Jewish religious customs. Their priests use the Hebrew name of God as it appears in the Torah ("Yahweh") and invoke Mt. Sinai, Mt. Moriah and Mt. Zion.

5. The new Jewish state shall be extremely prosperous (Isaiah 66:9-4).

6. The fight over the city of Jerusalem will cause a world war (Zechariah 12:1-3; Joel 3:2 and Revelation 16:16).

7. But Israel will be miraculously militarily strong and able to successfull defend itself (Zechariah 12:6-9).

8. There will be widespread conversion of the Jews..

It is this last one that has not yet been fulfilled.

Something to reflect upon!