Excellent scriptures Doug, but tell me more as I'm not sure what you are saying about them.
They are obviously about man exalting himself above God.
I think this may change the way you look at the end times scenario.
The person almost universally called the Antichrist as a blanket term - is only the Antichrist while he is in the role of being the King of Israel. At other times, he is not the Antichrist. But in other roles.
The person starts out as the little horn, leader of the EU, then
Becomes the Daniel 9:26 prince who shall come (from the EU) into the middle east following Gog/Magog, then
Becomes anointed the King of Israel, perceived messiah to the Jews, making him the Antichrist, then
Becomes the revealed man of sin (not yet the beast of Revelation 13), after about 3 years 3 months, committing the "transgression of desolation".
For which, God has the person killed in Ezekiel 28:1-10 for the act of sitting in the temple claiming to have achieved God-hood. Prince of tyre is merely a code name for the person, similar to King of tyrus in the second half of Ezekiel 28 is a code name for Satan.
Once killed, the person finds himself in hell mocked, before God in disdain for the person brings him back alive because he destroys his land and his people. He is a Jew. Likened as an abominable branch - which Jesus in the bible is referred to as the righteous branch (descended from Jesse, David's father).
Isaiah 14:
18 All the kings of the nations,
even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave
like an abominable branch,
and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
because thou hast destroyed thy land,
and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
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Brought back to life, the person enters the role of being the beast of Revelation 13, no longer the King of Israel, no longer the Antichrist because the Jews will have impeached him as their King when he committed
the transgression of desolation, the act of sitting in the temple claiming to have achieved God-hood.
Daniel 8
13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain
saint which spake, How long
shall be the vision
concerning the daily
sacrifice, and
the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
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When God has the person killed and brought back to life, the person enters the role as being the beast. That's when he has dominion over the entire world. To continue the last 42 months of the 7 years.
Revelation 13:
3 And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to
continue forty
and two months.
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In Revelation 17:10, there are 7 sequential kings of the fourth empire, the Roman Empire. Six have been accounted for, historically. Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero. Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian family. The next dynasty were the Flavians.
The little horn person, leader of the EU, essentially the end times Roman Empire, will be the
one yet to come.
Revelation 17:
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is,
and the
other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must
continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
The continue the short space - the short space is the 42 months in Revelation 13:5, above - as the beast, the eighth Julio-Claudian king of the Roman Empire. Having started out as the seventh king, in the little horn role.
So the person appears to have to be descended from that Julio-Claudian bloodline, and also be a Jew.
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Once becoming the beast, the false prophet has an image made of him, and placed in the temple.
Revelation 13:
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make
an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
The image, a statue, will be
the abomination of desolation.
Matthew 24:
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand )
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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Daniel 12:
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
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Since Daniel 9:27 covers the 70th week (7 years) of the 70 weeks, that is 2520 days, by subtracting 1335 days - we can count on the abomination of desolation, the image of the beast, to be set up in the temple on day 1185, if counting the day the person in the role of being the Antichrist, perceived messiah to the Jews, confirms the Mt. Sinai covenant as being day 1.
When the person, after being in the role of being the Antichrist for about (guess-timate, because we don't know the day nor hour) 3 years, 3 months, commits the transgression of desolation, revealing himself to be the man of sin; according to 2thessalonians2:3-4, that triggers the Day of the Lord. Which peace will be taken from the world, as God brings outsiders to Israel to have the person killed, as it indicates in Ezekiel 28:1-10.
Killed and subsequently brought back to life in Isaiah 14:18-19, now in the role of being the beast, the image of him will be made, the abomination of desolation, triggering the Great Tribulation, on day 1185 of the seven years.
The two witnesses battle with the beast in Revelation 11, from day 1185 to day 1260 when they are killed.
During that 75 days, warned by Jesus and the two witnesses when they see the abomination of desolation setup, the Jews will be fleeing to the mountains, as the two witnesses provide cover, before the window for fleeing is closed, and them who don't flee right away, will be trapped in Jerusalem, until Jesus returns to save them in Zechariah 14.
Once the two witnesses are killed on Day 1260, three and a half days later, they come to life and ascend to heaven on Day 1263.5, leaving 1256.5 days in the 7 years. The bible simply refers to that 1256.5 days as 42 months in Revelation 13:5 that the beast will rule unimpeded by the two witnesses which will have left the world.
So back to Daniel 8 and Ezekiel 28:1-10, the troubles begin when the person begins to magnify himself in his heart that he has achieved God-hood.
A quick recap of the person:
First as the little horn;
then as the prince who shall come
then as the Antichrist
then as the revealed man of sin
then as the beast