Posted on 01/24/2017 6:29:36 PM PST by grumpa
As far back as I can remember people have been speculating about the identity of the "Antichrist," an evil figure referenced in portions of the New Testament.
After President Ronald Wilson Reagan was shot and miraculously recovered in 1981, people made the ridiculous assertion that he was the prophesied evil figure of “end-times.” It didn't help that his first, middle, and last name all had six letters (666).
At that same time, others argued that the Antichrist was Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev or Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Less than a decade later Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians were insisting that the "Man of sin" was actually Iraqi Saddam Hussein in the land once known as Babylon.
Later, I learned that previous generations believed that the Antichrist was Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, or Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany. The actual listing of individuals identified with this role is quite long and ludicrous. Whatever nation happens to be the current enemy of America (or Israel) usually supplies us with the current candidate for the antichrist.
Obviously there’s a lot of misunderstanding and misapplication here. Many of our collective anxieties and fears are coloring our readings of the Bible. We’re bringing into the text things Scripture never actually articulates. Much of this happens because of our confusion about the Bible and ignorance of the apocalyptic genre. We don't comprehend its intended meaning or its use of fierce imagery and symbols.
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The beginning of Satan’s tribulation very likely lines up with Purim. (Haman’s attempt at the eradication of Judah)
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I don`t know if i am preterist or not, i never can remember what it means but the view makes a lot of sense to me.
Why would John be writing to seven churches that have not existed for hundreds of years?
It also looks to me like we are living in the days of Rev ch 17 and 18, describing the religious system of our day which John calls the whore and her daughters.
But Revelation 17:10 makes it clear that revelation was written during the reign of the sixth beast so there was
one yet to come plus number eight.
It is possible that Nero was the beast for that time period and what we have today is the image of the beast.
I also believe Revelation was written earlier than most of the experts agree to agree on, i wonder what they really believe?
Mohammad is the False Prophet
Allah is the Anti-Christ
It has been on the rise for quite a while, certainly all of last century, the century of wars and rumors of wars. That was the time where the fatal wound occurred.
Perhaps it was the fall of the nazis, as certainly Hitler was an evil, anti-christ who sacrificed a lot of Yaweh's chosen in his quest.
Or, perhaps the fatal would was the fall of the Soviets. The 'isms they spread eventually killed them and is doing tremendous damage today to the once Jude's-Christian West that fought those evils last century.
Romans 1:18-31 is the outline and we're filling in the details as we write the ending foretold to us in Revelation and many other books in the Bible.
We were tricked into going our own way and have been rewriting God's Word in out own image. Ezekiel 28 outlines our reward and the Tower we've built will fall.
9/11 was the warning and Isaiah explained it, but our response as a nation was to say and do exactly the wrong things and then build the One World Trade Center tower. D'oh! Look out below....
Not good being a nation ripe for judgment, but that is what we are, especially since kicking God out of government and replacing both the Heavenly Father and the family father with GovCo back in '63 and then making human sacrifice to ...?... the law of the land back in '73.
Again, refer back to Romans 1:18-31 for the "rest of the story".
Things truly are happening fast in these days!
Most astonishing to my new understanding is how events have correlated to the warnings of Fatima, at least that's how it appears to my limited understanding, and exactly as promised in the messages in True Life In God.
I haven't seen the radar, but I get a sense of the perfect storm that's heading for us in these times.
Happening fast, I hope so. Come quickly PLEASE.
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Thank you for that link, it is very provocative.
And I also think my take on who/what the Beast is or might be requires some further rethinking as well.
(My proofreading skills could use some rework, too. Yikes...sorry about all the typos and such earlier.)
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