If the person has to be a Jew in your view, why then do you take the following in
Daniel 9:26 to be meaning what happened in 70 AD----and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary? Were not those ppl Romans? And doesn't that verse say they are the ppl of the prince to come, maybe as in involving the same ethnicity?
Perfect question. And a point I have been trying to make over the last 3 or 4 years.
Is the person a Jew or a gentile?
1. to become the Antichrist, King of Israel coming in his own name he must be a Jew. And descended from David.
2. to fulfill Revelation 17:10, he must be descended from the Julio-Claudians - Romans.
So somewhere in his family tree he will be descended from the Julio-Claudians - the Caesar family - Romans.
His mother will have to be a Jew because to be a Jew, in Judaism a person is considered a Jew if the mother is a Jew.
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the fourth kingdom in Daniel 7 - the Roman Empire. In the end times the little will become leader (not dictator initially, that will come later) of the end times Roman Empire (the EU originating from the treaties of Rome).
Following Gog/Magog, he brings his EU army into the middle east devastated region.
The Jews will perceive him, a Jew, to be the messiah, to begin the messianic age of peace and safety. He will be annotated the King of Israel - becoming the Antichrist.
Then after about 3 years goes by betrays the Jews and the law of Moses covenant - by committing the transgression of desolation - claiming to have achieved God-hood.
Revealing himself to be the man of sin, and not the messiah after all.
It ends his time as the Antichrist, as the mortified Jews will reject his claim.
God has the person killed, then in disdain for him brings him back to life, as the strong delusion to them who will believe his initial claim of having achieved God-hood.
Brought back to life, the person becomes the beast, empowered by Satan, and possessed by the spirit of the garden of eden beast currently in the bottomless pit.
The ten leaders, for that last 42 months hand their EU kingdom over to him to become dictator of the EU, who will essentially rule the world as well.