Meet the Antichrist Part Two

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Meet the Antichrist
Part Two

By John of AllFaith © 7.21.08

Considering this, we believe the Beast will be an individual male of natural human birth who will head a global corporatocracy, the foundations of which are now being laid by the Bilderberg Group and others.

The Religion of the Antichrist:

Based on the prophets we further know that the Antichrist will be a Semitic Jew.

This is not an anti-Semitic statement to make! I am a lover of Israel and a Noahide Zionist. Others who have pointed out that the coming Rex Mundi will be Jewish have been accused of anti-Semitism in part because they failed to explain why this is so. So please allow me to explain how we can be certain of this. It is very important if we hope to recognize him when he rises.

The National Origin of the Antichrist:

The prophecies clearly show that the Jewish people and their elders will accept this man as the long awaited Jewish Messiah:

John 5:43 I [i.e. Master Y'shua] am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

For those who accept the prophecies of Master Y'shua and his disciples this prophecy is quite clear. It is a direct prediction of the coming of the Antichrist and of the Jewish acceptance of him. Recall that the Master was speaking to Jews about Jewish issues. For anyone to be accepted as the Moshiach (Messiah) he must be Semitic (descended biologically from Shem), male (as discussed above), a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, David, Jesse and others as specified by the prophets. Anyone who is does not fit these requirements is not the Moshiach. To believe the Jewish people would accept a non-Jew as their Moshiach is, in my opinion, anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish; the term means anti-Jewish not opposition to Semites at large. hence to be "anti-Muslim" is not anti-Semitic.).

We also know that the Antichrist will arise from Europe by Daniel's reference to his being a "little horn" sprouting from the ten nations that developed after the fall of the Roman empire (Dan 7:8). We'll discuss this in detail below. We are also told by the prophets that the Antichrist will be "the Assyrian":

Isaiah 10:5: O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation....
Isaiah 10:24: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt…
Micah 5:1: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

We can learn from such prophecies where the Antichrist will likely hail from. Only one place was part of both the European branch of the Roman Empire and the Assyrian Empire, and hence the Antichrist will doubtless arise from this place. We can say with a relative degree of certainty that the Son of Perdition, the Antichrist, will first appear in the Southern Greek Isles, having allegedly been born in Bethlehem of a Jewish mother and circumcised according to the Laws of Moses. Bethlehem of course is under Muslim Ummah control at present. Why can we assume this? According to the prophets he is going to be accepted by the Jewish leadership as the Moshiach. Hence he must be able to make his case by appealing to the prophets.

I further theorize, even though the scriptures do not teach this point directly, that the Antichrist has probably been born in Bethlehem and brought, probably smuggled, into Greece to escape local persecution. His mother was Jewish and his father was possibly an absentee Muslim who abandoned the mother and child due to political and religious concerns. Such an arraignment would make the child Jewish while establishing a tie to the Muslim faith, making the acceptance of the Rex Muslim as their foretold Madhi more palatable. Again, this last point is just my theory. The former point, that he will be a Jewish male from the Southern Greek Islands seems highly likely. The future will tell of course.

Again, for clarity, the Antichrist must be able to convince Jewish authorities that he is the Moshiach. The Jewish elders will not be taking Christian prophecy into their consideration of course.

The Great Falling Away

The revelation of the Antichrist will be one of the most important signs that the end of the age has arrived.

According to this section of scripture (II Thessalonians 2), certain events must precede the Rex Mundi's appearance: "For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first..."

What is this falling away? We'll look more deeply into this topic in my study on the Seven Churches, however a basic understanding of this is an important key to identifying the Antichrist. For now then, in the Book of the Revelation, the Apostle John is shown the future history of the Christian Church. This history is presented through seven church periods that are typified as seven historic churches (Rev 2:1-3:22). While it is true that these were literal churches of the period, each of them represents a period of church history in the prophecies. This interpretation is commonly held among people who study the prophecies.

Our interest here is with the seventh or final period, signified by the church of Laodicea. This period is discussed from Revelation 3:14 to the end of the chapter. It begins with the glory and authority of the ancient church. The preceding church period (which ended circa 1913 by my calculations), was known as the church of Philadelphia. That age had allowed false doctrine to erode its purity and yet within that period of church history, many people remained faithful and the overall health of the Church was still acceptable. Certain spiritual viruses were pasted on however and these infections included the acceptance of certain false doctrines inherited from Philadelphia's predecessor Sardis and so on. Spiritually speaking, the Church at large, "the Body of Christ" was gradually devolving and becoming more and more diseased. Of those in this period who had gone awry we are told, "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie… ". Due to the rising tide of anti-Semitism I should probably point out that the Jews are the Elect of God. the reference speaks of people who claim they are are God when they are not, when they are actually serving the New World Order of Lucifer.

Satan is the father of lies and hypocrisy. From early in the Church's history what John referred to as the Nicolaitane heresies were formally adopted and passed through the Believers. These Nicolaitane heresies are now accepted by most Christian and biblically sound doctrine, even as most Christian have now abandoned the textually solid King James Version (based on the Textus Receptus) and replaced the traditional Bible with New World Order versions like the New International Version (NIV) and so on. For more on these mock bible visit my Which Bible section. This is all related.

The Global Church is contaminated by embracing Lucifer's ways through false doctrines, anti-scriptures, hypocrisy, ignorance, spiritual apathy, and a general lack of devotion to the things the Noahide Nazarene Way received from Master Y'shua and his direct disciples.

These falsities were then passed on generation by generation as sound doctrine and spiritual principles thus infecting more and more of the Church with heresy and false doctrine. They were not "true Jews," which is to say, they were not holding to the ways of the God of Israel as presented by Master Y'shua. As we pass through the seven ages of the Church, the Church gradually became more and more heretical until eventually the teachings of Master Y'shua were largely lost.

As the present church of Laodicea became established, as the final church age or period began, the situation became more desperate. In the earlier church ages there were always those individuals who were 'of the synagogue of Satan' but they were the minority. Master Y'shua refers to these people in his parable about the wheat and the tares (Matthew 23). As the Laodicean period continues to advance the Church is gradually becoming more and more hypocritical and lethargic, less like the early church. The tares are now far outnumbering the wheat and finding 'true Jews' among the Church is becoming increasingly difficult:

Revelation 3:14: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

This is the "Great Falling Away" spoken of by Prophet Paul in II Thessalonians above. Those who "repent" and hold firm to the God of Israel will still be accepted (Rev 3:20-22), however the majority of the modern Laodicean Church will not do this. Most will maintain the Nicean or Nicolaitane Christianity. This falling away must come first (and it has), and then the Antichrist will be revealed. Following his past times, the true Moshiach will come and redeem Israel and thereby the world. We see therefore prophecies that the Christian Church of the last days will be marred in hypocrisy, greed, judgmentalism and an overall lack of faith and obedience to God. We see this clearly today. The Church's authority is collapsing due to its manifold sins, greeds, hypocrisies and general apathy. The One God is therefore now turning away from the Church just as John, Master Y'shua and Paul here foretold.

The statement that these later day Christians who have abandoned the truth and who "say they are Jews, but are not" should be commented upon here briefly. Again, this is discussed elsewhere at AllFaith.com in far more detail.

According to the Bible the Jews, the physical and spiritual descendants of Abraham and Sara through their sons, are the eternally Chosen People of God. Everything in the Bible concerns the Jews and God's dealings with them. When Moshiach comes to save the world from certain destruction, it will be to rescue the Jews that he will come (Matt 24:21, 22). The benefits of this divine intervention for the rest of humanity will be secondary. For reasons I present elsewhere, for a time the eternally Chosen People of God were sent into exile, into the Diaspora. When Jerusalem and its holy temple were destroyed in 70 CE, not only did the Jews go into almost complete exile, God Himself accepted a type of banishment and dispersed among them as well and the Holy City was handed over to the Gentiles until such time that God chose to restore Jerusalem to Israel. In 1948/1967 HaShem returned much of Eretz Israel to His people because:

"…the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will."

That time arrived in May of 1948. During the period of exile, God 'grafted' onto the Tree of Israel new branches. These were the mainly Gentile disciples of Master Y'shua. These Gentiles did not and indeed could not ever replace Israel as the Wife of God:

Isaiah 54:5: For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

The Holy One of Israel is the God of the whole world, the Bridegroom of the Church, but the Husband of Israel. As the prophets foretold, the Church is now being cut off but Israel remains forever:

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

What has this got to do with identifying the Antichrist?

Everything!

When Master Y'shua of Nazareth, the son of Miriam, called Israel to repentance, his message was rejected by most of his people. What this message was and why it was rejected is a topic best left for another study. However understand that in 70 CE Y'shua's Jewish and Gentiles followers heeded his warning (Matt 24:15-20) and fled Jerusalem between the invasions of Cestius and Titus. According to accounts, Cestius was prepared to enter the Holy City with more than ample soldiery but then for some still unknown reason turned and retreated. The None-Nazarene Jewish defenders of the city (ie those who did not heed Master Y'shua's warnings) rushed after the troops and the Nazarenes (the followers of Master Y'shua) took the opportunity to flee the area based upon the Master's prophecy (at Matt 24:1-3).

These Nazarenes or early followers of the Way found refuge in the city of Pella in Perea. Shortly afterwards Titus attacked and destroyed the Holy City and its Temple leaving more than a million dead in his wake. As Prophet Micah had predicted:

Micah 3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

When Titus was finished, Holy Zion had been plowed as a field, and Jerusalem became like a garbage heap and so it remained until the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in 1948/1967.

The Jews Took No One's Land

Now there are again those who would deny the Holy City to the Jews, who would drive them into the sea as the leader Iran keeps threatening, and yet in the fullness of time the Moshiach will come and through him HaShem will save His dear wife, people Israel. But not quite yet...

Resolving this conflict will a prime concern of the coming Rex Mundi.

Part Three Coming Soon