Lee Stuvmen
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
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Yes sir, he is a MAN, that's why Rev. 17:9-10 we see the "Kingdoms" converted to "Kings", or as I like to put it we see God via John "Reducing" as in 10/20, 5/10 to 1/2. That is what those two verses do, they tell us this last BEAST will be a MAN not a Kingdom per se.
Rev. 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains (Greek word OROS, One who arises above the Plains/KINGS), on which the woman sitteth. (The Harlot/False Religion, is co-mingled with these KINGS and thus she RIDES THE BEAST)
10 And there are seven kings(Reduced to KINGS instead of KINGDOMS): five are fallen, and one is (ROME), and the other is not yet come(Little Horn or Anti-Christ); and when he cometh, he must continue a short space (7 Years or so, with him being the BEAST for only 3.5 Years.)
So why did God REDUCE the Kingdoms to KINGS? He wanted us to realize the Last BEAST will be a MAN....a lone MAN, who will both begin the Kingdom and will also FALL unlike all the other BEASTS he will start and end on top, hence he is here but a "Short Time". The Beasts were Kingdoms, God wants us to know this BEAST will be a Man with no successors !!
Well they do mention A SINGULAR Anti-Christ in one verse, but your point is taken. But Like I told someone else, it doesn't matter if we call THIS MAN Concrete, as long as we understand who we are speaking about. Point being, we have taken the 10-20 names he is known under, such as the Little Horn, BEAST, Man of Sin, Man of Lawlessness, The Assyrian etc. etc. etc. and we have placed them all under ONE MONIKER in purpose in order to clarify who we as Christians see this man as being, so we use THE ANTI-CHRIST and its justified IMHO, because of ONE VERSE, however, it wouldn't matter, as long as Christendom understand who we are speaking about, its really irrelevant. SEE 1 John 2:18, notice the Holman capitalizes the A in Anti-Christ.
1 John 2:18 (KJV) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist(specific antichrist mentioned....THAT) shall come, even now are there many antichrists (So THAT antichrist is speaking about a SPECIFIC MAN/Singular); whereby we know that it is the last time.
1 John 2:18 (HOLMAN) Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, "Antichrist is coming," even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.
Notice how Holman GETS IT? The verse is speaking about THAT ANTI-CHRIST, a specific person, not a Spirit that is just against Christ Jesus. Its like saying EVIL is upon the world but "THAT EVIL" (Personification) will come [later].
So I truly think people make way too much of this whole " he is never called the Anti-Christ", because I personally think he is technically call THAT ANTI-CHRIST, and even if he wasn't, it wouldn't matter because the Man of Sin, the Assyrian, the BEAST and the Little Horn are all ANTI-CHRIST in their Nature when mentioned and of course they are all the SAME PERSON. So we unify them under ONE MONIKER.
Isn't the Man of Sin/Little Horn/BEAST antichrist? The stands AGAINST CHRIST, of course he does brother. No one ever insists he is the only one who stands against Christ, that's a given.
Apollyon is the 8th. Of course Satan is over him.
The answer lies WITHIN A SUN WORSHIPING TITLE of Supreme Religious Authority that has existed for OVER 2300 years
Daniel 8:14
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
The little horn is credited with
Daniel 8:11
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down.
Start there.
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With great love,
Lee
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