In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul describes the fate of the Antichrist:
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. (2 Thess. 2:8)
This cross-references to Isaiah 11:4, where it says:
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
It appears here that the word for "kill" in 2 Thessalonians means to take up, take away, or make an end. Strong's Greek: 337. ἀναιρέω (anaireó) -- to take up, take away, make an end
This also has support in Daniel 7:
“I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. (Daniel 7:11)
To be fair, the latter could be referring to the beast kingdom, not an individual.
However, both these verses (2 Thess. 2:8 and Daniel 7:11) seems to be in conflict with what happens in Revelation 19.
19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. (Revelation 19:19-21)
Here, the beast is not killed like in 2 Thessalonians 2:8, but captured. Furthermore, he is "thrown alive" into the Lake of Fire, not killed first.
How do you reconcile these two passages?
The first point is remove Antichrist as a being. Antichrist is not mentioned in Daniel nor 2 Thessalonians 2. No man will ever exist with that title. The man in Daniel was not a Messiah, anointed one. The king in Daniel 11 who received power from Satan, who defiled the temple was fulfilled before Jesus Christ was born. He died. Now in Revelation 13, the first beast produces a similiar false prophet like Daniel's king in Daniel 11. Now compare Satan and this empowered king/false prophet combo in Daniel to 2 Thessalonians 2.
The man who seperates from the Torah, 500 years before Paul, who empowered a Greek king is the angel Satan. Satan takes on a half man half god persona. This is the man Paul starts out with, because only the angel Satan in the form of a man can live for 2500 years. Now we come to 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9
8 Then the one who embodies separation from
Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yeshua
will slay with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the glory of his coming.
9 When this man who avoids
Torah comes, the Adversary will give him the power to work all kinds of false miracles, signs and wonders.
The one who embodies separation, no longer Satan, but this Greek king whom Satan empowered. Verse 9 confirms this. Satan is the one claiming to be God, that Paul starts out with, up until verse 8.
This soon to be FP empowered by Satan is somehow a restoration of Daniel 11, in the near future of a FP type of person who is "revived" when the Lamb shows up in the future destroying this human. Verse 8 is not the end of the original Greek king, nor the end of the FP cast into the lake of fire. There is an event where this FP and the Lamb face off. Satan shows up and revives this FP, in a miraculous way.
Neither Satan nor the FP are this final beast that all claim replace Christ. The beast in Daniel 7, if in Revelation at all is the image. The image is never named by John, but remains the beast. The same combo of Satan/FP in Daniel 11, 2 Thessalonians 2, and Revelation 13 create an image (the beast) which is the abomination of desolation in a temple.
This beast is a human in the likeness of the FP. This beast is brought to life like Adam was brought to life by God. This is not flesh and blood though, but a literal beast. Although it will look like the perfect human specimen of another stage of human evolution. Perhaps part flesh, but mostly machine. It will be the Messianic prototype to change mankind out of sinful flesh into freedom, from the bondage of God's created human form. This will be the ultimate "Antichrist" to free us from "sin" and death. In Revelation 19:20, this beast and the FP will be cast into the lake of fire. Whatever happened in Satan's 3.5 years will all be destroyed in the battle of Armageddon.
Why does Daniel, Jesus, Paul, and even John in Revelation avoid naming a specific Antichrist. Paul's description is anti-Torah, anti-law, anti-God. It was never antichrist. Now John claims in other Scripture, many antichrists, and many with the spirit of antichrist. There is only one logical reason. This period of time has nothing to do with the church, nor Christians, and thus not Christ. The Lamb will have been on earth for months prior to Satan's time. Both Satan and a FP will have been exposed when they face the Lamb. No human will have any opportunity to come forward and present themselves as a Messiah. The church needs to take a new look at what God and the Lamb actually do in the seals and trumpets. At some point, the church got off track.
The Reformers accused the popes. The popes started anti propaganda. Theology attempted to fill in the dots. The church went left, and The NT went right. Now they are miles apart in thought. Satan literally worked inside the church to side track her from the Law, from the Torah, and frankly from the correct interpretation of Revelation. Now we have preterist, post mil, amil, post trib, historist, and hide behind futurist. No one knows up or down, but quotes verses to prove points.
