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A period of peace will follow (perhaps two or more centuries depending conditionally upon the faithfulness of the people), in which Christianity will have it's last great era of orthodoxy and evangelism before the rise of Antichrist and the Last Days. The world will be ruled by Christian monarchies, and great waves of evangelism will cover the earth, converting most of the world, as Pope John Paul II alluded to with his prophetic utterance "springtime of evangelism."

This is the Catholic version of the "millenium" when "Satan will be bound for a thousand years." It is called by some the "reign of the immaculate heart." I find it interesting that the Catholic Church condemns the supernatural millenialism of Fundamentalist Protestants while advocating a purely natural millenium. Seems to me Fr. Denis Fahey got it exactly backwards.

Antichrist will come, and he will assume world power. He will be Jewish, and rise to power in the Middle East. He will be hailed as the Jewish messiah, rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, and establish his throne there. He will subdue the world, and teach that all religions are false, except Judaism and perhaps Noahidism as it's extension.

Now this is interesting, and certainly the first time I have ever heard such a thing. Everything I have ever heard about the "antichrist" and parallel concepts has said he will initiate a great syncretistic worldwide pan-religion in which all the religions of the world are acknowledged as simultaneously true and blended together. I have never in my life heard of a "false messiah" of any kind teaching a single exclusively true pure non-syncretized religion. This is quite an eye-opener.

There's one fly in the ointment though: according to chrstian tradition the "antichrist" will exalt himself above G-d. No one who did that would ever be accepted as Mashiach; to do so would automatically disqualify him.

Now . . . is there some guy out there who supposedly has a "name that is above every other name?" That sounds much more like the guy you're looking for.

There's one fly in the ointment though: according to chrstian tradition the "antichrist" will exalt himself above G-d. No one who did that would ever be accepted as Mashiach; to do so would automatically disqualify him.

Now . . . is there some guy out there who supposedly has a "name that is above every other name?" That sounds much more like the guy you're looking for.

The relevant New Testament passage is John 5:43. After "the Jews" accuse Jesus of making himself equal with God, he tells them "I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him."