I dunno. Maybe 42 months since he was wounded in the head and it magically healed without a scar?So is the end of the world coming 42 months from now, or 42 months after Trump first took office?
Well, very few facts about the Antichrist can be established just by looking at a single verse. He will be an excellent communicator (Dan. 7:8), the whole world will be awed by his signs (Rev. 13:3,4 et. al.). He is amply characterized as the greatest deceiver of all time (that is, Satan incarnate, Judas reincarnated). Therefore, he will appear to be the opposite of everything that he truly is. He is a liar, so he will appear as the greatest truth-teller. He is a murderer, so he will appear as the greatest healer and savior. He is filled with hate, so he will appear as the personification of love. He despises mankind, so he will appear as its true messiah and deliverer. In short, he will be everything that Jesus was "supposed to be", but didn't appear to the rebellious Jews of his time to be. The Antichrist will be "Jesus, But Done Right This Time." And so on. And his appearance on the world stage will be characterized by absolutely unprecedented global deception and confusion. Kind of like the world today.
In case it's helpful to anyone, here's Chapter 5 from AW Pink's booklet The Antichrist which is chock full of great information about what the Bible teaches about the coming Wicked One:
Yawn.
1. He will be an intellectual genius.
He will be possessed of extraordinary intelligence. He will be the Devil's imitation of that blessed One "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3). Who says the devil's imitation of the One in Whom all that resides will have all that too?
Ezek. 28:3 declares of him "Beholding, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee". Does that require wisdom? Or can Google do that for you, if you're president?
Rev. 13:2 declares that his mouth is "as the mouth of a lion". Big, loud mouth. Check.
Dan. 11:21 tells us that at first they will not give to him the honor of the kingdom, but "he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries". A little horn, a guy who bribes the powerful, but isn't powerful, who gets power suddenly by flattering people. Check.
For example in Psa. 52:7 we read, "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches; and strengthened himself in his substance". Got an inheritance and set out to make it grow.
Even plainer is Dan. 11:43, "But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt". In the last verse of Dan. 11 mention is made of his "palace".
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Ezak. 28:4,5 speaks of him thus, "With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches". Is that really in Ezekiel, or is that the book jacket blurb on The Art of the Deal?
"he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people" (Dan. 8:24). What did he do to Jeb and Hillary? How many churches closed permanently in 2020?
"Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. 13:4). What else is there to say about any U.S. Commander in Chief in this day and age?
Rev. 13:1,2: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a Beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the Beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority". Spotty? Check. Loud? Check. The Russian bear was said to be his buddy? Check. And I bet you can name the Dragon Lady who conceded the election to him as well.
So completely will the world be swayed by the hypnotic spell cast over it by the Beast that the ten kings of the Roman empire in its ultimate form shall "give their kingdoms unto him" (Rev. 17:17). He complains about NATO, but he was the dominant partner in it for a time, and didn't pull out.
"All the world wondered after the Beast" (Rev. 13:3). His final triumph shall be that, wounded by a sword, he shall live again (Rev. 13:3). He shall raise himself from the dead, and so wonder-struck will men be at this stupendous marvel they will readily pay him Divine homage, yea, so great will be his dazzling power over men, they will worship his very image (Rev. 13:14,15). Trump 2024!
Pink's guesswork as to what these prophesies mean is of zero significance. Clearly his theory that the anti-Christ will be able to fool everyone, even the elect, is counter to scripture. I prefer to let the prophesies speak. And these prophesies were never very clear to me--until now.
Pink's guesswork as to what these prophesies mean is of zero significance. Clearly his theory that the anti-Christ will be able to fool everyone, even the elect, is counter to scripture. I prefer to let the prophesies speak. And these prophesies were never very clear to me--until now.
What "guesswork"?? You just quoted him at length quoting Scripture backing every single assertion he's making.
And you even add your own private speculations by implying that Trump is the Antichrist by equating Trump tower to "all the riches of Egypt", which is quite the stretch! DJT might yet turn out to be the AC, I sure hope not, but he fails so many prophetic markers that it just seems wildly improbable.
Scripture's prophecies about the coming of the Wicked One are remarkably clear, and precisely because that event will be surrounded with more deception and confusion than any other in history.
Jesus explicitly lays out the signs in Matthew 24 saying, "Watch out that no one deceives you!" (Matt. 24:4) NO ONE who is not in Jesus Christ will escape the deception of the Antichrist. Not even one. No matter how clever you are. No matter how much of a hardbitten skeptic you are. No matter what, you're going to fall for it if you're not in Jesus. That's not my opinion, that's the the word of God, Matt. 24:24, Rev. 13:3.
God is not the author of confusion. Scripture is crystal-clear about the nature of the coming Wicked One. He will come up out of the Abyss (Rev. 17:8), meaning, from Tartarus/Gehenna, having been tortured in the flames of hell...
...and his campaign will be unlike anything this tragic sphere has ever witnessed before (Matt. 24:21), a global meat-grinder of absolute iron-fisted power (Rev. 13:15) and endless human suffering (Rev. 18:10) on a scale that defies imagination, using the supernatural powers of Satan himself (Rev. 13:2). Doesn't get any clearer than that.
The guesswork is exactly where you know it is. It won't literally, physically be one man with ten heads, so what do all these analogies mean?
The GDP of Egypt last year was 390 billion. What will US government spending be this year? Six trillion?
So, you're arguing with Jesus? You're saying Jesus didn't need to warn His flock because He will protect them?
You don't think it's possible that the way Jesus protects that flock is by warning people?
You don't think listening to the One whose disciples called "Teacher" might be the very thing which separates the wheat from the chaff?
And Gaza is going through what, exactly, right now? And Ukraine? Is Venezuela next?
Well, if you bother reading your Old Testament, you'll know that the whore of Babylon is unfaithful Israel, see Ezekiel 16 and many others.
Modern "Egypt" has nothing to do with prophecy any more than modern "Isreal" does.
Are you really that dense? A warning is an act of protection
Not sure why you keep making my point for me, but do go on.
Sniff. You just had to bring up the end of the world, didn't you? Sniff. The world ended when Becky Mae broke up with me in my Sophomore year. Sniff.So is the end of the world coming 42 months from now, or 42 months after Trump first took office?
Sniff. Becky Mae. Sniff. Some scars just don't heal. Sniff.Who is the whore of Babylon?
Sniff. Becky Mae. Sniff. Some scars just don't heal. Sniff.
If only all our hearts were as resilient as Trump's right ear.
Have we taken this far enough yet?
Something tells me the Anti-Christ would be somebody that isn't in the public eye. That person is most likely someone that is secretly the king of the entire planet.
Something tells me the Anti-Christ would be somebody that isn't in the public eye. That person is most likely someone that is secretly the king of the entire planet.
How does the whole word wonder after a secret king?Something tells me the Anti-Christ would be somebody that isn't in the public eye. That person is most likely someone that is secretly the king of the entire planet.