“Anti”-Christ=in the Greek, “anti”=”instead” of Christ.
If satan, as the “anti”-Christ is to deceive man, he will not come in explosions and horrific calamity towards man, because this would show people that he is NOT Christ-like. Christ will not terrorize Christian men.
Satan comes at the sixth seal, sixth trump and sixth vial. CHRIST comes at the seventh—AFTER the appearance of the anti-Christ at the Mount of Olives where satan proclaims he is, indeed, Christ.
You’d BETTER be the man left in the field working, as the man taken away is the one deceived by satan and his promise to “fly you away”. I think the Lord expects Christians to remain until His return to witness against satan.
Are there to be only the two witnesses on earth to battle satan? If God Almighty is to return to earth to claim His kingdom at the seventh trump at the Mount of Olives and wreck havoc on the anti-Christ and those that follow him, where are all the Christians going to be? In the clouds?
Jerusalem is where God will return to make His kingdom and I’m planning on staying right here to see that.
Thessalonians 1:8-10
New King James Version (NKJV)
8 For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything. 9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.