walt2000 posted in message #290 of this thread:
I wouldn't hold my breath ,about Him or anybody being the Antichrist
or the false prophet .The whole prophesy is false .
Greetings.
The prophecy of Revelation 13:4-18 is not false. It refers to the
beast (the Antichrist) and to his False Prophet (Revelation 19:20).
Because the prophecy of Revelation 13:4-18 has never been fulfilled,
two men will become the Antichrist and the False Prophet in the
future. But there is no need to hold one's breath over any man being
the Antichrist whose name does not equal six hundred and sixty-six in
gematria (Revelation 13:17b-18). There is also no need to hold one's
breath over any man being the Antichrist who is not from a country
the territory of which used to be part of one of the four Diadochian
kingdoms which succeeded the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great
(Daniel 8:8-9,21-25). So the Antichrist will probably come from the
Middle East. He could be an Arab, from Tyre, Lebanon (Ezekiel 28:2,
cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:4), with a name like "Nabil Abdullah Falakal al-
Hakim", which adds up to 666 in gematria.
The False Prophet symbolically has two horns (Revelation 13:11),
which could represent his holding two positions of power at the
same time. These could be two positions of religious power. He
could become both both Pope and Imam at the same time, revered
and followed by both many Christians and many Muslims at the same
time. Instead of being the current Pope, he could be the next Pope.
He could start out his tenure as Pope by making a great push for
(in his words) "Peace and Unity between Christianity and Islam. Let
us form One Religion of Abraham, One Religion of Peace, based on
Love for the One God and Love for our fellow man. All else is
unimportant and leads only to division and strife and terror".
Moderate Muslims worldwide could consider him (in their words)
"So skillful in elucidating the true, peaceful nature of Islam. He has
rescued our faith from the ignominy brought upon it by the radicals
and terrorists. He is a Great Imam from God".
Once the False Prophet has seduced the whole world into believing
that he is a good man, teaching the truth, and performing miracles
from God (Revelation 13:13-14, Revelation 19:20), he could claim
(in his words): "I am not just any teacher (Imam), but the Teacher
Himself, Jesus of Nazareth, returned in spirit to point the world to
the true Christ". For the Antichrist will deny that Jesus himself is
the Christ (1 John 2:22), and will deny that Christ himself has
become flesh (1 John 4:3). The Antichrist will bring the world
instead into the worship of Lucifer (Satan) the dragon (Revelation
13:4), whom he could claim is the true Christ. For Lucifer is the
morning star (Isaiah 14:12) and Christ is the morning star
(Revelation 22:16). The truth is that Lucifer fell from his office of
morning star Isaiah 14:12) and became Satan (cf. Luke 10:18);
Jesus has taken over the office of morning star (Revelation 22:16).
After the Antichrist's three-to-four-year Luciferian reign of terror
over the earth (Revelation 13:4-18, Daniel 12:11-12), the true Jesus
will descend bodily from heaven (Acts 1:11-12, Zechariah 14:3-5,
Matthew 24:30, 1 Thessalonians 4:16) on a white horse (Revelation
19:11-21) and will destroy the Antichrist (the beast) and the False
Prophet (Revelation 19:20) and will send forth an angel to bind
Lucifer in the bottomless pit (Revelation 20:1-3). Jesus will then set
up his millennial kingdom on the earth (Revelation 20:4-6, 5:10,
2:26-29).