Through my years following Bible Prophecy I have come across those who feel it necessary to name the Antichrist and share their thoughts publicly. Everyone specified has not in fact been the Antichrist and some of the nominees were quite far fetched on two levels.
First and foremost the person cited did not turn out to be the Antichrist. Second, the Antichrist candidate could not possibly enter political power because there was no geopolitical possibility for the public figure to gain the political seat needed for him to be the Antichrist.
The men named were absurd possibilities and
the prophecy writers lost all credibility when their candidate did not turn out
to be the Antichrist. Some Bible Prophecy writers feel very strongly about
their Antichrist nominee especially if it is a politician or religious leader
they do not like.
Naming the Antichrist is the wrong avenue
for a Bible Prophecy writer to venture into on so many levels.
If you name the Antichrist and are wrong you lose all authority.
It is no different than identifying a date for the Rapture. Once you lose believability people will be
reluctant to listen to any of your teachings. In addition, when you name the Antichrist and are
wrong you lead people to focus on the wrong person.
Yes, the
Antichrist is here and within the political realm working his way to his
political seat. I do not agree with
those who say we cannot know his identity before the start of the Tribulation
or that he will not be revealed until after the start of the Tribulation.
The Antichrist
can be known beforehand because the treaty with Israel, which begins the
Tribulation will be signed after the Antichrist gets into power. This will not
all happen on the day the Antichrist obtains his political seat, he will be in
power prior to the initiation of the treaty that begins the Tribulation. Bible Prophecy provides many verses detailing
how the Antichrist acquires his political seat and any candidate must fit the
Biblical criteria.
The Antichrist’s identity will not be widely known,
the Biblical wise men and women will know who he is and they are few in
number.
One of the reasons the Antichrist’s identity will not
be broadly known is because the only people paying attention are Evangelical
Christians. These Christians are then divided into those who are interested in end
time Bible Prophecy and those who are not.
When you examine the Christians who do follow Bible Prophecy News it further
divides into which teachings they follow.
Bible Prophecy experts are divided between those who
teach the European Union is the revived Roman Empire, to those that teach that
an Islamic Caliphate is the Beast of Revelation. Other Bible Prophecy gurus are instructing
that the United States is the Revelation Beast. Some instruct that the final
world empire is all coming about via a conspiracy by the Illuminati and
Bilderbergers. Other highlight even more
conspiracies and bazaar correlations. Shrinking it down even further is that within
each category are more explanations.
I teach the EU
as the Revived Roman Empire and have seen others who have some good insights
and have a good grasp on the EU, to one individual who did not have a good
understanding at all and is teaching errors yet he is out there with the
various experts.
Part of the problem is
that there is no standard in the Evangelical world for relating Bible Prophecy
to current events and there are some watchmen providing some real bad
information who in the end are instruments of Satan providing disinformation
and throwing everyone off the track off what is really happening to fulfill
Bible Prophecy. Anyone can start a
website and many of these persons who are warning about Bible Prophecy and the
end times are throwing people way off course to what is really happening
because of their errors.
So based on my knowledge of what is being taught and
how many teachers there are out there, I doubt the true identity will be known
among many. I could be wrong and the
Evangelical world might become more unified in their teachings as we get closer
to the start of the Tribulation.
There are those who say we cannot know the identity of
the Antichrist and they cite 2 Thessalonians 2:3,which reads:
Let no man deceive you by any means for that
day shall not come expect there come a falling away first and that man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition.
They teach that the falling away is the Rapture of the
church. “The falling away” is talking about falling away from the true faith. The
rest of the passage, which talks about he that restrains they teach is the Holy
Spirit that is present with the body of believers that are still on the earth,
but once the church is Raptured out the believers and thus the Spirit is gone
and the Antichrist can be revealed.
The
problem with this theory is that the Holy Spirit is going to be present during
the Tribulation via the 144 thousand witnesses, the preaching of the two
witnesses and the Tribulation saints.
We also have the little phrase in Daniel 11:32 that says…”but the people
who know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” This no doubt is the Holy
Spirit at work in the Tribulation Saints.
There are the individuals who say we should be
focusing on Jesus and not the Antichrist. The early church fathers focused on the
Antichrist. Larry D. Harper is the leading expert on the early church fathers
and their writings regarding the Antichrist.
His mission The
Elijah Project is devoted to helping educate the public on the early church
beliefs regarding the end of the age.
Thus the preoccupation for the Antichrist spans from the early church.
Each generation since
the Apostles have paid attention to the signs of the end times and have looked
for the Antichrist who is Jesus's nemesis and who is the Son of Satan. It is
not because we are not focused on Jesus, but rather focused on the entire
picture.
As Bible Scholar Larry
D. Harper so eloquently stated in his preface to his book “The Antichrist”,
“These are not normal times. These are the End Times. Our generation has been
selected to witness the final awesome battle between the forces of Light and
Darkness. We have been chosen to witness the ultimate triumph of good over
evil.”
For those who will live after the start of the
Tribulation with all that is given in Scripture, there will be enough to
identify the Antichrist. The Saints
living in the earth’s final years will know the identity of the Antichrist and
that he is Satan on earth.
Believers living beforehand, prior to the start of the
Tribulation and the Rapture, will wonder about the Antichrist’s identity and if
we come to know it we will see more of God’s word being fulfilled before our
eyes.
To even be in the place to begin picking a candidate
you need to understand the ins and outs and who is who in European and world
politics. I have yet to see a Bible
Prophecy teacher who delves that deep and has that kind of knowledge which is
on par with a foreign affairs analyst. Most of what is written by Bible
Prophecy experts in correlating world news to Bible Prophecy can be tossed into
the garbage pail of junk journalism.
I spend a ridiculous amount of hours in study and I
see potential candidates who I have revealed to my inner circle of friends but
would never come out publicly.
If my personal candidates are wrong can and I were to make them public I would lose all credibility.
This is
not my job as a Bible Prophecy teacher, my job stops short of naming the Antichrist.
If my personal candidates are wrong can and I were to make them public I would lose all credibility.
If I am right I would
not even know if I were correct at this point, but rather use the knowledge as
a compass to gauge where we are at until the start of the Tribulation. As I
stated there is the possibility that we will all be more unified in our beliefs
of how the prophetic writings correlate to current affairs as we get closer to
the start of the Tribulation and as a group will be able to know his identity
as he negotiates the treaty, that is if the timing of the Rapture is
immediately before the signing of the treaty that begins the Tribulation and
not prior to an event that might spark the need for the treaty, which is the
topic of another article.
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