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The Most Panoramic Prophecy in the Bible (Part II)

20 Saturday Jan 2018

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Antichrist … Modern-Day Man or From the Distant Past?

If I were to ask someone, believer or unbeliever, if the Antichrist is a man who will be born in the end-time’s generation, he/she would probably look at me cross-eyed and reply, “How else would he appear on the scene?” Or, “who else would he be, other than a present-day world leader?”

And I would be the first to acknowledge that this perception is both natural and logical.

On the other hand, God’s magnificent plan for the human race has unfolded providentially, sometimes through God’s supernatural intervention that is anything but natural or logical. Such things as the miracles of the ten plagues of the Exodus, parting of the Red Sea, the Virgin Birth of Messiah Jesus, and (most of all) his resurrection from the dead. Plus dozens of others recorded in Scripture. Or “secular” events in the course of history, significant or not, that apparently have nothing to do with God, or so we think.

The rise to power of dictators throughout history has been through the seemingly normal course of human events; whether through dynasties, by subterfuge, via the power afforded to them by the position they hold, or usurping control of the political, economic, and military institutions of a nation. Though great victories over their enemies and/or pouring out messianic-like messages with persuasive promises of a paradise on earth, they convince the common people to yield their complete allegiance, even to the point of worship. Such historical figures as: Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, some of the Roman Emperors (Augustus, Nero, Vespasian, Hadrian), Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Hirohito, and Mao tse-tung.

Regarding the Antichrist, even Bible scholars and students see no reason to question this historical paradigm of how both good and evil rulers have (naturally) ascended to power. Most, if not all, also agree that the Antichrist will exceed all of the tyrants before him; with the notion that he will be a geopolitical, economic, and military genius unequaled in human history.

(This Passage Encapsulates the Actual Character of Antichrist, As Will Be Developed in Today’s Article)

As stated in my second book, Out of the Abyss, and some prior Eye of Prophecy articles, I, too, once subscribed to this (reasonable) characterization of the Antichrist. Until, that is, the discernment that led to a remarkable refitting of the prophetic puzzle: the overlooked evidence that the Antichrist had already lived and died BEFORE the author of Revelation observed this despicable man in the form of a beast. Consequently, the following passage bears repeating:

“Why are you so amazed? The angel asked. I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns on which she sits. The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon (abruptly, suddenly) come up out of the bottomless pit … And the people who belong to this world (the unsaved during the Tribulation) … will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died” (Revelation 17:7-8; italics for emphasis, parenthesis mine).

To eliminate any doubt, this “beacon-light illumination” was subsequently confirmed by exhaustive research of all Biblical passages on the Antichrist, as well as first century history—especially that of the Roman Emperors and the early Church. What I found was absolutely stunning. Including the fact that nowhere does the Bible present a portrait of this man possessing extraordinary charismatic or oratorical skills or genius-like traits … commonly attributed to world leaders who have persuaded entire nations to follow them and their schemes for whatever kind of utopia they concocted.

The World Will Marvel At Antichrist For One Reason Only

For sure the Antichrist will be boastful, to the extent of blaspheming God himself (Daniel 7 & Revelation 13), but he will not be afforded blind worship because he is a super statesman, military mastermind, or inborn leader. Actually, the False Prophet will be the consummate spokesman of the two—promoting the one thing that will galvanize the world’s undivided attention: Antichrist’s miraculous reappearance from a 2,000 year-old grave as the world will see it (actually he comes up out of the Abyss).

In the New American Standard Bible, the Greek word thaumazo (thou-mad-zo) is used 43 times in the New Testament, 44 times in the Holman Christian Standard Bible.

According to Thayer’s Greek lexicon, thaumazo means to: wonder or marvel at, even to the point of honoring or worshipping; denoting incredulous surprise; in (complete) admiration of. It is most often rendered in Bible translations as: amazed, marveled, astonished, astounded.

For example: The familiar conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus found in the third chapter of John that contains the most universally well-known verse in all of the Bible (John 3:16). Jesus prefaces that fabulous verse of redemption by telling Nicodemus: “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again’” (John 3:7, italics for emphasis, Holman Christian Standard Bible).

Surprisingly—considering the many apocalyptic revelations and shocking scenes found in the book of Revelation—the Greek word thaumazo is employed only four times. Once in Chapter 13 and three times in Chapter 17. And (not so surprisingly) all four times the term pertains to John’s two visions of the Antichrist beast, by describing John’s reaction … even more so the world’s reaction when they first see the beast. This impact far exceeds the normal response of witnessing a world leader’s rise to power in the usual way and customary period of time—which is at least a few years. Rather, the world’s reaction of utter amazement and awe of this man pertains to one thing only: his reappearance from the grave.

It is a knee-jerk response of astonishment to who the Antichrist is (a man from the distant past), and also how he arrives on the scene. Best described by the very first passage on the Antichrist found in Scripture: “As I was looking at the horns, suddenly another small horn appeared among them…” (Daniel 7:8, italics for emphasis).

(See Eye of Prophecy article, Sudden Appearance of Antichrist … Why So Different? Posted 1-21-17)

In Revelation 17, the first use of the Greek word thaumazo is found in verse 6, which conveys John’s incredulity at the vision of the woman on the beast. The noun form is used, translated, amazement. The next use of the word is in verse 7, when the angel says to John, “Why are you so amazed … I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast…”

(A Fairly Accurate Depiction of John’s Reaction to One or More of His Visions)

Now let’s read Revelation 17:8 again, this time from the Holman Christian Standard Bible:

“The beast you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world (the unsaved) will be astounded when they see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present again (italics for emphasis, parenthesis mine)”

What is the one and only thing in this passage that “astounds” the world? It is when (because) they see the Antichrist beast who had already lived and died. A man they would see (be present again) immediately after he comes up out of the Abyss. Not charismatic character or exceptional eloquence or super statesmanship, or anything of the sort. Rather, the world is riveted on and mesmerized by him because he has miraculously returned from a 2,000 year-old grave.

In fact the term, “miracle” found in John’s first vision of the Antichrist beast is one of the four times Revelation uses the Greek word thaumazo, translated as marveled in the NLT. As follows:

“I saw that one of the heads of the beast seemed wounded beyond recovery—but the fatal wound was healed! The whole world marveled at this miracle and gave allegiance to the beast. They worshipped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshipped the beast. ‘Who is as great as the beast?’ they exclaimed. ‘Who is able to fight against him?’” (Revelation 13:3-4).

Let me ask five questions to reinforce the one and only thing about the Antichrist beast to create such wonder over the entire earth, as clearly conveyed in the passage just quoted.

What did the world marvel at? Answer: “at this miracle.”

What was the miracle at which they marveled? Answer: “the fatal wound was healed.” And the context is crystal clear: this wound had already been healed before John witnessed the beast arising from the sea which is the scene that begins Revelation Chapter 13.

What was the power given to the beast by Satan (the dragon) and demonstrated by the beast himself, to the extreme that people will worship both Satan and Antichrist? Answer: the power of the Antichrist’s miraculous recovery (and reappearance as further described in John’s second vision of the beast … Chapter 17).

Why could/would they exclaim (in the form of a question) that no one is greater than the beast? Same Answer: Because of the marvelous miracle of his return from the dead.

Why can no one fight against the beast? This question is not as rhetorical (obvious), but the reason nonetheless is overwhelmingly inferred by the text. Answer: How can anyone fight against a man who has risen from the dead? Even if you wanted to, how can you kill such a man?

Do you get the prophetic picture of what’s going on in Revelation 13 & 17? The very next verse in Chapter 13, begins with, “Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God…” (Verse 5). Thus, the beast (also illustrated in Daniel 7 as the little horn railing against God) is depicted as an arrogant blasphemous tyrant who will boast that he alone is God (or Messiah) complements of his amazing return to the earth in the same body in which he left it.

The very fact that he has returned after a 2,000-year absence will soundly trump and effectively preclude all other traits of a leader otherwise needed to seduce hundreds of millions left on earth to yield their complete loyalty, and actually worship such a man.

In my book Out of the Abyss, I also spent considerable time on a more obscure Old Testament reference to Antichrist, found in Zechariah Chapter 11. Specifically, the sword thrusts by Nero’s servant that inflicted the fatal wounds to Nero, who wanted to commit suicide but couldn’t complete the act, are prophetically (partially) described as follows:

Here is an excerpt from Out of the Abyss (in italics):

Zechariah vividly depicts this “worthless shepherd” as a ruthless, but also a pathetic figure. It’s entirely feasible that Nero will be self-conscious of these wounds; though he will make the most of the fact that he died from these wounds, and then returned from the dead. His physical appearance in the tribulation and the historical evidence that Nero was not that great of an orator, explain why the False Prophet will do most of the talking for the beast.

The erection of a statue of Antichrist (Nero) will further immortalize him, but I believe also to lessen the need for Nero to appear publicly any more than necessary. To a great extent, it’s an evil representation of Moses and Aaron. You recall: Aaron did much of the talking for Moses, though Moses was the actual Deliverer chosen by God to liberate the Hebrews.

…Search the Scriptures. You will not find any direct evidence that the beast is a great orator, statesman, or consummate genius as modern-day views characterize him. He is clever; he is a braggart and a blasphemer, but that doesn’t make him charismatic. Antichrist’s accomplishments and “charisma” are attributed to his miraculous resurrection, the statue, and the persuasive ability of the False Prophet… (Page 248-249).

A Refit of the Prophetic Puzzle Pertaining to Antichrist

Realization that the Antichrist beast of Revelation had already lived and died, and would return at the outset of the Tribulation to the utter astonishment of those left behind at the Rapture, led to my abandonment of these two (otherwise sensible) views. (1) That the Antichrist would arrive as a modern-day born man just like all tyrants who preceded him in their time. (2) He would possess genius-like traits and extraordinary skills that would capture global attention and allegiance.

Once this “amazing” refit of the prophetic puzzle was in place, it was just a matter of more study, research, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and correlating 1st century history to identify which of the seven heads (kings … Roman Emperors at the time) was the man of lawlessness—the Apostle Paul’s appellation of the Antichrist as written in 51-52 A.D. just 2-3 years before Nero unlawfully became Caesar.

In addition to Out of the Abyss (a comprehensive expose of the Antichrist), of the 235 Eye of Prophecy articles to date (one each Saturday since July, 2013), 47 have been assigned to the category of the Antichrist … nearly all of which have provided elaboration that Nero is the Antichrist.

Brief Revisit of Last Week’s Part I Article

First to quote again the four verses of Daniel Chapter 9 that constitute the most panoramic set of prophecies in Scripture:

“A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place” (Daniel 9:24)

“Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One—comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times” (Verse 25).

“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end” (Verse 26).

“The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27).

Next, a restatement of the first four components of this prophetic passage, with a reminder that a Hebrew week represents seven years.

(1) The Seventy Weeks of Daniel

(2) Sixty-Nine Weeks to Messiah’s Arrival on Earth

(3) Messiah’s Death

(4) Soon After Messiah’s Death, a Ruler (Antichrist) Would Arise

We’ll pick up where we left off with the 5th of these tremendous predictions, including what is probably the most proof positive prophecy (fulfilled in the 1st century) that Nero is, in fact, the Antichrist. Prefaced with a brief review of the:

Resounding Revival of Interest in Biblical Last Days Prophecies

Beginning in 1948 and especially following the incredible Six-Day War of 1967 when Israel liberated and reclaimed Jerusalem as its eternal capital, there was a remarkable resurgence in the interest of end-times Biblical prophecy.

(Jewish Celebration of the November 1947 UN Resolution That Paved the Way for Israel’s Statehood in May, 1948)

(Exhausted Israeli Soldiers Resting at the Western Wall After Liberating Jerusalem in the Six-Day War)

This renewed focus is based on the three most significant prophecies in Scripture. (1) The first arrival of Messiah for the express purpose of establishing the New Covenant—through his death and resurrection to forgive sin and pardon the penalty thereof. (2) The return of the Jews from the four corners of the earth to their Promised Land and the rebirth of Israel as a sovereign state, which took place in 1948. (3) Which, in turn, will precipitate the return of Messiah to establish the Kingdom of God from Jerusalem. But also the Antichrist who would counterfeit the true Messiah (Jesus) by aligning with Satan, the False Prophet, and all who take the mark of the Beast to set up their own kingdom.

However, there were three major and a couple of minor pieces of the prophetic puzzle that were inaccurately fitted, all of which were based on the assumption that the Antichrist would be born in the generation of the Day of the Lord.

One is the grammatical, contextual, and historical change (substitution) of the seven heads of the beast of Revelation 17 to kingdoms instead of what the text clearly identifies as kings. One of the mistaken results of ascribing the Greek word for kings to kingdoms is that of the now famous conjecture that there will be a Revived Roman Empire (the 7th head).

When in fact, Revelation states: “The seven heads of the beast represent … seven kings. Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief” (Revelation 17:9-10, italics for emphasis—a personal pronoun referring to the seventh king as “his” as opposed to a kingdom). Also, the terms for king (basileus) and kingdom (basileia) are as definitively distinct in Greek, as are the English translated words, king and kingdom.

Instead there will be a Revived Roman Emperor (Nero), as first indicated in my book Out of the Abyss!

In the context of today’s article, you may also want to refer to, Exposing Antichrist’s Identity … More Compelling Evidence Part I & II, published 3-18 & 3-25-17 (concerning the seven heads/kings of the beast).

Because of the prevailing persistence that the Antichrist must be a modern-day man, the second improperly fitted piece is to attribute the restrainer of lawlessness to the Holy Spirit (II Thessalonians 2). When, in fact, Paul was referring to a restraint that was holding back this man and the secrecy of the lawlessness during the very time when Paul wrote II Thessalonians … 51, 52 A.D. The (temporary) restrainer at the time was the current Roman Emperor, Claudius, and the Roman government in general. See Eye of Prophecy article, Does the Holy Spirit Restrain (the Man of) Lawlessness? Posted 3-4-17.

(Bust of Emperor Claudius, Married to Nero’s Mother, Agrippina–Who Poisoned Claudius to Hasten Nero’s Rise to Power as Caesar)

The third major misapplication is disassociating or detaching the armies of the ruler to arise from the ruler himself, i.e. to separate the Roman Legions that destroyed the Temple from the ruler (Nero) who actually issued those orders while he was Commander-in-Chief (Caesar) of all Roman armies.

Which leads us to the fifth featured prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27.

(5) The Armies (Roman Legions) That Destroyed the 2nd Temple Belonged to Nero Caesar

In last week’s article, we examined the historical fulfillment of Daniel 9:26 which occurred in the first century. “After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise…”

Specifically, that this ruler would arise shortly after Messiah was killed. Historically, such a ruler was born some four years after Jesus arose from the dead and was already being touted as the next Roman Emperor about 18 years after Jesus returned to heaven. In 54 A.D. this same ruler became the fifth Caesar of the Roman Empire. As you already know, I’m referring to Nero, Mr. 666 himself. (The numerical equivalent of Nero Caesar in Hebrew gematria is six-hundred and sixty-six—Revelation 13:18).

Continuing with Daniel 9:26, we read: “After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple…”

Which precisely and perfectly fits Daniel’s prophecy as we will see in the following evidence.

Once we wrap our minds around the startling statement (yet one presented matter-of-factly by the angel) in Revelation 17:7-8—the Antichrist beast had already lived and died before John’s vision of this man, then would return from the Abyss—all of the other passages on the Antichrist fall into place. Matching Nero as the: little horn/ruler of Daniel 7; the worthless shepherd of Zechariah 11; the man of lawlessness in II Thessalonians 2; the number of the beast in Revelation 13; and the eighth king (one of, from the seven kings) of Revelation 17.

Although there is an abundance of evidence in all of the above listed Biblical passages and also 1st century history to decisively demonstrate that Nero was, is, and will still be the Antichrist (upon his reappearance), the fifth prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 and its fulfillment is more than enough evidence (by itself) to confirm that this ruler was none other than Nero.

To encourage you to read my second book, which contains a comprehensive overview of the Antichrist … and more; but also because I believe it was explained as well or better than I could rephrase it, here is an excerpt from Out of the Abyss (in italics). Beginning with a partial quote of Daniel 9:26: “…and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple” cited earlier from the New Living Translation:

In some Bible translations such as the New American Standard, we read, “…and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary…” The perception of a Revived Roman Empire flows from the attachment or affiliation of the Ancient Roman Empire’s armies or people that destroyed the Temple to a modern-day Antichrist. But as we will soon see, this application contextually, grammatically, and prophetically stretches the connection to the breaking point.

The Hebrew word for “people” is am, which means people(s), people of a nation, members of one’s people, kinsman, or compatriots … And invariably, when relating people to a nation, king, ruler or to God, the word is employed in the logical and sensible Scriptural context of possessive, immediate, or generational relationship.

…In other words, “People” of the prince or ruler to come includes all of the prince’s country-men; but more exactly it was the armies (Roman Legions) of this people that fulfilled the prophecy.

…If you study the text carefully, there is a clear possessive correlation between the ruler and the armies or the people. The New Living Translation simplifies the English to demonstrate this connection by stating that, “…a ruler will arise whose armies.” Whose is possessive, meaning those armies or people specifically belonging to that particular ruler. Or, if you prefer the translation that says, “people of the prince,” the same possessive principle applies. The people directly affiliated, associated, or united with the prince destroyed the Temple.

…If Gabriel had meant that the Temple would first be destroyed by the people of the prince, and then the prince would come at a (much) later date, he would have told Daniel that the armies or people of the prince to come will have or would have already destroyed the city and the Temple. This would leave no doubt that the city would first be destroyed, and then the ruler would come later.

…What Gabriel is emphasizing or distinguishing is the fact that the armies of the prince would destroy Jerusalem, instead of the prince and his armies together; that it would be the armies independent of the ruler, with an excessively strong implication that the ruler didn’t live to see the conquest finished.

This is true when reading history. Almost always, a historian (we speak in the same terms) will say that Alexander the Great conquered Persia, not Alexander and his armies. We fully understand what it means; that Alexander the Great or Napoleon or whoever couldn’t have done it without their armies.

Yet, if a ruler dies, and his armies continue the battle or the war, we see, for example, that it was Genghis Khan’s armies or troops that did such and such after he died. “People of the prince who is to come” neither prophetically or grammatically state nor even imply that the city would be destroyed before the prince arrived. In other words, this ruler and his armies are inseparably linked together in possessive relationship and in a real-time context…

Where have you ever read or seen or thought that a ruler of any era would be connected to armies or people hundreds or thousands of years earlier. All monarchs, both in Biblical and secular history, are linked directly with the armies of that particular time of the ruler’s life.

…Why, then, should Gabriel and Daniel mean a far-off, time-warped differential between the Roman Legions and a prince that wouldn’t arrive on the scene for what is now a nearly two-thousand year gap?

…But that’s the current hindsight application made by those who hold to a modern-day Antichrist and a Revived Roman Empire. Meaning that this “prince who is to come” must be born and rise to power after an enormous lapse of time, with a 21st century result of an impractical and unrealistic time-capsule detachment from the armies that destroyed the city and the Temple. (Chapter 26, pages 254-257).

Summary of Point #5

Bible students and secular scholars and historians know beyond any doubt what armies demolished (stone by stone, as Jesus said would happen … Matthew 24:2) the 2nd Temple and destroyed much of Jerusalem in the process. This campaign against Israel began with seven Roman legions under the command of General Vespasian in 66 A.D. Because civil war erupted soon after Nero died in June, 68 A.D., Vespasian returned to Rome to put an end to this chaotic condition which included the brief reign of three pseudo-emperors over a period of only 18 months. Vespasian then become Emperor in 69 A.D. In the interim, he turned the conquest of Israel over to his son, Titus, who finished the sack of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D.

Yet, there’s one thing that you seldom read about in the history books, one that is not very often emphasized (or even mentioned) by Bible or secular historians or teachers: It was Nero who personally commissioned Vespasian and Titus to crush the Jewish rebellion.

Summarizing this subject with an excerpt from the next chapter in Out of the Abyss:

Think about it! Historically, that exactly what happened. Nero issued direct orders and personally selected the Roman generals to carry out the directive. But Nero wasn’t around to see the outcome of this Judean campaign. Thus it was necessary for Daniel to prophetically tell us that it was the armies of the ruler who actually finished the job.

…Nor has any conquest, in ancient or modern warfare, been accomplished or even recognized by means of troops conquering a city or country, then the supreme leader (king or emperor) of that army born hundreds of years later or even a few years later. In fact, that makes no sense at all. The only way the armies can be connected to, belong to, controlled, or ordered by their leader, is a direct result of the leader—by virtue of being alive—delivering commands to his subordinates; thus, for that ruler to be unequivocally associated with and attached to the people that do the conquering.

…The armies or people who destroyed the city and the Temple were Roman Legions that belonged to Nero, as ultimate Commander-in-Chief of all Roman legions. These legions are long gone, and couldn’t possibly be the people or armies of a modern-day born Antichrist. (Chapter 27, pages 263-264).

Does this, or is this beginning to make sense to you? With the scholarly, grammatical (the text itself), historical, and most of all common-sense conclusion that the people of the prince (Antichrist) were the very Roman Legions that belonged to Nero, and not some ruler who would come afterward—which is now nearly 2,000 years later. Then combine that with the fact: This same ruler lived and died during the 1st century—not long before Revelation was written—but who would “reappear” from the Abyss (Revelation 17:7-8).

Point #6 of Daniel’s prophecies in Chapter 9—Antichrist’s (the ruler) Seven-Year Treaty with Israel

First, to quote the last part of Daniel 9:26: “…The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.”

By comparison with other Biblical end-times prophecies (not the least of which are the twenty-one massive plagues found in the book of Revelation), at this point in the passage Daniel is transitioning from the 1st century to the Tribulation period.

Next comes: “The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings… (Daniel 9:27a).

Time and space do not permit extensive elaboration on this well-known component of the seven prophecies found in Daniel Chapter 9. Except to reiterate that this period of seven years is the 70th (final) week of the seventy weeks mentioned in verse 24. It begins with a treaty that is broken by the Antichrist half way through, which also tracks with Revelation 13 that shows us the apex of Antichrist’s (Nero) power and authority will take place during the last half of the seven-year Tribulation.

“…And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months” (Revelation 13:5).

(This Is An Accurate Time-Line as Found in Daniel Chapters 9 & 12)

Also, one other important feature specifically applicable to last week’s and this week’s article: the obvious but still amazing fact that this ruler whose armies would destroy Jerusalem and the 2nd Temple would be the same one to orchestrate the seven-year treaty with Israel when, “the end will come.” Amazing because the ruler of Daniel 9 is (of course) the beast-king of Revelation 13 & 17 who had already lived and died in the 1st century before John’s vision of the beast.

That “end” begins with the Rapture of believers and the immediate reappearance of the Antichrist beast, followed by the Great Tribulation. Which means that if Nero was the ruler whose armies destroyed the Temple (and he was), then Nero (this same ruler) must return to accomplish the seemingly impossible feat—in the context of today’s strife in the Middle East—of brokering a treaty between Israel and her enemies.

See Eye of Prophecy article, The Peace Treaty That Will Guarantee War (posted 9-3-16).

(7) Antichrist Final Fate Sealed At the End of the Tribulation

First, to quote the last sentence of this phenomenal panoramic passage in Daniel:

“And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27b).

The sacrilegious object is one Nero will erect in the rebuilt Temple … a repetition of what his archetype predecessor, Antiochus Epiphanes IV, did in 169-168 B.C. (See Daniel Chapter 11).

Although covered extensively in Out of the Abyss and in condensed fashion in a couple of prior Eye of Prophecy articles, there’s also a phenomenal fact missed by many students of the Bible, relating to the final words of Daniel 9:27.

Which is:

“Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed (which Nero was when he ascended to the throne as Caesar in 54 A.D.), but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth (meaning at the providential direction of Jesus, himself) and destroy him by the splendor of his coming” (II Thessalonians 2:8, parenthesis mine).

First, Nero would be “revealed” as the man of lawlessness, ending the secrecy of this lawlessness explained earlier in II Thessalonians Chapter 2. Then he would reappear from the abyss as prophesied in Revelation 17.

Before fulfillment of God’s purpose (permission) to give Satan and mankind one last chance to challenge God and counterfeit and corrupt God’s magnificent plan for the human race, Messiah Jesus himself would preemptively kill the man of lawlessness. Once again, we’re short on time/space to detail all the reasons why that happened in 68 A.D. including the obvious deductive conclusion that Christ revived Nero after his death and banished him to the Abyss.

(See articles: Soon Comes the Antichrist … Straight From the Abyss, Part I & II, published 8-20 & 8-27-16)

But then Jesus would finally “destroy” Nero who will return as the beast-king (designation in Revelation) from the Abyss.

Read II Thessalonians 2:8 again. The Apostle Paul says that Jesus will kill this man of lawlessness AND (at a future time) destroy him. If you kill someone, you destroy them, right? Right, but not if the deceased is revived and then placed in the Abyss, which Scripture shows us is inhabited by extremely wicked angels in bodily form—see Revelation 9:1-11).

Thus, Paul is telling us that in addition to Jesus killing this man of lawlessness, Jesus would ALSO destroy him. How and when would this final destruction take place?

Answer: Defeating Antichrist at Armageddon by the “splendor of his (Christ) coming” (II Thessalonians 2:8b). Then throwing Nero and his False Prophet alive into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 19:20).

Which matches perfectly with Daniel 9:27: “…until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”

(This is the Great White Throne Judgment Which Takes Place After the 1000-year Reign of Messiah, Revelation 20:11-15)

Things to Ponder

Permit me to present one last excerpt from Out of the Abyss to explain why most of that book and 20% of all Eye of Prophecy articles have focused on clarification and (when needed) correction of misunderstood Biblical passages pertaining to the Antichrist.

We’re nearing our final destination. If the sights and sounds of the voyage, or the ship’s Scriptural log haven’t yet influenced you that Revelation 13 & 17’s wisdom or mind of understanding enables any believer of any generation to know the identity of the beast, Antichrist, that’s okay. As indicated earlier, when some left behind at the Rapture realize that Nero’s initial revealing and subsequent reappearance had been predicted long ago, they will hopefully, without amazement at this protégé of Satan, accept Jesus as Messiah (Page 249).

Speaking of Whom (Messiah Jesus), the same angel, Gabriel, who gave these spectacular prophecies to Daniel said to Mary some 540 years later:

“You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:31-33).

Hallelujah!

Antichrist’s Dreaded Arrival / First or Second Appearance?

02 Saturday Jul 2016

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Antichrist … First or Second Arrival?

Many, including some notable students of Bible prophecy would say, “What kind of question is that?”

Why on earth wouldn’t the approaching arrival of the Antichrist be his first appearance? What is there in Scripture to suggest that he wouldn’t be a modern-day born man? What possible alternative is there, other than a man born in the generation that will experience the Rapture and the soon to follow meteoric rise of this man who would dare to oppose the Triune God … Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

Certainly, the most logical assumption is that the Antichrist would arrive on the scene of history no different than past dictators and tyrants, such as Adolph Hitler. Isn’t that the natural way of things?

Answer: Yes it is. But not entirely. According to the Bible, there are two exceptions, one good and one bad: Christ and Antichrist—who is the man of lawlessness (II Thessalonians 2); the composite beast of Revelation 13 & 17 who is also one of the seven heads (kings) of Revelation; the little horn of Daniel 7 and the ruler of Daniel 9.

God is Divine and Supernatural, right? Since when has he done everything the natural way of things? (Rhetorical!)

Last week’s article focused on the conclusive proof that Messiah’s soon arrival on this earth will be his second appearance—his return as the Lion from the Tribe of Judah in contrast to his first advent as the Lamb of God who died for the sins of the world. So, too, will Antichrist stun the world with his return from the grave (actually from the Abyss, Revelation 17:8). For that reason alone this deplorable man will capture the attention and allegiance of untold millions left behind at the Rapture (Revelation 13 and Revelation 17).

Several Eye of Prophecy articles have dealt wholly or partially with the Biblical evidence that the appearance of Antichrist in the final generation (The Omega Generation) will be his return to the earth, contrary to prevailing belief that this will be his initial arrival. For example, Modern-Day Antichrist? (Posted 9-7-13); followed by Antichrist … Is He Alive Today (9-14-13) which concentrates on Revelation 17. Also, The Legendary Return of Nero (published 4-4-15) that focuses on the 1st through 5th century A.D. remarkable belief by both Christians and secular Romans that Nero was still alive; or that he would return to his throne in Rome having been preserved for that appointed time.

Out of the Abyss … can the number of the beast be solved? 666, examines extensively all Biblical passages on the Antichrist and a study of 1st century history to demonstrate that he is none other than the Roman Emperor Nero.

Out of the Abyss

In today’s article, we will center attention almost exclusively on the same astounding prophecy in Daniel Chapter 9 that we examined in last week’s Eye of Prophecy post where we affirmed decisively that the exact time of Messiah’s first arrival matched the Palm Sunday triumphant entrance into Jerusalem by Jesus of Nazareth. Hence, the incontrovertible evidence that Messiah has already been to the earth—for the express purpose of being God’s final, once for all substitutionary sacrifice for our sins and the penalty of those sins. All who believe and receive this truth (Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God) will have eternal life.

For the Jews to realize that their Scriptures (Old Testament, as most non-Messianic Jews refuse to even read the New Testament, let alone believe that it, too, is inspired by God) specifically foretold the actual time of Messiah’s arrival and that Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies including Daniel’s, is of utmost importance. As is the understanding for Gentile unbelievers that Messiah Jesus is salvation’s light to the whole world.

To flippantly brush aside the tremendous truth and fabulous fulfillment of Bible prophecies is to dangerously disregard the eternal consequences of what will take place when Antichrist, then Jesus Christ returns to this earth. If Jews and Gentiles reject that Jesus is Messiah and the purpose for his first appearance, it’s unlikely that they will choose Jesus over Antichrist Nero during the Great Tribulation.

Why?

Because the stakes will be incredibly high. To refuse to acknowledge Nero as divine will most certainly mean instant death. That will be too much for most people to handle. A few years into the Great Tribulation, those undecided (at first) will choose this man of lawlessness along with millions of others who have already worshipped him as their messiah.

One generation ago, it was Heil Hitler! In the near future it will be Hail Caesar!

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(Statue of Augustus Caesar, First Roman Emperor, Depicted Here as Jupiter, Chief Roman god; Nero Despised Religion Including the Roman gods. He Fancied Himself as God on Earth)

This same prophecy in Daniel 9 also shows convincingly that the ruler (Antichrist) would arise (soon) after Messiah was killed; that the armies of this ruler would destroy the second Temple. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (as predicted by Zechariah) in April of 32 A.D; was crucified a week later, and arose from the dead three days after that. Then in 70 A.D. the Roman Legions sacked Jerusalem, utterly demolished the Temple, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews, and instigated the dispersion of the surviving Jews (Diaspora) that would continue until Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948.

It was none other than Nero who personally commissioned Roman Generals Vespasian and Titus to launch the campaign to crush the Jewish rebellion that began in 66 A.D.

Daniel Chapter 9

Let’s read again this stunning prophecy, then refer in part to Out of the Abyss; to once again establish the absolutely correct application of this passage, particularly when correlated and connected to all other passages on this man of sin to show that Nero is the Antichrist.

Said the angel Gabriel to the prophet Daniel:

“Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One—comes…” (Daniel 9:25).

Exactly 173,880 days (483 Jewish years) elapsed from the time that the Persian King Artaxerxes issued the command for Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem to the time that Jesus of Nazareth rode into Jerusalem and the people acclaimed him as Messiah.

Let’s look more closely at what would happen next.

“After this period … the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple…” (Daniel 9:26, italics for emphasis).

The reason that the translators of the New Living Translation, which I quote from most often, chose the wording shown above in italics is to acknowledge that the armies of the ruler were connected in time and space to the ruler. In contrast to the modern-day (erroneous) hypothesis that there will be a revived Roman Empire restored by a modern-day born man. Hence the armies (or people) of the ruler would be those (I suppose they are referring to Italians or other Europeans) who descended some 2000 years later from the Romans.

Although there’s no evidence that the translators and commentators who compiled the New Living Translation gave much thought to the historical evidence that it was Nero who ordered his generals to attack Israel and Jerusalem, they did recognize the obvious fact that the ruler who would arise would be directly linked to the (his) armies that destroyed the Temple.

The Possessive Power of Prepositional Phrases & Pronouns!

As both a means to encourage you to read Out of the Abyss, and also to best explain the staggering significance of the possessive prepositions and pronouns (“of” or “whose”) that directly connect the ruler (Antichrist) with the armies or people of that ruler in real-time (1st century AD), I’d like to quote from Out of the Abyss: (In italics)

In some Bible translations such as the New American Standard, we read, “…and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary…” (Daniel 9:26) … The perception of a Revived Roman Empire flows from the attachment or affiliation of the Ancient Roman Empire’s armies or people that destroyed the Temple to a modern-day Antichrist. But as we will soon see, this application contextually, grammatically, and prophetically stretches the connection to the breaking point.

The Hebrew word for “people” is am, which means people(s), people of a nation, members of one’s people, kinsman, or compatriots. This word is used 1,620 times in the NAS translation of the Old Testament. And, invariably, when relating people (am) to a nation, king, ruler, or to God, the word is employed in the logical and sensible Scriptural context of possessive, immediate, or generational relationship. For example, “After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go…’” (Exodus 5:1). The people were none other than the Hebrews alive at that specific time, during the final stages of their Egyptian bondage.

(Note: The Hebrew word am is not the same as the English word, “am.” As in “I am going…” It is pronounced hahm or ahm … the “ah” sound with “m” at the end).

In a few Old Testament verses the Hebrew word more specifically applies to troops or armies … It’s apparent that the New Living Translation chose the word “armies” to more precisely delineate the actual fulfillment of the prophecy. (Then I refer to the Roman Legions destroying the Temple in 70 AD). In other words, “People” of the prince or ruler to come includes all of the prince’s country-men; but more exactly it was the armies (Roman Legions) of this people that fulfilled the prophecy.

But whose armies are they? Whose people are they? If you study the text carefully, there is a clear possessive correlation between the ruler and the armies or the people. The NLT simplifies the English to demonstrate this connection by stating that, “a ruler will arise whose armies.” Whose is possessive; meaning those armies or people specifically belonging to that particular ruler. Or, if you prefer the translation that says, “People of the prince,” the same possessive principle applies. The people directly affiliated, associated, or united with the prince destroyed the Temple. (Out of the Abyss, pages 254, 255).

This chapter from Out of the Abyss continues with the explanation that had Gabriel meant that the Temple would first be destroyed and then the ruler (of the people or armies that destroyed the Temple) would arrive (much later … which is now 2000 years and counting), then Gabriel would have made this clear by saying something to the effect that the armies of the ruler would have already (first) destroyed the city and Temple, then the ruler would come. But he didn’t say that; in fact he logically describes the chronological sequence the way it was sensibly intended. (First) a ruler would arise, (then) his armies would destroy the temple.

I then state that Gabriel emphatically emphasized the need for Daniel (all readers) to pay close attention: “Now listen and understand” he told Daniel. It would be the people of the prince (or more precisely, the armies that belonged to the ruler) who would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. With the excessively strong implication that the ruler/prince didn’t live to see the conquest finished. Which, incidentally, but much more than coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 1st century history.

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(Roman Legions … One of the Most Formidable Fighting Force of All Time)

Nero ordered Vespasian and Titus to march on Israel. This campaign began in 66 A.D, but it wasn’t finished until August, 70 AD when Vespasian’s son, Titus, sacked Jerusalem and burned and dismantled the Temple stone by stone. In the interim, Nero died in 68 AD.

An amazingly exact historical occurrence to precisely fulfill Daniel’s prophecy!

Continuing in Out of the Abyss:

This is very true when reading history. Almost always, a historian (we speak in the same terms) will say that Alexander the Great conquered Persia, not Alexander and his armies. We fully understand what is meant; that Alexander the Great or Napoleon or whoever couldn’t have done it without their armies….

Yet, if a ruler dies, and his armies continue the battle or the war, we see, for example, that it was Genghis Khan’s armies or troops that did such and such after he died. “People of the prince who is to come” is a prepositional phrase that demands a possessive correlation. “People of the prince who is to come will destroy the city” neither prophetically or grammatically state nor even imply that the city would be destroyed before the prince arrived. In other words, this ruler and his armies are inseparably linked together in possessive relationship and in a real-time context.

Where have you ever read or seen or thought that a ruler of any era would be connected to armies or people hundreds or thousands of years earlier. All monarchs, both in Biblical and secular history, are linked directly with the armies of that particular time of the ruler’s life. Contextually and grammatically it makes no sense for Gabriel to tell Daniel that the ruler’s armies would destroy Jerusalem, but the ruler wouldn’t come until much later. If that were the case, then Gabriel would have told Daniel that the ruler’s ancestors (of long ago) would destroy the Temple, and then the ruler would arise. Conversely, the text clearly delineates and specifies that when the ruler comes, his people or armies would destroy the city.

And, as indicated, whenever the Hebrew word “am” is used throughout the Old Testament in conjunction with a ruler and a people, it is used to specify an immediate, real-time connection between the leader/nation and the people belonging to that leader … Why, then, should Gabriel and Daniel mean a far-off, time-warped differential between the Roman Legions and a prince that wouldn’t arrive on the scene for what is now a nearly two-thousand year gap? (Out of the Abyss, pages 255-256).

Here, I’ll condense what comes next in Out of the Abyss, by first quoting a part of our passage that immediately precedes, “…and a ruler will arise whose armies…”

“…the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing…” (Daniel 9:26, italics for emphasis).

This is another overwhelming corroboration that the ruler referenced by Daniel (Antichrist) arose shortly after Messiah Jesus was crucified (and arose from the dead). The text is emphatically evident: The ruler would arise during the time that the death of Messiah appeared to have accomplish nothing. Nero was born just 3-4 years after Christ ascended back to heaven. He would unlawfully assume the Roman throne in 54 A.D. at the age of seventeen. The Christian faith was still in its infancy; to many, the death of Jesus seemed to have been for naught.

Beginning in the latter part of the 1st century and continuing to this very day (interrupted in part by the Roman Catholic induced and dominated Dark Ages), the monumentally astounding accomplishments of Christianity are more obvious than any event or development in history. What Jesus Christ has accomplished through salvation of millions of people (true believers) and the remarkable impact of Biblical redemption personally and corporately on peoples, nations, hospitals, churches, charitable organizations, and much more is indisputable.

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(St. Luke’s Lakeside Hospital, Located in The Woodlands Division of Houston, Texas)

Thus, the ruler who Daniel said would arise (mentioned in the same verse as the death of Messiah, with the clear contextual connotation and plain understanding that it would be in the same time proximity that Messiah would be killed) had to have been revealed while Christianity was still inconsequential to many in the Roman Empire … “appearing to have accomplished nothing.”

Nero fits that 1st century time and space correlation far better than any ruler before or after him. One, because of the time-frame itself—born in 37 A.D., rose to power in 54 A.D, and died in 68 A.D. Two, because Nero instigated the first and most brutal agenda in all of history (sanctioned by his Roman Empire) to kill Christians.

His short-term evil plan: To blame the Christians for the great fire in Rome (which most historians are convinced Nero himself started or ordered it). The long-term diabolical agenda: To wipe out Christianity and put an end to worship of Jesus Christ over Nero. What better way to stop or preempt potential accomplishments of the Christian faith than to eliminate the followers of Christ.

Not only was Nero the man of lawlessness referenced by Paul (and will soon return as the Antichrist, the designation later used by the Apostle John), he was the most anti-Christ person who has ever lived. He threw huge parties in his palace gardens, with Christians hanging on poles slowly and excruciatingly burning to death (from ignited pitch or tar that covered them) to light the gardens at night. He ridiculed the Christians as they succumbed to such horrible deaths by saying, “Now you are truly the light of the world.” Which was also a malicious mockery and depraved defiance of Jesus Christ himself whom the Christians worshipped as the light of the world.

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(Depicts Nero’s Golden Palace and Death of Christians for Entertainment)

Not until a few decades after Nero’s death did Christianity began to flourish and spread throughout the Roman Empire.

When Nero became Caesar in 54 A.D. the Apostle Paul had written only three of his epistles: Galatians and I & II Thessalonians (51-52 A.D.). It’s no coincidence that Paul only refers to the man of lawlessness (later called the Antichrist by the Apostle John and beast-king in Revelation) in II Thessalonians before Nero “lawlessly” ascended to the throne. As indicated in Chapter 21 of Out of the Abyss, I’m convinced that Paul knew that Nero was (would be) this man of lawlessness.

Later the book of Revelation would challenge 1st century believers and all believers thereafter to identify the Antichrist beast through Hebrew gematria, … the number six hundred sixty-six (Revelation 13:18). From the Greek name for Nero (New Testament was written in Greek) converted to the Hebrew method of counting by the Hebrew alphabet, Neron Kaiser (Greek for Nero Caesar) adds up to the sum of six hundred, sixty-six. (666).

Then perhaps the most astonishing passage of all concerning the infamous biography of Antichrist: John tells us the beast (Antichrist) that he just saw in another vision, “…was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he (the beast) will soon (abruptly) come up out of the bottomless pit (Abyss) … And all the people who belong to this world … will be amazed at the reappearance of the beast who had died” (Revelation 17:8, parenthesis mine).

By the time Revelation was written, Nero had already died in 68 A.D. As covered in great detail in Out of the Abyss, it was Jesus himself (at his command and providential direction) who saw to it that Nero was killed (while still a young man).

“Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming” (II Thessalonians 2:8).

Nero was “revealed” as the man of lawlessness who had been held in restraint by his predecessor Claudius (his step father), until Agrippina (Claudius wife and Nero’s mother), with Nero in complicity, murdered Claudius in 54 A.D. Paul knew that Nero was the man of lawlessness, but he didn’t refer to him as Antichrist. Years later, John the Apostle used that term in his first epistle. Even Revelation doesn’t use the appellation of Antichrist; rather it refers to him as a beast or one of the seven kings (Roman emperors). Paul knew that Jesus would strike down Nero but Paul did not know (wasn’t disclosed to him) that Nero would RETURN from the Abyss, as the beast-king of Revelation. That wasn’t revealed until later through John’s visions.

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(Bust of Nero)

To summarize Daniel’s prediction that the “rise” of the ruler would happen (soon) after Messiah was killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing (at the time) I quote again from Out of the Abyss:

To the populace of Israel, the Roman Empire, and world at large, the tragic death of Jesus of Nazareth seemed to have accomplished very little. To Jewish Zealots, Jesus’s death accomplished absolutely nothing … It took several centuries for Christians and the secular world to comprehend the increasing influence that the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ had exerted on the world.

Thus, the rise of the Antichrist ruler predicted by Daniel HAD to have taken place during the first few years after Messiah (Jesus) was crucified. Just as the Messiah HAD to first appear (arrive) before the Temple was destroyed—by the armies of this same ruler … Nero.

Is all this amazing or what?!

A Few More Excerpts from Out of the Abyss:

Stating it bluntly: the Roman Legions of 70 AD could not be of, from, or belong to a ruler born some two thousand years later. This would stretch the chain that tries to bind the Roman Legions of 70 AD to a modern-day man to the breaking point. Remember again: this ruler or king originates directly from the fourth world power (Roman Empire) of Daniel Chapter 7. The ruler does not come from a future 7th empire, because there is no such empire in the book of Daniel…

The NLT translation is saying the same thing as, “People of the prince who is to come.” But the NLT precludes the tendency to forget or overlook the possessive prepositional phrase that is the linguistic and prophetic essence of this verse, in contrast to a ruler who will come long after his people destroy the city.

Daniel tells us that the ruler will come and the people of this ruler will destroy the city. He does not say that the Temple must be or is first destroyed before the prince arrives. But that’s the current hindsight application made by those who hold to a modern-day Antichrist and a Revived Roman Empire. Meaning that this “prince who is to come” must be born and rise to power after an enormous lapse of time (2000 years), with a 21st century result of an impractical and unrealistic time-capsule detachment from the armies that destroyed the city and Temple (Page 257).

Then picking up in the next chapter of Out of the Abyss:

Read again, if you will, the sequential syntax of Verse 26, which says, “…a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the Temple.” In which order do these things prophetically take place? Correct—the ruler arises, and then his armies destroy the Temple … To eliminate any misunderstanding as to when the ruler would arise, the angel would have told Daniel that when the ruler arrives, his armies would have already destroyed the city. But that’s not what Daniel says, nor did it happen that way in history.

Nor has any conquest, in ancient or modern warfare, been accomplished or even recognized by means of troops conquering a city or country, then the supreme leader (king or emperor) of that army born hundreds of years later or even a few years later. In fact, that makes no sense at all. The only way the armies can be connected to, belong to, controlled or ordered by their leader, is a direct result of the leader—by virtue of being alive—delivering commands to his subordinates; thus, for that ruler to be unequivocally associated with and attached to the people that do the conquering. Make sense?

So the angel Gabriel makes two clear distinctions in these verses. (1) Technically and actually the ruler’s armies would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple, not the ruler himself. Why: because the ruler wasn’t there to take or be given credit. (2) Even more importantly, the armies are of or belong to the ruler himself, by virtue of the possessive correlation clearly articulated in the passage. The passage does not state nor even imply a (far away) future ruler to the Roman Legions of the first century. Instead we see culpability by direct possessive association with and correlation between first century Rome and a first century Roman ruler.

The armies or people who destroyed the city and the Temple were Roman Legions that belonged to Nero, as ultimate Commander in Chief of all Roman legions. These legions are long gone, and couldn’t possibly be the people or armies of a modern-day born Antichrist. Again I will stress: the ruler and his armies of Daniel 9 are inextricably conjoined, coupled, and connectively linked by the possessive pronouns employed in the text, whether the translation is “of” or “whose.” (Out of the Abyss, page 264).

Summary

The main Biblical passages dealing with the Antichrist in order are: Daniel 7, 9, 11; Zechariah 11; Matthew 24 (false messiahs); II Thessalonians 2; Revelation 11, 13, 16, 17 & 19. With the geographical and biographical profile of the Antichrist most prominent in Daniel and Revelation 13 & 17.

To wit: He will originate from the fourth kingdom (Roman Empire), not a 7th kingdom (a so-called Revived Roman Empire). He will lead an alliance of ten Tribulation kings (nations), forcibly subduing three of these kingdoms. At the time of the revelations to John, the Antichrist had already lived and died on this earth. (Revelation 17:8). He would reappear from the Abyss; with the totally logical conclusion that he had to be first placed in the Abyss (which occurred after Christ struck him down in 68 AD).

He will make an unholy alliance with the vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire (Vatican), but will then turn on the “Woman” and pursue his malevolent ambitions with his ten-nation coalition (Revelation 17). Though hundreds of millions will give him their allegiance—including taking the mark of his name or number—there will not be a One World Religion or One World Government. Instead, many left behind after the Rapture will surrender their complete loyalty (to the point of worship) for one reason only: his apparent resurrection from the grave. They will be people from every nation, language, and race; which will be a counterfeit representation of the true Messiah (Jesus Christ) and his followers from people all over the earth—but without a kingdom as such until Messiah Jesus returns in power and great glory at the end of the seven-year Tribulation.

If you are seriously interested in knowing everything that God has given us through his Word about this man of sin (including his very identity), you need a working knowledge and understanding of these passages. And you also need at least a cursory grasp of 1st century Church and secular history, especially the Roman Emperors. All of these things in great detail are presented in Out of the Abyss … can the number of the beast be solved? Also in several Eye of Prophecy articles like this one, including most of the articles found in the category of Antichrist and/or The Rapture.

Yet, it is Daniel Chapter 9 (the focus of our attention last week and this week), that most thoroughly predicts and explains the first arrival of both Messiah and anti-Messiah at the exact time God intended. That and the fact that both would return (reappear) to complete the final epic struggle between God and Satan, between Christ and Antichrist, between good and evil.

Christ was the first to appear. Yet his Second Coming will be after the return of Antichrist Nero.

Thus, just as the Scriptures say: Messiah Jesus is The First and the Last! Alpha and Omega! The Beginning and the End!

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Here is one more citation from Out of the Abyss:

Where did the Roman Legions camp and prepare for the march on Jerusalem in 70 AD? Answer: Megiddo. Who ordered this campaign against Israel? That’s right: it was Nero. Where will the final conflict of Revelation be decided? Right again … Armageddon. Who will be leading these armies against Israel, then against Messiah himself? Easy answer: Antichrist. A chilling connection don’t you think? Do you think this and all the other correlations between Christ and Antichrist (Nero) are a bit more than coincidental?

As already indicated, I’m sure that Nero’s premature death both stunned and infuriated Satan. For sure Satan had read Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians; that Jesus would kill the man of lawlessness, “with the breath of his mouth.” Yet Satan assumed that his man would first accomplish all the things that Daniel and other prophets had declared. And, of course, Satan would attempt to write his own script and execute his own version of the final act. The Revelation of Jesus Christ had not yet been given to John. Thus no one, including Satan, knew that the man of lawlessness slain by Christ must first be confined to the Abyss and be allowed to rise again as the beast of Revelation.

If you still find it difficult to let go of a Revived Roman Empire that produces a modern-day (born) Antichrist, at least consider this; whatever form or shape this coalition takes, what ultimately makes it Roman and revived is a Revived Roman Emperor (Pages 265- 266).

Things to Ponder

As touched on in last week’s article that focused on the Messianic (first advent of Jesus Christ) significance of Daniel 9, and in preparation for this week’s article, I indicated that the Antichrist portion of Daniel 9 is not a matter of “life or death” as we speak … before the Rapture.

However, I’m convinced that the Lord wants us and certainly all left behind at the Rapture to realize that there are eternal consequences to the choice that everyone alive now and those left behind will make. And if they don’t decide it will be decided for them one way or another—either by the justified judgments of God or by the unjustified deceit and ruthlessness of Antichrist.

Is Jesus the Messiah Savior? Or is the one who is anti-Christ (Nero) to be followed? It truly will be an eternal life or death decision.

Those who know now and those who will realize after the Rapture that the Bible had disclosed the identity of the Antichrist all along won’t be so amazed when they see an ancient Roman Emperor return to this earth. Hopefully they (you, if you have not yet believed and received Jesus as Lord and Savior) will see beyond any doubt that the very Word of God (Scripture) foretold this long ago.

Rest assured, the true and living God and His Messiah will prevail.

“The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven (seven years), but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27, italics for emphasis).

The italicized words in this verse provide more validation that the Antichrist’s (Nero) reign of terror began long ago (first century) and will finally come to a crashing conclusion when Jesus sets foot on the earth at the end of the Tribulation.

The terms, as a climax and finally, convey a long period of time. The 3 ½ years of the Great Tribulation in which God gives permission for Satan and Antichrist to wreak havoc on the earth is far too short of a time to be expressed by the term, finally.

Rather, Daniel is referring to the time when the ruler would first be revealed (1st Century) all the way to his reappearance at the end of this age; when all of the hideous deeds of this depraved despot begun in the 1st century will resume and intensify and reach a climax at the end of his forty-two month reign of terror.

Finally, after all this time (2000 years), he will be destroyed.

After all this time (2000 years), Messiah Jesus will return and finally put an end to the beast who, “was once alive but isn’t now … yet he will soon (suddenly) come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction” (Revelation 17:8).

Paul tells us: “Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed (so he was in the first century), but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth AND (then) destroy him by the splendor of his coming” (II Thessalonians 2:8, parenthesis mine, upper case letters for emphasis).

Once you’re dead (killed) you are destroyed, right? Therefore, there would be no reason for this verse to continue by saying that this man of lawlessness will also be destroyed. That would be totally redundant and unnecessary.

Unless, that is, the Antichrist returns (from the Abyss) and then is finally destroyed (comes to his final end in the Lake of Fire, Revelation 19) by the return of the true Messiah … Jesus!

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  • “One Ring To Rule Them All….”
  • A Beast by Any Other Name … Part I
  • A Beast by Any Other Name … Part II
  • A Beast by Any Other Name … Part III
  • A Deal That Will Live In Infamy
  • A Divine Solution to Global Polarization & Church/State Separation
  • A Dramatic Enactment of the Rapture!
  • A Government Crisis in Israel
  • A House Divided
  • A Modern Day Esther
  • A Most Unlikely Ally of Israel!
  • A Mysterious Sign in Virgo … What Does It Mean?
  • A Palestinian State? (No, say many Arabs!)
  • A Religion of Peace? (Part I)
  • A Religion of Peace? (Part II)
  • A Revived Roman Empire … Or Not?
  • A Sleeping Giant
  • A Tale of Two (Arab) Cousins
  • A Third Jewish Temple (Part II)
  • A Third Jewish Temple?
  • A Trilogy of Terror
  • Aftermath of America’s Amazing Election
  • Age of Grace (Part I)
  • Age of Grace (Part II)
  • Age of Grace (Part III)
  • Alliances against Israel
  • Amazing Anticipation for Messiah
  • Ambassador Nikki Haley & The Truth About Israel
  • America the Beautiful Is Getting Ugly
  • An Incredible Time-Lapse Prophecy
  • An Islamic United Nations?
  • An Unprecedented Palestinian Attack in Jerusalem
  • And Justice For All
  • Antichrist / A “Back To The Future” Prophecy
  • Antichrist … Is He Alive Today?
  • Antichrist and Anzio … What Do They Have in Common?
  • Antichrist and the Vicar of Christ … Part I
  • Antichrist and the Vicar of Christ … Part II
  • Antichrist’s Dreaded Arrival / First or Second Appearance?
  • Armageddon & Messiah’s Return … An Amazing Sequence of Events
  • Beginning of the End
  • Beware of the Bear!
  • Biblical Terms Not in the Bible … Are They Biblical?
  • Blood Moons
  • Blow the Trumpets … Messiah Will Come!
  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (of Israel)
  • BREXIT … What’s It All About?
  • Bring Back Our Boys
  • Build The Temple! Will Messiah Come?
  • Can A Murderer Be A Martyr?
  • Christ or Antichrist … who will it be?
  • Comparing A Phenomenal Prophecy in Leviticus With One in Zechariah
  • Conspiracy Theories … A New World Order
  • Countdown to Armageddon … End of the Fourth 400-Year Era
  • COVID-19 / Just Another Plague?
  • COVID-19 / Just Another Plague? (Part II)
  • Cunning Makeover of the Great City (Revelation 17)
  • Daniel’s 70 Prophetic Weeks & The Number Seventy!
  • Day of Infamy
  • Did God Really Appear to People? When & How?
  • Diplomacy With Israel Despite Anti-Semitism / A Puzzling Paradox
  • Divine Consequences of Iran’s Arrogance (Part I)
  • Divine Consequences of Iran’s Arrogance (Part II)
  • Does Christmas Really Need Christ?
  • Does God Really Have a Son? … Part I
  • Does God Really Have a Son? … Part II
  • Does Israel Belong To The State of Israel?
  • Does The Holy Spirit Restrain (the Man of) Lawlessness?
  • Don’t Seal The Book of Revelation!
  • Double Israel’s Trouble & Double Her Blessings!
  • End of the World Events … In Chronological Order!
  • Ethnic Cleansing of Jews … The Real Palestinian Agenda
  • Exposing Antichrist’s Identity … More Compelling Evidence (Part I)
  • Exposing Antichrist’s Identity … More Compelling Evidence (Part II)
  • Extraordinary Biblical Prophecies w/Predicted Times of Fulfillment (Part I)
  • Extraordinary Biblical Prophecies w/Predicted Times of Fulfillment (Part II)
  • Festival of Tabernacles … Part I
  • First Century Existence of Christ and Antichrist & Their 21st Century Return
  • Five Life-Changing Meals in the Bible
  • For or Against Israel?
  • For Such A Time As This
  • Fountain of Youth & Fountain of Life … Is There a Difference?
  • Four Locust Kingdoms!
  • Freedom … What Does It Really Mean?
  • Fulfilled Prophecy Proves We Can Trust The Bible
  • Gateway to the World
  • Giving Thanks … What is it all about
  • Global Obsession with Jerusalem … In Biblical Proportions!
  • Globalism or Populism … Which Will Antichrist Prefer?
  • God Is Great & Yet He’s So Good!
  • God Is in Control
  • God’s New Covenant with Israel … Minus the Temple (Part I)
  • God’s New Covenant with Israel … Minus the Temple (Part II)
  • Gog, Magog and Leviathan
  • Gog/Magog’s Prophetic Clock Is Ticking, Ticking….
  • Grace and Law … A Biblical Balance
  • Great Expectations for Messiah
  • Hanukkah & Christmas / Do They Have Anything in Common?
  • Hanukkah … The Festival Born of a Prophecy!
  • Happy New Year … Jerusalem Style!
  • Has Antichrist Already Died … How, When & Why
  • How and When Does The World End?
  • How the Rapture
  • Humiliating End of the Great City (Revelation 17)
  • Hurricane Harvey & A Year of Prophetic Milestones (2017)
  • Intriguing Comparisons Between Antiochus IV & Antichrist (Nero)
  • Israel Is Again The Head, Not the Tail (The Deal of the Century)
  • Is President Trump Wavering On “The Waiver”?
  • ISIS, Nero, and Rome
  • Israel Is Here To Stay … Forever!
  • Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Territory? We Must Define The Terms
  • Israel’s Controversial Nation-State Law
  • Israel’s Government in Limbo … Unprecedented!
  • Israeli Occupation … Fact or Myth?
  • Italy’s New Government / A Thorn in the EU’s Side
  • Jerusalem … A Capital Without a Country?
  • Jerusalem … City of Peace?
  • Jerusalem / City Above All Cities
  • Jerusalem’s Mysterious Eastern Gate … Making Headlines
  • Jesus’s Stunning Statements While on the Cross… A Summary of Salvation!
  • Jesus Is The Very Essence of Prophecy
  • Jewish Christian / Christian Jew … An Oxymoron?
  • Jewish Settlements in Judea/Samaria … Are They Illegal?
  • Jewish Sovereignty on Temple Mount (Part I)
  • Jewish Sovereignty on Temple Mount (Part II)
  • Jubilee and Messiah … They Go Together!
  • Judea/Samaria & Gaza Strip / Who Has Sovereignty?
  • Just How Imminent is Messiah’s Imminent Return?
  • King David’s Tomb
  • Kingdom of God
  • Las Vegas Massacre … A Broader Perspective
  • Lazarus and Lazarus & The Sign of Jonah
  • Let’s Celebrate … Forever!
  • Let’s Make a Deal
  • Look Up, Redemption Is Near … Part I
  • Look Up, Redemption Is Near … Part II
  • Major Earthquake in Israel … When & Where It Will Strike
  • Melchizedek … A Man of Mystery!
  • Merry Christmas … What’s It All About?
  • Messiah and the Jewish Festivals … An Extraordinary Connection!
  • Messiah’s Amazing Appearances Before He Was Born
  • Messiah’s Arrival … On Whose Authority?
  • Messiah’s Ascension & Coronation … Seen Long Before It Happened!
  • Messiah’s Millennial Reign … Incredible Changes on Earth
  • Messiah’s Number & Its Prophetic Value
  • Messiah’s Return & The Rapture (Same or Separate Events?)
  • Messianic Jews … Who Are They?
  • Modern Day Antichrist?
  • Moral Equivalency
  • More Palestinian Lies
  • More Than One Messiah?
  • Moses & Elijah vs. Antichrist & The False Prophet
  • Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem … A Broken Promise?
  • NERO & The Remarkable Revival of His Name
  • O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
  • Old & New Testament Saints … Is There a Difference?
  • One Global Language … Coming Soon! (Part I)
  • One Global Language … Coming Soon! (Part II)
  • One Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Messianic Jews … Part I
  • One Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Messianic Jews … Part II
  • One Nation Under (the wrath of) God
  • One World Government?
  • One World Religion?
  • Palestine or Israel? Which Is It? / Your Answer May Be In Jeopardy!
  • Palestinian Propaganda Is Pure Poison
  • Palestinian Refugees… Are They Really Refugees?
  • Palestinian Terrorism & UN Resolutions … Neither Will Defeat Israel
  • Palestinian Terror Tunnels & Poetic Justice
  • Passover & Messiah Are Inseparable!
  • Passover … an Enduring Legacy
  • Peace Between Israel and Judah … Then World Peace!
  • Peace on Earth … Is It Really Possible?
  • Peace or a Palestinian State … Which Will It Be?
  • Powerful Proof of Messiah’s Identity & Arrival in The First Century!
  • Preach the Gospel … But Not to the Jews!
  • Prince of Peace
  • Prophecy & A Jewish Holiday
  • Prophetic Fate of Israel’s Friends and Foes
  • Prophetic Implications of the Fires in Israel (Part I)
  • Prophetic Implications of the Fires in Israel (Part II)
  • Proportional Warfare
  • Reappearance of Satan, a Roman Emperor & Two Ancient Prophets … Bodily!
  • Reappearance of the Beast (Antichrist)
  • Reexamination of Messiah’s Imminent Return & The Omega Generation
  • Remember December (Kislev) … A Hidden Gem of Prophecy!
  • Removing Christ From Christmas … What Are The Consequences?
  • Replacement Theology (Part I)
  • Replacement Theology (Part II)
  • Resurrections / How Many Will There Be? One, Two, Or Could There Be Three?
  • Rome and Jerusalem … friends or foes?
  • Russia & Iran versus Israel
  • Russia’s Shocking Invasion of Ukraine … A Preview of Gog/Magog’s Attack on Israel?
  • Salvation … “To The Jew First!”
  • Satan in Bodily Form … When & Why (Part I)
  • Satan in Bodily Form … When & Why (Part II)
  • Scripture Says Everyone Will Die / But What About the Rapture?
  • Separation of Church and State … For or Against? (Part I)
  • Separation of Church and State … For or Against? (Part II)
  • Sequel to Stunning Catastrophes & Shocking Statistics of the Great Tribulation
  • Seven Essentials of The Rapture (Part I)
  • Seven Essentials of the Rapture (Part II)
  • Seven Times Seven (to the 4th power)! Part I
  • Seven Times Seven (to the 4th power)! Part II
  • Seven Times Seven (to the 4th power)! Part III
  • Seven Wonders of The Millennium
  • Seven Wonders of The Millennium (Part II)
  • Shameful Saga of the Great City (Revelation 17)
  • Shocking Statistics of the Great Tribulation
  • Significant Sets of Twos in the Bible
  • Six Million Reasons … To Trust the Bible
  • Soon Comes the Antichrist … Straight From the Abyss (Part I)
  • Soon Comes the Antichrist … Straight From the Abyss (Part II)
  • Spiritual Bodies … A Contradiction of Terms? (Part I)
  • Spiritual Bodies … A Contradiction of Terms? (Part II)
  • Stand Still & Watch God Fight for Israel!
  • Stunning Catastrophes of the Tribulation / Their Timing & Purpose
  • Sudden Appearance of Antichrist … Why So Different?
  • Sukkot … The Forever Festival!
  • Superhuman Bodies for Believers / How & Why?
  • Tell a Big Lie Long Enough….
  • Terror, Terror, Terror (Part II)
  • Terror, Terror, Terror! (Part I)
  • The “Right of Return” … For Palestinians or Jews?
  • The Ark of the Covenant … Part I
  • The Ark of the Covenant … Part II
  • The Balfour Declaration … Beginning of the Omega Generation (Part I)
  • The Balfour Declaration … Beginning of the Omega Generation (Part II)
  • The Beast and His Name
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • The Child of Promise (Part I)
  • The Child of Promise (Part II)
  • The Cross and the Torn Curtain (Part I)
  • The Cross and the Torn Curtain (Part II)
  • The End of the Age … how close are we?
  • The False Prophet (Part I)
  • The False Prophet (Part II)
  • The Final Treaty of Rome … Part I
  • The Final Treaty of Rome … Part II
  • The Gog/Magog Countdown Has Begun!
  • The Heart & Soul of Israel
  • The Incomparable Power and Authority of Jesus Christ
  • The Jewish Dichotomy In & Outside Israel
  • The Legacy of Temple Mount
  • The Legendary Return of Nero
  • The Liberation of Jerusalem
  • The Magnificent Millennial Reign of Believers with Messiah
  • The Most Panoramic Prophecy in the Bible (Part I)
  • The Most Panoramic Prophecy in the Bible (Part II)
  • The Most Significant End-Times Sign Of All
  • The Myth of Al Aqsa Mosque
  • The Number of the Beast
  • The Omega Generation
  • The Peace Treaty That Will Guarantee War
  • The Phenomenal Thousand Years/One Day Parallel
  • The Prince and the People That Destroyed the Jewish Temple / Who Were They?
  • The Prophetic Endgame of Gog/Magog
  • The Rapture / Before or After The Great Tribulation?
  • The Real Reason for Palestinian Terrorism
  • The Reign of Terror
  • The Remarkable Rebirth of a Nation
  • The Rest of the Story … Bibi’s Speech to the United Nations
  • The Right to Life?
  • The Russians Are Coming!
  • The Seal of Approval
  • The Second Exodus
  • The Seven Year Treaty
  • The Shout Heard Around the World
  • The Terrible Trio of Gog and Magog
  • The Three Greatest Trials of All Time
  • The Tremendous Transfiguration of Believers!
  • The Two Witnesses (Part I)
  • The Two Witnesses (Part II)
  • The Two Witnesses (Part III)
  • The Vatican and Islam … A Perfect Match for Antichrist
  • The Virgin Birth of Messiah … How and Why?
  • The Whole Truth
  • The Woman and the Beast
  • The Woman and the Beast (Part II)
  • The Woman and the Beast (Part III)
  • The Woman and the Beast (Part IV)
  • The Woman and the Beast (Part V)
  • The Woman and the Beast (Part VI)
  • The Wonder Of It All … Birth of the Child!
  • The World Wants a Messiah … But It Needs (The) Messiah
  • There’s No Place Like Homs
  • There’s Resurrection; And There’s Resurrection!
  • Three … A Divine Number of God!
  • Times of & Fullness of the Gentiles … What Do They Mean?
  • To Be or Not To Be … in Heaven?
  • To Be Or Not To Be … In Heaven? (A Revisit)
  • Trump, Cyrus, and the Jewish Temple
  • Turmoil, Tragedy, & Terror in Israel (Part I … Turmoil)
  • Turmoil, Tragedy, & Terror in Israel (Part II … Tragedy)
  • Turmoil, Tragedy, & Terror in Israel (Part III … Terror)
  • Two-State Solution & The Seven-Year Treaty … Impossible?
  • Two Thirds of the Jews Killed … Past or Future?
  • U.S. President Agrees with God … Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital!
  • Under the Radar
  • UNESCO / “Theatre of the Absurd” Against Israel
  • United Nations Downsizing of Israel (Resolution 2334)
  • Value of Prophecy
  • West Bank or Judea/Samaria? What’s In A Name?
  • What Is A Saint?
  • What Is Done To Israel Will Be Done In Return / The Iran Nuclear Deal
  • What Is Done to Israel Will Be Done in Return / Dangers of a Divided Jerusalem
  • What is Palestine & Who Is A Palestinian?
  • What is the Rapture?
  • What Is The Unpardonable Sin?
  • When the Rapture?
  • Where is Messiah … Is He Already Here?
  • Where Is The Temple? Part I
  • Where Is The Temple? Part II
  • Where is the Temple? Part III
  • Who is Messiah?
  • Who Is the Antichrist & How Will He Appear (Part I)
  • Who Is The Antichrist & How Will He Appear? (Part II)
  • Who the Rapture?
  • Whom Do You Most Want To See In Heaven?
  • Why the Rapture?
  • Why the Rapture? (A Revisit)
  • Why The World Idolizes Antichrist & How It Reacts To The Tribulation
  • Wiles of the Woman
  • Will All Children Be Taken in The Rapture?
  • Will Believers Go Through the Great Tribulation? (Part I)
  • Will Believers Go Through The Great Tribulation? (Part II)
  • Will There Still Be Unbelievers Throughout Eternity?
  • Yom Kippur / With Or Without Atonement?
  • Zechariah’s Dramatic Description of Antichrist’s Fatal Wounds

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