Profiling Antichrist The Man
Elisha’s Outcast Eagles’ Assessment of The Bible’s
Profile of the Man at the Head of Antichrist Empire
With each passing moment the return of Christ in the clouds for His faithful bride is one breath nearer. Likewise, with each cascading sign of Christ’s return the inevitable appearance of the Antichrist draws closer. The way is now being paved for both, first will come the False Savior of the World; then the true Christ will return from heaven to put down the rebellion and to begin His righteous rule on earth.
It is our aim to give our readers an accurate understanding of the all-pervasive antichrist spirit which is currently filling the whole earth by providing a detailed and useful profile of the antichrist phenomenon that will aid in both detecting the spirit of antichrist and its effects on society and governments and on that person himself when he arrives on the world scene. All aspects of political, social and religious life around the globe are falling under the spell of antichrist spirits.
The following profile has been compiled from Holy Scripture and other ancient historical records which detail the glories of such men as Nimrod, Alexander the Great, Caesar Augustus, Charlemagne, Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as an array of Popes and Roman Emperors and United States Presidents. In a true sense they all portend the soon arrival of that “vile man” who will stand in the glory of these former conspiracies to rule the earth and succeed where they all had failed.
This last man will achieve his short-lived success by deception, charm and ruthless cruelty. He will boast of his own deity. Finally, in his madness and conceit, he will lead the dwindled remaining forces of earth on a suicide mission against God to a place called Armageddon[i] where he and his allied world armies will square off with Christ in a final showdown for who will rule the earth – God or Man.
Though this man will wear a mask of benevolence, Satan is his father. Antichrist is drunk with power, full of anger and wrath, one that understands dark things and sincerely hates any person who will not bow to him in complete submission and adoration. What follows below is a full profile of Antichrist drawn from historical figures and records, Biblical statements and Bible prophecies.
Historic Antichrists Fit the Profile
In former times, beginning with Nimrod and passing through the Middle Ages and into the modern era, Antichrist attempts led by Antichrist archetypes have been conducted by men who filled a high percentage of the profile, maybe not perfectly because otherwise they would not have failed, but these Antichrist rogues have fulfilled many of the basic requirements, trying to rush the conspiracy to cast God off and rule the world for themselves.
The benefit of having a profile for Antichrist is not only so we may be aware of former Antichrists, but so we may identify the spirit and thereby avoid all personal alliance which we might unwittingly acquire toward antichrist sentiments, or in believing its persuasive lies of religion, politics, or its atheistic spirit that riddles all aspects of our society today, including Christian religion.
It is the purpose of this profile of Antichrist that an individual may evade the trap of falling into any aspect of the Antichrist’s diabolical grip, any of which can devastate the soul and even become fatal.
The initial point of any aspiring Antichrist is not that he is an atheist, but that he demands the worship of the whole earth as God. He is very much into religion – the religion that he himself, with the help of his False Prophet, will devise.
PROFILE (1) – He Claims to be God
Antichrist is a term conceived, born and wholly owned by the Bible. Though this may not seem true to our modern beliefs, since so much has been written and so many movies and television shows have been produced about the antichrist genre over the last three of four decades. Still, the term means exactly what it suggests: anti–christ or, against Christ. It refers not only to a person, an empire and a federal government, but to a humanistic concept, a political ideology, a theocratic religion with an immortal demi-god enthroned as the world empire’s absolute dictator.
Through a series of prophesied events the antichrist will be raised from a deadly wound and be worshipped, not as a god on earth, but the God of the earth. His true spiritual father is Satan himself. God says of him through the prophet Ezekiel: “Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God…I will bring strangers upon thee… They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain… will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God? But you are a man, and no God, in the hand of him that kills you.” Ezekiel 28:1-10
The word “antichrist” was coined in a letter written by the apostle John. He was referring to the spirit in opposition to Christ that had already been unleashed on the earth. In particular, it is the spirit that denies God has appeared in body on earth. In other words, it denies that Jesus Christ is God and that He came and died and rose again from the dead.
The apostle Paul prophesied of the Antichrist’s coming in a letter to the church at Thessalonica calling him the ‘son of perdition’ and that ‘man of sin’ while notifying Christians that he would appear before the Second Coming of Christ and that he would set himself up in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, making himself God.
In the Book of Revelation given to the apostle John we are told that the Antichrist would be foiled in his great rebellion and ultimately destroyed after a final and terrible judgment at a place called Armageddon in Israel.
Jewish prophets, in particular the wise and faithful Daniel, along with Ezekiel and Isaiah, had prophesied of Antichrist’s character, motives, ingenuity, rebellion, political and military career leading up to his dictatorship of the world when he would declare himself God. Daniel further prophesied that there had already been many Antichrist attempts and that a score of them would occur in the future through the evolving spirit of the Neo-Roman Empire, but all would fail, that is until the ‘real’ Antichrist showed up at the last moment in the end of days.
Nimrod is Prototype Antichrist
PROFILE (2) – Initial Antichrist Characteristics
The prototype of all aspiring antichrists is the original rebel Nimrod, who has been briefly profiled in the biblical record of Genesis 10 which records the first antichrist rebellion that took place at the Tower of Babel. The first of all characteristics is that the Antichrist person and the Antichrist Empire are one and inseparable. There is no empire without the man and the man cannot fulfill the prophecies concerning him without being the director and designer of the empire. This, therefore is an essential qualification when profiling any Antichrist figure of prophecy.The Original Antichrist is the first rebel Nimrod. From his career and history we draw a wide spectrum of characteristics all centering on rebellion against God. [See Nimrod: Original Antichrist ]
PROFILE (3) – Nimrod Historical Fact
Other typical Antichrists surface in the Bible, which give further details useful in profiling the Antichrist character and the purposes of the antichrist spirit. In cases of ignorant men, the lack of substantiated facts has allowed bigoted historians to relegate the entire story and life of Nimrod to hearsay. But this shows a snobbish pedantry typical of our age with those who are unfamiliar with the love of truth.
One thing is certain. Nimrod is universally recognized by the Bible, by ancient historians, Middle Eastern cultures, archaeologists, as well as legend and myth alike, to be the first king known to history.
The greatest written source of Nimrod’s life and its effects on man’s history is rendered in the Holy Scriptures. Second in importance are the archeological tablets and bricks found in the excavations of the ruins of the ancient cities of Chaldea, Babylon and Assyria. The 19th century archeologists and writers Emile Botta, H.W. Rawlinson, Henry Layard and others did masterful work not only in unearthing these things but in interpreting the cuneiform writings and rendering them into cohesive histories. Ancient historians from all points of the compass surrounding the Mesopotamia region provided these modern historians with corroborating evidence and testimony.
Arab and Islamic, Armenian and Asian scribes recorded and preserved for posterity an abundance of genealogies, chronologies, tales and stories about this first in the succession of all Antichrists. Greek and Roman historians from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus have given various accounts, both fabled and factual. Many have advanced theories of Nimrod and his wife and child as being the basis for Greek and Roman Mythology and as a substitute for the Christian Trinity. Oxford’s George Rawlinson did enormous work in this aspect of Antichrist religion publishing his classic Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World between 1862-67. Without doubt, the history of the age-old conspiracy has been duly recorded as historical fact.
PROFILE (4)
Antichrist Legend in His Own Time
Because Nimrod’s legendary rebellion must be pieced together by secondary historical sources because he lived, strictly speaking, in a prehistoric time, it is assumed by the faithless that Nimrod is a specter, someone unreal or at least a bit mythological, a figure created by a blend of Biblical symbolism and the lucid Arab imagination. But this merely contributes to the characteristic of the antichrist that he will be a legend in his own time. Historians feel obliged to tippy-toe through the dark mist of Persian fire-worshipers to catch a fleeting glimpse of a mythic hero, squinting into the swirling sands of Middle Eastern deserts they struggle to catch a brief mirage of this legendary mighty warrior and king. They read of Zoroastrian priests, of Elysian Mystery Fields, of religious processions, and stories sculpted out of the colorful icy eddas of the Viking Norsemen; they might study the runes of magi priests or look at cheap novels about beasts with fangs and sorcerers in cone-shaped hats throwing dust in the air and peeping into crystal balls.
A common characteristic of every Antichrist that has come on to the scene is this: He is legendary and has mystical powers attributed to him. If a Pope, he is sainted. If a military genius, he is glorified. If a ruthless king, he is both respected and feared at the same time. These stories of fabulous exploits are a true voice summed up in the Nimrod’s ancient legendary title: The ‘Leopard-Subduer’. These tales not only give insight into the antichrist character but the title ‘Leopard-Subduer’ precedes those who would walk in his steps. They speak of the mighty warrior who is a living legend seeking the heights of heaven and unbounded glory above even God himself.
Nimrod is the archetype of the Antichrist. He set the bar, defined the goals and blazed the trail for those who would attempt to rule all of mankind by personal magnetism and high promises of unattainable glories. His defiance resonates, roars; it exudes defiance against God. His legacy impacts men’s hearts and souls even today. It mesmerizes, leavening Arab, Eastern and Western literature and religion everywhere.
He set the precedent for his successors, earth-spun gods like Ramesses II, Alexander of Macedonia, Julius and Augustus Caesar, Charlemagne, Popes and Emperors, King Philip II, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and the yet to be revealed one that is coming.
His religion and legend cuts across all boundaries of ethnic and spiritual realms and belief. His reputation and power to influence is part of the heritage of the souls and spirits of every culture. The American Indians, the Toltecs, Incas and Aztecs of the Americas; the Polynesians, Ethiopians, cultures from Africa, even the Eskimos and aborigines of Australia; all peoples everywhere have stories about a tower and the people who conspired to build it in order to throw off the burden of a heavenly oppression. The profile of Antichrist includes that he is fabulous, legendary, mythic and heroic, transcending earth and life – immortal. It is prophesied in God’s Word that the last Antichrist will rise from a mortal head wound, so it was necessary that the first Antichrist should be christened by legend to have become immortal, enthroned by Egyptian and Assyrian religion as the charioteer riding each day across the timeless sky bringing light to Man. In Greek mythology and in the Vedas he, by one name or another, is set above the pantheon of all subordinate gods as not only their leader but father as well. The Sun God in one religion, Zeus, the mighty one and usurper of his father Uranus’ throne in another. The sacred demi-gods of the East. He is Bel the life-giver. All this hatched from the very real, the original rebellion of Nimrod.
As perhaps no other figure in history, the truth about Nimrod is not to be discerned except by the blending of fact with myth, a coupling of legend and fantastic tale with a genuine flesh and blood super-human being, what Nietzsche recycled in Zarathustra.
While each of these mythic reports hold some actual basis, the assumption that Nimrod is nothing but a mythic figure alone is the greatest delusion of all. The reality of Nimrod’s life and career is a substantiated historical fact that cannot be dismissed by any worthy historian or seeker of the truth. He is unquestionably the first Antichrist figure of the post-Flood Era, the fountainhead of all false religions from east to west. The legacy of any Antichrists who existed before the Flood was drown in the very waters that flushed all the bullies of heaven to straight to Hell.
In many respects myth is the greatest legacy and shaper of Antichrist ambition. It is myth that makes the tyrant so his delusions can take on reality which fosters expectancy and support for antichrist goals. Getting into the minds and hearts of the people in this way is what separates true aspiring Antichrists from the pretenders and wanna-be’s of history. The hope that one from our own ranks can save us from being subservient to the real God is the basis for supporting and following the demagoguery[ii] of those who wish to rule the world. Because of this, myth concerning the Antichrist is at least as important as fact in profiling the archetype of Antichrist[iii].
Nimrod’s spirit lives on and is instilled in each succeeding Antichrist of each historical epoch because his ambitions and conspiracy remain larger than life; an essential consistent over the last four millennia. His antichrist design of revolution vs. God, which fell just short of successful completion only because God intervened to lay low the conspiracy at the very last stage, is the spiritual, political, religious and moral scheme that succeeding antichrist systems could use as a general template for its attempts at an earthly coup d’état against heaven. By no means is every remembrance or memorial of him shrouded in uncertainty. Just the fact that his name and tradition has lived on in excess of 4500 years, that even today lands and provinces in Iraq and Iran are called by his name and people invoke his glories, tell us of his impact and his name’s lasting influence on the heart and mind of man. Nimrod’s name is not mythical in the way that Zeus, Dagon or Pluto’s are. It is not fiction, but fact. Fact with the greatest historical significance because it sheds light on the destiny of all mankind.
Nimrod stands tall – as it is symbolized by the tall clay tower standing in the plains of Iraq to this very day. The tower thought to be the original one that the father of history, Herodotus, had seen completed, painted in seven glorious colors, one color for each of its levels rising to heaven, with the signs of the Zodiac ringing the top, the tower restored by the Antichrist Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the man God called ‘the hammer of the whole earth’.
PROFILE (5) – Nimrod is Mourned and Longed For
The historian in this age of rationalism and science will insist that the life and times of Nimrod is beyond the veil of knowing. They will say that the legendary demigod’s history is unsearchable, his character shrouded in fable, his feats as impossible to grasp as the disappearing smoke rising up from our forefathers campfires.
But Saddam Hussein invoked the name of Nimrod, called on his power and insinuated that he was the reincarnation of Nimrod himself. Nimrod’s name and reputation still carries weight and is used in a wide array of causes. Nimrod is exalted in unity movements, rebellions against God, in rallying cries by revolutionaries, organizations in opposition to monopolistic capitalistic industries, by Islamic fanatics, and wherever artistic freedom is perceived to be under an oppressive hand. And, of course, and often unknown to the faithful, wherever mystery religion flourishes or survives today, his legacy and its worship through different forms and under substitute names not only lives on but thrives. It is used in Satanic services.
PROFILE (6) – He is: Builder, Creator of Cities, Maker of Empire
He was the fashioner and builder of cities and maker of an empire, the architect and slave driver of the original Tower of Babel, the subduer of man and animal, the cause of separate languages in the earth, the single man who dared to defy God, a bold son of “Satan” garbed in mortal flesh, eyes flashing, supremely confident, speaking great and swelling words, fist raised in defiance against all celestial authority. He is the genius that fabricated his own religion, craftily perverting the truth so that an utter lie was hoped for and believed. The god he wanted to be was the one who came to us as a man to save man, that man could reach into heaven and become God himself to rule things for himself.
PROFILE (7) – Rebellious and Defiant
His name remains synonymous with rebellion and defiance against God; these are two general characteristics embedded in the profile of the Antichrist spirit and person. Among philosophers and poets he is abhorred for demagoguery. He is the first slave trader known to man. His judgment shall be terrifying and eternal. Dante imagined him a giant, buried to his waist in Hell’s frozen ninth circle eternally tormented, babbling incoherently, being judged for the confusion of tongues which his pride and rebellion caused on the earth and for which he is ultimately responsible. The true antichrist aspirant is a rebel against God.
PROFILE (8) – World Dominion is the Aim
Daniel also prophesied that the revolutions led by prospective Antichrists would always fail due to the ongoing predicament of the antichrist empire which God would keep ‘partly weak and partly strong’ and ‘always in a state of division and turmoil’. History has proven this to be amazingly true. The four foundational Antichrist empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome were each taken over by the next successor that furthered the evolution of the ‘Beast’ of Antichrist Empire until it reached maturity in Imperial Rome. If God had not kept the mighty Neo-Roman Empire divided, warring and competing within itself throughout the two millennia after the first coming of Christ, it is certain that the Antichrist and its empire would have trampled the whole earth and tightened the noose of totalitarian oppression around the globe long before these last days in which we live. As it was, the evolving empire conquered the new world entirely, bringing it into the fold of the legacy of Antichrist Rome where it remains to this day.
PROFILE (9) – At Center is Controversy Over God’s People
To this day Christianity is the religion of the New World, brought here by the children of Rome. Without exception all Antichrist aggressions have God’s people in the center of its strategy and plans. They all look for some kind of alliance with Christianity and alliance or domination over Israel. Each historical aspiring Antichrist has a controversy and some dealings with God’s people, both Christians and Jews. After the first coming of Christ, the antichrist forces used or tried to use the Church by using its apostate spiritual forces as an ally to further its sinister attempts to rule Jerusalem and become enthroned as ruler of the world.
PROFILE (10) – Four Foundations of Antichrist Government
Daniel designates the four initial stages of this compulsion to rule the world. First it was Nebuchadnezzar II’s Neo-Babylonian Empire that razed Jerusalem and took its people captive into Babylon. Next came the restoration of the Jews back to Jerusalem under the auspices of the Media-Persian king, Cyrus; then the Hellenistic domination of Jewish Palestine; and finally, in its mature form, the destruction of the Temple and changing of the name of Jerusalem to the name of one of the Emperor’s mother’s names under Imperial Rome, when the Jewish people were scattered throughout the globe until they were gathered in 1948 after Hitler’s Antichrist attempt to exterminate the seed of Abraham had almost succeeded.
Not to be overlooked is the essential character of each one of the above four prime kingdoms as being a prime concern of the antichrist objectives of his policy and political programs. The first is, as indicated in Babylon, the concern for religion, the second is Persia’s genius for bureaucracy and government, the third is the Greek spirit for ecumenism, or the brotherhood of man by discarding truth, and fourth, Rome’s tyranny by law and order that killed freedom and liberty for all.
A RUNNING PROFILE FROM THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL:
He is a –
- Living Legend
- Subduer of Men
- Producer of Cities
- Maker of Empire
- Slave Driver
- Oppressor
- Revolutionary
- Rebel
- Desired Savior
Above All He is the Vile One…
Any profile of the Antichrist must surely include his names, such as: the ‘vile person’, ‘evil one’ and ‘son of perdition’. These are employed in various prophetic passages to tell of the Antichrist’s career and give insight into his true status with God and his actual character. In the book of Daniel numerous prophetic declarations give clear indication as to the character and profile of the man, Antichrist.
Remember, Jesus Himself said that the deception at the end would be so great that even the faithful would be deceived if He did not protect them. Its spirit has infiltrated every aspect of civilized life; politics, arts, science, religion, government, philosophy, societies, economics, psychology, church and culture – every fabric of life. Most Christians, even with the warnings found in the Scriptures, will be caught off guard and seduced by the spirit of this dynamic, remarkable man. He will be like an angel of light and will have what appears to be religious remedies for every spiritual question or problem. Religion will be a big ally and tool used by him. His real goal is to command the total worship of the whole world as the one true God.
Character of Antichrist revealed in Daniel
The Book of Daniel provides a primary source for identifying the Antichrist and for understanding his mode of operation, his political and military motives and his religious agenda. Under his reign, deceit of a high spiritual nature will take place; lies and half-truths will rule the day by his slick ways and velvety tongue. Ugliness will take on the look of beauty as it once did in Nazi Germany.
Most Christians, even with the warnings found in the scriptures, will be caught off guard and seduced by the spirit of this dynamic and likeable man. He will be an angel of light as the scriptures put it. This Elmer Gantry charlatan will have what appears to be a religious remedy for every spiritual crisis which the individual or the world faces. Religion will be a big ally and tool used by him, seeing that his real goal is total worship as the one true God by people of every creed and religion worldwide.
The nearly two thousand years between the Roman displacement of the Jewish nation of Israel and Germany’s attempt at genocide in WWII saw a succession of Antichrist attempts to fulfill the prophecy about Antichrist dominance over the earth. During this time the Empire remained in a heterogeneous state, partly weak and partly strong and always divided; a political and military state of affairs which had been prophesied in Daniel 2:42 and chronicled in a summary in chapter 11. This phenomenon had occurred in and to Imperial Rome which had morphed into what has grown into the political conglomeration that has come to be called by political scientists as The West.
The coming one will likely be a young man, unknown and unproven, who is installed by the leaders of the so-called Ten King Kingdom (his appointment as its head, and only then, will it be evident who the Antichrist actually is). He will likely have some pedigree of a famous family with a father who was an aspiring antichrist figure perhaps, but this young man will be untested and unthreatening to the world organization of the ‘ten kings’. Shortly after his appointment as more of a figurehead than one with power, he will miraculously take down the three most powerful members and the ones who have instituted it and who for some reason have had second thoughts about him as head of the new world organization. The rising Antichrist will defeat those three and thereby solidify his power as its dictatorial leader. The ten powers and its subjects will hail him as the invincible one, and eventually, god of the people. When that takes place it will then be possible to identify him, and only then. Afterwards, he will engineer an unholy ‘covenant’ with Israel, apparently bringing peace to the world. But prophecy warns us that this agreement triggers the seven final years of so-called Tribulation. This will open the way for the Antichrist to accomplish his primary goal, that is, to set himself up on a throne in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem where he will be crowned God of the earth.
What follows are highlights taken from scriptural quotes concerning the character of the Antichrist which the Outcast Eagles have put under six categories: 1) Personal Character 2) Military Man 3) Religious Leader 4) Persecutor 5) Political Leader 6) Social Leader
His Personal Character
1. Unclean, foul and evil person
And in his estate shall stand up a vile
person, Dan11:21
2. Liar and a master of intrigue
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: Dan 11:23
and he shall do exploits, Dan 11:28
3. Do unbelievably great things, will be a legend in his own time.
and he shall do exploits, Dan 11:28
4. Invincible
And the king shall do according to his will Dan 11:36
5. Most arrogant and self-confident man
and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Dan 11:36
6. Says he is a god and must be worshipped.
7. Even ridicules and mocks God
And the king shall do according to his will: and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Dan 11:36
As Military Man
1. He will defeat three nations at the start of his reign and thereby solidify his position and power among the nations who support him.
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. Dan 11:22
2. This man will increase in strength toward the south, east and Israel (the pleasant land), it makes sense that he comes from the north, probably United Europe or ten world organizations led by US north Neo-Roman powers.
… out of one [nation] came a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Dan 8:9
3. He will be able to sweep across all enemies including the “prince of the covenant” (of the ten kings), he will make the covenant with Israel which marks the start of the seven year period called the Tribulation which corresponds with Daniel’s final week in his prophecy of seventy weeks (Dan ch. 9).
4. At the time of the end the Antichrist will finally defeat his nemesis, the south (probably Egypt, and her Arab allies). During the Tribulation he will overwhelm the rest of the nations in the Middle East and in Africa. He will enter into the “glorious land” which is Israel and come to the Jews as the Messiah, their deliverer; He will be heralded as their Savior. His peace covenants and restoration of Judaism as a religion, complete with Temple, priesthood, sacrifice and observance of Mosaic Law, will make him Israel’s defender and champion, No one will be able to stop him, except God Himself. He will be stopped when Jesus returns on a white horse with tens of thousands of his saints (see Revelation 19). The Antichrist, with the help of Satan, would otherwise rule the world and bring about its total subjection. Jesus said that if it were not for God’s intervention all flesh would be destroyed, but before the Antichrist can accomplish his evil plan of mastery over the world he will be stopped by the true Savior, the Son of God.
“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots,
and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he
shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow
and pass over.
He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians [shall be] at his steps.
But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many
And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain;
yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help
him.” Dan 11:40-45
5. The Antichrist will get supernatural help and knowledge and defeat the forces of the “south” which is probably the Arab world led by Egypt.
And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. Dan 11:25
Religious Leader
1. He will think he is above God and greater than God. This probably refers to his changing things in the Jewish law to suit his purposes.
And he shall speak great words against the most High Dan 7:25
2. He will have power, thanks to his father Satan, to even defeat spiritual forces. He will be invincible against any other “antichrist” spirits that oppose him or try to compete with him. This is something no other “Antichrist” figure in history has ever enjoyed.
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Dan 8:11
3. In order to declare himself God he must get rid of the sacrifices and oblation made in the holy of holies. He will sit in God’s seat. Anything sacred or holy about the temple will be totally defiled by this act of blasphemy.
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. Dan 8:10
4. He will get all the support from Israel’s army that he needs to do this. And they will ignore and turn the truth upside down. And it will be completely accepted and things at first will look like they are working out perfectly.
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. Dan 8:12
5. He will be incredibly wise and perceptive. Like no one before he will have insight into mysteries and secrets and know how to manipulate every circumstance and every man. He will have all of Satan’s wisdom of the ages.
and understanding dark sentences Dan 8:23
6. Satan will give him great, great powers
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: Dan 8:24
7. He will actually think he is God and better and stronger than God and able to beat God. Just like his father Satan had once thought to challenge God.
and he shall magnify himself in his heart, Dan 8:25
8. He won’t give a second thought to defying Jesus Christ and his saints because he will be convinced by Satan’s deception that he is greater than Jesus. That he is the true Savior and not Jesus.
he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; Dan 8:25
9. Cited verses 10-13 about the Antichrist from here: This is vitally important because it tells us that the Tribulation officially starts when the Antichrist confirms the Jewish covenant with Israel and practice of the Jewish religion in the temple begins. The Antichrist’s purpose in starting up the Jewish religion in the temple is so he can eventually declare himself God. When the time is right he will get rid of the daily sacrifice (for the Jew the only way to a relationship with God) to make room for the “real” God – Himself. This is the abomination that makes things “desolate”.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate Dan 9:27
10. He will never intend to reverence or uphold Mosaic Law. It will all be a show just to set himself up in the temple of God so he can show himself to
be God.
and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; Dan 11:28
11. When the time is right Satan will stir him up to get fed up with the Jewish religion and he will find plenty of Israelis who will conspire with him to make himself their God.
he shall be grieved,.. and have indignation against the holy covenant: … and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. Dan 11:30
12. He will have the Israeli and his forces behind him to declare himself God. And he will have them put a statue of him in the temple that can speak and it will have the power to kill people who do not worship its image. (Revelation Ch. 13)
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. Dan 11:31
13. He will not fear nor will he be in awe of God or of Jesus Christ. He will invent a god of his own, connected to him, Satan, and the image that the false prophet has power to make come alive. He will worship this “god of force” and it will be a new religion dedicated to the unholy trinity of him, his father Satan, and the false prophet. Its focus will be on the image and the mark that everyone will have to take in order to buy or sell anything. (Revelation Ch. 13)
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,” Dan 11:37-39
Persecutor
1. The love of many will wax cold. The Antichrist will wear down the saints. Many will not have the patience to resist the mark.
And he shall wear out the saints of the most High. Dan 7:25
2. He will be given power to kill and persecute the saints for 3 1/2 years (One year, two years, and a half year) or as Revelation 13 puts it, 42 months,
and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of times Dan 7:25 and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. Dan 8:24
3. He will be given power to overcome the (true) Church.
4. The persecution will be great. The righteous will die. Many will try to straddle the fence and some will be spies. It will be a very treacherous time. The faith of the saints will be tested to its utmost
3&4 – they that understand among the people
shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. Dan 11:33-35
Political Leader
1. He will be indomitable. His presence will be overpowering and no one will be able to resist his strong, charismatic personality.
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance … shall stand up. Dan 8:23
2. He will always be two steps ahead of everyone. He will be a genius. His policies will be innovative and highly successful – at first.
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; Dan 8:25
3. What looks like peace and harmony will be his means to defeat and crush anyone that stands in his way of declaring himself God and ruling the world.
and by peace shall destroy many: Dan 8:25
4. He will be a velvet tongued liar. He will be a spellbinding speaker with the ability to turn even the most powerful and resolute personalities in any direction he wants them to go. He will not be elected by the people but the leaders of ten nations will promote him as their titular head at first but he will take over with real authority after he destroys three of them who had second thoughts about making him president over them.
to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but be shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Dan 11:21
5. He will rise out of obscurity from a single nation or as an unlikely youth.
and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice Dan 8:24
6. Everything he says at a negotiating table will either be self-serving or a lie. He will think nothing of reneging on his word.
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. Dan 11:24
7. He will convince the apostate Jews who betray the Mosaic Law and their Jewish religion to believe that they are serving the powerful, right and true god.
Then shall he return into his land with great riches; Dan 11:28
Social Leader
1. Every social and economic program that he institutes will appear to be the work of an utter genius. Yet it will be so simple that people will say, “Why didn’t we think of that?”
2. He will do whatever his heart desires. He will be received with open arms and given whatever he wants by the richest nations and peoples of Europe. Everything he does will be new and exciting. He will redistribute wealth; give the common man what he thinks he wants. He will even be able to prophesy about the effects of his social, political and military measures. It will even look as though he is so incredibly wonderful that he knows the future.
3. He and his kingdom will become magnificently wealthy in a very short time.
and shall divide the land for gain. Dan11:39
4. He will redistribute wealth wherever he conquers. But God will defeat him in the end.
But he shall be broken without hand. Dan 8:25
[i] ARMAGGEDON
The name for the last battle is often misunderstood because of modern misconceptions even born by Christian teachers of prophecy who should know better. The word is derived from the valley’s ancient name (Meggido) in modern Israel where the last battle at the return of Christ will take place. This battle is universally thought to be a battle between the Eastern kings, presumably China and the West, but this is stated directly in the Book of Revelation not to be the case. It is a battle of the remaining powers of the earth, teamed up against the “Lamb and God”, and not a war between the nations for rulership, but to cast off God and Jesus Christ forever. The outcome is the annihilation of all the forces of this world and the subsequent setting up of Christ’s throne for a thousand year rule under his absolute authority and kingly rule of the entire globe. (With each passing moment the return of Christ in the clouds for His faithful bride draws one breath nearer. With each cascading sign of His return, the appearance on the world stage of the Antichrist becomes inevitable. The way is now being paved for both appearances. One the true Christ, the other the False Savior of the World.
[ii] The actions of a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices, and ignorance of the lower classes in order to gain power and promote political motives. Demagogues usually oppose deliberation and advocate immediate, violent action to address a national crisis; they accuse moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness. Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens. They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, nothing stops the people from giving that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.
[iii] The word archetype first entered into English usage in the 1540s and derives from the Latin noun archetypum, which the latin-isation of the Greek noun ἀρχέτυπον archetupon, whose adjective form is ἀρχέτυπος archetupos and which means “first-molded,” which is a compound of ἀρχή archē, “beginning, origin” and τύπος tupos, which can mean, amongst other things, “pattern,” “model,” or “type.” The word ‘pattern’ comes from the Greek root ‘pater-‘, meaning ‘father’. So archetype can be understood as the principle pattern, from which others are copied from.
The origins of the archetypal hypothesis date back as far as Plato. In the seventeenth century, Sir Thomas Browne and Francis Bacon both employ the word ‘archetype’ in their writings. Browne employed it in The Garden of Cyrus in some attempts to depict archetypes in his citing of symbolic proper names. Plato’s ideas were pure mental forms that were imprinted in the soul before it was born into the world. They were collective in the sense that they embodied the fundamental characteristics of a thing rather than its specific peculiarities. The concept of psychological archetypes was advanced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, c. 1919. In Jung’s psychological framework, archetypes are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype is a complex (e.g. a mother complex associated with the mother archetype). Jung treated the archetypes as psychological organs, analogous to physical ones in that both are morphological constructs that arose through evolution.
Note: Under the heading Fulfilled Prophecy we detail the careers of the historic Antichrist archetypes, who tried to fulfill the prophecies about the coming of the antichrist but always fell short – as the prophecy of Daniel said they would. The bulk of our Antichrist profile comes from the book of the prophet Daniel and other prophets. Those Antichrist figures that make up the rogue’s gallery of history fit the profile of Antichrist and are the forerunners of the actual true one who we believe is fast approaching the antichrist’s long sought hour.
- 1. The Antichrist is identified as an unclean, foul and evil person in God’s eyes.
- 2. He is a liar. A master of intrigue, his real motives will not come clear until it is too late.
- 3. He will do unbelievably great things and will be a legend in his own time.
- 4. He will be invincible; nothing or no one will be able to stop him. And he will be the most arrogant and self-confident man ever. He will even dare to say he is a god and must be
worshipped. He’ll even ridicule and mock God openly and encourage others to do so.
- The Invitation - January 17, 2021
- Is The Arm of God Too Short? - January 14, 2020
- You Must be Freed from Occult Past - October 2, 2017
