Volume 5 - Antichrist and His Kingdom

Antichrist

• being endued with all the power of the devil

• shall come …

  • as an impious, unjust, lawless king
  • as an apostate,
    • iniquitous and murderous
  • as a robber
    • concentrating in himself (all) satanic apostasy
    • setting aside idols
      • to persuade (men) that he is God
      • raising himself as the only idol
        • having in himself the multifarious errors of the other idols

• this he does so that

  • they who now worship the devil by means of many abominations
  • may serve him (satan) by this one idol (antichrist)
  • see 2 Thessalonians2-Thessalonians-2
    • unless there shall come a falling away first, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if her were God.ApostasyPerditionRevealedof-Godthe-Temple-of-God
    • Paul clearly points out the Antichrist’s
      • apostasy
      • that he is lifted up above all that is called God
        • or that is worshiped (i.e. above every idol)
      • will endeavor in a tyrannical manner to set himself forth as God
      • that he will sit in the Temple of God
      • endeavoring to show himself as Christ
      • see Matthew 24Matthew-24
        • But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation … standing in the holy place …for there shall then be great hardship, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be.The-Holy-PlaceGreat-Tribulation

• From Daniel

  • looked forward to the end of the last kingdom, i.e. the ten last kings
    • amongst whom the kingdom of those men shall be partitioned
    • and upon whom the son of perdition shall come
      • 10 horns shall spring from the beast
      • another little horn shall arise in the midst of them (the 10 horns)
        • three of the first 10 shall be rooted up before him (little horn)
        • has the eyes of a man
        • a mouth speaking great things
        • looks more stout than his fellows
        • makes war against the saints and prevails against them
          • until the Ancient of days came and gave judgment to the saints …
  • fourth beast = the fourth kingdom upon the earth