Antichrist Physical Ancestry
The Antichrist’s Physical Ancestry
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Four Kingdoms
When Alexander the Great died, his kingdom was divided among his four generals. The Antichrist’s physical ancestry (the little horn) will be out of one of those four kingdoms. The only one of the four kingdoms from which he could wax great toward the other three in this way—toward the south (Egypt), toward the east (Asia Minor), and toward the glorious land (Israel)—is the part that was Macedonia and Greece.
The Little Horn
The Antichrist will either himself be a Greek or at least will be of Grecian ancestry; but the facts of his true ancestry will probably not be publicly known. This knowledge will be kept hidden (see Appendix XIII). Also, it is very likely that the Antichrist will rise to power out of Greece.
Four Beasts
Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse from all of them.
Why is the Antichrist going to be so different from all of the other dictators before him?
Forty-Two Months
(3 1/2 Years)
…and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to do his works during forty and two months. And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heaven.
Son of the Morning
How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 day-star, son of the morning!...And thou saidst in thy heart...I will make myself like the Most High.
…he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
Herod Takes The Thrown
And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel. And sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people shouted, saying, The voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Makes Himself As God
Satan’s sin was pride, in that he desired to make himself as God. When Satan tempts men, God’s creation to declare themselves to be god, it is utter direct blasphemy against God. Who else in history declared themselves to be gods?
Scarlet Colored Beast
Seven Heads and Ten Horns
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns....And the angel said unto me, wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns....Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: and they are seven kings (Caesars) the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.
Seven Caesars
Who are these seven Caesars (the original Greek word translated as the English word kings)?
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.
(Luke 3:1)
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
At the time John wrote the book of Revelation, Domitian, the sixth Caesar, was in power. Before the reign of Domitian, there had reigned five Caesars who had died unnatural deaths (are fallen) through murder or suicide. The first four of these (in chronological order) were Julius Caesar, Tiberius Caesar, Caligula, and Claudius Caesar.
Physically, the Antichrist will rise to power suddenly as the seventh Caesar over a revived Roman Empire.
Out of The Abyss
I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;...And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death stroke was healed...that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
The Antichrist, shortly after coming to power as the seventh Caesar, will die physically from a fatal wound. The Antichrist is one of the seven heads of the beast that is wounded fatally — this will not necessarily be a head wound. Scripture does not specify where he is wounded, only that it is a fatal wound inflicted with a sword stroke. This possibly will, but may not necessarily, be a literal sword stroke. It is much likelier that this is merely the symbolic means used to indicate a violent death. The body of the Antichrist (probably after about three days) will then be brought back to life by Satan as a counterfeit of the resurrection of Christ. How does Satan do this?
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.
In speaking of the Antichrist physically (as the seventh Caesar), John says that he is not yet come: the Antichrist has not yet appeared, and we will not know for sure who he is until his body is brought back to life. Yet, in this verse here, John says that at the time that he wrote this the Antichrist had already been on the earth but was not on the earth then and would come out of the abyss when he appears again on the earth. This seems to be a contradiction with Rev. 17:10, where John says that He is not yet come. What is the reality here?
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