Hello
How does the Beast Convince the World he is God /Jesus.
He doesn't have to convince the world that he is Jesus; he just will announce himself to be god in the Holy of Holies, a certain section inside the Temple.
This is not a scripture hunt more of an out load wondering.
I know what scripture says. So does every one in here. So do people all over the world. Everyone is waiting for him so how does he manage to deceive a world that is waiting for him.
This question haunted me for years.
The only answer I can come up with is this.................... and it is sooooo simple................ I was amazed it took me so long to see it.
So here it is. Everyone is waiting for a person to fulfill a particular set of event that person will be labeled the AC. For Example
Many Believe the AC will make a Pact with the Jews and help them rebuild the Temple.
So ask yourself this..... if a Man, say a leader of the EU, did just that how many people would believe beyond any doubt he was the AC. Now if the Temple was rebuilt how happy would the Muslims be. So if the EU then came to the defense of Israel that would just be more proof he was the AC.
According to scripture prophesy, as I recall, the outer court of the Temple will belong to the Gentiles. It has been found that the original parameter of the Temple itself has been found and can be built without the Dome of the Rock getting in the way of that. Indeed, it will be found in he outer courts.
They have all the stuff made for inside the Temple and they have the material ready to build that Temple quickly; they are just waiting for the go ahead signal.
Example 2:
Say a EU Leader got shot in the head and then Lived. How many people would say he was the AC without even a doubt in their mind.
So what the AC must do is convince the world that someone else is the AC.
Now after the world is convinced someone is the AC and a series of events happen. What is everyone is waiting for............... What event. Well they are waiting for Jesus to show up and destroy him aren't they.
Now we can see why Satan and his demons have put so much effort into false doctrine over the centuries. It is to get to a point where people think the Arrival of the AC is one set of events that it really isn't. That way he can create that "Fake Set" of events convince the world someone else is the AC then he can show up with all signs and wonders destroy the Fake AC and convince the world he is Jesus returned to set up God's Kingdom.
The simplicity of this is diabolical
Jesus's return will be Him arriving from above with the pre raptured saints: Zechariah 14:1-5 His foot will touch down on the Mount of Olives and cleave it into a valley to do battle against the armies of the world marching against Jerusalem. That is the climax of the end of the great tribulation.
Not withstanding the appearance of the 2 witnesses in Jerusalem that before THAT time at the end, they will be killed during the great tribulation, but resurrected which will cause a stir in Jerusalem.
Might be hard to mimic arranging for the world to send all of its armies to march against Jerusalem and arrive, descending from the cloud with the pre raptured saints to set foot down on the Mount of Olives to split it in two in coming to do battle with and defeat the armies of the world marching against Jerusalem.
The real question is how will the AC get that one world religion going for the world to agree to that peace? By that sign of tongues which can be found in all the religions of the world and the occult. * side note, Judaism did not have ecstatic tongues that is just gibberish nonsense, but they have been exposed to it as per the occult and idol worshipers before and thus in Jesus's time before Pentecost.
Ecumenicalism is a fruit of the false prophet. Christianity throws discerning the spirits by the scripture out the window and rely on supernatural experience rather than the scripture. So it couldn't be that hard for the AC to cause all religions to experience that phenomenon in his presence in uniting them by that phenomenon while they chuck all the things in each of their religion that opposes other religions by that sign of tongues, seeing that every one that speak in that kind of tongue are the same as they.
Just a speculation on how the AC would accomplish that one world religion as that kind of tongue does come after the workings of Satan as per Isaiah 8:19. Of Course, those saints left behind for that being in that iniquity as warned in the Revelation 2:18-29 for speaking the depths of Stan for which they speak by that spiritual fornication, will know finally that the spirit that came over them apart from salvation at the calling of the gospel was not of Him to know not to shun that tongue and not be identified with that new one world religion.