When will come the Antichrist?
In our world, we confess many different religions and beliefs.
Hinduism and Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and even paganism of ancient peoples are connected by one common idea.
A prophecy about the end of the world. Prediction of the global war between the forces of good and evil.
In this article, we’ll examine one of the versions, to which is devoted an entire book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible: “The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine”.
Lucifer in Latin means light bringer.
The legend of the fallen angel who rebelled against God the Creator, but defeated and cast down from heaven, originated in the early Middle Ages.
Referring mainly to the 14th Chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah from the Old Testament, and the Apocalypse of the New, the Christian Church has created its own legend about Satan.
The story of the fall of Lucifer
Lucifer was the first and main helper of God when creating the Universe. However, lifted after the creation of humankind, raising an army of loyal angels went to war against the Almighty.
Nevertheless, was thrown defeated by the Archangel Michael, down from heaven to Earth.
Quote from the Old Testament (Isaiah, Chapter 14):
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Quote from the New Testament (Revelation of St. John the divine, Chapter 12):
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Throughout human history, long before to be overthrown, Satan continually put people in all kinds of temptations.
The main and the first example is related to Eve, while eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden.
Further, the appearance of Satan can be tracked in the story of Job. With the permission of God, the dark Archangel sends to Job illness, and robbed him of all earthly goods, in order to test his faith.
In the end, Satan is coming to Jesus Christ during the 40 day of fast in the wilderness and offers him power over the world in exchange for bowing down.
Was Lucifer bringing the light to the people?
Apparently not.
Let us bring in proof a couple of quotes from the New Testament.
He was a murderer from the start; he was never grounded in the truth; there is no truth in him at all. When he lies he is speaking true to his nature, because he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Jn.8:44
Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
(1 Pet.5:8)
Whoever lives sinfully belongs to the devil, since the devil has been a sinner from the beginning. This was the purpose of the appearing of the Son of God, to undo the work of the devil.
(1 John 3:8)
Who is the Antichrist?
The Hindu religion claims that in hard times, when humanity comes to a standstill in its development, God incarnates on Earth in human form.
This divine incarnation was the coming of Jesus Christ. Christ, in Greek, means “anointed of God” – selected for special service to God.
The word “anti” means “against”. Thus, the Antichrist is the direct enemy of Christ.
Rejected and cast down from Heaven to Earth, Satan was filled with rage more than ever.
Now, he no longer will focus on individual cases of seduction, acting in the shadows of the rulers of the Earth, but he will become the ruler of our world himself.
Nevertheless, not for long.
When was the Devil cast out into the Earth?
To date, a huge number of large-scale events of a global nature shook the world.
War, disease, destruction, and the destruction of entire civilizations was a natural phenomenon in Earth’s history.
In the Bible, there is the story of the Deluge. The flood destroyed the civilization of Atlantis.
People familiar with esoteric writings do know that the Atlanteans were highly advanced civilization of giants.
Their growth ranged from 3 to 5 meters. This explains the existence of giant buildings, the ruins of which survived until our days.
If you believe the Bible, it is possible to hypothesize that the Atlanteans were the children of humans and angels.
Genesis 6:1-4 tells us:
When people began being numerous on earth, and daughters had been born to them,
the sons of God, looking at the women, saw how beautiful they were and married as many of them as they chose.
Yahweh said, ‘My spirit cannot be indefinitely responsible for human beings, who are only flesh; let the time allowed each be a hundred and twenty years.’
The Nephilim were on earth in those days (and even afterwards) when the sons of God resorted to the women, and had children by them. These were the heroes of days gone by, men of renown.
The sons of God were fallen angels. These previously spiritual beings incarnated in matter to satisfy their carnal desires.
Their children also went the way of evil, and were destroyed by a flood.
Then, after the flood, for many thousands of years, anthropogenic human development is stagnating.
People rode horses and fought with swords and arrows.
Only at the beginning of the 20th century, there has been a dramatic leap in all fields of science and technology at the same time. New discoveries and inventions eclipsed by the slow progress of the past years, including the period from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
It is also worth mentioning about the 2-world wars: 1914-1918 and 1941-1945, which claimed more lives than all the wars of the Middle Ages combined.
Here then, in all probability, was thrown to the Earth Satan, i.e. in the beginning of the 20th century.
It is possible that this event is directly related to the mysterious Tunguska meteorite that exploded over Siberia in 1908.
Blast wave, with a capacity of 50 megatons, knocked down trees in a radius of 2000 km around.
Anyway, the 20th century gave us cars, planes, rockets, satellites, and computers.
On the other hand, it brought us a new kind of political structures, new wars, and new Outlook on life. In other words “The New World Order“.
What aims the Antichrist?
When the peoples of the Earth are separated on the basis of: nation, language, religion, or worldview, humanity is difficult to manage.
It is much easier to unite them all together, imposing General principles.
In our 21st century, we can observe the following factors.
- English has become a universal, international language.
- Religion has lost its previous momentum and faded into the background. The moral foundations of previous years are no longer relevant. As an example, same-sex marriage, the third sex, the trend toward legalized pedophilia.
- The American lifestyle has become a world standard.
- The full dependence of people on digital technology.
Very soon, the illusory total freedom will go into a real total control.
In other words, people are gradually hooked on the needle.
The prophecy about the last days
The book “Revelation” requires a separate analysis, and we will come back to it in one of the future articles.
In the meantime, let us extract from it the main events associated with the coming of the Antichrist.
For simplicity, we will write them in a natural order of their occurrence.
1. Earthquake.
In my vision, when he broke the sixth seal, there was a violent earthquake and the sun went as black as coarse sackcloth; the moon turned red as blood all over,
and the stars of the sky fell onto the earth like figs dropping from a fig tree when a high wind shakes it;
the sky disappeared like a scroll rolling up and all the mountains and islands were shaken from their places.
(Revelation 6:12-14)
2. The eruption of volcanoes, or a meteor shower.
The first blew his trumpet and, with that, hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled on the earth: a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of all trees, and every blade of grass was burnt.
(Revelation 8:7)
3. The fall of an asteroid
The second angel blew his trumpet, and it was as though a great mountain blazing with fire was hurled into the sea: a third of the sea turned into blood,
a third of all the living things in the sea were killed, and a third of all ships were destroyed.
(Revelation 8:8-9)
4. Poisonous comet
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star fell from the sky, burning like a ball of fire, and it fell on a third of all rivers and on the springs of water;
this was the star called Wormwood, and a third of all water turned to wormwood, so that many people died; the water had become so bitter.
(Revelation 8:10-11)
5. Another asteroid, which probably splits the earth’s crust
Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven onto the earth, and the angel was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss.
When he unlocked the shaft of the Abyss, smoke rose out of the Abyss like the smoke from a huge furnace so that the sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss,
and out of the smoke dropped locusts onto the earth: they were given the powers that scorpions have on the earth:
they were forbidden to harm any fields or crops or trees and told to attack only those people who were without God’s seal on their foreheads.
They were not to kill them, but to give them anguish for five months, and the anguish was to be the anguish of a scorpion’s sting.
When this happens, people will long for death and not find it anywhere; they will want to die and death will evade them.
These locusts looked like horses armoured for battle; they had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked human,
and their hair was like women’s hair, and teeth like lion’s teeth.
They had body-armour like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings sounded like the racket of chariots with many horses charging.
Their tails were like scorpions’ tails, with stings, and with their tails they were able to torture people for five months.
As their leader they had their emperor, the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon.
(Revelation 9:1-11)
6. Locusts. Military helicopters?
and out of the smoke dropped locusts onto the earth: they were given the powers that scorpions have on the earth:
they were forbidden to harm any fields or crops or trees and told to attack only those people who were without God’s seal on their foreheads.
They were not to kill them, but to give them anguish for five months, and the anguish was to be the anguish of a scorpion’s sting.
When this happens, people will long for death and not find it anywhere; they will want to die and death will evade them.
These locusts looked like horses armoured for battle; they had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked human,
and their hair was like women’s hair, and teeth like lion’s teeth.
They had body-armour like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings sounded like the racket of chariots with many horses charging.
Their tails were like scorpions’ tails, with stings, and with their tails they were able to torture people for five months.
As their leader they had their emperor, the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon.
(Revelation 9:1-11)
7. Horses. Tanks?
These four angels had been ready for this hour of this day of this month of this year, and ready to destroy a third of the human race.
I learnt how many there were in their army: twice ten thousand times ten thousand mounted men.
In my vision I saw the horses, and the riders with their breastplates of flame colour, hyacinth-blue and sulphur-yellow; the horses had lions’ heads, and fire, smoke and sulphur were coming from their mouths.
It was by these three plagues, the fire, the smoke and the sulphur coming from their mouths, that the one third of the human race was killed.
All the horses’ power was in their mouths and their tails: their tails were like snakes, and had heads which inflicted wounds.
(Revelation 9:15-19)
The arrival of the Antichrist
Then I saw a beast emerge from the sea: it had seven heads and ten horns, with a coronet on each of its ten horns, and its heads were marked with blasphemous titles.
I saw that the beast was like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion; the dragon had handed over to it his own power and his throne and his immense authority.
I saw that one of its heads seemed to have had a fatal wound but that this deadly injury had healed and the whole world had marvelled and followed the beast.
They prostrated themselves in front of the dragon because he had given the beast his authority; and they prostrated themselves in front of the beast, saying, ‘Who can compare with the beast? Who can fight against it?’
The beast was allowed to mouth its boasts and blasphemies and to be active for forty-two months;
and it mouthed its blasphemies against God, against his name, his heavenly Tent and all those who are sheltered there.
It was allowed to make war against the saints and conquer them, and given power over every race, people, language and nation;
and all people of the world will worship it, that is, everybody whose name has not been written down since the foundation of the world in the sacrificial Lamb’s book of life.
Let anyone who can hear, listen:
1Those for captivity to captivity; those for death by the sword to death by the sword. This is why the saints must have perseverance and faith.
Then I saw a second beast, emerging from the ground; it had two horns like a lamb, but made a noise like a dragon.
This second beast exercised all the power of the first beast, on its behalf making the world and all its people worship the first beast, whose deadly injury had healed.
And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fire from heaven onto the earth while people watched.
Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to lead astray the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honour of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived.
It was allowed to breathe life into this statue, so that the statue of the beast was able to speak, and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast put to death.
It compelled everyone — small and great alike, rich and poor, slave and citizen — to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead,
and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name.
There is need for shrewdness here: anyone clever may interpret the number of the beast: it is the number of a human being, the number 666.
(Revelation 13:1-18)
Conclusion
In conclusion, we would like to remind you about another prophecy, this time from the Apostle Paul.
Never let anyone deceive you in any way. It cannot happen until the Great Revolt has taken place and there has appeared the wicked One, the lost One,
the Enemy, who raises himself above every so-called God or object of worship to enthrone himself in God’s sanctuary and flaunts the claim that he is God.
Surely you remember my telling you about this when I was with you?
And you know, too, what is still holding him back from appearing before his appointed time.
The mystery of wickedness is already at work, but let him who is restraining it once be removed,
and the wicked One will appear openly. The Lord will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will annihilate him with his glorious appearance at his coming.
But the coming of the wicked One will be marked by Satan being at work in all kinds of counterfeit miracles and signs and wonders,
and every wicked deception aimed at those who are on the way to destruction because they would not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.
And therefore God sends on them a power that deludes people so that they believe what is false,
and so that those who do not believe the truth and take their pleasure in wickedness may all be condemned.
(Second Thessalonians 2:3-12)
The fact that there is a perception that the Antichrist will rule in the Jerusalem temple. He will call himself God and the Jews are the first to believe him and receive him as their Messiah (Mashiach).
However, the Romans destroyed the last temple in Jerusalem in the first century ad. It was only the Wailing Wall remained.
The Jews are very eager to restore their ancient Church, but they interfere with the Muslim al-Aqsa mosque on the temple mount. The Muslims will not agree to give up their sanctuary to the Jews.
If there is a conflict, it will grow into a Third World War.
Note that in 2014, in Sao Paulo (Brazil), was officially opened Solomon’s Temple. It was constructed according to ancient blueprints of Jerusalem.
This huge complex is designed for 10 000 members, and includes: the school for children, television and radio studios, private apartments, gardens, Parking lots, and even a helipad.
At the opening ceremony of the temple was attended by political representatives from various countries and spiritual leaders of different faiths.
Whether it will play a role, who knows?
We have only to follow the events.
