Also the comment about "wanting to be deceived".
Put another way, the reason Revelation is written the way that it is, is because God has already expected Satan to willfully fulfill scripture/ prophecy about the messiah. It is already 'baked in' into prophecy that Satan is going to copy it.
It's been a long work period for the Tempter since the Garden without a break. Retirement is on the horizon.
Thankfully.
I will see the Antichrist just before Jesus destroys him with the breath of His mouth.Hello
How does the Beast Convince the World he is God /Jesus.
This is not a scripture hunt more of an out load wondering.
I know what scripture says. So does every one in here. So do people all over the world. Everyone is waiting for him so how does he manage to deceive a world that is waiting for him.
This question haunted me for years.
The only answer I can come up with is this.................... and it is sooooo simple................ I was amazed it took me so long to see it.
So here it is. Everyone is waiting for a person to fulfill a particular set of event that person will be labeled the AC. For Example
Many Believe the AC will make a Pact with the Jews and help them rebuild the Temple.
So ask yourself this..... if a Man, say a leader of the EU, did just that how many people would believe beyond any doubt he was the AC. Now if the Temple was rebuilt how happy would the Muslims be. So if the EU then came to the defense of Israel that would just be more proof he was the AC.
Example 2:
Say a EU Leader got shot in the head and then Lived. How many people would say he was the AC without even a doubt in their mind.
So what the AC must do is convince the world that someone else is the AC.
Now after the world is convinced someone is the AC and a series of events happen. What is everyone is waiting for............... What event. Well they are waiting for Jesus to show up and destroy him aren't they.
Now we can see why Satan and his demons have put so much effort into false doctrine over the centuries. It is to get to a point where people think the Arrival of the AC is one set of events that it really isn't. That way he can create that "Fake Set" of events convince the world someone else is the AC then he can show up with all signs and wonders destroy the Fake AC and convince the world he is Jesus returned to set up God's Kingdom.
The simplicity of this is diabolical
The beast never will claim to be Jesus. He will claim to have achieved God-hood.
When the person first claims to be have achieved God-hood is in 2Thessalonians2:4. Which in Ezekiel 28:1-10, God has him killed, saying...
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
In Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
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So it is necessary to realize that the person thinks in his heart that the has achieved God-hood. He will hold the position that there are many gods, but he is the greatest of them.
the Beast was spiritually defeated 1700 years ago
the modern era corresponds to the "little time" of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:7-9)
Gog and Magog don't inherit a Millennium, as they apparently expect
I will see the Antichrist just before Jesus destroys him with the breath of His mouth.
Along the lines of making the world great again.
He will not claim to be them but one who is or was once like and is now superior to them, and will hate and sway the rest of the world to hate them and us, a speak evil of them (God) and us... With God, for some reason; maybe for cursing us, or hiding the truth from us, or deceiving us, or otherwise tricking us or something, ect... The whole world will get caught up in it...
God Bless!
He may claim to be third member of the Godhead maybe...? Possibly...?
God Bless!
Except it will not be just Jews or even mainly Jews...
God Bless!
Might be something how he is supposed to be God or like God superior to those God's, and will probably tell many that either already are, or they are, or can easily be to, or are also, and lead a revolution...
Maybe, that you can have some kind of power through him, ect... or he might have some powers, ect...
God Bless!
"Who knows" exactly what he is going to do...? But it will be thing like these, or this, and related to them...He will probably in fact be able to convince a great many people that those God's (YHWH and even Christ Himself or themselves), actually "hate us", and they involved, or sometimes involve and/or use us and this world, for very sinister plans, and or ultimately very selfish and self-centered reasons, ect, ect.... that if "we only knew", we would consider them the same, ect...
God Bless!
the Beast was spiritually defeated 1700 years ago
the modern era corresponds to the "little time" of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:7-9)
every deceit helps the Deceiver
Gog and Magog don't inherit a Millennium, as they apparently expect
They will be destroyed by fire from Heaven (Revelation 20:9)
"Use the Irish mercenaries. Arrows cost money. The dead cost nothing" -- Edward Longshanks ( portrayed as an evil Germanic villain), Braveheart
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