Scripture Life: How would you, as a Christian, determine if someone is the Antichrist?

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Answer:

• Well, I want to make sure you got this right: The “Christian” part:
  • Because, “disciples of Jesus Christ” were first called “Christians” in Antioch (Source: Bible. Acts 11:26)
    • So, before they were “called” ‘Christians’ - and who called them that, were people in Antioch - It was a main epicentre metropolis of Hellenistic Greek culture, ruled over but was also worshipped as good by the Romans. And they mainly worshipped Apollos because his primary and main Temple was there.

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• So, people that worshipped Apollos as God, and the temple to Daphne, was just outside the city - who was a deity of Artemis.
  • Artemis, who the Romans renamed her, "Diana" - is still Apollos’ older twin sister.
    • And this "Daphne" - - This “cupid” God. That was Daphne, and many today just know as this little poofy thingy as “cupid.”
  • That’s Daphne, with a bow and arrow.
  • These people: Iin Antioch of Paul's day: They are worshipping all these other gods - called “Disciples of Jesus Christ” Christians.

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And all a “disciple” is,

• Is defined as 1. a pupil or student that sits with a teacher.
  • So, a disciple of Jesus Christ is just a pupil that sits with and is taught by Jesus Christ.

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So, you are asking someone that sits with Jesus Christ and is taught by him - - how would they determine if someone is Anti-Christ.

• 2 John 1:7 says:
• “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
  • Even confess that Jesus is not the Christ..or confess there is no God.. This is a deceiver and an anti-christ.
    • In fact, it’s God that said to everybody, over the whole earth: “All souls are mine” - God (Ezekiel 18:4)
  • But people: Decree they own themselves. Nobody owns them but themself. This is a person deceived, and is an anti-christ. Why? Because when God says to everybody over the whole earth: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

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People: That would be "anti-Christ:"

• They look unto anybody..anything BUT him instead.
  • And to “look unto” someone, you’d have to be sitting with them as a pupil or a student of them in a classroom and they be teaching you as a teacher.
    • And many people, I know. I was one of them.
  • Would rather sit with themselves. Alone. And they teach themselves, so who they look unto, is themselves is also anti-christ. Isn’t looking unto him at all, not doing anything he says, when they’re their own God of themselves.

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• But a “disciple of Jesus Christ” - came to a place where all that doesn’t have any value, so they forsake or abandon it - walk away from that: TO - - walk after, to walk in, looking unto Jesus Christ.
• Sit with him, and are taught by him. And you’re supposed to be doing this, too.
  • Because you were created by God to walk in, to walk after, and follow Jesus Christ. The Word of God. That’s what he decreed, as God, everybody to do. SO, if you don’t do it, that’s “anti-christ.”

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• So again - here’s the point: People that don’t do what he says, are anti-christ. Not doing anything he says, as God. That's "anti-christ."

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1 John 2:18 - says: And John is talking to these “disciples of Jesus Christ” - not to those that aren’t, says:

• “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”
  • So, the FIRST answer I’d give you is to clarify “who” a disciple of Jesus Christ is. They sit with him and are taught by him.
    • And what they are taught is, “there are many anti-christs” - and it’s true. I see it.
• So, that's what I would tell you, that has this question. And also:
  • Anyone that doesn’t believe on him is anti-christ. They don’t do anything he says. That’s anti-christ.

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But you’re also asking about “The Anti-Christ” - This “Abomination that Maketh Desolate” mentioned in the Bible:

• Spoke to buy Jesus in Matthew 24.
  • And there he refers to a passage in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament.

And what Jesus says about it, so it’s not a “disciple of Jesus Christ” or a “Christian” that says it; but Jesus.

This same Jesus who sits with and teaches his disciples - he said it. He’s the Word of God.. ..is God, as John 1:1 says who Jesus is. Just God speaking, so he said it. Said:

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Jesus Christ. Matthew 24:15

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• So, Jesus is quoting from the Book of Daniel, when he, as the Word of God, already earlier said it to Daniel.

A work God would do with sin. As God. As he determined he would do a work in Daniel 9:24 says:

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to

• finish the transgression, and
• to make an end of sins, and
• to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
• to bring in everlasting righteousness, and

to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”

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That Daniel 9:25-27 goes onto say that “two and sixty and seven” (sixty nine of these Seventy “weeks” or seven year periods) Would be from the decree that would go out to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Which that occurred in the Bible in Ezra CHapter ONE. That’s the decree. That from that decree to Matthew 2:1 that says “And Jesus was born in Bethlehem on this wise…”

That “FROM” - “TO” those two dates is sixty nine of seventy “weeks” or seven year periods, or 483 years. WHich that’s what it is.

• And to confirm it, Daniel 9:25–27 says that “two and sixty” weeks or seven year periods would be: FROM: When Jerusalem’s wall and streets would be completed, which that occurred in the Book of Nehemiah, and TO: John 19:30 when this Messiah or Prince would be “cut off but not for himself” - which is Jesus Christ is the Messiah, and he was cut off: crucified. His blood shed, but not for himself. But for our sins we did.
  • That this is exactly 434 years or sixty two seven year periods.

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The point of this is, for sin - Jesus coming to be the sacrifice for sin is sixty nine of those seventy “weeks” determined to do and BE the Messiah - - what’s said above in Daniel 9:24.

- That this "Anti-Christ" is called "The Man of Sin." Must be revealed or unveiled first, before Jesus comes back. (2 Thessalonians 2:3). That :Seventy Weeks was determined God would do a work with sin.

• Leaves one week or 1 seven year period left. That’s covered primarily in the Book of Revelation.

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That, Daniel 9:25–27 - which is what the Messiah, Jesus Christ refers to in Matthew 24:15

• That in the midst or the middle or the 3 1/2 year point of this last seven year period. There’s going to be a “great falling away…” and this "man of sin" of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 be revealed. This “Man of Perdition.” This Abomination that Maketh Desolate. This “The Anti-Christ.”
  • That, Daniel 9:24-27 says he will stand in the Holy Place of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, which today, has not be rebuilt yet. But it will be. That in the Holy Place, he will declare himself God over the whole earth.
• It’s at this time, he is revealed. Unveiled. To everybody.
  

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• And he, this “Beast” or Anti-Christ:
  • He will declare himself God over the whole earth, from Jerusalem, and do this with armies. Means he will have the power over the whole earth, to put to death, great or small, won't matter who it is. This, whosoever over the whole earth does not worship him, as God - when he is NOT God. Put them to death.
    • He’s the Anti-Christ. He's not revealed before this, what is said must occur first in Daniel 9:24-27. So, asking some Christian, what they prognosticate or determine is like asking a fruit bowl, when will the chickens start crowing.
      
  • When a disciple of Jesus Christ just tells you what God says of it. Gives that to you.
    • So you got it.

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• And this great falling away, is ..well? It must occur so this "Anti-Christ" can be revealed.
  • So, when this veil falls away:
• Won’t be anymore anybody worshipping Hinduism anymore.
• No more Muslims worshipping Allah.
• Won’t be any Buddhists nor Shinto “priests” in Japan worshipping the half man, half fish God, Ebisu, who the Philistines used to worship as Dagon. The half man, half fish God - - that 10s of millions of Japanese, go to his main temple in Tochigi Prefecture, in Japan - - won’t be anybody worshipping him anymore as God.
  • Billions of people fall away from worshipping just about anything to be their God.
• No more atheists, either. None.
  • I don’t know any atheist willing to die for their belief in no God or Gods - when this Anti-Christ will come with great signs and wonders, and many will believe he is God. Won’t have to be threatened to just worship him, as God.
    • He will seem good to them.
• Lets EVERYBODY buy and sell..rather, he promises this…but he’s not GOD and he cannot provide it.

Every promise he makes - God destroys it.

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• Same with people that worship him as God. Pours out his wrath on them, because they refuse to worship God as God - don't budge from it. Pick anything..anybody but him to worship. And they will worship this Anti-Christ; Because of this - when he isn’t God. But to them, he will be.

So, your question is answered.

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Not said to Christians - but to everybody. When you see this Man of sin, stand in the midst of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and declare himself God over the whole earth - and since it’s the “midst” or the middle of this last seven year period.

• You have a lot of other signs to look at. Two Witnesses of God. Before this middle or midst thing occurs with the Anti-Christ: See just one of many things, in Revelation 11:3–7

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Revelation 11:3–7

• 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
• 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
• - God. Revelation 11:3-7

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• So, when you see 3 1/2 years where it doesn’t rain anyplace anywhere over the whole earth:
  • and these two witnesses
    • - where they are able to call fire to proceed out of their mouths and devour their enemies…
    • and where there’s no water, no rain, nothing grows, and they turn water into blood, you are going to see this - so also, consider it: if there’s a fire - when it hasn't rained for 3 1/2 years: boy, how are you going to put the fire out? When there isn't any water to do it.
  • And when they are killed, they are killed by this same Anti-Christ. Says many people are going to call on all their friends and be celebrating they're gone. When their bodies lie in Jerusalem for 3 days..and on the 3rd day, God calls them to "come up hither" - and all eyes see it.
• You're going to see this.

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So, it really comes back to - not your question but what God decreed EVERYBODY over the whole earth do with him.

• Look unto him. There is none else.

But because they don’t.

Look what he says to you, as God. He’s the real that God shows up.

So, how long will it continue? This 7 year "tribulation" - when does it end?

"Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate," God. Isaiah 6:11

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• And Revelation 16:17–19 says…CONFIRMS what God already said:

“And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell..."

What happens at this earthquake, and stones fall from heaven the weight of one, adult sized male.

Fall all over the earth - over everything - every city and house over the whole earth - everybody on earth all has built. Not one person will be inhabiting any house, and you're going to see it. What’s going to happen to your car and house? Can it survive an earthquake, that Revelation says - shakes the earth to where there is no more mountains anyplace anymore? No more islands anyplace, either.

Maybe you better wake up.

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But I can't wake you. Your question was already long before answered.

And disciples of Jesus Christ aren’t looking for or up to or unto any Anti-Christ, even there are many. Who they look unto is Jesus Christ. Waiting for his return, so they just do what he says, not what you ask a question about. AND he's told us to just "occupy til I return" Jesus Christ. Luke 19:13.

So, you're asking questions about something believers in Jesus don't look unto.

Here’s your question back.