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2Thessalonians2:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The person will go into the temple sit, claim to have achieved God-hood. Apparently, at the time he will do miracles to support his claim. There is a unspecified amount of time that passes between his initial claim and him being killed. The "lie" is his claim.
The delusion will be that God brings him back to life, in Isaiah 14:18-20. Plus, we don't know behind the scenes interaction between God and Satan over the matter, like in Job, when Satan was allowed to do certain things to Job, but Job wasn't told the why everything bad was happening to him
Dougg,
You have made several posts on this thread and I'm glad for your contribution.
In the OP I posed a clear logical challenge. If we are supposed to believe that an evil man, or antichrist, is resurrected from the dead, is this done by the power of Satan or by the power of God? As I said in the OP, the problem is that Satan can't do this, and God won't. God has no reason to give a special quick resurrection to a man who was the most evil man alive, maybe the most evil man who ever lived.
Satan can't and God won't, so how is this special antichrist resurrection supposed to happen? You have made a number of posts on this thread but you haven't addressed this crucial question.
Perhaps the oddest claim that I've ever come across on the identity of the antichrist is that the antichrist will be Nimrod, from Genesis 10: 8-12. Supposedly he will resurrect after being dead for thousands of years. If this sounds too bizarre to be taken seriously, I agree. Once you assume that Satan can do even a single resurrection, there is no limit to the foolishness that can be unleashed. Who says that the resurrection has to be of someone recently deceased? Anything is possible. I suggest that you abandon the notion of a satanic resurrection.
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