The Antichrist - Part 5
The Truth
Concerning
the Antichrist
Foundations Series
The Antichrist:
Part 5 of 12 Parts
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the
saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every
tribe and people and tongue and nation. (ASV)
Revelation 13:7
Although
the Antichrist is given authority over every nation (the authority that Satan
now has and gives to him), it does not say that he rules over every nation. The
Antichrist will only rule actually over those ten countries and several others
around the Mediterranean that he will gain power over either militarily or
politically.
24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and
upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know
therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks,
and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat,
even in troublous times. 26 And after the threescore and two weeks
shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of
the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the
end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war;
desolations are determined. 27 And he shall make a firm covenant
with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall
come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined,
shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate. (ASV)
Daniel 9:24-27
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe
on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
(ASV)
John 11:48
Sixty
nine of the seventy weeks is already past; the last week is the last seven
years of human government before the physical return of Christ. There is an
indefinite gap of time between the first sixty-nine weeks and the last week of
the seventy weeks.
Why? Because the start of the last week depends on the bride
having made herself ready, an exercise of free will, and cannot thus be an
exactly predestined date. We shall see later what the firm covenant at the
beginning of the week means. In the middle of the last week of years, the
Antichrist comes to power and rules for three and a half years, the last half
of the last week.
The
two sets of verses above together prove that the countries that the Antichrist
will rule over were a part of the Old Roman Empire. Titus foreshadowed the
Antichrist as the prince who shall come; and the people who destroyed Jerusalem
were the Roman armies in 70 A.D.
In the Next
Session: we will compare how two great women respond to the Antichrist.
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