revealing Antichrist -- part 3

The revelation of Scripture provides, to those who are indwelt by God's Spirit, that body of absolute truth which is indispensable for making sense of the world in which we live.  Bible knowledge--especially true knowledge of Bible prophecy, is the lens, as it were, which brings an otherwise blurred and uncertain image of world events into razor-sharp focus.  Seemingly disparate events spanning decades, or even centuries of time--as well as certain events which have not yet occurred, are thus capable of being understood within a much larger conceptual framework, one which explains those events in terms of their relationship to (all) other events.  All of which, events, are working together to bring to fruition, on the one hand, an ancient and diabolical plan of Satan and, at the same time but on the other hand, a much more ancient albeit a divine plan of God.

revealing Antichrist -- part 2

WHY is Antichrist coming?  That is a question not often asked.  Is God sending him?  No.  God sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, to be the Savior of the world.  And Christ said that he did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.

But the world did not, and still does not, want Christ.  Nevertheless, the world does want a savior, of sorts.  Jesus said, in John 5:43, "I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive".  The world, in other words, will "receive" Antichrist.  They want him to come.  The whole world wants a savior--as long as that savior is not the Christ of God.

Muslims want their Mahdi.  New Agers want their Super-man.  Buddhists, their Fifth Buddha.  Hindus are looking for their Tenth Avatar.  And Satanists want...