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DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE ANTI-CHRIST ORIGINATES. MOST EVANGELICALS SAY ________________ BUT, DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT? MOST EVANGELICALS SAY HE WILL LEAD OF GROUPING OF 10 “EUROPEAN” NATIONS IN THE END-TIME. BUT, AGAIN DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT? WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?
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DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE ANTI-CHRIST ORIGINATES • MOST EVANGELICALS SAY ________________ • BUT, DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT? • MOST EVANGELICALS SAY HE WILL LEAD OF GROUPING OF 10 “EUROPEAN” NATIONS IN THE END-TIME. • BUT, AGAIN DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT? • WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY? • (this teaching is NOT about the False Prophet)
NOW THE FINAL SIGN • THE “GREAT” TRIBULATION BEGAN WITH A MAJOR SIGN OF IMAGE OF ANTI-CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE. (Dan. 9:27), (Matt. 24: 15+) • THE FINAL SIGN BEGINS WITH LIGHTS OUT. … sun, moon and stars (Matt. 24: 29+) plus • Isa. 13: 9-15 • Isa 34: 1-5 • Joel 2: 30-31 • Et al
THEN • MATT 24: 30 • “THEN WILL APPEAR IN HEAVEN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN, AND THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN, AND THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.” • CHRIST WILL COME IN THE HEAVENS WITH GLORY (BRILLIANCE) AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF DARKNESS
WHY WILL ALL THE WORLD MOURN? • EVERY ONE WILL KNOW IN HIS/HER HEART THAT JUDGMENT IS COMING. • YOU CAN AVOID ALL THIS BY TRUSTING IN JESUS CHRIST… • THAT HE DIED IN YOUR PLACE (WE DESERVE JUDGMENT).. AS YOUR SUBSTITUTE • THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD • THAT YOU DESIRE HIM AS YOUR LORD…. • BOW BEFORE HIM AND CONFESS YOUR SINS… TELL HIM YOU WANT HIM AS YOUR SAVIOR.
REMEMBER • GOD GIVING THE “LAW” DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT (400 YEARS LATER) • GOD ALLOWING ISRAEL TO HAVE A KING DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT • GOD SENDING HIS SON “INCARNATE” TO BETHLEHAM DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT (IN SEVERAL WAYS IT FULFILLED IT)
SATANS FINAL PLAN • WORK THROUGH ANTI-CHRIST TO DESTROY JEWS AND CAPTURE JERUSALEM/ISRAEL FROM JEWS. • NEGATE GOD’S COVENANT • WHERE WILL ANTI-CHRIST COME FROM?
FIRST LETS BE CLEAR • SCRIPTURE IS ALL ABOUT THE MID-EAST • (ITS MID-EAST CENTRIC) • IN FACT, SCRIPTURE IS ALL ABOUT THE “CENTER OF THE WORLD” …. (ITS JERUSALEM CENTRIC) • PSALMS 135:21 • VARY RARELY DOES SCRIPTURE TALK ABOUT A PEOPLE GROUP OUTSIDE OF THE MID-EAST
LETS LOOK AT THE NATIONS WHO ANTI-CHRIST WILL USE REMEMBER PEOPLE GROUPS • FROM CREATION TO ABRAHAM – • FROM ABRAHAM TO ACTS 2 • FROM ACTS 2 TO REVELATION 22 • ONLY GENTILES • GENTILES PLUS JEWS • GENTILES PLUS JEWS PLUS CHRISTIANS • I COR. 10:32
GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN DIFFERENT BOOKS PEOPLE GROUP BOOK OF BIBLE • GENTILES
GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN DIFFERENT BOOKS • DANIEL • EZEKIEL/ ZECHARIAH • GENTILES • JEWS • CHRISTIANS
GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN DIFFERENT BOOKS GROUP (THRU ETERNITY) PRIMARILY: • GENTILES • JEWS • CHRISTIANS • DANIEL • EZEKIEL/ZACHARIH/ ISAIAH • REVELATION
BY THE WAY GOD WILL JUDGE • NUMBERS 24:14-18 • ISAIAH 25:8-10 • MICAH 5: 2-6 • ISAIAH 63: 1-4 • HABAKKUK 3:3-7 • JOEL 3: 2-4 • EZEKIEL 25: • SAUDIA ARABIA, JORDAN • MOAB (SEE ABOVE) • ASSYRIAN (IRAN/IRAQ) • EDOM (JORDAN) • CUSH AND MIDIAN • SINAI PENINSULA • TYRE/SIDON/COASTS OF PHILISTIA -LEBONAN AND GAZA • AMMON/MOAB/EDOM/ PHILISTIA
WHERE DID THE PROPHESY OF “ROME” COME FROM DANIEL 9:26 • “and after the sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself, • AND THE PEOPLE (OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME) SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY” • WHO IS THE “PRINCE WHO IS TO COME” (ANTI-CHRIST) • WHAT PEOPLE DESTROYED JERUSALEM?????
DID YOU NOTICE WHAT COUNTRIES ARE MISSING? • NO RUSSIA NOR ROME
WHO DESTROYED JERUSALEM IN 70 AD? • WAS IT THE ROMANS (ITALIANS) UNDER GEN. TITUS? • OR ????? • I REFER YOU TO JOSEPHUS • TRAVELING ARMY RELATIVELY SMALL • HIRED CONSCRIPTS ALONG THE WAY • GEN (5*) VESPASIAN WENT BACK TO ROME DUE TO DEATH OF NERO … TOOK MUCH OF HIS ROMAN ARMY AFTER DEFEATING TOWNS OF JUDAH • LEFT HIS SON, TITUS, TO DEFEAT JERUSALUM… WITH CONSCRIPTS… “LOCALS/ARABS”…
5TH, 10TH, AND 15TH LEGIONS WERE ARABS • MOST HISTORIANS FEEL FROM JOSEPHUS RECORD, GREATEST AMOUNT OF “BUTCHERY” WERE ASSYRIANS (ARABS) • JOSEPHUS RECORDS THAT THE ARABS SLICED UP THE JEWS TO SEE IF THEY HAD SWALLOWED ANY JEWELRY … KILLED 2000 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN… BEFORE TITUS COULD STOP THEM • RECORDS STATE THAT TITUS ORDERED HIS GENERALS TO PUT OUT THE FIRE OF THE TEMPLE… BUT THE ARABS WERE NOT ABOUT TO OBEY/WERE OUT OF CONTROL
SO WHO ARE THE “PEOPLE THAT DESTROYED JERUSALEM” IN 70 AD? • PROBABLY 95% OF EVANGELICALS SAY ROMANS … IMPLYING the “Prince to come” will come from the Roman Empire. • PROBABLY 5% OF EVANGELICALS SAY ARABS • THUS THE “Prince to come” will come from the Arab Empire
DAN. 9:26 • “AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME, SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY.”
CONUNDRUM • DOES DANIEL 9:26 APPLY TO 70 AD? • DANIEL , ZECHARIAH, JESUS AND JOHN (REVELATION) TALK ABOUT JERUSALEM BEING DESTROYED • JOHN WROTE REVELATION IN APPROXIMATELY 96 A.D.…. AND HE WROTE THE DESTRUCTION IS STILL FUTURE. • SO PERHAPS DANIEL 9:26 DOES NOT APPLY TO 70 A.D.
SO WHO IS GOING TO ATTACK ISRAEL/JERUSALEM? • WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS GO TO THE PLAY-BOOK, SCRIPTURE,……. GO TO EZEKIEL and REVELATION FOR THE ANSWER… • IT IS PLAINLY DESCRIBED IN EZEKIEL 38 AND Revelation 17: 9-11 • Lets first look quickly at EZEKIEL 38:1-6 • SEE DIAGRAM
EZEKIEL 38: 1-6 • “THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE TOWARD GOG OF THE LAND OF MAGOG, THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL, AND PROPHESY AGAINST HIM AND SAY: I AM AGAINST YOU, O GOG, CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL. AND I WILL TURN YOU ABOUT AND PUT HOOKS INTO YOUR JAWS, AND I WILL BRING YOU OUT AND ALL YOUR ARMY, HORSES AND HORSEMEN, ALL OF THEM CLOTHED IN FULL ARMOR, A GREAT HOST, …
CONTINUED • ALL OF THEM WITH BUCKLER AND SHIELD, WIELDING SWORDS. PERSIA, CUSH AND PUT ARE WITH THEM, ALL OF THEM WITH SHIELD AND HELMET. GOMER AND ALL HIS HORDES, BETHTOGARMAH FROM THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE NORTH WITH ALL HIS HORDES… MANY PEOPLES ARE WITH YOU.” ESV
ANTHROPOLOGY • PUT --- MANY SCHOLARS IDENTIFY AS • LIBYA, BUT ALSO ADD ALGERIA, MOROCCO, AND TUNISIA • CUSH --- SUDAN • MAGOG --- BESIDES TURKEY, COULD INCLUDE THE “STAN’S” THAT BROKE OFF FROM RUSSIA • PERSIA --- IRAN (AND IN BIBLE TIMES INCLUDED AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN)
WHAT DO THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON? • ALL MUSLIM NATIONS
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS • REV 20: 4 “… AND I SAW THOSE WHO HAD BEEN BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS (DURING THE TRIBULATION)…” • SURAH 47:4 “When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads.” • JOHN 16:1-4 (Jesus telling disciples) “YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL NATIONS…AND ANYONE WHO KILLS YOU WILL THINK HE IS OFFERING A SERVICE TO GOD.” • QURAN ON KILLING INFIDELS: SURAH 9.5
MORE INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS • DAN 7:25 “HE WILL CHANGE THE SET TIMES AND LAWS” • KORAN REQUIRES USE OF THE ISLAMIC CALENDAR • HADITH ALSO INDICATES JESUS WILL RETURN (AT DAMASCUS) AND BE THE MAHDI’S (WE KNOW AS THE ANTICHRIST), ASSISTANT WITH THE PURPOSE TO KILL ALL THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS
NOW LETS SEE IF REVELATION 17: 9-11 SUPPORTS THIS INTERPRETATION? • “THIS CALLS FOR A MIND WITH WISDOM: THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS (KINGDOMS) ON WHICH THE WOMAN IS SEATED; THEY ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS (SUCCESSIVE EMPIRES), FIVE OF WHOM HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME, AND WHEN HE DOES COME HE MUST REMAIN ONLY A LITTLE WHILE. AS FOR THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, IT IS AN EIGHTH BUT IT BELONGS TO THE SEVEN, AND IT GOES TO DESTRUCTION.”
EIGHT WORLD EMPIRES BEFORE JESUS RETURNS IN GLORY • WHEN JOHN WROTE: • FIVE HAD ALREADY FALLEN • EGYPTIAN EMPIRE • ASSYRIAN EMPIRE • BABYLONIAN EMPIRE • PERSIAN EMPIRE • GREEK EMPIRE --- ONE IS - - ROMAN EMPIRE (TILL A.D. 1453) ---7TH ……..OT……(FROM A.D.1453 TO 1909) ---8TH ANTI-CHRIST WORLD EMPIRE
EVANGELICAL PROBLEM • WHO IS THE 7TH EMPIRE?.. IF YOU MAKE THE ANTICHRIST TO COME FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE? --- THEY ARE THE 6TH EMPIRE (NOT THE 7TH). • IT CANNOT BE ROME
NOTE • EACH RULED OVER THE MID-EAST AND • JERUSALEM
NOW LETS SEE IF REVELATION 17: 9-11 SUPPORTS THIS INTERPRETATION? • “THIS CALLS FOR A MIND WITH WISDOM: THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN IS SEATED; THEY ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS, FIVE OF WHOM HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME, AND WHEN HE DOES COME HE MUST REMAIN ONLY A LITTLE WHILE. AS FOR THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, IT IS AN EIGHTH BUT IT BELONGS TO THE SEVENTH, AND IT GOES TO DESTRUCTION.”
SO • BOTH EZEKIEL AND REVELATION ARE IN PERFECT AGREEMENT AS TO THE PEOPLE THAT WILL ATTACK ISRAEL AND ATTEMPT TO DESTROY JERUSALEM … MUSLIMS • ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE A MUSLIM … PROBABLY FROM TURKEY OR ITS SURROUNDING NATIONS
CONCLUSION (SPEAKERS OPINOIN BASED ON SCRIPTURE) • GOG (ANTI-CHRIST) WILL BE HEAD OF TURKEY AND/OR LEBANON… A MUSLIM … AS ALL THE NATIONS THAT WILL COME AGAINST ISRAEL/JERUSALEM as described in Ezekiel ARE today MUSLIM. • GOD (EZEKIEL 39:16) WILL BRING THESE NATIONS TO ISRAEL FOR JUDGEMENT… AND HE (GOD) WILL WIN. • THEN, ALL NATIONS will come to Israel to destroy the Anti-Christ… HOWEVER Jesus returns in the heavens, they WILL ALL turn INSTEAD to fight HIM: GOD WILL JUDGE DURING THIS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON (END OF TRIBULATION) .. SATAN LOSES .. AGAIN
CONCLUSION • GOD’S WORD IS ALWAYS TRUE • GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISES • GOD OFTEN MAKES US WAIT (SOMETIMES 4000 YEARS) • JESUS WILL PRESENT TO ISRAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENIUM …. THE LAND … FOREVER • YOU CAN’T IMPROVE ON GOD’S PLAN • SATAN WILL END UP IN LAKE OF FIRE… WITH ANTICHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET
FACT CHECK • REV. 13:1 “AND I SAW A BEAST RISING OUT OF THE SEA, WITH TEN HORNS AND SEVEN HEADS….” • Many commentators believe the “BEAST” will come out of a nation that is adjacent to the MEDITERREAN SEA, i.e. DeHann, Gaebelein, Ironside, Lang, Larkin, Newell, et al • REV. 13:3 “ONE OF ITS HEADS SEEMED TO HAVE A MORTAL WOUND, BUT ITS MORTAL WOUND WAS HEALED, AND THE WHOLE EARTH MARVELED” • Could this be the “revival” of the OTTOMAN ?
MORE FACT CHECKS • HE WILL REMAIN IN OBSCURITY UNTIL AFTER THE RAPTURE • 2 THESS. 2: 9-11 • THEN: HE WILL BURST ON THE WORLD SCENE.. WITH A BANNER OF PEACE (REV. 6:1-2) • GUARANTEEING PEACE FOR ISRAEL • ANNOUNCE HIMSELF WITH MIRACLES AND LYING • ALLOW ISRAEL TO BUILD TEMPLE • ACCLAIM HIMSELF AS SAVIOR OF WORLD, BE CHARISMATIC • Be ATHEIST, ANTI-CHRISTIAN, NO REGARD FOR THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (ABRAHAM), NO DESIRE of/for WOMEN • SEEK TO MAGNIFY HIMSELF ABOVE GOD, ET AL
INTERESTING, BUT • Believers will have been RAPTURED… and will be with the LORD JESUS CHRIST… AT THE BEMA SEAT (The SEAT where Rewards/giving of CROWNS at the Olympics were given) to receive rewards for what we have done for CHRIST… (wood, hey, stubble, OR GOLD AND SILVER) • KEEP LOOKING UP.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Prime Minister of Turkey Extremely Charismatic
NOW THE LAST SIGN • REMEMBER WE SAW AN AWESOME SIGN STATED IN MATT. 24: 15-16 (THE ANTI-CHRIST INSTALLS HIS IMAGE IN THE TEMPLE) AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. (LAST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION) • AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, GOD TURNS THE “LIGHTS OUT”. (VS 24-29) … ALSO LUKE 21: 25-26 • ISAIAH 13: 9-15; ISAIAH 34: 1-5; JOEL 2: 30-31; JOEL 3: 15 • ET AL
IN EARTH’S TOTAL DARKNESS • MATT: 24:30 • “THEN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN WILL APPEAR IN HEAVEN, AND THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN AND THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY (BRILLIANCE).”
WHY WILL ALL MOURN? • BECAUSE IN THEIR HEART… THEY KNOW JUDGMENT IS COMING…
BUT YOU CAN AVOID ALL THIS PAIN AND ANGUISH • TODAY, TRUST IN JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR… • BELIEVE THAT HE IS GOD • BELIEVE THAT HE DIED AS YOUR SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR SINS, i.e. TOOK GODS WRATH MEANT FOR YOU. • BELIEVE THAT HE ROSE AGAIN … SO YOU WILL RISE AGAIN • CONFESS YOUR SINS TO HIM • ASK FOR HIS FORGIVENESS • TELL HIM YOU WANT FOR HIM TO BE YOUR SAVIOR
REMEMBER • HE WINS