Awhile back I did an expose on the Antichrist using an article on Gary's Website.
I just spent an hour trying to convert the formatting to this board's formats and then accidently hit the back button on my mouse grrrr.
There is much color emphasis so I am just going to give you the lead in and link to my blog.
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A literal one and will be and Arab. I don't think so. Even if we assume there to be an Antichrist literally, current versions fail. The Muslims also await a messiah of sorts so he would need to be someone who Jews, Christians and Arabs would identify with.
All the ETM prophets have us waiting for a rapture that is never going to happen, not in the popular sense anyway and the revelation of this mystical being that will be possessed by the devil, perform signs and wonders et al. and will stand in the temple and blaspheme the most High in that people will worship his image or the image of his name yada yada.....
Pray tell, where in the bible do we see satan or his minions performing signs and wonders? What makes you so sure that a demoniac possession could not be cast out? How come if a person is possessed by satan personally with prayer and fasting of all the saints and by the power and authority we have in Christ, why pray tell could we not all say GO! Like Jesus did and it would be over? Last time I looked, he satan is under our feet. Or do you not believe we have authority over him ol’ little red guy?
Well I suppose if he, satan, is able to deceive more than what God is able to draw, he is a giant of sorts and our God is a dwarf by comparison
Let us look at Matthew 24. It relates so much to the antichrists and the prophesy of Daniel and others.
Although I believe scripture has dual meanings, this one has been misinterpreted for too long now.
Interspersed with my questions and comments (Navy) are extracts from “Prophesy Fulfilled” by:
David P. Crews
Teleios Books
NEW LIGHT PUBLISHING AUSTIN, TEXAS
Before you cry heresy, read it. It is also interspersed with comments by the early church fathers Eusebius, Josephus the historian etc.
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.
It says
many will come and
deceive many, not one,
many. Wars, rumors of wars, now pray tell when did we not have wars and rumors of wars ever?
Were there wars and rumors of wars during the years between Jesus and the destruction of A.D. 70? We can turn to another non – Christian source, the Roman historian Tacitus, to determine this. In his Histories, Tacitus states concerning these years, “
there were three civil wars; there were more [than three wars] with foreign enemies; there were often wars that had both characteristics at once.” More importantly, there were the rumors of the approaching Roman army throughout Palestine as the final war began against the Jews. Many, upon hearing of the defeats in Galilee, would retreat to Jerusalem, only to be caught in the siege and destruction there.
All the famines and pestilences earthquakes different places, been happening for a long, long time now. I have not done it but I am sure there are sites with history of earthquakes and yes they have all happened in different places.
Read on
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