zeke37 posted in message #37:
Satan is the false prophet
Satan isn't the False Prophet, although the False
Prophet could be possessed by Satan so that he will
be able to perform amazing miracles by the power of
Satan to get the world to worship the Antichrist
(2 Thessalonians 2:9, Revelation 13:12-18, 19:20).
The Antichrist and the False Prophet are two men who
will be cast alive into the lake of fire at the
second coming (Revelation 19:20), some thousand
years before Satan is cast into the lake of fire
(Revelation 20:7-10).
zeke37 posted in message #37:
the world will worship Satan (the son of Perdition)
as God (Jesus)
The world will worship Satan in addition to the
Antichrist (Revelation 13:4). But it will probably
not worship him as "Satan", but as Lucifer, who
through the Antichrist could deny that he's Satan
and claim that it's YHWH who is Satan (Revelation
13:6), while he (Lucifer) is the good guy.
And the Antichrist will not claim that he's Jesus
because he will deny that Jesus is the Christ
(1 John 2:22), and so will deny that Jesus is God.
The Antichrist could claim that it's Lucifer who is
Christ/God, and that he (the Antichrist) merely has
Christ/God dwelling inside him to the fullest extent,
like (he could say) Jesus did temporarily (John
20:28), for he will deny that Christ/God Himself can
ever become flesh (1 John 4:3; 2 John 1:7).
zeke37 posted in message #37:
no animal sacrifices, Christ did that already for us
for all time, and it is certianly not something that
God will want or allow a people to do, so as to get
good with Him
God will allow the Orthodox Jews to rebuild a temple-
building in Jerusalem and restart the daily Mosaic
animal sacrifices for two or three years before the
Antichrist stops them (Daniel 11:31).
God will accept the rebuilt temple and restarted
Mosaic sacrifices as holy in themselves, for even
though the Mosaic law has been completely abolished
in its continued application to men (Hebrews 7:18-19),
it in itself remains completely holy before God
(Romans 7:12).
What God will not accept from the Orthodox Jews is
their motive for rebuilding the temple and restarting
the Mosaic sacrifices for sin, which motive will be
their unbelief in the one-time sacrifice of Jesus for
sins (Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 10:18). Their sacrifices
for sin will not help them one bit to obtain salvation
(Galatians 2:21, Hebrews 10:1-23). That can only come
through faith in Jesus (John 3:36, 14:6, Acts 4:12)
and His death for our sins and His rising from the dead
on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).
There will be some elect Orthodox Jews (as well as
other Jews) who, even though they remain unbelievers
throughout the tribulation, will all become believers
after the tribulation, at the second coming, when
they see Jesus (Romans 11:26, Zechariah 12:10-14).
But they will have had to have rejected the Antichrist
and refused to worship him or his image or receive his
mark in their hand or forehead, for anyone who agreed
to do those things will never be saved (Revelation
14:9-11).