Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
7 5 2024
The antichrist is star power on steroids. Part III
After the rapture, there will be turmoil unlike anything the world has ever seen,
and the antichrist will rise to power on a platform of peace.
One of the first acts of this world leader is to make peace with Israel as he strikes a seven year peace accord. And he keeps this during the first 3 1/2 years of his rule.
But at that point, he changes his tactics. He drops all pretensions of peace and adopts a program of crushing power and brutality.
He breaks his covenant with Israel and subjects the Jewish people to great persecution.
Daniel 9:27 Isaiah 28:18.
And then comes the leaders most sensational moment. The antichrist is actually killed, most likely assassinated. To the astonishment of the world, he is raised back to life by the power of Satan.
The counterfeit of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Revelation 13:3 It is then that he sets himself up to be worshiped by all the people of the world.
It is important to remember that the antichrist does not rise to global power alone. He is supported by a sinister sidekick, a cunning counterpart, known as the false profit or beast that rises out of the Earth. Through this associate, the mark of the beast is placed upon all those who follow and worship him. Anyone who does not bear this mark is unable to buy or sell in the world economy.
In a final act of rebellion against God, this vile person sets himself up in Jerusalem and desecrates the rebuilt temple, in what is called the “abomination of desolation”, that is, an image of himself that everybody will be forced to worship. Jesus spoke of the coming “abomination of desolation” as He referenced the future event mentioned in Daniel 9:27. and Matthew 24:15–16, Jesus says, “So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place . . .
then those in Judea must flee to the mountains” (CSB).
As the embodiment of antisemitism, he then attempts to annihilate every Jew on earth, thus the sounding of the first ominous note in the prelude to the Battle of Armageddon. No one will be able to stand in the way of his conquest. He crushes everything and everyone before him. He is the final great Cesar over the ultimate form of the Roman Empire. He ascends to global power ruling over one world government, one world economy, and one world religion to worship him as God. He is Satan’s CEO over a global regime.
But this will be ultimately destroyed when Jesus Christ returns to earth to battle against the antichrist and his army. In that climatic war, the antichrist tyrannical regime is shattered he will be cast alive into the lake of fire and his forces destroyed. The Christ assumes his throne, as rightful king and ruler of the universe. The antichrist will be exposed as an imposter, a pathetic poser, in the presence of the true king.
Top 10 to the antichrist identity
- He is not recognized until after the rapture of believers to heaven
- He begins insignificantly and then rises to prominence as the Pied Piper of international peace
- He is a gentile leader from the geographical area of the Roman Entire
- . He rules the reunited Roman Empire.
- He makes a seven year peace covenant with Israel.
- He is assassinated and comes back to life.
- . He breaks his treaty with Israel at the midpoint and invades the land
- He sits in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and declares himself to be God.
- The desiccates the temple in Jerusalem, by having an image of himself placed in it.
- He rules the world politically, economically, and religiously for 3 1/2 years.
Father, the antichrist will rise just as the Bible says, but as bleak as the future looks, help us to trust you. We have no other place to turn. We need you. You hold everyone’s present and future in your hand. But father, we are too often overcome by fear over what’s happening and what will happen. Help us to stand strong in your strength and call upon you to save us and give us hope.
Excepts are taken largely from After the Rapture by Dr David Jeremiah Chapter 4
