With each passing moment the final Antichrist draws nearer and the appearing of Christ draws one breath closer.

God revealed the profile of the Antichrist through the course of the ages primarily in the prophecies of Daniel during the seventy years of Israel’s captivity under the Babylonian and Persian Empires between the years 600-530 BCE.

Coinciding with each cascading sign of Christ’s return is the Antichrist’s legacy and the appearance of the last Antichrist leader which looms over the world’s political stage, as we write these words in March of 2015.

The appearances of Antichrist and Christ are inexorably and inevitably connected, tied together as two opponents locked in battle to the death. God determined long ago that prophecy should be the mode and means by which He would inform us about the impending conflict and the victory of redemption and salvation over evil and sin. Prophecy is His chosen method for educating us about 1) the Savior’s first and second comings 2) the Rapture of the faithful, and 3) the mad conspiracy of the Antichrist Spirit to destroy God’s efforts at redemption. The spirit
of Antichrist is determined to rob God of the worship of Man. As time has worn on a massive concourse of signs leading up to the Rapture and the second advent of the Savior Jesus Christ has been revealed. It was prophesied in Daniel chapter 9: 24-27 that Jesus will put an end to 1) transgression, 2) iniquity and 3) sin. These are among the primary goals and promised benefits of the judgment which will be brought about during the Great Tribulation which is shortly to befall this world.

It is the EOE purpose of this article to help bring the receptive person who is interested in God’s truth to a certain kind of true historical perspective on the person called the Antichrist; so they may know, among other things that the Antichrist spirit is actively prospering today in the United States and the rest of the so-called ‘free world’. Further, it is hoped that it may be a help to those who might be inclined toward belief in God and Jesus Christ. to help them to become rapture-ready and being prepared to meet Christ on that day when He will suddenly appear in the clouds to faithful believers miraculously taking them home to be with Him forever.

Elisha’s Outcast Eagles will also present profiles of archetypical Antichrist figures of history, along with brief histories of their empires and where they fit in the parade of kingdoms leading to the final Antichrist kingdom which looms on the world horizon today.

Knowledge and awareness of the previous antichrist figures of history, starting with Nimrod more than 4,000 years ago, is helpful for exposing not only the modus operandi of the antichrist spirit but also in unearthing that person of the Antichrist who almost certainly lives and looms somewhere in the world today and is about to make his assault on God and god-fearing people everywhere.

It is our intent to expose the Antichrist person by profiling his character and purpose so that believers may be thoroughly schooled in the Antichrist and his ways. As a police artist might draw a portrait of a criminal from the description of eye-witnesses so a portrait of the coming ‘vile one’ can be critical for identifying this world conspiracy and its leader. By this, we may clearly ID the political fiend and expose his clever lies that will cast a spell of domination over ninety percent of the nations of the world. It is vital that believers not be deceived in any manner as to who and what they are actually following, Christ or Antichrist. To follow the Antichrist is to follow the ways of the world. The best detector of whom and what we are following, Christ or Antichrist, is to look honestly into the mirror of one’s own heart and be able to perceive whose likeness we see in ourselves.

The development and evolution of the Antichrist and the eventual coming of the ‘Vile One’ runs parallel and concurrent with God’s promised coming of the Holy One. The Bible informs all those who are waiting for the day of redemption that God, in His righteousness, will allow the cup of iniquity to be filled to the brim. Evil must run its course, have its day – before it can be judged and sentenced.

The day of the appearing of both Christ and Antichrist is now upon us. These Biblical signs stand as undeniable facts for the discerning seeker of God’s truth. Christ’s appearing to take away His bride will shortly take place. The final showdown with God and Christ and the Antichrist and his world kingdom is fast at work. This is proven daily by the world’s overwhelming drive for a globalized government built upon the foundation of a globalized economy that is forming in the financial fields and counting houses of today’s international banks and the general assemblies and congresses on nations of every continent.

The way is marked, the path nearly finished, the appearance of both God and Antichrist hover over the world like the shadow of a Dracula casting its menacing shadow over every living soul on earth. The brand of 666 is being heated up to be applied in that coming day in the middle of the Tribulation when no living person will be allowed to procure food or necessities of life without the antichrist seal of doom and damnation. The Bible has warned Man for two thousand years, but still, most all make light of the written warning. Today its truth is turned for profit and amusement by novelists and Hollywood scripts. In spite of the world’s foolishness and the ridicule it exerts upon historical fact, the simple truth demands that one be ready for the monumental events that are heading our way. Be exhumed from the ridicule and spiritual quicksand laid before our path by the charismatic ways and humanistic means of antichrist propaganda.

Present day antichrist charisma wins the hearts of those who are dedicated to the world’s ways, its composite propaganda of antichrist, from Nimrod’s defiant pledge to make ourselves God and King Nebuchadnezzar’s greatness to rule the world, to Alexander the Great’s creation of the brotherhood of man, to Napoleon’s system that disposed of the original order of God to a new order devised by Man, to Adolf Hitler’s tyranny by oppression, terror and death.

The appearing of Christ in the clouds could happen before this sentence is finished. The appearance of the Antichrist awaits only that global government and that platform of an international confederation of peoples and nations upon which the Antichrist will rest his tyrannical power and be given a mandate to oppress mankind through a mask of benevolence. Today, rulers all over the world, including the United States, don this mask. It is one of the necessary disguises of Antichrist spirit. The spirit is subtle and crafty. So shall the final Antichrist be a master of disguise appearing to be the savior of the world and the healer of all the earth’s sickness and woes.

Antichrist is Deceiver False Savior

At first, he will be clothed in kindly wisdom, even compassion for the downtrodden, reassuringly telling us that he only wishes freedom and liberty for all while promising to rid the earth of malcontents, prejudice, and those opposed to liberty of action and thought. In truth, his actions will belie the fact that he is the one who will have Satanic backing to deprive Mankind of all liberty of will and thought and worship by penalty of death. He will be the hero of heroes with the answers to our immense problems. He will come bearing an olive branch even though nothing but war will follow in his wake. He will have novel and great ideas, healing for the earth’s woes, and the gentle fruits of salvation doused with the milk of human kindness. But he will not tolerate worship of anyone but himself and his god of force. Dissenters will be doing evil’s work, the work of hate-mongers, he will say. He will back up his words with great building projects and social programs. He will promise to redistribute the wealth, give everyone liberty and happiness, and rule only by the law of love as the defender of the dignity of man everywhere. He will have new and novel plans for government and for social order. He will change times and seasons, redefine democracy, make new laws and build a new religion with proclamations of a new world order and a new conception of the brotherhood of man. It will all be innovative and exciting, it will all be dastardly and utterly bogus.

Of course, his programs will produce discrimination, hate, and repression of all rights. During his brief seven year reign his deeds and promises will produce endless war, poverty, murder, famine and food shortages, economic confusion, and death. What his rule will deliver will be oppression and bloodshed. War will soon begin to plague his reign and will last the duration of the Tribulation once it begins. He will be a great military leader. He will instantly gain legendary status as the greatest general of all time. This is prophesied in the Book of revelation.

He will be the boldest and greatest liar of all time (except for his father Satan who is the Father of All Lies). He will deceive the world and the world will fawn over him. People of the world will lap up every lie like the finest liquor. He will come in his own name and the world will respect this because self is the unrivaled way of the age-old tradition of man and selfishness is at the heart of everything that has ever been anti-christ. The half brother of Jesus, James, wrote in his epistle by his name: “know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” Jas 4:4

Every Christian ought to know who the enemy is and how to avoid the traps and lures that might prevent them from entering into the Will of God with their whole being. Without this knowledge and awareness, there can be no fulfillment of the first commandment to love God with the whole heart, soul, and body – in other words, with every bit of one’s being. There is no chance of knowing where one belongs. 

Answering the question of where does one belong is vital to one’s fate. Where and with whom do we wish to belong? Whose side are we on? With whom do we agree? Who is that we share like feelings and tastes, aspirations, goals? Do we want the world and its goods and its wealth or do we want the truth even when it alienates us from the world and positions us in opposition to its humanistic gospel? Do we long for the things that the Antichrist promises to deliver? Or are we willing to wait for the coming of the kingdom of God as detailed in the prophecies of the Bible? If we are honestly able to answer to waiting for God’s righteousness to be established then we shall share the fate of those who also wait for God, we actually belong with those who will share eternal life in eternity. When the Rapture occurs those who belong to this eternal faith in their heart and mind will be raptured. Accordingly, those who do not belong will remain exactly where they belong. On the outside of eternity. If we have sought to belong to the world we shall stay in the world. Those who wish, strive, hope, and fret about belonging and being accepted by the world are looking in the Antichrist’s direction. They are with him regardless. Whether they are political creatures or not, they will share the fate of those who do not belong. Just as we cannot live in two places at the same time, so we cannot be with the Antichrist and Christ. It is one or the other. The twain shall never meet because they are never together, never in the same spiritual place. If we try to serve both (as so many delusional people do) we shall thrive in neither.

The World Is God’s Enemy
The wisdom of Jesus simply put it in this fashion when He said: “You cannot serve God and mammon too.” If we try to straddle the fence, the Antichrist Spirit has already deceived us – we are captured! We become the Antichrist’s disciple as soon as we want to be partners with the World. This is why it is paramount for Christians to know the gospel of Antichrist and all its tendencies, while they strive for the excellence of exercising true Christianity in their daily lives. God has declared ‘The World’ to be an enemy of His. If we belong in the world and to the world’s hopes and its ways and means then are we not God’s enemy by default? But, on the other hand, if we do not seek to be accepted by the world, bite the bullet and endure its rejection then we are free to follow the path of the father of faith, Abraham. As the scripture 1 Corinthians 11:31,32 puts it.

“For if we would judge ourselves, [this means: what voices we are taught by and listening to] we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”

It is Abraham who looked for another city, that place called heaven and paradise, a place ‘made without hands’ as the Bible puts it, a place eternal, fashioned in the spirit by God Himself. This is what is known as – kingdom come. This is the utopia to which Christ will shortly call His ‘flock’ of faithful followers. Soon, the world will be cast into great tribulation (the word tribulation means severe pressure and trial) and the Antichrist will be given supernatural powers to go out conquering and to conquer. This is the first judgment of The Tribulation which is rendered upon all mankind. What the Antichrist shall conquer will not be simply turf and goods and armies, though he will procure and defeat them. He is after the worship of man. He will stop only when he owns a man’s soul. He will be clever with his ruse to steal man’s hearts and their worship. This is why the Bible strongly advises a person to come to God and flee from the World. 1 John 2:15-17 urges that we:

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
   For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
   And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

Because of this power of the Antichrist given to him from the start to deceive by means of lying wonders through the centuries, we think it important to present a lengthy and historical chronicle of the personal history of the Antichrist charting his maturation and the empires evolution up to today. What is needed is an accurate psychological profile of the man and a general history of the empire that has and will destroy so many people before bringing the nations of the earth to Armageddon for the final rebellious clash with God and His Christ. This is his and the unrepentant World’s ultimate doom.

The study and profiling of the Antichrist helps in becoming wise to the Antichrist spirit which rules all aspects of the fabric of society and the modern world-wide culture of today. Regardless of what form of government or what type of economy it uses or upon which continent it resides the Antichrist gospel is being established on every continent through Papal diplomacy and other Vatican envoys that promote humanistic aims and all sorts of bogus religious schemes promoting the dignity and brotherhood of man with promises of changing their ways and forsaking their domineering ways over its people in favor of freedom of their followers to do and be whatever they want regardless of Roman Catholic law. This is why being informed of the personal profile of historic Antichrist archetypes in accordance with revelations of Holy Scripture concerning the man and his kingdom can arm us with crucial knowledge, give us vital understanding and instill us with the wisdom sorely needed in combating the antichrist and its persuasive arguments and humanistic bullying tactics concerning beliefs, morals and proper faith. Therefore, the EOE has provided its readers with a chart of Biblical statements on the Antichrist person that appear in the prophecies of the Book of Daniel which give a bird’s eye view of his character and motives as a 1) military man, 2) world and religious leader and as 3) a social and political demagogue. [Consult Chart from Daniel (with comments) profiling character of Antichrist.] 

Watch Out For Antichrist Propaganda

It is paramount that we’d be on to Antichrist propaganda of soul, heart, and mind. For this, the Christian must be honest with themselves as well as God. Every person born into this world naturally acquires a love, even an affinity toward antichrist ways, so powerful is our desire to belong and be accepted. It is, however, imperative if we hope to be called Christ’s friends, and He be willing to recognize us before the Father, that wherever we harbor love or admiration for antichrist ways that we have them rousted out of us somehow. We all have a worldly berth where they unknowingly are stowed away in our heart and mind. We must take heed to ourselves to avoid any alliance, innocent or otherwise, with that fiendish enemy of life that is antichrist. Jesus said to take heed to ourselves and see that we be not deceived. This implies that falling into the Antichrist grip is not always or necessarily a matter of willfulness but can come innocently through ignorance, callousness, or just not watching out for the warnings given us by Christ in the Scriptures. Either way it is costly. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right to man but it leads to perdition and Hell. Self-righteousness of self-deceit is no excuse. We may not want to get hit by a car, but if we do not do the wise thing and look both ways before crossing we will still suffer the consequences. Man has been warned throughout Holy Scripture that Antichrist is a fully loaded eighteen wheeler coming down the road and it will not stop for anyone until it reaches its prescribed destination – a full blown clash of disaster with God. Many will be flattened because they refused to look at it, even though they full well heard it coming.

The three greatest profiles of the Antichrist person are given in Scripture. The first is Nimrod, that infamous conspirator of the unity of man forged in opposition to God expressed and acted upon at the tower of Babel. The second is the profile of the actual end-times Antichrist given in the prophecies of Daniel, especially loaded are chapters 7-9 & 11. The other profile can be discovered in Revelation 13, 17 & 18, which in many points confirms Daniel’s prophecies and then elaborates further on them. Nimrod is the quintessential archetype of the Antichrist and therefore the study of him and the conspiracy at the Tower of Babel offers revelations of a primary sort. The Antichrist profiles in Daniel 11 and Revelation are exposés of the actual Antichrist himself which can be detected by the discerning eye as they loom on the horizon by the rise of its spirit and its global politics in these end-times. These days are fraught with ‘perilous times’ – but the light of Christ can shine through the darkest night.

Another revealing aspect of Antichrist study is the historical record of known antichrist empires and those who were the prime movers behind their insurgence and dominion. At regular intervals throughout history God has provided man with significant archetypes of the Antichrist which tender further insight into His motives and character and add to the psycho/spiritual profile of the conspiracy begun by Nimrod. Each of the designated nations which have held the Antichrist scepter (declared in the prophecies of Daniel 11) throughout history have a representative Antichrist archetype which we offer here for those who are considering the challenge of being rapture-ready. Along the path of antichrist history, there have been other candidates who hoped to fulfill the vision of the Antichrist. Just as the prophet Daniel foretold all of them would fail because the time was not yet at hand. They all, however, would exhibit tell-tale characteristics and ambitions of the actual end-times Antichrist who would fulfill the ultimate vision of biblical prophecy.

Many archetypes of Antichrist have cropped up during this current age of prophecy in the two thousand years between the first and second comings of Christ. Jesus had said that there would be many False Messiahs and Christ’s who would offer salvation to the world in their own name. Examples of these archetypes include The Roman Emperor Constantine, Charlemagne, Pope Urban II, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the V, Napoleon and Adolph Hitler, to name a handful. Each one of these, as well as others along the historical path of antichrist, exhibit some of the essential characteristics and attributes of the Antichrist person/leader as well as some finer more subtle dimension of the Antichrist spirit which will be part of the ingredients used by Antichrist to deceive the world in the days ahead. Each is prototype reveals things about the spirit of empire and the man that will lead it.

A final point: Some matters run common throughout the personal history of most all those who have had Antichrist inclinations and aspirations. Among them are: the drive for unification, false religion, economic innovation, desire for deification, military genius, charismatic charm, political innovation, persecution of dissenters. Those figures who failed to completely understand the Antichrist mission did not come nearly as close to fulfilling the vision of the Antichrist as those that did. The only one who will fulfill the vision will be the one who is shortly to loom over the whole earth as its ruthless and brutal demigod – the Man of Sin – the actual Antichrist himself.