Very soon a great being will make his appearance on earth. He will come in power and great glory. His appearing will be marked by wondrous signs. The leaders of many religions on earth will acknowledge that this is the one the world has been waiting for. He will unite peoples and nations. He will bring peace to a war torn, traumatized humanity. Peace, peace…finally. Or so it will seem…because this man will NOT be Jesus the Christ returning. The peace this man will bring will not be the inner peace of God that passes all understanding…it will be only the temporary cessation of war. This man will be a counterfeit that fulfills how the world has been deceived to see the Christ. The problem with a counterfeit is that once you have one you don’t fill the need for the real thing. If someone owes you money and pays you with a counterfeit bill, you think you’ve been paid…until you take it to the bank. This man will be a counterfeit Christ. His coming is prophesized as clearly in the scriptures as the coming of the Real Christ. His coming will be the key sign to the people of God that the Real Christ is coming soon. This man will begin by speaking soft words. He will tell mankind what they want to hear. He will tell them that they’re all already OK. That’s a far cry from the message of the Real Christ.
This man, this Anti-Christ, will fulfill the prophecies of many faiths. He will smooth over the differences between them and bring them all into one fold. He will move against the King of the South that has united the nations and lands of Islam. The religion that has been a thorn in the side of Christendom will be utterly destroyed*. The Anti-Christ will take upon himself the power to change the laws and times of The Most High God. He will redefine what sin is. He will seat himself in the temple as Gods equal. This will be the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in the scriptures. The great false prophet, the leader of the biggest church on earth that uses the name Jesus Christ, will point to Him and tell the world that this is the Christ. That false prophet will make an idol of the man and demand the world worship it. Many miracles will follow. The world, thinking that he is the Real Christ, will obey. Taking him into their hearts and minds and doing his will, with the work of their hands will be taking his mark in their foreheads and on their right hands. This will signify their covenant with him.** All who refuse his mark, all who deny that he is the Real Christ, will be persecuted, many to death. Those that persecute them will think they are serving the will of God.
Worldly Christendom will have been expecting another Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin as the Anti-Christ. They won’t be expecting a peacemaker. That’s what this man will seem to be…at first. He will be wounded almost to death and be miraculously healed to the amazement of the world. This man will be an Israelite, probably a Jew. Since the Real Christ, at His first coming, remained celibate it is possible that this man will show no interest in women. This will fit the image of many people who believe celibacy is somehow more ‘spiritual’. He will rise to rule the united nations that have revived the old Roman Empire for three and a half years…the same amount of time the Real Christ preached the good news of the coming Kingdom of God. Just as Christ first came to do the will of His father, this Anti-Christ will do the will of his… He will be the embodiment of evil. He will appear to be a bright and shining savior to the world but his gospel will be a corruption of everything Holy. When he has drawn in those that will follow him, those who have taken his mark, they will suffer his fate by following him into the lake of fire. There will be a kind of symmetry between his life and that of the Real Christ. He will deceive all but the elect…and he will almost deceive them.
History shows us that even those who know the scriptures can be mistaken. When the Christ came the first time people who had made the study of the scriptures almost a profession expected a conquering king. What they got was a babe in swaddling clothes. Now the world expects that babe to return, with all the warm and fuzzy feelings they have come to associate with him. What the world will get when the Real Christ returns will be a conquering king!
When the Real Christ returns…the world will rise up to fight against Him thinking they are doing the will of God. They will be doing the will of their god…but not that of the Most High.
Two men are coming…the Beast and the false prophet. Two Witnesses are coming to proclaim the true gospel. The world will kill the latter. The Anti-Christ is coming and the world will accept him as Christ. The Real Christ is coming and the world will fight him and seek to kill those who follow Him.
He is coming…will you know Him when He does?
Don’t be deceived by signs and wonders. Only The Most High God can say what righteousness is. Who are you listening to?
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*There is a prophecy in Islam of a coming messiah-like figure called the Mehdi or Mahdi that will unite all Muslims. This prophecy dovetails in with the prophecies in Daniel about he King of the South. Many will believe that this Mahdi that unites Islam will be the antichrist because he will kill Christians and Jews. They will see the man who destroys this Muslim leader as Christ. They will be mistaken…
** There is still a ritual in modern Judaism wherein phylacteries are wrapped around the right hand and arm and a part of the law of God is worn in a small box on the forehead to signify that one has entered into a covenant with God.
Worldly Christendom erroneously believes that the Mark of the Beast will be a computer chip or some other physical form of identification. Such a mark would not violate the law of God. This ‘mark’ will violate Gods laws and that is the very definition of sin. All who take this mark will be cast into the lake of fire.
