Perhaps no figure looms larger in our
prophesied future than the Antichrist.
Your Bible is clear that he is coming, and that
a level of destruction, persecution, and death
arrive with him--such as the world has never seen
before or will ever see again.
And there is cause to believe that he is alive today.
Certainly, his tools of deception are already
in place and already impact the lives of most
who consider themselves "Christian" today.
Will you be among the few to recognize him when he
steps onto the world stage?
Most won't--but you can.
Join us for this episode of Tomorrow's World,
as we reveal Seven Signs of the End-Time Antichrist.
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Greetings, and welcome to Tomorrow's World--
where we help you make sense of your world through
the pages of the Bible.
Consider this list of famous--or infamous--men:
Ronald Reagan, King Juan Carlos (of Spain),
Saddam Hussein, King Charles III, Bill Gates,
Henry Kissinger, and Klaus Schwab
of the World Economic Forum.
What do they have in common?
Well, each, at one time or another, has been accused
of being the Antichrist-- that dark and mysterious
figure foretold by Bible prophecy.
Some of these men are dead.
Some are still alive.
None of them fit the Bible's description.
Today, we will reveal seven signs of the
end-time Antichrist, as detailed by Bible
prophecy, that will enable anyone to identify who the
final Antichrist is.
Now, in our world of high-tech wonders and
modern comforts, talk of an "antichrist" might seem archaic.
"Doom and gloom" preaching in an age that has moved
beyond scriptures and prophecies.
But the opposite is true.
Time hasn't left prophecy behind--rather time has
finally caught up to prophecy, and only now do
the times in which we live fit the circumstances
describing the end-time stage onto which the
Antichrist will enter.
For instance, Matthew 24 and verse 22 says that in
those prophesied days, it would be possible that
"no flesh would be saved" from mankind's destructive capacity.
That has only really been true since we entered the
era of weapons of mass destruction, capable
of eradicating humanity.
And Daniel 12:4 describes the end-times of prophecy
as an era when many "run to and fro" and "knowledge
shall increase"--ancient words that describe
our modern world, in which global travel is
commonplace and we are beginning to suffer from
a daily deluge of information.
No, the prophecies of the Antichrist are not dusty
old writings, irrelevant for our modern age.
They were written for our modern age--inspired by
the God who declares the end from the beginning.
And His warnings about the final Antichrist are vital.
Because his rise is profoundly connected to
more death, destruction, and human suffering
than humanity has ever before experienced--a period called
in the pages of Scripture, the Great Tribulation.
During the lives of most of you watching this today,
the Antichrist will rise to power and deceive
the vast majority of humanity--subtly and
seductively swaying men and women around the world
to willingly accept a false and demonic
counterfeit Christianity.
In fact, that version of Christianity is already
present on the earth, possessing great influence.
Many of you watching, right now, are already
under its sway, making you all the more vulnerable to
this future tyrant.
Imagine the full complement of modern
warfare--the almost limitless destructive
capacity of mankind-- available at the
beck and call of a man under the direct influence
of Satan the Devil, devoted to destroying
true Christianity--and true Christians--from the
face of the earth, ensuring that it is replaced with a
religion that sounds like true Christianity, and
uses the name of Jesus Christ, but which
represents the very opposite of the
Christianity of Jesus Christ.
That individual is coming.
Whether or not you will be able to recognize the
Antichrist will be a matter of life and death.
And prophecy is plain: Most will not recognize him.
But you can recognize him with the seven signs
that we will reveal on the remainder of today's program.
Before we begin, let me give you an opportunity to
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Protestantism, the connection between the
Antichrist and the Beast of Revelation,
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Welcome back.
The Bible has much to say about the End-Time Antichrist.
Today, we're only focusing on seven specific
signs you can use to identify him when he arrives.
And this first sign is one most get wrong.
According to God's word, the Antichrist is not
a military or political leader.
Rather, the Antichrist will lead a religion,
a great false church.
This mistake arises because many confuse the
Antichrist with the Beast of Revelation, which is a
military, political, and economic powerhouse that
will dominate the world.
However, while they are connected, the Antichrist
and the Beast are two distinct beings.
Turn to Revelation 17.
Here the Apostle John records a vision, shown
to him by Jesus Christ and the angels under His command:
"And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which
was full of names of blasphemy, having
seven heads and ten horns.
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and
adorned with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
There is much that is worth noting in this passage,
but I want to focus on one particular point.
The Beast here with seven heads and ten horns,
ridden by a prostitute, is the end-time
military-economic juggernaut called
the Beast of Revelation.
But what of the woman?
Normally a rider mounts a beast to control it
and influence its movements--and this beast
is being ridden, or guided by a prostitute.
If you've watched Tomorrow's World for long,
you know that we allow the Bible to interpret its own
symbols, and women in the Bible are frequently used to
picture different faiths and religious organizations.
But rather than the chaste virgin that God uses to
symbolize His church in passages like
2 Corinthians 11:2 and Revelation 19:7-8,
the church that is riding this powerful Beast
is described as a wealthy prostitute.
Fornication, adultery, and harlotry are often used by
God to symbolize the corrupting influence of
religious compromise with pagan practices and pagan
worship, as in Jeremiah 3 and Ezekiel 16.
The religious system of the Antichrist is the
Harlot riding this Beast.
It is not the same as the Beast.
In fact, later in Revelation 17:16, we see
that the Beast will eventually turn on
the woman to destroy her.
No, the Harlot rides the Beast--manipulating it,
influencing it, guiding it for her purposes.
This is why the Apostle John, in 1 John 4:1-3
speaks of the Antichrist in the context of false
prophets--because he will be the ultimate false
prophet--not a military or political ruler, but a
religious figure who will control the most powerful
church on earth.
In turn, he and that church will influence
the military-economic powerhouse known as the
End Time Beast Power of Revelation.
What more can we understand about the
religious system led by this Antichrist?
That brings us to today's second sign of the Antichrist:
The Antichrist will appear Christ-like and come in
the name of Jesus Christ.
In His powerful Olivet Prophecy given on the Mount of Olives
in the area of Jerusalem and recorded in Matthew 24,
Mark 13, and Luke 21, Jesus Christ warned
His disciples that many would come practicing
religious deception, and come in His own name--
that is, the name of Jesus Christ.
And they did.
John reveals the spread of that deceptive,
counterfeit Christianity even in the first century,
saying in 1 John 2 and verse 18,
"Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have
heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many
antichrists have come, by which we know that it
is the last hour."
Yes, many antichrists had come by the time John
wrote those words, and the deceptive, counterfeit
Christianity they wove, falsely under the name of Jesus
Christ, persists and dominates world religions today.
Many fail to recognize that the word "antichrist"
represents more than a person.
It represents a system of belief that appears Christian,
but is actually a counterfeit to true Christianity.
Paul writes in the Bible of those who preached
"another Jesus" and brought a "different gospel."
This system has been in place since the
time of the Apostles, and in John's own day,
many representing that system, "many antichrists,"
were already preaching.
The final, end-time Antichrist will be the
culmination of this deception--a great
False Prophet representing this false Christianity
who will appear very Christian on the outside.
Turn to Revelation 13 with me, where we see the
Antichrist described in prophetic symbolism.
Beginning in verse 11, we read of a different beast rising
from the earth--not the seven-headed Beast of Revelation:
"Then I saw another beast coming up
out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb
and spoke like a dragon."
Scripture consistently uses the Lamb as a symbol
for Christ but a Dragon as a symbol for the devil.
So this False Prophet to come, this final
Antichrist, will look like the Lamb, Jesus Christ.
He may seem kind, compassionate--he may
seem to teach from the Bible.
Yet prophecy says he will be speaking the words of
the dragon, the devil.
The Christianity he teaches will be a subtle,
twisted version of Christianity--not the
Christianity of Jesus Christ, even though it
will claim His name.
We'll see more details about some of those
twisted teachings later in our program.
Before we do, let me pause briefly to give you
another opportunity to request our free booklet,
"Who or What Is the Antichrist?"
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and I'll be back to discuss how the Antichrist
will gather so many into his web of lies.
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One of the tools the end-time Antichrist will
use to deceive even the skeptical and bring them
into his twisted version of Christianity is our next sign:
He will eventually work “miracles” and
supernatural “wonders.”
Staying in Revelation 13, let's continue to read,
beginning in verse 13:
"He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire
come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs
which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast..."
This individual will have the ability to call fire from
heaven, much like the prophet Elijah did in the Old Testament.
How amazing will that be.
In 2 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul describes
this coming false prophet, mentioning in chapter 2 verse 9:
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of
Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders."
But the key to resisting the appeal of supernatural
signs, intended to deceive, is to compare the
"miracle worker's" teachings to God's truth.
Remember, the Antichrist looks like Jesus Christ,
but speaks like the subtle dragon, Satan the Devil.
That brings us to the fourth sign:
He will deny that Christ continues to come in the flesh.
This is a vital point, but a subtle one--easy to miss.
We dive into detail on this crucial sign in our
free booklet, but let me summarize.
This doctrine of the Antichrist is described in 2 John 7...
"For many deceivers have gone out into the world
who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
Now many think John just means that antichrists didn't teach
Jesus really came in the flesh 2,000 years ago.
And, yes, John condemns such falsehoods.
But read carefully: John says that the deceivers
do not teach Christ "as coming in the flesh."
That is a present tense verb-- continuing to come in the flesh.
Dr. Charles B. Williams, whose translation of the
New Testament is praised for its attention to the
detail of the Greek verbs in the original
New Testament text, translates this passage as saying that
the antichrist does not confess that Christ "continues to come"
in the flesh.
But what does that mean?
It means that the Antichrist does not
teach that Jesus Christ continues to live in
Christians today, reliving the life He lived 2,000 years
ago, helping them to grow in obedience and godly character.
The Apostle Paul explained this in a beautiful passage.
Let's read it in the King James Version, Galatians 2:20:
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me."
This is why Paul says in Romans 5:10 that we're
reconciled by His death, but saved by His life.
As opposed to Christ doing it all at His crucifixion
as many false preachers teach, Christ lives His
life in the converted Christian daily, helping
him or her to grow and conquer sin now, in this life.
The Antichrist will deny this fundamental but
often ignored teaching.
And this connects directly to our fifth sign:
The Antichrist will reject God's law.
Remember: we read in 2 Thessalonians 2 that
Paul called the final Antichrist "lawless."
But God isn't concerned here with human laws.
The Antichrist will oppose the laws of God.
In fact, he will replace God's laws as revealed in
the Bible with religious laws rooted in
human tradition and pagan superstition.
Daniel chapter 7 describes this effort of the Antichrist.
We see this end-time false prophet described in detail
in verse 25:
"He shall speak pompous words against the Most High,
shall persecute the saints of the Most High,
and shall intend to change times and law.
Then the saints shall be given into his hand for
a time and times and half a time."
He will "change times and law"--he will replace the
times of worship as God designed them with a
counterfeit set of worship days, and he will replace
the laws of God with a different set of laws--
laws that'll feel Christian, but will not be
rooted in the laws of God, revealed in the Bible.
The Antichrist will promote man-made church laws
and creeds, confessions, and traditions and will
claim the authority to overrule the clear
commandments and laws of God revealed in Scripture.
Church calendars with man-made holidays will overrule
the holy days and festivals of God, found in your Bible.
This coming "lawless one" --the Antichrist--
will claim authority that no one but God Almighty has,
attempting to change the very law of God...
And, frankly, many of you watching today are already
affected by this.
Before we discuss our final signs, let me give
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The system of the Antichrist is already in place,
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Welcome back.
So far, we have discussed five signs of the coming Antichrist.
Among those signs are false teachings that most
who call themselves "Christians" will accept
wholeheartedly--indeed, most of them already have.
However, the Antichrist will not be content with
simply converting the world to false teachings.
He'll also want to deal with the few who dare
to believe the true teachings of the Bible
that contradict his false doctrine.
That leads to our sixth, tragic sign:
The Antichrist will persecute true Christians
We saw this mentioned in Daniel 7:25, where we read that
the Antichrist "shall persecute the saints of the Most High"--
true followers of God and those who keep His
laws and His commandments, not the man-made doctrines,
holy days, and teachings of the Antichrist.
Jesus Christ warned of this time when He told His
disciples in John 16:2 that a time will come when
those who kill true Christians will think
they're doing God a service.
Think back to the images you've seen of
concentration camps and the horrors of World War II,
in which millions of Jews were herded to their deaths.
Now imagine such machinery turned onto a new minority,
those Christians Jesus calls His "little flock,"
who actually believe in the Ten Commandments
of God and in the need to obey them.
Revelation 12 describes the anger true Christians'
obedience engenders in Satan the Devil and how he will respond:
"[T]he dragon was enraged with the woman,
and he went to make war with the rest of her
offspring, who keep the commandments of God
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
How does the Antichrist accomplish this persecution?
That power is connected to our final sign:
The Antichrist will point the world to a revived
"Roman Empire"-- a political/military
powerhouse of strength and might such as the world
has never seen before.
Remember--the woman rides the beast.
Revelation 13 tells of how the False Prophet will
influence the people of the world to support
the coming Beast of Revelation, and how the
Antichrist will influence the might of this Beast Power--
an end-time, revived "Roman Empire" that will outshine
even the power and might of the United States today.
He will direct the might of the Beast against those
who refuse to cast aside the laws of God and the
true worship of Jesus Christ, and who refuse to
accept the false Christianity the Antichrist offers.
The result will be a modern-day inquisition on
a horrific scale, never before seen in human history.
This unholy alliance of false church and
tyrannical state will dominate the world
in the end-times just ahead of us.
Even with their powers combined, this most
powerful of religious, political, and economic
and military entities will still be no match for the
returning Jesus Christ.
He will return in their days to glorify His faithful
followers and to establish the Kingdom of God, forever.
So, what do we do about these things?
Remember: The "Antichrist system" that this final
Antichrist will sell to the whole world exists today,
and most are already deceived by it.
We do not need to wait until this religious
despot appears on the scene--we can act now to
reject his system and his Counterfeit Christianity.
As Jesus admonishes all of us in Luke 21 and verse 36,
"Watch therefore, and pray always that you may
be counted worthy to escape all these things that
will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."
Yes, Jesus does promise protection for those who
are not ashamed to reject the false Christianity
around them and who are willing to embrace the
fullness of His teachings and life--allowing Him to
live His life of obedience to God's commandments
in their lives today.
We hope you will heed His admonition and avoid the
deceptions of the coming end-time Antichrist and
his religious system at work in the world today.
We also hope you will not forget to request today's
free booklet, "Who or What Is the Antichrist?"
And, finally, we hope you'll come back next time.
When you do, Gerald Weston, Richard Ames, Rod McNair,
and I will be right here waiting for you,
ready to share the good news of the coming
Kingdom of God, the meaning of the end-time
prophecies of the Bible, and the life-changing
teachings of Jesus Christ.
Until next time, take care.
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