Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 Pt 5

Looking at this from a secular perspective, when we consider the ability of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury, we see a very small microcosm in him of how he was able to sway people. If you watch Queen’s Live Aid performance, you will see that Mercury literally holds the crowd of roughly 150,000 concert goers in his hands. Whatever he tells them to do, they do. They are literally in love with Mercury. He had tremendous charisma and it clearly came out during concerts and drew people to him.

Now imagine someone like that completely sold out to Satan and because of it, fully indwelt with satanic power and authority. Satan will literally share his full authority with Antichrist because Satan knows that when people begin worshiping Antichrist, they are ultimately worshiping him (Satan). It is this “union” of these two minds (Satan and Antichrist), that creates an unshakable bond. In essence, the two will become of one mind and purpose, with the human being (who will be Antichrist), giving himself unreservedly to Satan and his power. As I’ve mentioned before, during the coming Tribulation period, Satan will create his counterfeit trinity, with himself as God the Father, the Antichrist as God the Son and then added to that, the False Prophet as the Holy Spirit.

The world will see two persons of this false trinity. These two human beings to be indwelt with Satan’s full scope of power will be able to use that power to deceive those who are perishing (because they do not love the truth and so be saved; 2 Thessalonians 2:10). The powers of persuasion from Antichrist and the False Prophet will truly be deadly for most.

If I could compare this to what is happening today on a smaller scale, it might make more sense. There appears to be two groups of people in society as I’ve mentioned; one group believes everything Dr. Fauci says and it doesn’t matter how many times he has contradicted himself or what comes out that negates what he is pushing. The other group finds it exceedingly difficult to believe anything Fauci says. Because of this, there are those who continue to believe that CV 19 is the worst pandemic this world has ever faced and forcing people to accept the CV jab and any boosters offered along with any mandate is appropriate. On the other side are the people who reject the CV jab based on numerous things and also reject the mandates because they do not believe they promote actual health or safety, but instead promote control, injury and death.

How is the gap between these two groups bridged? How is it possible to bring these two groups together and does it even matter which group think is the correct version? The reality is that no amount of “witnessing” from one group to the other is really making any honest difference. People have their beliefs and appear to be sticking with them with no honest dialogue between the two.

Imagine this multiplied by 100 or 1,000 times when the Antichrist first becomes known to the world and works to bring world peace between Arabs and Jews. It is very clear from Scripture that this Antichrist is not part of the ten kings mentioned in Revelation 13 and 17, and also clearly outside that group, yet he seeks their control. Because he is literally indwelt by Satan and his power, he seems to have no problem gaining dominance over these ten kings, eradicating three of them to show he means business, with the remaining seven pledging their loyalty to him or likely be dealt with in the same way.

I’ve mentioned Antiochus Epiphanes IV before as a type of Antichrist. The reason Epiphanes was a type of Antichrist is because of his ability to draw people to himself (via his charm and deception), and because of his innate penchant for blaspheming Jehovah.

The notable abilities of the beast are blasphemy against God and deception of people. These activities also marked Antiochus Epiphanes, the prototype of Antichrist (Daniel 7:6; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:11; Daniel 7:20; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:7). [2]

The coming Antichrist will be no slouch. He will be very intelligent and will have a desire to bring about peace in the Middle East that allows the Jewish people to build their Tribulation Temple. It will seem to the world that he does this because of his concern for peace in the world, but in reality as Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2, he will do it so that he can do exactly what Antiochus Epiphanes IV did in 168 BC but on a far grander scale.

Instead of Antichrist desecrating the Holy of Holies and setting up a statue of Zeus, Antichrist will go inside the Holy of Holies and declare himself to be God. When this happens, the False Prophet will be on hand to mandate that everyone in the world must bow and worship the first beast; Antichrist. Anyone who does not will be brutally executed. We will deal with that next time.

[1] https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/dcc/revelation-13.html

[2] Ibid

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