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Antichrist:
The Beast Out of the Sea
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FROM THE RESOURCES OF WStS
Compiled by Katie Stewart
DEFINITION OF "ANTICHRIST": the Man of
Sin that will appear during the Tribulation Week, who will both oppose Christ and
substitute himself for Christ, to be worshipped as God in the rebuilt Jerusalem Temple.
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indicates the theme discussed in the corresponding link. The link takes you
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PFYI article References
PFYI article:
Antichrist Shall Come by Tom Stewart
- The lie that "ye
shall be as gods" (3:5) or "like
God", and thereby, to receive the worship that would be normally directed to
the Almighty, has been the driving passion of Satan, and is the epitome of the ambition of the Antichrist. Read More About It: Antichrist
Shall Come ---New Window
Antichrist must pervert the essential doctrines concerning the LORD Jesus Christ
to hoax the world into worshipping him as the Living God.
Read More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- Antichrist will fulfill both meanings of the prefix
"anti-" affixed before "Christ". Read
More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- In the Book of Isaiah, we find the account of
the fall of the king of Babylon-- possibly Belshazzar-- that is transferred in a
figure to Satan, i.e., "That thou shalt
take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor
ceased! the golden city ceased!" (Isaiah
14:4). We know that Satan will be finally
defeated and cast into the Lake of Fire,
after the Post-Millennial Rebellion has been quelled. "And
the Devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where
the Beast [the Antichrist] and the False Prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for
ever and ever" (Revelation 20:10). The
LORD Jesus painted a graphic picture of Hell-- which, we are told will be "cast into the Lake of Fire" (20:14). Read More About It:
Antichrist
Shall Come ---New Window
The destiny
of Satan is the same as that of the Antichrist and the False Prophet-- the Pit, which is known as the
Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:10). "Yet
thou shalt be brought down to Hell, to the sides of the Pit" (Isaiah 14:15). Read More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- Antichrist must persuade the world that he has
the power to rise from the dead-- as only Jesus can and did... he never actually dies,
nor does he actually resurrect from the dead. Read
More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
When the Antichrist seemingly miraculously arises from the dead from a "deadly [head] wound" (Revelation
13:3), he will deceive the world into believing that he is the latest reincarnation
of the "Christ Spirit". Read More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- Antichrist must prevail upon the world to render
to him the homage and worship that only belongs to God. Read
More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- When the LORD Jesus Christ testified to the Jews
of their rejection of Himself as the Messiah, He noted the pattern for the ultimate acceptance of the False Christ, i.e., he will come "in
his own name". Read
More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- Sound Doctrine
is more crucial to the health of the True Saints and to the identification of the
Antichrist than has been emphasized by the shepherds of the Flock. "For the time will come when they will not endure Sound Doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears" (2Timothy 4:3). Read More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
Antichrist must pervert the essential doctrines concerning the LORD Jesus Christ
to hoax the world into worshipping him as the Living God. i.e., "Who changed the Truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen" (Romans 1:25). Read More About It: Antichrist Shall Come ---New Window
- How can one impostor-- the Antichrist-- so completely deceive the world? The world will be deceived because "they
received not the Love of the Truth, that they might be saved" (2Thessalonians 2:10). The Judge of All the Earth (Genesis 18:25)
will cause it to be so. "And for this
cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" (2Thessalonians 2:11). Read
More About It: Antichrist
Shall Come ---New Window
- Christ or Antichrist... The choice seems so
stark by comparison, but the practicality is that the vast majority will not see
the difference. Read More About It: Antichrist
Shall Come ---New Window
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PFYI article:
The Battle of Armageddon by Tom Stewart
- Antichrist represents
"the kings of the earth and of the whole
world" (Revelation
16:14). The "kings of the east" (16:12) are a
significant part of Antichrist's army from the Far East. Read More About It: The
Battle of Armageddon ---New Window
- The showdown between the LORD Jesus Christ
and the Antichrist. Read More About It: The Battle of Armageddon ---New Window
- The entire length of Israel will be a killing
field-- but only for the dead bodies of Antichrist's troops. Read More About It: The Battle of Armageddon ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Deception: A Sign of the Second Coming
of the LORD Jesus Christ, and of the End of the World
by Tom Stewart
- The Antichrist will claim that he -- and NOT Jesus
-- IS the Christ. "For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many" (Matthew 24:5). Read More About
It: Deception ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Must There Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture? by Tom Stewart
- Two things must occur: (1)
the apostasy
or "falling away" and (2) the revelation
of Antichrist, the "man of sin... the son of perdition". Read
More About It: Must There Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture? ---New
Window
- "And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the LORD shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of His coming" (2 Thessalonians
2:8). Read
More About It: Must There Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture? ---New Window
- "Even him, whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders"
(2Thessalonians 2:9). Notice again that the "him" of verse 9 cannot refer to Satan, who is referred to in
the latter portion of the verse. "Him" obviously refers to Antichrist.
Read More About It:
Must There
Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture? ---New Window
- "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie" (2Thessalonians
2:11). Antichrist is a deceiver. Read More About It:
Must There
Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture? ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Babylon the Great (Part
1) The Purpose and History of Babylon the
Great by Tom Stewart
- The purpose of Babylon the Great is to direct
the world in worshipping the Antichrist, the Man of Sin (2Thessalonians 2:3); so "that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God" (2:4). Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 1) ---New Window
- The Mystery of Iniquity (2Thessalonians 2:7) will
finally be unleashed and unrestrained-- at the time of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
(2:7)-- to allow for the exaltation of the
Antichrist, the Son of Perdition (2:3).
Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 1) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Tribulation Timeline (Part
2): When Shall These Things Be? by Tom Stewart
- The 1st Seal has a rider on a white horse going forth to conquer. He is the Antichrist conquering through political
and economic treaty, while holding the threat of the force of arms. Read More About It:
Tribulation
Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window
- The shortage of food is a result of war,
but it is also a tool of Antichrist to conduct war against what the New World Order
calls 'unnecessary eaters'. Read More About
It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window
- Antichrist will kill them because they
are troublesome. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window
- The stage is set for the Antichrist's "abomination
of desolation" at the middle of the Tribulation
Week. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window
- Israel has not only been reeling due to the Russian-Arab
invasion, but the Antichrist-- who was supposed to be a friend as confirmed by his
"covenant with many for one week" (Daniel 9:27)-- is now exploiting the opportunity of Russia's
destruction upon "the mountains of Israel" (Ezekiel 39:2) to seize control of the Temple. Read More About It:
Tribulation Timeline (Part 2) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Babylon the Great (Part
6) The Final Judgment of the Great Whore by Tom Stewart
- The physically frail Roman Pontiff, whose hands
could be seen to visibly shake-- may make his neurological deterioration a factor
in whether or not he will personally be the
False Prophet partner of the Antichrist--
unless... Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 6) ---New Window
- The Holy Spirit described a Global Religion of this
sort in the Revelation. "11 And I beheld another
beast [the False Prophet] coming up out of the Earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and
he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast [the Antichrist] before him,
and causeth the Earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [the Antichrist],
whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation
13:11-12). Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 6) ---New Window
- Just as many in the Professed Church had been
oblivious to the rise of Global Government in the form of the UN; even so, much of
the Professed Church is also presently oblivious to the significance of the soon
rise of a global One World Religion in the form of the UR... "power was given him
[the Antichrist] over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." Read More About It: Babylon
the Great (Part 6) ---New Window
- "And the beast that was, and is not, even
he is the eighth [the Antichrist], and is of
the seven, and goeth into perdition."
Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 6) ---New Window
- The Antichrist turns
against Babylon the Great. Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 6) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
For the Elect's Sake by Tom Stewart
- "And he
[Antichrist] shall confirm the covenant with
many for one week [the 70th Week]. Read More
About It: For
the Elect's Sake ---New Window
- The Gentiles will tread
under foot the city of Jerusalem (under
the Antichrist) for 42 months. Read More About
It: For
the Elect's Sake ---New Window
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PFYI article:
A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 7) 144,000
Sealed on Earth and a Throne Scene of Delivered Saints
by Tom Stewart
- Sealing protects the Righteous from the Judgments of God
poured out upon the Earth; but, martyrdom at the hands of Antichrist may still be
sovereignly allowed by the LORD-- or, disallowed, as in the case of the 144,000. Read More About It:
Commentary
on Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window
- Missing from this particular list of the twelve tribes of Israel
is the tribe of Dan-- replaced by one of Joseph's sons, Manasses (Manasseh, Hebrew).
Some account for this omission as an indication that the Antichrist will come
from Dan. "Dan shall be a serpent
by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider
shall fall backward" (Genesis 49:17). Read More About It: Commentary
on Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window
- What is the benefit of sealing, if the Antichrist will kill them
anyway? It appears that the 144,000 sealed Jewish Believers will be delivered
from the Antichrist. Read More About It: Commentary on Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window
- Those that are martyred
by the Antichrist have been sovereignly selected by Jehovah
to bear witness for the LORD Jesus Christ by their death.
Read More About It: Commentary on Revelation (Chapter 7) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
How to Identify a False Prophet by Tom Stewart
- The inability to discern a false prophet
from a true prophet, will open the way for the deception of the False Prophet-- the
beast "out of the Earth" (Revelation 13:11)-- who is the End Time co-worker of the
Antichrist... Our LORD did not excuse the hypocites for their lack of discerning. Read More About It:
How
to Identify a False Prophet ---New Window
"And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie"
(2 Thessalonians 2:11). Read More About It: How to Identify a False Prophet ---New Window
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PFYI article:
An Earnest Appeal to Roman Catholics by Tom Stewart
- This claim of infallible
governing of "faith
and morals" of the "whole flock" befits
an antichrist, for only Jesus Christ can rightfully say, "All
power is given unto Me in Heaven and in Earth"
(Matthew 28:18); thus, the LORD Jesus Christ alone is the Infallible "LORD of Heaven and Earth" (Acts 17:24)-- and, not the Pope. "Little
children, it is the Last Time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even
now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the Last Time" (1John 2:18). Read
More About It: An Earnest Appeal to Roman Catholics
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- To extend that claim of infallibility "as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself" (Catechism, 891) is certainly blasphemous, i.e., impious
and evil speech against God... The Word of God is no less than the LORD Jesus Christ
Himself. "And He was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood: and His Name is called The Word of God" (19:13). For the Pope to claim infallibility over the "divine Revelation itself" (Catechism, 891) is paramount to claiming dominion and supremacy over
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Read More About
It: An
Earnest Appeal to Roman Catholics ---New Window
- Any who would attempt to supplant Christ's role
as our Confessor, is Against Christ-- which would make them an antichrist... The
LORD Jesus alone is our Mediator, "Who
is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us" (Romans 8:34). Read
More About It: An Earnest Appeal to Roman Catholics
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PFYI article:
A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Chapter 6) Opening
the First Six Seal Judgments by Tom Stewart
- "2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on
him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." Read More About It: Commentary on Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window
- This Second Seal Judgment (6:4) shows us a red horse, which indicates
the blood of warfare. Read More About It: Commentary on Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window
- The fact that the rider of this black horse "had a pair of balances in his hand"
(6:5) denotes that the weighing out of the food to feed or starve the population
of the world is given into the hands of the Antichrist.
Read More About It:
Commentary
on Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window
- How are these Martyred Saints killed? They were evidently beheaded.
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon
them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the
Beast Read
More About It: Commentary on Revelation (Chapter 6) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Tribulation Timeline (Part
4): When Shall These Things Be? by Tom Stewart
- And now near the End of the Week, just a few days
earlier, "they" (16:6) rejoiced and made merry over the
lifeless bodies of God's Two Witnesses--
Moses and Elijah-- for 3 1/2 days, that Antichrist had just slain (Revelation 11:7-10). Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window
- The 5th Vial Judgment is a painful darkness that the 5th
angel pours out upon the kingdom of the Antichrist. "And
the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast" Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window
- Antichrist represents "the kings of
the earth and of the whole world" (Revelation
16:14). The "kings of the east" (16:12) are a significant part of Antichrist's army from
the Far East. Read
More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 4) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Tribulation Timeline (Part
1): When Shall These Things Be? by Tom Stewart
- The Antichrist will have a career of one prophetic week of seven years. Each prophetic year stands for 360 days. His career lasts
2,520 days. The week begins when he confirms a covenant "with many for one week"
-- the political foundation of Satan's New World Order, where he claims to be Christ. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window
- How much before the Tribulation Week begins that
the First "Come Up Hither" takes place is open to conjecture. This writer
believes that some type of gap must exist between the First "Come Up Hither"
and Antichrist's "covenant with many" (Daniel 9:27) at the beginning of
the Tribulation Week, because the removal of the watching believers along with the
innocents will be probably attributed to alien abduction. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window
- The Rapture follows the resurrection of the two
witnesses, Moses and Elijah, slain by Antichrist. Read More About It: Tribulation Timeline (Part 1) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Thy Hidden Ones by Tom Stewart
- The Thyatira
period marks the center part of the Tribulation,
where many choose to worship the Antichrist with the rest of the world. Read More About It: Thy Hidden Ones ---New Window
- Though the Tribulation Week is primarily God's
judgment of the world, it is a time of great
persecution of the Tribulation Church by
the world, Antichrist, and Satan. Read More
About It: Thy Hidden Ones ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Why Tarry the Rapture? by Tom Stewart
- Jesus predicted that Israel would have a Temple when the End Time would draw to a conclusion.
This is clear from His reference to the "abomination
of desolation" [Antichrist] standing in
the "holy place" [the Temple] (Matthew 24:15). Read
More About It: Why Tarry the Rapture? ---New Window
- After Israel has been taken over by the Antichrist
at the Middle of the Tribulation Week (Daniel 9:27 and Matthew 24:15), much of Israel will flee.
Read More About It:
Why Tarry
the Rapture? ---New Window
- The Sovereign God is Preparing Satan, Antichrist,
and the False Prophet. These central figures must
be prepared to do their part in the LORD's
closing act of this drama. Read More About
It: Why Tarry the Rapture?-1 ---New
Window Time for preparation of the "way of the LORD"
(Luke 3:4) is the reason why the LORD is tarrying the Pre-Tribulational Rapture.
Read More About It:
Why Tarry
the Rapture?-2 ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Babylon the Great (Part
4): Or, Love Alone Will Cause Us
to Obey the Command to Separate From Babylon the Great by Tom Stewart
- Opposing the Antichrist During the Tribulation
Week is Judging Righteous Judgment... Refusing the Mark of the Beast During
Daniel's 70th Week is Judging Righteous Judgment... For the Tribulation Saints, Blessing
Will Come Upon Those Who Judged Righteous Judgment. Read
More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 4) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel by Tom Stewart
- In his book The Coming Prince ---New Window
(1895), Sir Robert Anderson carefully outlined the position that the Seventy Weeks could
be taken as: (1) 69 weeks: adding together "seven
weeks, and threescore and two weeks" (Daniel
9:25), plus (2) a disconnected and final 70th week, i.e., separated from the end
of the 69th Week (April 6th 32 AD) by approximately 1,966 years until the beginning
of the 70th Week (1998 AD): "he [the Antichrist] shall
confirm the Covenant with many for one week
[the 70th week]" (9:27). Read More About It:
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window
- John Gill's Expositor (1760) commented
on Daniel 9:25-- "Know therefore and understand,
that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto
the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times" (Daniel 9:25)-- in agreement with Sir Robert Anderson. Incidentally,
Gill did briefly state another position on the
Seventy Weeks taken from Sir Isaac Newton's
Observations on Daniel. John Gill summarized Newton's position: "Sir Isaac Newton thinks the seven weeks unto Messiah,
which he detaches from the sixty two, respects the second coming of Christ [e.g., 7 weeks of years from May 14,1948 to May 14,1997--
a modern application by contemporary interpreters],
when he [Christ]
shall come as a Prince, and destroy antichrist, and that it takes in the compass
of a jubilee; but when it will begin and end he
[Newton] does not pretend to say." Read More About It:
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Babylon the Great (Part
5): Billy Graham: Christianity's
Modern Balaam by Tom Stewart
- Though Billy Graham is only one of "many antichrists"
(1John 2:18)-- for he opposes the necessity to "come out
of" Babylon the Great (Revelation 18:4),
which is the antichristian Church of Rome-- he does prepare the way for the False
Prophet and the Antichrist. "For he that
biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds"
(2John 11). Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 5) ---New Window
- If the Body can be somehow persuaded that Christian
Love can be separated from Obedience, then the way of the Antichrist can be prepared
so that no heed need be given to the warning that damnation
will come to all those who receive the
Mark of the Beast. Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 5) ---New Window
- The False Prophet and the Antichrist also have
their Balaam to prepare their way into the Tribulation Week (Daniel 9:27). Read More About It: Babylon the Great (Part 5) ---New
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PFYI article:
1998 Year of the Apocalypse (Part 3) by Tom Stewart
- For instance, the Antichrist is the opposite of our LORD
Jesus Christ. Read
More About It: 1998 Year of the Apocalypse (Part 3)
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PFYI article:
Martyrdom: They Loved Not Their Lives Unto
the Death by Tom Stewart
- The days of God's vengeance on earth occur when the Antichrist
unleashes his final fury upon you in his attempt to steal the divinity of the LORD
Jesus. Luke 21:22 "For these be the days
of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." Read More About It: Martyrdom: They Loved Not Their Lives Unto the Death ---New Window
- You have no better testimony than to be hated by Antichrist.
Luke 21:17 "And ye shall be hated of all
men for My Name's sake." Read More About It: Martyrdom: They Loved Not Their
Lives Unto the Death ---New Window
- Your opponent, the Antichrist, though he is willing to rid himself
of you, cannot fully appreciate how "the
wrath
of man [his wrath against you]
shall praise Thee [the triune God]:
the remainder of wrath shalt Thou [Jehovah] restrain" (Psalm 76:10). Read More About It: Martyrdom: They Loved Not Their Lives Unto the Death ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Lest We Forget by Tom and Katie Stewart
- Those whose objection to Rome is based upon the Truth, endeavor
to serve the LORD, and refuse homage to Rome's substitute christ. "Little children, it is the Last Time: and as ye have
heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
know that it is the Last Time" (1John 2:18). Read More About It: Lest We Forget ---New Window
- When the cruelties of the Papal headship join forces with the
monstrous deeds of the Beast (the Antichrist); our nation, nay the world, has
yet to see the full impact of the coming nightmare-- only briefly touched upon
in this following excerpt: "The nation
awoke as from a horrible..." Read More About It: Lest We Forget ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Tribulation Timeline (Part
3): When Shall These Things Be? by Tom Stewart
- It is this very conceit of man that disqualifies
him from pleasing God, while opening him to the deception of the Devil... The ultimate lie
is that Antichrist is the true God. Read More About It: Tribulation
Timeline (Part 3) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Absent from the Body by Jonathan Edwards
- "Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon
their beds;" i.e., in their separate state after death; compare Isai. lvii.
1, 2. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their
hand: to execute vengeance upon the Heathen, and punishments upon the people; to
bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute upon
them the judgment written: this honor have all the saints." Accordingly when
Christ appears riding forth to his victory over Antichrist, Rev. xix., the
hosts of heaven appear going forth with him in robes of triumph, verse 14. Read More About It: Absent from the Body ---New Window
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PFYI article:
Harpazo: The Scriptural Concept of Rapture
by Tom Stewart
- The Good Shepherd teaches us that He cares for
us as His sheep. "I am the Good Shepherd:
the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep"
(John 10:11). Compare the LORD Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd to the Antichrist as an "hireling" (10:12). Read More About It: Harpazo ---New Window
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PFYI article:
The KING of Kings compiled by Katie Stewart
- It is in this fulness of time that men will elect
themselves a new king, the Deceiver himself. Read More About It: KING of Kings ---New Window
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PFYI article:
The Coming Prince by Sir Robert Anderson
- What is true of all Scripture is specially true of prophecy. It
is ours to assign to it a meaning; but he who really believes it to be Divine, will
hesitate to limit its meaning to the measure of his own apprehension of it. The prophecies
of Antichrist afford a signal and most apt illustration of this. Were it not for
the prejudice created by extreme statements, prophetic students would probably agree
that the great apostasy of Christendom displays in outline many of the main lineaments
of the Man of Sin. There is, indeed, in our day a spurious liberality that would
teach us to forego the indictment which history affords against the Church of Rome...
the real question at issue relates to the character, not of individuals, but of a
system. It is the part, therefore, not of intolerant bigotry, but of true
wisdom, to search the records of the past — terrible records, truly — for the means
of judging of that system. The inquiry which concerns us is not whether good men
are found within the pale of Rome — as though all the moral excellence of earth could
avail to cover the annals of her hideous guilt! Our true inquiry is whether
she has suffered any real change in these enlightened days. Is the Church of Rome
reformed?... And if not, let but dark days come again, and some of the foulest
scenes and blackest crimes in the history of Christendom may be re-enacted... They
do good service, therefore, who keep before the public mind the real character of
Rome as the present day development of the apostasy. But when these writers
go on to assert that the predictions of the Antichrist have their full and final
realization in the Papacy, their position becomes a positive danger to the truth.
It is maintained at the cost of rejecting some of the most definite of the prophecies,
and of putting a lax or fanciful interpretation upon those very Scriptures to which
they appeal.
Read More About It:
The
Coming Prince ---New Window
- "WHAT is it that all Europe is looking for?" — the words
are quoted from a leading article in the Times newspaper, on the recent finding
of Agamemnon's tomb. "What
is it that all Europe is looking for? It is the KING OF MEN, the great head of the
Hellenic race, the man whom a thousand galleys and a hundred thousand men submitted
to on a simple recognition of his personal qualities, and obeyed for ten long years…The
man who can challenge for his own the shield of Agamemnon, now waiting for the challenge,
is the true Emperor of the East, and the easiest escape from our present difficulties."
The realization of this dream will be the fulfillment of prophecy. True it is that
popular movements characterize the age, rather than the power of individual minds.
It is an age of mobs. Democracy, not despotism, is the goal towards which civilization
is tending. But democracy in its full development is one of the surest roads to despotism.
First, the revolution; then, the plebiscites; then, the despot. The Caesar
often owes his scepter to the mob. A man of transcendent greatness, moreover, never
fails to leave his mark upon his times. And the true King of Men must have an extraordinary
combination of great qualities. He must be "a scholar, a statesman, a man of
unflinching courage and irrepressible enterprise, full of resources, and ready to
look in the face a rival or a foe." The opportunity too must synchronize with his advent. But the voice of
prophecy is clear, that the HOUR is coming, and the MAN. Read More About It: The Coming Prince ---New
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PFYI article:
Sir Robert Anderson and the Seventy Weeks
of Daniel by Tom Stewart
- ...but a nation which will have a Temple to be prophetically desecrated
by the "prince that shall come" (the Antichrist). Read More About It: Sir Robert Anderson and the Seventy Weeks of Daniel
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Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Pastor Charles Chiniquy
- Antichrist means "against Christ" or "in
place of, or substitute for, Christ".
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- The first thing to be done was, then, to demolish that huge, illogical,
unscriptural, unchristian church restored by the English Reformers. Dr. Newman bravely
set to work, under the eye and direction of Dr. Pusey. His merciless hammer was heard
almost day and night, from 1833 to 1843, striking alternately with hard blows, now
against the church of the Pope, whom he called Antichrist, and then against
his own church, which he was, very soon, to find still more corrupted and defiled
than its anti-Christian rival. For as he was proceeding in his work of demolition,
he tells us that he found more clearly, every day, that the materials and the foundations
of the Church of Rome were exceedingly better than those of his own. He then determined
to give a coup de grace to the Church of England, and strike such a blow that her
walls would be for ever pulverized. His perfidious Tract XC. aims at this object. Read More About It: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
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- One day he goes to the Holy Fathers. But what will he find there?
Will he see how St. Cyprian sternly rebuked the impudence of Stephen, Bishop of Rome,
who pretended to have some jurisdiction over the See of Carthage? Will he find how
Gregory positively says that the Bishop who will pretend to be the "Universal
Bishop" is the forerunner of Antichrist? Will he hear St. Augustine declaring
that when Christ said to Peter, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build
my Church," He was speaking of Himself as the rock upon which the Church would
stand? No. The only thing which Dr. Newman brings us from the Holy Fathers is so
ridiculous and so unbecoming that I am ashamed to have to repeat it. He tells us
(page 78), "I have an idea. The mass of the Fathers (Justin, Athenagoras, Ireanaeus,
Clement, Tertullian, Origen, Ambrose) hold that, though Satan fell from the beginning,
the angels fell before the deluge, falling in love with the daughters of men. This
has lately come across me as a remarkable solution of a notion I cannot help holding." Read More About It: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
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- Thus, as the unexpected contradictions of the Holy Fathers to
the tenets of my church, and their furious and uncharitable divisions among themselves,
were striking me, I plunged deeper and deeper in the deep waters of the Fathers and
the Word of God, with the hope of getting rid of the deadly darts which were piercing
my Roman Catholic conscience. But, it was in vain. The deeper I went, the more the
deadly weapons would stick to the flesh and bone of my soul. How deep was the wound
I received from Gregory the Great, one of the most learned Popes of Rome, against
the supremacy and universality of the power of the Pope of Rome as taught today,
the following extracts from his writings will show: "I say confidently, Whosoever
calls himself Universal Priest, or desires so to be called, is in his pride the
forerunner of Antichrist, because, in his pride, he sets himself before the rest...
Is it my fault if one of the most learned and holy Popes, Gregory the Great, has
called by the name of Antichrist, all his successors, for taking the name of supreme
Pontiff, and trying to persuade the world that they had, by divine authority, a supreme
jurisdiction and power over the rest of the church?" Read More About It: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
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PFYI article:
The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.3) by J. A.
Wylie
- Shocked at what he saw in Rome, he wrote over the door of one
of the cardinals, "Antichrist is now come, and sitteth in the Church,"and
departed. The Pope, Gregory XI., sent after him a bull, addressed to the Archbishop
of Prague, commanding him to seize and imprison the bold priest who had affronted
the Pope in his own capital, and at the very threshold of the Vatican. Read More About It: The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.3) ---New Window
- There were at that time three Popes reigning in Christendom.
The Italians had elected Balthazar Cossa, who, as John XXIII., had set up his chair
at Bologna. The French had chosen Angelo Corario, who lived at Rimini, under the
title of Gregory XII.; and the Spaniards had elected Peter de Lune (Benedict XIII.),
who resided in Arragon. Each claimed to be the legitimate successor of Peter, and
the true vicegerent of God, and each strove to make good his claim by the bitterness
and rage with which he hurled his maledictions against his rival. Christendom was
divided, each nation naturally supporting the Pope of its choice. The schism suggested
some questions which it was not easy to solve. "If we must obey," said
Huss and his followers, "to whom is our obedience to be paid? Balthazar Cossa,
called John XXIII., is at Bologna; Angelo Corario, named Gregory XII., is at Rimini;
Peter de Lune, who calls himself Benedict XIII., is in Arragon. If all three are
infallible, why does not their testimony agree? and if only one of them is the Most
Holy Father, why is it that we cannot distinguish him from the rest?" Nor was much help to be got towards
a solution by putting the question to the men themselves. If they asked John XXIII.
he told them that Gregory XII. was "a heretic, a demon, the Antichrist;"
Gregory XII. obligingly bore the same testimony respecting John XXIII., and both
Gregory and John united in sounding, in similar fashion, the praises of Benedict
XIII., whom they stigmatized as "an impostor and schismatic," while Benedict
paid back with prodigal interest the compliments of his two opponents. It came to
this, that if these men were to be believed, instead of three Popes there were three
Antichrists in Christendom; and if they were not to be believed, where was the infallibility,
and what had become of the apostolic succession?
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- Waxing bolder as his [Huss] views enlarged, he proceeded
to stigmatize many of the ceremonies of the Roman Church as lacking foundation, and
as being foolish and superstitious. He denied the merit of abstinences; he ridiculed
the credulity of believing legends, and the groveling superstition of venerating
relics, bowing before images, and worshipping the dead. "They are profuse,"
said he, referring to the latter class of devotees, "towards the saints in glory,
who want nothing; they array bones of the latter with silk and gold and silver, and
lodge them magnificently; but they refuse clothing and hospitality to the poor members
of Jesus Christ who are amongst us, at whose expense they feed to repletion, and
drink till they are intoxicated." Friars he no more loved than Wicliffe did,
if we may judge from a treatise which he wrote at this time, entitled The Abomination
of Monks, and which he followed by another, wherein he was scarcely more complimentary
to the Pope and his court, styling them the members of Antichrist. Read More About It: The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.3) ---New Window
- Huss had been burned; his ashes, committed to the Rhine,
had been borne away to their dark sepulcher in the ocean; but his stake had sent
a thrill of indignation and horror through Bohemia. His death moved the hearts of
his countrymen more powerfully than even his living voice had been able to do. The
vindicator of his nation's wrongs — the reformer of his nation's religion — in short,
the representative man of Bohemia, had been cruelly, treacherously immolated; and
the nation took the humiliation and insult as done to itself. All ranks, from the
highest to the lowest, were stirred by what had occurred. The University of Prague
issued a manifesto addressed to all Christendom, vindicating the memory of the man
who had fallen a victim to the hatred of the priesthood and the perfidy of the emperor.
His death was declared to be murder, and the Fathers at Constance were styled "an
assembly of the satraps of Antichrist." Every day the flame of the popular indignation
was burning more fiercely. It was evident that a terrible outburst of pent-up wrath
was about to be witnessed in Bohemia.. Read More About It: The History
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- The Rubicon had been crossed. The Bohemians must now go forward
into the heart of the conflict, which was destined to assume dimensions that were
not dreamed of by either party. The Turk, without intending it, came to their help.
He attacked the Empire of Sigismund on the side opposite to that of Bohemia. This
divided the emperor's forces, and weakened his front against Ziska. But for this
apparently fortuitous but in reality Providential occurrence, the Hussite movement
might have been crushed before there was time to organize it. The prompt and patriotic
Hussite leader saw his advantage, and made haste to rally the whole of Bohemia, before
the emperor should have got the Moslem off his hands, and before the armed bands
of Germany, now mustering in obedience to the Papal summons, should have had time
to bear down upon his little country. He issued a manifesto, signed "Ziska of
the Chalice," in which he invoked at once the religion and the patriotism of
his countrymen. "Imitate," said he, "your ancestors the ancient Bohemians,
who were always able to defend the cause of God and their own... We are collecting
troops from all parts, in order to fight against the enemies of truth, and the destroyers
of our nation, and I beseech you to inform your preacher that he should exhort, in
his sermons, the people, to make war on the Antichrist, and that every one,
old and young, should prepare himself for it. I also desire that when I shall be
with you there should be no want of bread, beer, victuals, or provender, and that
you should provide yourselves with good arms... Remember your first encounter, when
you were few against many, unarmed against well-armed men. The hand of God has not
been shortened. Have courage, and be ready. May God strengthen you! — Ziska of the
Chalice: in the hope of God, Chief of the Taborites."
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- THE Bohemians were now divided into two strongly marked and widely
separated parties, the Taborites and the Calixtines. This division had existed from
the first; but it widened in proportion as the strain of their great struggle was
relaxed. The party that retained most of the sprint of John Huss were the Taborites.
With them the defense of their religion was the first concern, that of their civil
rights and privileges the second. The latter they deemed perfectly safe under the
aegis of the former. The Calixtines, on the other hand, had become lukewarm so far
as the struggle was one for religion. They thought that the rent between their country
and Rome was unnecessarily wide, and their policy was now one of approximation. They
had secured the cup, as they believed, not reflecting that they had got transubstantiation
along with it; and now the conflict, they thought, should cease. To the party of
the Calixtines belonged the chief magnates, and most of the great cities, which threw
the preponderance of opinion on the side of the Compactata. Into this scale was thrown
also the influence of Rochyzana, the pastor of the Calixtines. "He was tempted
with the hope of a bishopric," says Comenius, and used his influence both at
Basle and Prague to further conciliation on terms more advantageous to Rome than
honorable to the Bohemians. "In this manner," says Comenius, "they
receded from the footsteps of Huss and returned to the camp of Antichrist." Read More About It: The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.3) ---New Window
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PFYI article:
The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.7) by J. A.
Wylie
- Lord Cobham Read More About It: The History of Protestantism
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The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.9) by J. A.
Wylie
- Philip Melancthon, the dearest friend of all, was absent. We can
guess the reason. The bold step of Luther had staggered him. To marry while so many
calamities impended! Philip went about some days with an anxious and clouded face,
but when the clamor arose his brow cleared, his eye brightened, and he became the
warmest. defender of the marriage of the Reformer, in which he was joined by not
a few wise and moderate men in the Romish Church.
- The union was hardly effected when, as we have already hinted,
a shout of indignation arose, as if Luther had done some impious and horrible thing.
"It is incest!" exclaimed Henry VIII. of England. "From this marriage
will spring Antichrist," said others, remembering with terror that some nameless
astrologer of the Middle Ages had foretold that Antichrist would be the issue of
a perjured nun and an apostate monk. "How many Antichrists," said Erasmus,
with that covert but trenchant irony in which he was so great a master, "How
many Antichrists must there be then in the world already." Read More About It: The History of Protestantism (Vol.1-Bk.9) ---New Window
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Start of the Tribulation / The Peace Pact-
Beginning of the Tribulation
- Antichrist Violates Peace Pact with Israel. No one needs to be surprised
to find Antichrist defaulting on his covenant with Israel.
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- Antichrist Confirms Peace Pact. This peace pact will certainly involve the
rebuilding of the Jewish Temple on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
- Start of the Tribulation. The
confirmation of the covenant by Antichrist (Daniel 9:27) will give those who are
watching the certainty that the Tribulation has actually begun. Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
- Antichrist Makes Covenant "With Many". Antichrist will not only make a
covenant with Israel, but "with many" (Daniel 9:27). Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
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Daily Sacrifice Stopped / Russia Invades
Israel- 30
Days Before the Middle of the Tribulation
- Daily Sacrifice Taken Away. Antichrist
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Abomination of Desolation- Middle of
the Tribulation
- Antichrist Desecrates the Temple. "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand)" (Matthew 24:15).
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- Antichrist and the Abomination of Desolation. For a mere man to call himself God
is abominable. Read
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- Abomination of Desolation. Will
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Mark of the Beast- Middle of the Tribulation-
7th Seal
- Antichrist 's Mark: The Attempt of a Thief. 666. Antichrist's Mark is only the
attempt of a thief to change labels on stolen goods.
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- Mark of the Beast.
To oppose the mark is to oppose the unity of the world, not
just Antichrist. Read
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- 666 is the Number of Antichrist 's Name. 666 is recorded in Revelation 13:18
as the "number of his [Antichrist's]
name" (13:17). Read More About It:
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Worship- Middle of the Tribulation
- Antichrist Demands World Worship. This is the same as Daniel’s Abomination
of Desolation (Daniel 9:27). Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
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Israel Hidden in Wilderness- Middle
of the Tribulation
- 1,260 Day Flight from Antichrist. Elect-but-lost Israel flees from the Abomination
of Desolation of Antichrist. Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
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Death of Moses and Elijah- 3 1/2 days
Prior to the 7th and Last Trump
- Two Witnesses Die. Death at the hand of Antichrist. Read More About It:
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- Antichrist Kills the Two Witnesses. Antichrist killed them, but God will
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The Resurrection and Pre-Wrath Rapture- About 8 Days Before
the End of the Tribulation
- Rapture and Resurrection. Moses
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Armageddon- After the Tribulation
- Battle of Armageddon. The
LORD Jesus Christ, the rightful heir to the throne, versus Antichrist, the usurper
and pretender. Read
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Start of the Tribulation / First Seal Judgment- Conquering- White Horse
- First Seal Judgment and Antichrist. The 1st Seal Judgment is Antichrist's imitation
of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ-- "behold
a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True" (Revelation 19:11). Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
- Antichrist Conquers.
Antichrist has a "bow"-- the force of arms-- and a "crown"-- the recognition of governmental authority (Revelation 6:2). Read More About It:
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- The Tribulation Starts When Jesus Says So. The 1st Seal Judgment's rider of the white horse (Revelation 6:2) and Antichrist
are one in the same. Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
- White Horse is First Seal Judgment. Signifies Antichrist's confirming
"the covenant with many for one week" (Daniel 9:27). Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
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Second Seal Judgment- War- Black Horse
- Antichrist Takes Peace from the Earth. 2nd Seal Judgment. The Living God will allow the Antichrist "to take peace from the earth". Read More About It:
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- Antichrist: the Inevitable Next Step- War. 2nd Seal Judgment. The same Antichrist who confirmed peace pacts with the
world is now proceeding to the inevitable next step-- war.
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Third Seal Judgment- Famine- Red Horse
- Antichrist:Famine is as Effective as Bullets. Theoretically, even the Antichrist
will want everyone to feel that he loves them and wants to deliver them from hunger. Read More About It:
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- Red Horse: Red is the Color of Satan. Scarlet is the color of the beast-- Antichrist's New World Order-- as well
as it's rider-- the harlot religious system (Revelation 17:3-4). Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
- The Third Seal Judgment. Antichrist
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Fourth Seal Judgment- Death- Pale Horse
- Fourth Seal Judgment is Death. How
can anyone speak of the death of 1/4 of mankind without emotion? Yes, Antichrist
is the instrument. Read
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- Death is the Rider of the Pale Horse. Antichrist is not exhibiting any
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Fifth Seal Judgment- Martyrdom
- The Fifth Seal Judgment.
Though the 5th Seal Judgment is the hand of Antichrist against
the Saints, it is the Hand of God upon His Own.
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- Fifth Seal Judgment of the Tribulation Week. The hand of Antichrist against God's
people. Why would God allow it? Read More About It: Big Chart Topic Location ---New Window
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Sixth Seal Judgment- Wrath of the Lamb
- Sixth Seal Judgment: Moses and Elijah Enter. The destruction of Russia's armies
will be used by Antichrist as his opportunity to set up the Abomination. Read More About It:
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First Trumpet Judgment- Hail, Fire,
Blood
- First Trumpet Judgment. Danger!
This impostor-- Antichrist-- is only a man, who will lead you to destruction! Read More About It:
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Last 8-9 Days of Tribulation / First Vial
Judgment- The Vials of the Wrath of God
- Wrath of God. What Antichrist
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Fifth Vial Judgment- Curse of God
- Antichrist's headquarters Targeted. The 5th Vial Judgment is poured out upon the
"seat of the beast"
(Revelation 16:10). Read
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- Beast's Kingdom Darkened.
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Sixth Vial Judgment- Demons Unleashed
- Demons Unleashed from Satan and Antichrist. 6th Vial Judgment. Demons are unleashed
from Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet (Revelation 16:13). Read More About It:
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"O Earth, Earth, Earth, hear the Word of the
LORD."
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Section Index for Prophecy
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