Eurasia said:
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Eurasia said:
i forgot to mention the face of this woman was of Asian descent possibly Chinese, not sure if this changes the meaning.
The woman's descent could represent the eastern origins of the Gnostic aspects of the Antichrist's religion (1 John 4:3).
Gnosticism is an ancient religious movement which says that everything material is utterly evil, while only that which is pure spirit is good. Gnosticism teaches the lie that all humans used to be pure spirit and dwelling in bliss from all eternity in heaven, the "Pleroma", until by some mishap humanity fell into the material universe and became trapped in physical bodies. Gnosticism reviles YHWH, the creator of the material universe, as an evil, subordinate deity, a "Demiurge", who is keeping mankind imprisoned in the material universe.
Gnosticism became the main enemy of the early church, just as it will become the main enemy of the endtime church during the coming tribulation. For the Antichrist will be a Gnostic. He will teach the Gnostic lie that Christ isn't in the flesh (1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7). And the Antichrist, like the Gnostics, will utterly revile YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36).
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The woman possibly being from China, the symbol of which is a dragon, could point to the Luciferian aspect of the Antichrist's religion (Revelation 13:4), for Lucifer/Satan is a dragon (Revelation 12:9).
Also, one of the main religions associated today with China is Buddhism, which has core teachings in common with Gnosticism:
1. The material realm is unreal and evil. (Both Buddhism and Gnosticism got this false idea, originally called "Maya", from Hinduism.)
2. People must strive to escape the material realm completely and enter into a state which is wholly non-physical (Parinirvana in Buddhism, the Pleroma in Gnosticism). Buddhism and Gnosticism got this false idea, originally called "Brahman", from Hinduism.
3. The way for people to get free from their imprisonment within the material realm is through their minds attaining a certain level of enlightenment (Nirvana in Buddhism, Gnosis in Gnosticism). Buddhism and Gnosticism got this false idea, originally called "Moksha", from Hinduism.
4. The way for their minds to attain this certain level of enlightenment is through following the way of the Serpent (one legend of Buddhism says that the Buddha was given the true Buddhism by the King of the Serpents; and in Gnosticism, Gnosis comes from the Christ/the Serpent). Both Buddhism and Gnosticism got this false idea of the enlightening serpent, originally called "Kundalini", from Hinduism. (Regarding the serpent in Genesis 3, Gnostics see him as the good guy, just as they see YHWH as the bad guy.)
The Bible contradicts each of the four points above:
1. The material realm is real, and it was created very good (Genesis 1:31). God himself is in the flesh (John 1:1,14, Luke 24:39) and remains wholly without sin (Hebrews 4:15). So there's nothing evil about matter in itself.
2. People must strive to attain to a resurrection (Philippians 3:11) into an immortal, physical, human body of flesh and bone, like the immortal, physical, human body of flesh and bone which Jesus obtained at his resurrection (Luke 24:39, Philippians 3:21, 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-54), and in which Jesus will remain forever as our fully-human mediator (1 Timothy 2:5), our fully-human high priest forever (Hebrews 7:24-25, Hebrews 2:17). His tomb is empty (Matthew 28:6), and when he returns he will show the scars of the crucifixion on his body (Zechariah 13:6, Zechariah 12:10-14).
3. Resurrected people who have been truly enlightened (Ephesians 1:18, or "illuminated": Hebrews 10:32) by Jesus Christ (John 8:32, John 14:6-7, John 3:36) will remain in the material realm forever, ultimately living on a new earth forever with God himself (Revelation 21:1-4, Revelation 22:3-5).
4. The Serpent, Satan/Lucifer, is the deceiver of the whole world (Revelation 12:9).
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The Antichrist's religion will be a blend of Luciferianism and Gnosticism, for his False Prophet (who could be a future, apostate Pope) will perform amazing miracles by which he will deceive the whole world (Revelation 13:13-14, Revelation 19:20) into worshipping Lucifer (the dragon) and the Antichrist (the beast) (Revelation 13:4,8). And, as has been pointed out, the Antichrist, as a Gnostic, will utterly revile YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36) and will deny that Christ is in the flesh (1 John 4:3). The Antichrist will also deny that Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:22).
The Antichrist and his False Prophet could say that (the non-flesh) Lucifer is the Christ, for "Lucifer" (Isaiah 14:12) means "the morning star", and Christ is the morning star (Revelation 22:16); also, Christ identified himself with the serpent (John 3:14), and Lucifer (Satan) is the serpent (Revelation 12:9). The truth is that Lucifer fell from his office of morning star (Isaiah 14:12) and became Satan (cf. Luke 10:18); Jesus the Christ has taken over the office of morning star (Revelation 22:16). And Jesus the Christ identified himself only with the brass serpent on the pole in Numbers 21:8-9 (John 3:14), which typified Jesus the Christ's crucifixion for our sins (John 19:16, Matthew 26:28).
Nonetheless, the Antichrist could say that Lucifer is the Christ and the true God of mankind, and that the False Prophet is the miracle-working prophet Jesus (John 3:2, Acts 3:22-24), returned to point the world to the true Christ/God. The Antichrist could say that he (the Antichrist) is the human/divine "Son" of Lucifer, and so is to be worshipped as God along with Lucifer (Revelation 13:4,8). This would be similar to how Biblical Christians now worship the human/divine Jesus (John 1:1,14) as God (the Son) along with God the Father (John 20:28, Hebrews 1:8).
But how could the Antichrist thus separate the idea of "the Christ" from the idea of "the Son", when in the Bible they're one and the same (Mark 14:61)? In the same way that Islam now does, for Islam says that Jesus is the Christ (Koran 3:45) but denies that Christ is the Son (Koran 9:30). (Islam denies altogether that God can have any divine Son: Koran 4:171.)