Do the Little Horns in Daniel refer to Antichrist or Antiochus?

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Two Little Horns in Daniel rise with different circumstances, can these apply to the same person?

6 “After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
8 “I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little (02192 זְעֵיר ze`eyr Aramaic ) one (07162 קֶרֶן qeren Aramaic ), coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. (Dan. 7:6-8 NKJ)

8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came a little (04704 מִצְּעִירָה mitstse`iyrah Hebrew) horn (07161 קֶרֶן qeren Hebrew) which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land. (Dan. 8:8-9 NKJ)

Some deny Antiochus appears in the book of Daniel at all. (See WHY ANTIOCHUS IS NOT MENTIONED IN DANIEL – SAMUEL WHITEFIELD) Whitefield’s argument is unsound, circular. It assumes what he hopes to prove, that the same “little horn” symbol in Daniel 7:8; 8:9 must refer to same person. He ignored the different circumstances surrounding the appearance of both. He makes no effort to show how Daniel 11:21-35, which most believe precisely fulfilled by Antiochus, can only apply to the Antichrist.

BUT perhaps most importantly, “little horn” is spelled different in these texts. Two different languages are used. Its Aramaic in Daniel 7:8 (befitting its global application), and Hebrew in Daniel 8:9, which may imply a regional aspect not in Dan. 7:8.

While Whitefield is right, the Seleucid horn was never little compared to contemporaries, he ignored Antiochus usurped the throne, therefore was insignificant when he began. Using bribes and flattery, he stole it from the rightful heir Seleucus IV, his nephew.

But what really convinced me Whitefield is wrong, the ships of Kittim in Daniel 11:30 would not oppose the Antichrist, because he becomes the big mouth ruler of the Grecian Roman Empire (Dan. 7:19-27; Rev. 13:1-5). Therefore, the ships of Kittim (Rome, Cyprus, “from the west”) would be in his fleet supporting him. But the text says they opposed the little horn, which is precisely what history says happened to Antiochus, when the Roman emissary Popillius Laenas used them to stop Antiochus’ invasion of Egypt. Therefore, Whitefield’s argument must be incorrect.

But that does not make those who only see Antiochus in Daniel 8:9-27 correct. True his rise “toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land” and Daniel 11:21-35 fits Antiochus well, Daniel 8:10-27; 11:36-45; 12:1-12 do not.

I suggest a third option, a synthesis where Antiochus is referred to, but a dual fulfillment where some aspects are in both but others telescopes to the Antichrist.

The “time stamp” given by the Angel Gabriel puts the “little horn” at the time of the end, not in Antiochus’ time:

15 While I, Daniel, was seeing the vision, and trying to understand it, there appeared before me one who looked like a man.
16 I heard a human voice from the middle of Ulai calling out, “Gabriel, make that man understand the vision.”
17 He came near to where I was standing, and as he came I was terrified, and fell prostrate. He said to me, “Understand, O man, that the vision refers to the time of the end.”
18 When he spoke with me, I was overcome by a deep sleep as I lay prostrate on the ground. Then he touched me and made me stand up,
19 and said, “I am going to inform you of what will happen when wrath is at an end, for it refers to the time appointed for the end.
20 “The two-horned ram that you saw signifies the kings of Media and Persia;
21 and the buck, the he-goat — the king of Greece; and the large horn on his forehead, that is the first king.
22 One was broken and four came in its stead — that means: four kingdoms will arise out of a nation, but without its power.
23 When their kingdoms are at an end, when the measure of transgression has been filled, then a king will arise, impudent and versed in intrigue. (Dan. 8:15-23 Tanakh 1985 Jewish Publication Society )

God’s wrath is completed only in the End Time (Rev. 15:1). The four kingdoms “are at an end” only when all earthly kingdoms are, in the End Time (Dan. 2:44). The full “measure of transgression” will be filled only in the End Time Apostasy (2 Thess. 2:3-4)

This should be obvious to all, Daniel would easily understand the vision (Dan. 1:17; 5:12, 14; 6:3) if it concerned the Jewish Temple and its people in the days of Antiochus. Therefore, it is elementary his total confusion (Dan. 8:27) arose because these words are sealed until events in the End Time “unseal them” (Dan. 12:9).

The revelation of the Antichrist is in stages. First he appears as “the man of sin”, then at “mid-week”, he becomes the big mouth Emperor Beast of the Grecian Roman Empire that rises in the End time, from the sea of spiritism. The Elohim Designers (fallen angels Rev. 12:7-12) insist on the creation of a world government for them to deliver world peace (1 Thess. 5:3).

Therefore, the different stages are symbolized by the different circumstances of the “little horns”. Daniel 7:8 focused on what the Antichrist does when Satan makes him the mouth of the End Time beast that rises from the sea. He humiliates three “kings” on his way up the ladder. Daniel 8:9 is focused on his rise from insignificance, before he was a king. That would be at the start of the End Time 7 year period, not at “mid-week”. He first appears as the “man of sin”. He is not insignificant 3.5 years later, when he morphs into the “Son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) as seen in Daniel 7:8.

The most likely reason God chose dual reference symbolism, Antiochus reveals much about the end time Antichrist. I deduce the Assyrian Antichrist Adonikam will also have an insignificant beginning like Antiochus. That he rises in the remnant of the Seleucid Empire, in the region of modern Antakya, Turkey near the ancient city of Antioch. It was once the capital of Seleucid Empire.

Insignificant ruler of a sign and wonder ministry, but spiritism energizes great signs and wonders that teach the lie Adonikam is the Christ (2 Thess. 2:9-12; Matt. 7:22-23; 1 John 2:18-24; 1 Tim. 4:1). From such humble beginnings he rises into political power to become the 666 Emperor of the Beast that rises from the sea of spiritism in Rev. 13:1-5.

So, Daniel 8:9 begins with Antiochus, but Daniel 8:10-27; 11:36-12:12) refers to the Antichrist greater fulfillment. Antiochus doesn’t reappear until Daniel 11:21-35. The telescoping to Antichrist in Daniel 11:35-36 is therefore organic and not an artificial contrivance of Bible Believers. In Daniel 8:9 the little horn referring to both Antiochus and Antichrist immediately flashes forward to events only the Antichrist can fulfill (Dan. 9:10-27). Therefore, the prophecy begins with a telescoping, so when it flashes backward and forward its “organic” to the context. Therefore, the telescoping in Daniel 11:35-36 is predictable, expected and not being superimposed. The wording “until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time” can be understood as marking where the telescoping mandated by Daniel 11:40, occurred.

To recap. Daniel 8:9 applies to both Antiochus and the Antichrist rising from insignificant beginnings and expanding their political sway. [1] The prophecy telescopes to Antichrist and his cosmic warfare against Christ and God’s people in Daniel 8:10ff. Daniel 7:8 begins referencing Antichrist’s “little” beginnings but its focus is on his deeds as the “Son of Perdition”. At “mid-week” Satan makes him the “mouth” of the Grecian Roman Empire Monster that rises up in Daniel 7:8 (Rev. 13:1-5), humiliating three horns kings and speaking pompous things. He claims to be above all things called God on the earth and he ordains all sacrifice and offering to them cease (Dan. 9:27). He has now morphed from the “man of lawlessness” to the “Son of Perdition” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

I will treat Daniel 8:10-27 in the next post.

END NOTES
[1]As readers may have noticed, I make no apologies current events often contradict what I believe Scripture predicts. Although Islamic Extremism is on the rise in Turkey, that won’t prevent what scripture predicts for the rise of the Antichrist. Christianity will likely be permitted some freedom to operate there in that time.

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The Little Horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth

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The little horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth

At first read the little horn in Daniel chapters 7 and 8 seem to refer to different people: The “little horn” in Daniel 7:7 rises from the Revived Roman Empire; The “little horn” in Daniel 8:9 rises from the eastern division of the Grecian Empire (Antioch in modern Turkey).

But that read contradicts the symbolism. The final version of the Roman Empire in the End Time Week of Seven Years is “like a leopard”, which in Daniel symbolizes the Grecian Empire (Dan. 7:6).

Also, there are two phases to the “Antichrist” (2 Thess. 2:3-4). First phase is the “man of sin” false Christ” speaking with a “Mouth like a lion” (Rev. 13:2). Second phase, after 42 months he morphs into the “Son of Destruction” “Seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) “Big Mouth” speaking blasphemies against God and rules another 42 months (Rev. 13:5):

1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. (Rev. 13:1-5 NKJ)

The two phases of Antichrist explains Daniel speaking about the same “little horn” from two very different perspectives. The first phase “Man of Sin” gives lip service to God, in the guise of Christ he opposes Christ condoning all kinds of sin. The second Phase he is a wild Beast “Son of Destruction” blaspheming “all that is called God or that is worshiped” (2 Thess. 2:4; Dan. 9:27). Hence, the “Assyrian Antichrist” “King of the North” seen in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Malachi.

Perhaps the change from Aramaic to Hebrew from Daniel 8 onward also implies this change from global to “Israel of God” perspective. As first he is the “global savior” like “Chancellor Palpatine” in the movie “Star Wars,” Savior of World. But then he morphs into the dreaded “Sith Lord of the Dark side” Beast. Now like the blaspheming Assyrian Antichrist Big mouth he persecutes the Israel of God, just as the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel and Malachi, Christ, Paul and John predicted.

It cannot be denied Antiochus fulfilled some of the prophecy (Dan. 11:21-35), but he failed to fulfill ALL of the prophecy (Dan. 11:36-37); Therefore, it cannot refer exclusively to him.

Evidently, God inspired the prophecy so Antiochus prefigures the End Time Beast, to reveal aspects about him that otherwise would remain obscure.

For example, Antiochus I made Antioch in modern Turkey the capital of Seleucid Empire, which once was also part of the Assyrian Empire. God inspired the prophecy to include much about Antiochus Epiphanes because it implies the Jewish Christian miracle working evangelist (2 Thess. 2:3-4; John 17:12) who rises from obscurity to become the False Christ (Dan. 7:8: 8:9) first appears in modern Turkey, near the ancient city of Antioch.

[Coming out of Nineveh (Nah. 1:11) outskirts of Mosul, Iraq does not conflict with his rising near ancient Antioch, Antakya, Turkey. Nor would his rising in Muslim Turkey prevent it from joining Russia and Iran to oppose him.]

The New World Order Beast in Revelation 13:2 is a composite of Western and Eastern Empires. This final “ten horn version of the Roman Empire” is “like a leopard”, implying “Grecian” elements have the most authority. This “Government Beast” exists only during the End Time “week of seven years”. This happens near the same time the Dragon and his angels were cast down to the earth (Rev. 12:7-12). Evidently the Dragon demanded the earth create this Beastly New World Order, hence the symbolism it rose from a sea of spiritism (Isa. 27:1; Ps. 74:13; Dan. 7:2).

Confirming the little horn in Daniel 8 must refer to something much stranger than Antiochus and his temple defiling acts, is Daniels astonishment at the vision:

And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it. (Dan. 8:27 NKJ)

If the vision were about Antiochus and his commonplace defilement of the Temple, both Daniel and his peers would have easily interpreted the vision. This is especially true about Daniel as he was uniquely gifted by God to interpret enigma and vision (Dan. 2:47; 4:8-9; 5:11-12). Therefore, Daniel didn’t see “commonplace events” as modern commentarians insist.

Daniel would have understood if the vision matched the words he heard. They did not, so he cries out to the interpreting angel:

8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?” (Dan. 12:8)

End-Time Events will “unseal the words”, then Bible Believers (= the wise) will understand:

9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. (Dan. 12:8-10 NKJ)

Because translators are convinced nothing astonishing is in this context, and its words must be interpreted as Daniel would use them, they reject the literal translation “sanctuary will be justified (06663 צָדַק tsadaq)” when interpreting the 2,300 day prophecy.

And he said unto me, Until two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings: then shall the sanctuary be vindicated (06663 צָדַק tsadaq). (Dan. 8:14 DBY).”

Notice how this translator “invents a hypothetical text” to justify his paraphrase:

will be purified. The Hebrew verb, weniṣdaq (the only occurrence of the niphal of ṣdq in the MT!) should mean “will be justified.” But this can hardly be said of the sanctuary. The underlying Aramaic was surely yidkê, “will be cleansed, purified,” which was corrupted into, or misread by the translator as yizkê, “will be victorious, justified.”- Hartman, L. F., &; Di Lella, A. A. (2008). The Book Of Daniel: A New Translation With Notes And Commentary On Chapters 1-9 (Vol. 23, p. 227). New Haven; London: Yale University Press.

A massive violation of Occam’s Razor, cognitive dissonance.

Now the prophecy of 2,300 days makes sense, fits the rest of the Bible.

2,300 days counting from the beginning of the End Time Week, the Temple of God the Church will have her faith in Jesus vindicated, justified.

In the teleios they sing the songs of Moses, and cry out God’s “judgments have been manifested!” Vindicating their profession of faith in Him, the facts justifying the correctness of it:

1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
3 They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!
4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.” (Rev. 15:1-4 NKJ)

The coming change in Times and Law

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. (Dan. 7:25 NKJ)

“Times and laws” are the foundations and main conditions, emanating from God, of the life and actions of men in the world.-Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 9, p. 650). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Times and law are the basic predicates of human society, belief in God its foundation. For example, the Declaration of Independence declares all “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Destroy the definition of God, then these rights no longer exist. The little horn in Daniel will attempt to change the definition of God, change the Holy One who is Infinite and completely unlike His creation to a finite Elohim like the angels.

36 “Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.
37 “He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all. (Dan. 11:36-37 NKJ)

This is a puzzle; we must see the picture the details make. “The desire of women” is Jesus Christ, YHWH God The Eternal Son of YHWH God the Father (Gen. 1:26-27; 19:24; Matt. 28:19; John 3:18; 20:31); The “God of his fathers”, Antichrist’s “fathers” are Jewish as Adonikam is of the tribe of Dan.

As it is impossible to exalt oneself above the “God of gods”, the “insulting blasphemy” is a redefinition of the nature of YHWH God to “make Him equal to other Elohim”. Then the Antichrist can be on “top” of all Elohim, as the “God of Gods”. The Apostle Paul confirmed this:

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:4 NKJ)

Antichrist opposes the definition of Elohim as gods, they become “Extraterrestrials” in “Ancient Alien Theory”, aka “Scientific Atheism”. Then Antichrist exalts himself above the Elohim formerly called God or worshiped as such, so that he sits as the God of gods in the Church the Temple of God , proclaiming his “hybrid Elohim-human” nature is God.

Raëlism teaches that an extraterrestrial species known as the Elohim created humanity using their advanced technology. An atheistic religion, it believes that the Elohim have historically been mistaken for gods. It holds that throughout history the Elohim have created forty Elohim/human hybrids who have served as prophets preparing humanity for news about their ultimate origins. Among those listed as prophets are The Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, and Muhammad, with Raël himself being the fortieth and final prophet. Raëlists believe that since the Hiroshima bomb of 1945, humanity has entered an Age of Apocalypse in which it is threatening itself with nuclear annihilation. It argues that humanity must find a way of harnessing new scientific and technological development for peaceful ends, and that once this has been achieved the Elohim shall return to Earth to share their technology with humanity and usher in a utopia.- Wikipedia

For decades humanity has been conditioned to believe the “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”. Massive UFO spectacle and contactee phenomena are presented as proof of it 24/7 by Corporate and Social media. Growing numbers of people believe “Ancient Alien Theory” is true. UFO cults communing with demon spirits already preach messages from “the “Elohim Designers” and their claims to have genetically modified humanity throughout history. They promise to bring in a New World Order of peace and safety (1 Thess. 5:3). No doubt they will also promise a work-around to Yehovah’s forbidding mankind eat of the tree of life (Gen. 3:22-24) as they did in the days of Noah when Nephilim Fallen Ones and men conspired against the sons of God (Gen. 6:2-4) in pursuit of immortality for their children.

Then the End Time will be just like the Days of Noah, when the Nephilim fallen angels walked among men, doing genetic experiments in collaboration with human scientists. For more on this: Nephilim Fallen Angels and the Sons of God

When the Nephilim return (Gen. 6:4; Rev. 12:7-12), their star-fleet hovering over cities of the earth (Rev. 12:4; Lk. 21:25-26), Adonikam the “man of sin” False Christ will morph into the “Son of Destruction” “Seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) to become the little horn in Daniel with a Big Mouth speaking pompous words against YHWH the only true God.

Preaching the “scientific atheism” of the Dragon (Rev. 16:13; 2 Thess. 2:7-12) he blasphemes that God is like his angels, exalting his hybrid Elohim-human nature is above Elohim, the only true God.

This “little horn in Daniel” is known by many names: “The Beast” (Rev. 11:7; 13:17); “Big Mouth” (Dan. 7:8, 20; Rev. 13:5-6); “Adonikam” (Rev. 13:8; Ezra 2:13); “the Assyrian” (Isa. 14:25; Mic. 5:5-6) “King of Babylon” rebuilt in the End Time by the Nephilim (Isa. 14:4-27); “Son of Destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3); “Seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15); “King of the North” (Dan. 11:36-12:1), the “Prince to come” (Dan. 9:26-27); “Man of Sin” (2 Thess. 2:3); “False Christ” (Mat. 24:5, 24; Mk. 13:22); “The Desolator” (Dan. 9:27); “King of fierce countenance” (Dan. 8:23); “Antichrist” (1 John 2:18; 2 John 1:7); “the Deceiver” (2 John 1:7) “The Lawless One” (2 Thess. 2:8) denying the deity of the Father and the Son (1 Jn. 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 Jn. 1:7).

Ancient Alien Theory with Scientific Atheism in support of the Antichrist is the strong delusion (cf. flying frogs in Rev. 16:13) that deceives the entire world to fight YHWH God at Armageddon. For more on this see The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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An Explanation of Daniel’s Days 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300




The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction

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The Two Phases of The Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin (266 ἁμαρτία hamartia), the son of destruction (684 ἀπώλεια apoleia), (2 Thess. 2:3 BBE)

“Man of sin” (458 ἀνομία anomia). The Genitive construction describes him as “of sin”, sin characterizes him. As “sin is lawlessness” (1 Jn. 3:4), his “lying signs and wonders” (2 Th. 2:9) “teach the lie lawlessness has divine approval”, that God’s Word the Bible no longer applies (2 Th. 2:10).

The Holy Spirit likely chose the title “son of destruction” to allude to Judas a “son of the evil one” (BBE διάβολός ἐστιν Jn. 6:70; 17:12). Confirming this, Satan is called “Destruction” and “Apollyon” in Revelation 9:11. Like Judas he will be a miracle working Jewish Christian the apostate church receives as “The Christ (Mt. 24:4-5, 23-25).”

At mid-week the “man of sin false Christ” morphs into “the son of destruction” “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15), revealing he is a hybrid Elohim-human created by the Nephilim (Gen. 6:1-4) “extraterrestrial Designers”. His Pompous Mouth (Dan. 7:8, 20; Rev. 13:5) boastfully claims his hybrid nature is superior to all Elohim, all formerly called God but who actually were extraterrestrials. In this way he denies the Deity of Father and the Son (1 John 2:18-23), opposing all called God in history while exalting himself above them all.

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:4 NKJ)

The prophet Daniel also revealed the Desolator (Antichrist) comes in two phases, first as a friend to the world’s religions, but at mid-week he forbids their sacrifices and offerings to God:

And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.” (Dan. 9:27 RSV)

John’s Revelation also reveals the two phases False Christ/Antichrist when the End Time Beast with a “lion’s mouth” (Rev. 13:2) gets a new “mouth speaking great things and blasphemies” for the remaining 42 months (Rev. 13:5; Dan. 7:8, 20, 25; 11:36).

1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. (Rev. 13:1-5 NKJ)

ANTICHRIST
antichristos (ἀντίχριστος, 500) can mean either “against Christ” or “instead of Christ,” or perhaps, combining the two, “one who, assuming the guise of Christ, opposes Christ”-Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., White, W., Jr. (1996). In Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol. 2, p. 30). T. Nelson.

So the Antichrist has two phases. For 3.5 years he is the “Man of Sin” “false Christ” speaking through a mouth “like a lion” (2Th. 2:3. Rev. 13:2), then he opposes the historic definitions of God speaking blasphemies (Rev. 13:5) pompously exalting himself above them all as the “Son of Destruction” (2Th. 2:3-4) “Seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) “Antichrist” denying the Father and the Son (1Jo. 2:18, 22).

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away (646 ἀποστασία apostasia) comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:3-4 NKJ)

The great apostasy from God begins in the Christian church when it receives the “Man of Sin” as “the Christ”. That apostasy “takes away” (05493 סוּר cuwr, Dan. 12:11) the Daily offered to God in Christ, the sacrifice for our sins.[1] The religious apostasy goes global as the Man of Sin morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction. Then everything called God or formerly worshipped as God, is replaced by worship of Adonikam who claims his hybrid human-Elohim nature is superior to all Elohim, regardless what God is called on the earth. That is when he ends all sacrifice to God globally (Dan. 9:27), at “mid-week” or 3 ½ years into his seven year reign.

John saw the seven head ten-horn Grecian Roman Empire “Beast” rise from the sea in the end time “week of years” (Rev. 13:1-8). The entire Beast symbolizes both the “Kingdom” and the “King”, notice the personal pronoun “he” from Revelation 13:5 on. This also happens in the book of Daniel where the same ten-horn version of the Roman Empire appears in the end time (Dan. 7:17, 23).

For the first 3.5 years the mouth of the beast is “like a lion”. In Revelation 5:5 Jesus Christ is called the “lion of the tribe of Judah”. Therefore, as the “lion’s mouth” is on the Beast it is a “false Christ” that speaks through it.

The “Man of Sin” is a miracle working Jewish Christian named Adonikam, who appears in the end time in the region of ancient Antioch. [1] He will work miracles and do signs and wonders that seem to authenticate his claim to be “the Christ”. But they lie (2Th. 2:7-12). He is called the “man of sin” because he condones sin for the sake of ecumenical unity. The already fallen away Christian church loves his Gospel of health and wealth and hail him as “the Christ” (2 Th. 2:3-4).

Sometime earlier God had stopped restraining the mystery of lawlessness, spiritism (2Th. 2:7-12) and there was a war in heaven. Satan and his angels were cast out and they appeared on earth (Rev. 12:7-12) claiming to be “the Elohim Creators” of life on earth. They lyingly pointed to the fossil record claiming it proved they designed life on planet earth. Now they had returned to ascend mankind to the next level, and gift it with immortality. The human race would become like the Elohim, and travel the universe also creating life on other planets as participants in the cycle of life. They demanded a NWO be created, and the seven head ten-horn Grecian Roman Empire was born.

The Man of Sin welcomed the arrival of the “Elohim”. He adopted their “scientific Atheism” and welcomed their arrival as the coming of the Kingdom of God. The Elohim therefore made Adonikam Chancellor of the New World Order. [2]

Ancient Babylon was rebuilt using fallen angel technology and supernatural character of the city so impressed those who dwell on the earth, they believed the Grecian Roman Empire invincible:

3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound [buried beneath desert sand], but its mortal wound was healed [Babylon rebuilt], and the whole earth marveled [at its supernatural character] as they followed the beast [Chancellor Adonikam].
4 And they worshiped the dragon [commander of the “ETs”], for he had given his authority to the beast [Adonikam], and they worshiped the beast [the concept of the NWO], saying, “Who is like the beast [NWO], and who can fight against it?” (Rev. 13:3-4 ESV)

As the rider on a white horse, “Chancellor” Adonikam the false Christ didn’t use any arrows to conquer the earth, globalist ecstasy swept the planet:

And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He [Adonikam] who sat on it had a bow; and a crown [Chancellorship] was given to him [by Satan], and he went out conquering and to conquer (Rev. 6:2 NKJ)

At mid-week the lion’s mouth stops talking, the Grecian Roman Empire is given a new Antichrist mouth that speaks “great things and blasphemies.” (Rev. 13:5. 1Jo. 2:18-22) He morphs into the “Son of Perdition” “opposing” all earthly definitions of God, and “exalting” himself above them all. His hybrid Elohim-human nature is claimed to be above the Extraterrestrial Elohim themselves. He proudly claims to be the “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15), claiming he is the source of the Elohim DNA in his genome (2Th. 2:3-4).

For five months before mid-week evil spirits tormented and terrorized the TARES in Christendom to convert to scientific atheism, to be loyal to Adonikam when he proclaims himself the “seed of Satan” “Son of Perdition” (2Th. 2:3-4). But Satan so hates God, anyone alive remotely connected to Christianity, even the apostates that converted to the Beast and accepted his Mark, were slain by the demonic Kings of the East and their demon Calvary (Rev. 9:13-19). The third of the earth’s population that once claimed to be Christian was slain.

Then the Beast Emperor Adonikam turns his attention to those all who refuse his mark. The Great Tribulation for the Church begins and most die a martyrs death (Rev. 13:5-7).

Now you know the two phases of Antichrist.

For more on the seven head ten-horn Grecian Roman Empire click here.
For more on the 666 allusion to the name Adonikam Click here.
For more on rebuilt religiopolitical Babylon Mother of Harlots click here

END NOTES
[1]
The “Man of Sin” is a miracle working Jewish Christian named Adonikam, who appears in the end time in the region of ancient Antioch.

That the “Lawless One” will be a miracle “lying” sign and wonder worker filled with the energy of Satan to deceive is explicit in 2 Thessalonians 2:7-9.

I infer from Daniel 11:37-18 “God of his fathers” he is Jew. I infer from “son of perdition” (2 Th. 2:2-3. John 17:12) he is a Christian Jew like Judas.

I infer from Micah 5:5 (Isa. 14:25-27) he is “the Assyrian” which connects him to Nimrod founder of “Old Babylon” where the Harlot was born.

I infer from Scripture’s powerful allusion to the Greek Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes (Dan. 8:8-17; 11:31) who failed to fulfill all the parameters of the Antichrist—as it is expressly said the prophecy pertains “to the time of the end”, that much true concerning Antiochus and his dwelling in Antioch, is predictive about the coming “King of the North” (Dan. 11:40-43) 666 Adonikam Jewish Christian Assyrian. Of the tribe of Dan (Gen. 49:17)

666 is Biblical allusion to Adonikam’s name, the double entendre “number OF a man” is literally true, Adonikam generated 666 children (Ezra 2:13).

This is not an exhaustive list, there are other texts consistent with these inferences, I at the moment can’t recall them precisely.

I am not a prophet, none of this is prophecy in the classic sense. Its inference only and as such any part or all of it except what is required by sound exegesis, can be wrong.

16 Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait on the LORD, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.
18 Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.
19 And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isa. 8:16-20 NKJ)

[2]

Again, this is not prophecy, its abductive logic, inference. Scripture depicts the Devil as intelligent and strategic. Recent events prove there is something to the reports of UFO’s. Persons of impeccable character and specifically trained to observe and report what they see (astronauts, military pilots etc) saw and experienced UFOs. Added to this is the massive delusion reshaping the public perception of reality to accept “ancient astronaut theory”. Therefore, as UFO spectacle and massive indoctrination exist, its clear something or someone is causing it to exist. It is certainly affecting the church causing many to fall away (2 Thess. 2:3-4).

It would be strategic genius to convince mankind extraterrestrial (Designers) have created mankind, all life on planet earth. It would appropriate creationist intelligent design arguments, efficiently incorporating the facts of the fossil record and all known physics to destroy the mass delusion of evolution. There is only one being who would benefit from such events. Satan. Its ironic, only after YHWH God is removed as the Intelligent Designer, will “intelligent design” arguments convince mankind.

Its reasonable to infer the UFO deception being preached today is part of the Satan’s strong delusion to convince mankind join the Great Revolt against all called God or worshiped (2 Th. 2:3-4). If we take scripture literally, when the Devil and his fallen angels are cast out of heaven it is truly WOE to the earth. It follows they appear physically on earth and in our skies (Rev. 12:7-12), perhaps as they did in the Days of Noah (Gen. 6:1-4).

Although I have not surveyed all the UFO cults existing today, its seems very likely what Satan taught a former automobile journalist and race car driver Claude Vorilhon (now Rael) will be basic deception he uses in the end time. “Scientific Atheism” is abductively the likely gist of the strong delusion Satan will use to convince the earth to fight God at Armageddon (Rev. 16:13-14). “Flying frogs” are symbolic of UFOs, out of the mouths of the evil trinity, the “inspired” “BIG LIE” YHWH God can be defeated by men and fallen angel. Just as happened in Nimrod’s revolt at the Tower of Babel. Or before that, when men conspired with the Nephilim to seduce the angelic sons of God into apostasy. This Demonic-Human rebellion against God has happened before, it will happen again (Rev. 20:7-10).

Again, I am NOT a prophet. The LORD has not spoken to me. I am inferring what will be, assembling pieces of the puzzle that is before us, to arrive at a picture consistent with Bible revelation. Its inference. Not prophecy. It certainly is a leap over vast chasms of the unknown. It seems elegant to me, parsimonous to the facts available. Only time will tell if I assembled the pieces correctly.

If assembled correctly perspicuity of scripture and sola scriptura alone account for it. If not, the blame is mine alone. Scripture is always 100% correct.

May the generation alive suffering the Great Tribulation keep looking up for Jesus their Redeemer, He is surely near. Maranatha! Amen and Amen, Come LORD Jesus!

END NOTES
[1]The Daily Sacrifice today is offered up by the priesthood of the Church. That is consistent with the NT applying Temple language to the church (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:19-21). Peter identifies the church as a spiritual house “a holy priesthood, to offer up “spiritual sacrifices” (πνευματικὰς θυσίας) acceptable to God” (1 Pet. 2:5). In Hebrews we are admonished to “offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) sacrifice (2378 θυσία thusia)” and that word is used in the Greek Septuagint to offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) the whole burnt offering that in Hebrew is the “daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) 1 Ch. 16:40; 23:31; 2 Ch. 2:3; 24:14.

Our sacrifice of praise is to be offered “continually” (1275 διαπαντός) to God. In Hebrews 13:1-17 the ethical exhortations being an expansion of the acceptable duties priests offer God daily (Heb. 12:28 λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως τῷ θεῷ).

Christ is our perpetual sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:11-18), it follows “that the daily sacrifice “shall be taken away” (05493 סוּר cuwr; 868 ἀφίστημι) is taken away by the church’s apostasy when it receives the false Christ man of sin, which occurs at the commencement of the seven years.

Not taking up the cross daily for Christ, doing service to the false Christ, is the apostasy that removes the daily sacrifice of praise and offerings to God and that marks the beginning of the end time week as does the arrival of Moses and Elijah to prophesy in Jerusalem (Rev. 11:3-7)

The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed
The Little Horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth
Adonikam is the Name of the Beast having 666 meaning
Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God: Third Temple or the Church?
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




Gog and Magog in Ezekiel and Revelation

Gog and Magog

Gog and Magog in the Book of Ezekiel are not the same Gog and Magog in the book of Revelation:

16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”
17 `Thus says the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them? (Ezek. 38:16-17 NKJ)

The book of Revelation 20:7-10 refers to the Gog “spoken of in the prophets” Joel 3:2, 9-17 and Isaiah 26:20-21; 27:1 when Satan will be cast into the lake of fire. [He FLEES!):

Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past. For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain. In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea (Isa. 27:1 NKJ)

7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Rev. 20:7-10 NKJ)

Neither are Gog and Magog the prophesied Assyrian Antichrist Beast named Adonikam who also appears in the End Time.

Gog is the name of the Prince of Russia, he heads the Gog of Magog coalition mainly comprised of the nations Russia Iran Turkey. The list of nations is a merism connoting nations North South East and West of Israel that do not share a border with Israel. Border nations were at peace with Israel (Ezek. 38:1-13).

In Daniel 11:44 the attack by Gog and allies from the North and East infuriates the 666 Beast Adonikam Emperor of the 10 horn Version of the Grecian Roman Empire that rises up in the End Time 7 year “week” (Rev. 13:1-5).

When Chancellor Adonikam man of sin morphs into the Son of Perdition Assyrian declaring himself above God and everything called god (2 Thess. 2:3-4), breaking the covenant with Babylon the Great World Religions, the King of the South and allies rebel (Dan. 9:27; 11:40-43).

Those of Gog’s coalition (Libya Ethiopia) offer no resistance but were at his heels waiting to strike like snakes (Dan. 11:43).

At that time Israel was totally at peace with her neighbors she once fought (Ezek. 38:8, 11). President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” (or something like it) had brought true peace to Israel and her surrounding neighbors, and they are not part of Gog’s coalition.

The Assyrian “king of the North” Antichrist Beast inherited the role of Guarantor of Israel’s peace and so news of Gog’s attack infuriates him (Dan. 11:44; Ezek. 38:4; Rev. 16:12).

While marshaling forces near Armageddon (Dan. 11:45) God utterly destroys Gog and Magog:

18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face.
19 “For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken:`Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,
20 `so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’
21 “I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord GOD. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.
22 “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 “Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”‘
39:1 “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,`Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
2 “and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
3 “Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4 “You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 “You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord GOD.
6 “And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 “So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 “Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord GOD. “This is the day of which I have spoken.
(Ezek. 38:18-23; 39:1-8 NKJ)

The terrifying display of God’s Almighty Power shook the Beast’s followers to the core. The Strong Delusion of Scientific Atheism advanced by the Dragon Commander and his fallen angels (the Nephilim) (2 Thess. 2:9-12; 2:3-4) was clearly contradicted by the display of God’s Awesome Power.

The world needed a fresh outpouring of spiritism, signs and wonders supporting the “Ancient Alien Theory” lie; that YHWH God was just another Elohim leader who could be defeated at Armageddon:

13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-16 NKJ)

The Battle at Armageddon

11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.
13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.
15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God,
18 “that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.”
19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh. (Rev. 19:11-20:1 NKJ)

The Little Horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth
Do the Little Horns in Daniel refer to Antichrist or Antiochus?
The Grecian Roman Empire with Seven Heads and Ten Horns
Britain and America in Prophecy
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church

Pre-wrath rapture

Of the three established views on the Rapture, pre-, mid- and post-tribulation, only the “pre-wrath rapture” followed by angels gathering the elect from the four winds at Christ’s coming, harmonizes all the Biblical data.

1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (2 Thess. 2:1-3 NKJ)

As Paul writes concerning the coming of Christ and the rapture which pretribulationalists insist does not occur on the “Day of the Lord”, the “Majority Text” [Robinson-Pierpont; Hodges-Farstad; Orthodox Church; Textus Receptus; Complutensian Polyglot; F35 Pickering] “Day of Christ” reading is “doubtless correct”:

Instead of “Christ” [in 2 Thess. 2:2], some 15% of the Greek manuscripts have ‘Lord’ (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.); the 85% that have “Christ” (including the best line of transmission) are doubtless correct.- Pickering ThM. PhD., Dr. Wilbur. THE SOVEREIGN CREATOR HAS SPOKEN — New Testament Translation with Commentary Second Edition (Kindle Locations 22142). Kindle Edition.

The “coming” [3952 παρουσία parousia] of Christ and “our gathering [rapture] together to Him” occur on the “Day of Christ”, AFTER the “falling away” [646 ἀποστασία apostasia] and Antichrist-Beast “come first”.

Gnostic Hymenaeus and Philetus overthrew the faith of some claiming a “spiritual unseen resurrection-rapture” had past, left everyone behind.

17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
18 who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. (2 Tim. 2:17-18 NKJ)

False prophets appeared, and with spurious words and epistles supposedly from the apostles, they claimed the Thessalonians were “left behind”, that the “day of Christ” came and left and now only the wrath of God remained. Paul proves their claim is impossible because the Antichrist had not yet appeared (Mt. 24:15, 21-22; 2 Thess. 2:3-4).

So the “resurrection-rapture” (1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; Rev. 14:12-16; 7:9, 14) cannot happen before the Antichrist persecutes the Church, during the “Great Tribulation” (Matt. 24:15, 21-22; Rev. 13:7). As God has promised the church would not experience His wrath (Rom. 5:9) the rapture occurs before the Bowls of God’s wrath are poured out (Rev. 14:12-20; 15:1-7).

Unlike classic pre-, mid- and post-tribulation schemes that require a seven year long Great Tribulation, its length can be much shorter. The prophet Daniel was told the “great tribulation” consists of an intense period of persecution of the church that will begin 1,290 days after the Daily Sacrifice is taken away[1], or 30 days after 3 ½ years into the final seven year “week” when the “man of sin” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) “Chancelor Adonikam” began his reign. Then like a “Star Wars Sith lord” he morphs into the Antichrist Beast Emperor “Son of Perdition”, slays God’s two witnesses Moses and Elijah (Rev. 11:3-7).

Then persecution of the church begins, but for 30 days Adonikam solidifies his control over the Empire and sets up his 666 abomination of desolation (Mat. 24:15-21). Then he ramps up the persecution of the Christian Church (Rev. 13:7; 14:12-13). The church is nearly extinguished in a short period of time, that is why it is called the “Great Tribulation” (Mat. 24:21-22; Rev. 7:14). Daniel says this time lasts 1,335-1,290=45 days (Dan. 12:11-12; Mat. 24:30-31; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 14:14-15).

As the Emperor Beast he reigns for another 3 ½ years or 42 months (Rev. 13:5). His “war” against the saints is effective. Believers heeding the prophecies flee Israel immediately upon seeing the abomination of desolation set up, flee to the mountains (Mat. 24:16) and the land of Jordan formerly known as the land of Edom, Moab and Ammon (Dan. 11:40-43).

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (Rev. 13:5-7 KJV)

This period of intense persecution of Believers lasts for 45 days and then the dead and those remaining alive are raptured:

7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
(Dan 12:7-12 NKJ)

12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. (Rev. 14:12-16 KJV)

So the “great crowd” no man can number are raptured AFTER the Great Tribulation, but before the bowls of God’s wrath are poured out. So it is a pre-wrath rapture:

9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands…And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:9-14 KJV)

It is confirmed they are in heaven before the bowls are poured out:

1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. (Rev. 15:1-3 KJV)

“But wait,” someone will protest, “the great crowd appears before the seventh seal is opened (Rev. 7:9 cp. Rev. 8:1) and they appear “after these things” (Μετὰ τοῦτο Rev. 7:9), all the events listed under the sixth seal (Rev. 6:12-16).

The objection is unsound, “after this” (μετὰ ταῦτα) refers to events during the vision, not to events that occur on earth:

The mere presence of μετὰ ταῦτα in 18:1 [and 7:9] does not indicate a chronological distinction between the chapters. It only shows that the events revealed to John by the second angel were shown after he had viewed the woman on the beast.”-Dyer, C. H. (1987). The Identity of Babylon in Revelation 17–18, Bibliotheca Sacra, 144, 306–307. [Bracketed reference mine as Dyer includes that text in his proofs]

Dyer cited the occurrences of “after this” in Revelation to prove his point. “Temporal use” Rev. 4:1; 7:1, 9; 15; 18:1; 19:1. “Eschatological Use” Rev. 1:19; 4:1; 9:12; 20:3.

The four references not associated with verbs of perception seem to indicate chronological distinctions between future events. However, those with verbs of perception only indicate the order in which the parts of the vision were viewed by John-Dyer, Ibid.

All true believers on earth are raptured at that time. Although we are given the precise number of days after the start of the end time Seven year “week”, we cannot know the “day or hour” (Mt. 24:36) for a variety of reasons. Symbolic dates may approximate literal time, and Christ introduced “imprecision” because “days were shortened” (Mt. 24:21-22). No doubt hindsight will reveal the timing was “wonderfully precise”.

But many become believers AFTER the rapture. That is why Christ sends His angels to gather these when the “opening” appears in heaven through which He and His Holy Myriads enter our matrix (Rev. 19:11):

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:30-31 KJV)

1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Dan. 12:1-4 KJV)

End Notes

[1]The time when “the daily sacrifice shall be taken away” must be at the beginning of the seven years, not in the middle of the week. The 1290 days and 1335 are different points on the same time line containing also the 1260 days when the Beast rises up breaking covenants scattering the power of the holy people (Dan. 12:7; 9:27).

Some object confusing the “sacrifice (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and the oblation (04503 מִנְחָה minchah) in Daniel 9:27 with the “daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd)” in Daniel 12:11. The “Daily sacrifice” ended with the apostasy of the Church at the beginning of the week, when it received the false Christ.

The “Man of Sin” appears to a “fallen away church” as a false Christ condoner of sin, at midway he morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction Antichrist (Dan. 7:25; 9:27; 12:7) ending all “sacrifice and oblation” worldwide (2 Th. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:7; 13:5).

Is it sound to interpret the “daily sacrifice of the Temple” as figurative of Christian taking up the cross daily and serving Christ?

Yes, that is 100% consistent with the NT applying Temple language to the church (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:19-21). Peter identifies the church as a spiritual house “a holy priesthood, to offer up “spiritual sacrifices” (πνευματικὰς θυσίας) acceptable to God” (1 Pet. 2:5). In Hebrews we are admonished to “offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) sacrifice (2378 θυσία thusia)” and that word is used in the Greek Septuagint to offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) the whole burnt offering that in Hebrew is the “daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) 1 Ch. 16:40; 23:31; 2 Ch. 2:3; 24:14.

Our sacrifice of praise is to be offered “continually” (1275 διαπαντός) to God. In Hebrews 13:1-17 the ethical exhortations being an expansion of the acceptable duties priests offer God daily (Heb. 12:28 λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως τῷ θεῷ).

Christ is our perpetual sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:11-18), it follows “that the daily sacrifice “shall be taken away” (05493 סוּר cuwr; 868 ἀφίστημι) is taken away by the church’s apostasy when it receives the false Christ man of sin, which occurs at the commencement of the seven years.

Not taking up the cross daily for Christ, doing service to the false Christ, is the apostasy that removes the daily sacrifice of praise and offerings to God and that marks the beginning of the end time week as does the arrival of Moses and Elijah to prophesy in Jerusalem (Rev. 11:3-7)

Some object its unhistorical NT usage define OT meaning, but that is not pertinent to prophecy whose words are “closed up” and “sealed” (Dan. 12:9) until the time of the end arrived (1 Pt. 1:12). Confirming this, the angel said the wise would understand in the end time (Dan. 12:10). Consistent with this, righteous and wise Daniel (Dan. 1:17; 4:9-10, 18; 5:10-12, 14-16) could not understand because he was not in the end time when the unsealed meaning of the words would be known. On this see Words are closed up and sealed

An Explanation of Daniel’s Days 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Excludes the Pretribulation Rapture
Rapture Ready News
Is the Wing of Abominations in Daniel 9:27 a UFO?
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Disproves the Pretribulation Rapture Theory

1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (2 Thess. 2:1-3 NKJ)

As Paul writes concerning the coming of Christ and the rapture which pretribulationalists insist cannot occur on the “Day of the Lord”, the “Majority Text” [Robinson-Pierpont; Hodges-Farstad; Orthodox Church; Textus Receptus; Complutensian Polyglot; F35 Pickering] “Day of Christ” reading is “doubtless correct”:

Instead of “Christ” [in 2 Thess. 2:2], some 15% of the Greek manuscripts have ‘Lord’ (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.); the 85% that have “Christ” (including the best line of transmission) are doubtless correct.- Pickering ThM. PhD., Dr. Wilbur. THE SOVEREIGN CREATOR HAS SPOKEN — New Testament Translation with Commentary Second Edition (Kindle Locations 22142). Kindle Edition.

The “coming” [3952 παρουσία parousia] of Christ and “our gathering [rapture] together to Him” occur on the “Day of Christ”, AFTER the “falling away” [646 ἀποστασία apostasia] and Antichrist-Beast “come first”.

Some point to the secondary meaning of ἡ ἀποστασία “the departure” (Tyndale, Coverdale, Cranmer, Geneva Bible, Beza, World English Bible, Revised Patriarchal Greek Orthodox NT) for support this means “the rapture”. That contradicts the passive nature of the rapture, it is not something the church does, God does it to the church.. “Our gathering together to Him” is an act of God—He seizes (726 ἁρπάζω harpazo) the church, taking it to Himself (1 Thess. 4:17). God is active, the church passive as He “seizes” the church without any effort on their part. Therefore, even where ἡ ἀποστασία is rendered “the departure” (active), it cannot refer to “the rapture” (passive).

Even Pretribber John Walvoord admits:

In this instance Gundry, seconded by Ladd, is probably right: the word probably refers to doctrinal [“departure”] defection of the special character that will be revealed in the day of the Lord.”-Walvoord, John F.. The Rapture Question . Zondervan. Kindle Edition.[Bracketed material mine]

The “resurrection-rapture” (1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; Rev. 14:12-16; 7:9, 14) cannot happen before the Antichrist persecutes the Church so severely it is called the “Great Tribulation” (Matt. 24:15, 21-22; Rev. 13:7). Therefore, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 excludes the possibility of a pretribulation rapture.

Paul is compelled to write this chapter because the mystery of lawlessness was “already at work” (2 Thess. 2:7) shaking the mind and troubling Thessalonians by “spirit…word…letter” “the day of Christ had come” (2 Thess. 2:2) and the “gathering” [resurrection-rapture 1 Thess. 4:13-18] had left them behind. False prophets armed with fake apostolic “word…letter” were spreading the Gnostic lies of Hymenaeus and Philetus “the resurrection is already past” (2 Tim. 2:17-18) “shaking the mind and troubling” the Thessalonians, overthrowing “the faith of some”.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. (2 Thess. 2:5-6 NKJ)

Paul is surprised the Thessalonians forgot what he told them about the End-Time apostasy (2 Thess. 2:5), how a Satanic “working” (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia) with all power, signs and wonders will “authenticate lie to be truth” (2 Thess. 2:9-12) inspiring a “lawless revolt” against “all called God or that is worshiped” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) once God’s decree restraining Satanic manifestation on earth was “taken out of the way” (2 Thess. 2:6-7). Then the “lawless one” is revealed (601 ἀποκαλύπτω apokalupto).

A sign and wonder working evangelist named Adonikam (Ezra 2:13; Neh. 7:18; Rev. 13:18) is hailed as the Christ by the “fallen away church”. When Satan the Dragon and his Nephilim (Gen. 6:4; Rev. 12:3-4) appear on earth (Rev. 12:7-9) disguised as mankind’s “Elohim-Designers”, the False Christ “man of sin” Adonikam hails their arrival as the coming of the kingdom of God. For the next 42 months the strong delusion of “ancient alien theory/scientific Atheism” causes a global revolt against all called God or worshiped. Times and law of human society are overthrown (Dan. 7:25).

The Dragon chooses Adonikam to be “Chancellor” of the new Grecian-Roman Beast Government (Rev. 13:1-2) that will rule over the earth (Dan. 7:7-8; 8:9-12; 9:27; 12:11; Mat. 24:15). The earth reluctantly submits to the new world order (Rev. 6:2). The city of Babylon is rebuilt as its capital.

Just as in the days of Noah, Nephilim fallen angels (Gen. 6:2, 4) again walked among men (Lk. 17:26; Gen. 6:4). Elohim and human scientists did genetic experiments and marriages searching for a “workaround” YHWH’s prohibiting “immortality” (Gen. 3:24) to man.

At “mid-week” or 3.5 years into the End, the “man of sin” morphs into “the Son of Destruction” claiming to be the hybrid seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15) and declares his nature above even the Elohim (2 Thess. 2:4). He blasphemes YHWH God and His heavenly Host and all who dwell in heaven (Rev. 13:5-6) as an inferior faction of Elohim (Dan. 7:8; 8:9-12). He sits down in the Church the Temple of God, with Satanic energeia power working signs showing he is God (2 Thess. 2:4).

Just as God permitted Pharaoh’s magicians work wonders (Ex. 7:11), so YHWH permits some of His Army be cast down to the earth (Dan. 8:10), sending a strong delusion (2 Thess. 2:11) God could be resisted, just as He did to Pharaoh.

Fueling the apostasy, disillusioned Pretribulationists will become mockers:

3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” (2 Pet. 3:1-4 NKJ)

Scoffers exist in every generation, but their arguments usually concern other things, not the “coming of Christ”. What “tips the scale” indicating these scoffers are disillusioned believers who have “departed from the faith” and not secular objectors? Peter’s observation they “walk according to their own lusts”. It isn’t noteworthy unbelievers walk according to their own lusts, ONLY IF these are former believers does “walking according to their own lusts” become pertinent, material to the context, genuine revelation.

[Not just pretribbers fall away, the entire earth will fall away from all called God because few warned them Satan and the Nephilim would return disguised as the Elohim designers of mankind.]

The Great Tribulation begins:

7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. (Rev. 13:7 NKJ)

When Adonikam declared himself God, the religious services of Harlot Babylon are redundant, so the ten kings of the Empire burn her with fire (Rev. 17:16). The Harlot gave a measure of political protection from the crazed globalists (Dan. 12:7; Rev. 12:6) even if inhospitable (Rev. 11:1-2). But now their political power is shattered, and the Church must flee Babylon (Dan. 7:25; 8:24; 12:7; Jer. 51:6, 44-45; Rev. 18:4-5).

After Adonikam slays God’s two Witnesses (Rev. 11:7) he begins persecuting the Church and the Great Tribulation begins. Russia-Iran-Turkey resist the Beast and nuke rebuilt Babylon. Then Britain and America “two horned beast” (Rev. 13:11) unite under one called “the False Prophet” and they come to the aid of the “wounded Empire of the Beast.” Russia-Iran-Turkey and allies stand down and reluctantly submit to Adonikam. The military of the Anglo-American “False Prophet” has “fallen angel technology” far superior to anything Russia or others have. Formerly free market Christian nations the Two horned Beast now speaks like a Dragon for central planning and the Seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15; 2 Thess. 2:3-4). They create the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Abomination of Desolation for the Desolator Adonikam to enforce his 666 membership only economy . It is a living image of the Beast . Everything connected allows Adonikam see and hear in real time and kill all who try to disconnect or harm the network in any way. At 1,290 days the Beast Adonikam is fully interfaced with the network image (Dan. 12:11; Mat. 24:15-22; Rev. 13:15-17).

The church will be raptured during the Great Tribulation (Rev. 7:14; 14:13-16) about 1,335 days counting from the beginning of the End Time “week” when Adonikam was received as “the Christ” and that apostasy took away the Church’s Daily Sacrifice (Dan. 12:11-12). We cannot know the “day and hour” (Mat. 24:36) because symbolic times may be approximate (Mat. 24:22), but these events inform us when He is near (Mat. 24:32-34). Only evil servants say in their heart “my master is delaying his coming” (Mat. 24:48-51), Christ’s disciples will eagerly wait for His appearing and keep on watch (Mat. 24:41-47).

This is the “pre-wrath rapture”, before the bowls of God’s wrath are poured out (Rom. 5:9; Rev. 15:1-7; 14:17-20). Upon seeing the rapture many become believers, many Jews convert, and Christ sends His angels to gather them from the four corners of the earth (Mat. 24:29-31; Dan. 12:1).

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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.
31 “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:29-31 NKJ)

In the End Time, all who follow signs and wonders rather than God’s Word of Truth will be deceived (2 Thess. 2:9-12). Only those energized by the mystery of Godliness, God the Holy Spirit inspiring lawfulness and love for God’s truth the Bible, will be saved:

13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,
14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.
16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,
17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. (2 Thess. 2:13-17 NKJ)

END NOTE
It is commonly believed the 666 Mark will be something the unsuspecting might accept as if people are deceived thinking they received something else. That is against the revelation of Scripture. The Beast Adonikam will reveal he is the “seed of Satan” (2 Thess. 2:3; Gen. 3:15) and brag about it (Dan. 7:11; 8:11; Rev. 13:5). All accepting his mark know they are choosing Satan’s child over YHWH God. Just as the Swastika was everywhere, 666 will become the symbol of the Rebels fighting against YHWH God. No one is deceived; they all accepted the Mark of the Beast in full knowledge, that is why they merit Eternal Torment (Rev. 14:9-11) because they knowingly chose Satan over God. If they did not have full awareness, then they would merit lessor punishment (cf. Luke 12:47-48).

The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church
End Times Timeline
Is the Wing of Abominations in Daniel 9:27 a UFO?
It is the last hour 1 John 2:18
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
The Origin of Satan and Demons
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




The Interpretation of Matthew 24:1-31

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This interpretation of Matthew 24 is focused on the “end of the age” fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy, not the 70 A.D. destruction of the Temple or Bar Kokhba revolt that destroyed Israel as a nation until the 20th century.

3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age? (Mk. 13:4; Lk. 21:7)

“When will the destruction of the Temple be?” (Matt. 24:1-2). “What is the sign of the end of the age that will see your coming?”

The sign of the end of the age when Christ will soon arrive (Matt. 24:30) is the sign of “heaven opened” (Rev. 19:11). A terrifying “opening” will appear in the sky, perhaps lightning flashing around it (Mt. 24:27; Lk. 17:24). This is a “Gate of Heaven” through which Christ and His armies enter our Matrix.

11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.
13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. (Rev. 19:11-14 NKJ)

Confirming this, a first century text written in Koine Greek the Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles says:

And then the signs of the truth shall appear: first, a sign of an opening in heaven; then a sign of the sound of a trumpet; and the third sign, the resurrection of the dead. Now, not all of the dead but as was said, the Lord shall come and all the holy ones with him. Then the world will see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.-Brannan, R. (Trans.). (2012). The Apostolic Fathers in English. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Back to the interpretation of Matthew 24:

4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.
5 “For many will come in My name, saying, `I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
8 “All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Mk. 13:5-8; Lk. 21:8-9)

Many false Christ’s appeared in the 1st and 2nd century, Simon bar Kokhba led Israel into total ruin. The Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and the entire city paganized in the 2nd century. Not until the Balfour Declaration in 1917 did the prophesied regathering of Jews in Israel begin (Lk. 21:24).

But Jesus was focused on the final False Christ, the end time “rider on a white horse” John saw in his apocalypse. Note He refers to the same global calamities (Mt. 24:7) listed to occur at the end of the age:

2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
3 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.”
4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (Rev. 6:2-8 NKJ)

This is that “man of sin” Paul prophesied would come. There are two phases to the apocalypse of the Antichrist “the Man of Lawlessness” (2 Thess. 2:3-4). He makes his appearance as an Assyrian Jewish Christian Evangelist named Adonikam. He works great signs and wonders. In Daniel 8:9 Antichrist is seen rising up in what once was the Seleucid Empire. I infer from the strong parallels Antichrist has with Antiochus Epiphanes his “ministry” will be in modern Turkey, near Syrian Antioch once capital of the Seleucid Empire, the city of Antakya today

As the “man of sin” this “Christ “condones everyone’s sin”. The apostate Church hails him as “the Christ”. That apostasy takes away the “Daily Sacrifice” of Christian praise (Heb. 13:15; Dan. 12:11) to the True God (Dan. 12:7, 11), starting the end time “week of seven years” “clock”.

When UFOs appear in the skies above every city, the world’s shaman, seers and prophets of every religion, proclaim them as the return of the “Elohim Designers” of life on earth.

Adonikam the False Christ leads the chorus praising Satan and his Nephilim army as the arrival of earth’s “Elohim Designers” preaching the “scientific atheism” of many UFO and contactee cults today:

Raëlism teaches that an extraterrestrial species known as the Elohim created humanity using their advanced technology. An atheistic religion, it believes that the Elohim have historically been mistaken for gods. It holds that throughout history the Elohim have created forty Elohim/human hybrids who have served as prophets preparing humanity for news about their ultimate origins. Among those listed as prophets are The Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, and Muhammad, with Raël himself being the fortieth and final prophet. Raëlists believe that since the Hiroshima bomb of 1945, humanity has entered an Age of Apocalypse in which it is threatening itself with nuclear annihilation. It argues that humanity must find a way of harnessing new scientific and technological development for peaceful ends, and that once this has been achieved the Elohim shall return to Earth to share their technology with humanity and usher in a utopia.- Wikipedia

The “Ancient Alien Theory” “Big Lie” preached 24/7 by Social and Corporate Media, that arose from decades of global UFO spectacle, overwhelms any critical inquiry into the claims of the “Elohim”. All believe they will usher in the New World Order of “peace and safety” (1 Thess. 5:3). Any who question the motives of “the Elohim” will be hated, fired from their job, driven from the marketplace, and hunted for sport.

They are hailed as mankind’s only hope because the crisis management systems of the earth’s governments had been overwhelmed. Civil unrest, war, famine, pestilence, earthquake and the tsunamis far exceeded the earth’s capability to manage the chaos (Rev. 6:2-8; Lk. 21:25-26).

Satan the Dragon commander of the Nephilim demands a New World Order be created to manage the earth’s scarce resources. He makes Adonikam its Chancellor. This is that beastly Government John saw rising from the sea of spiritism, with a “Grecian” body (Dan. 7:6; 8:8-9; Rev. 13:1-2) out of the remnants of the ancient Byzantine Roman Empire (Dan. 7:7; 19-24; 9:26). It has ten horns or kings giving Adonikam their power (Dan. 2:44; 7:7; Rev. 13:1; 17:9-11).

The earth is converted. Everything called god or worshipped as God is rebelled against, the great falling away is here (2 Thess. 2:3-4). “Ancient Alien Theory” “scientific atheism” is the context of the “strong delusion” inspired by spiritism prophesied to come (2 Thess. 2:6-12).

So many “Christian” miracle workers become Beast Followers that Jesus makes special note of them pleading not to be cast into the Lake of Fire on Judgment Day. They claim to still have a personal relationship with Jesus, affectionately calling Him “lord lord”. Jesus rejects they ever did powerful works by His Holy Spirit as He never knew them:

22 “Many will say to Me in that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 “And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ – (Matt. 7:22-23 NKJ)

But I got ahead of myself. Five months before “Chancellor Adonikam” reveals he is the “Son of Destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3), the hybrid Elohim human (Gen. 6:4) “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15), the “spirits of demons” (Rev. 16:14) imprisoned in the Abyss since physically dying in the Flood of Noah’s Day (Gen. 7:21-23), are released:

1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. (Rev. 9:1-6 NKJ)

They torture the “followers of the Man of Sin” who were reluctant to convert to new religion of the “Seed of Satan” “Son of Destruction.” They knew accepting the mark of the Beast results in eternal damnation. But they wanted to join in the fun, they just needed a little coercion to do what their reprobate hearts wanted to do. After five months, all of the Man of Sin’s “Christian followers” have adopted the “scientific Atheism” of the Elohim, and exalt Adonikam the Beast as God, even above the Elohim themselves (Dan. 11:36-37).

They are proud followers of the Beast, 666 becomes their insignia. The openly fight against YHWH God of the Bible, wrongly believing He is just another “faction” of the Elohim, and too weak to take on the combined forces of the Dragon Commander, and earth. See War between God and Satan

After 1,260 days counting from the time the Daily Christian Sacrifice was taken away by their apostasy (05493 סוּר cuwr MT; ἀποσταθῇ LXX Dan. 12:11) Adonikam abolishes the agreement he made with the Earth’s Religions, he terminates all sacrifice and offering to any God but himself (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 13:5). The Ten Horn Kings then burn the Harlot Babylon with fire, her global false religion no longer required (Rev. 19:17-18).

Until then the true Church was protected legally within Babylon the Harlot, haters not permitted to harm the Church. Spiritually she had separated herself from the apostate church worshipping God at His altar (Rev. 11:1). There God fulfilled the prophecy of Joel there would be and end time pouring out of His Spirit (Joel 2:28-29; Ac. 2:17-18). God’s two Witnesses, the two Olive trees supplying both The Lady of Zion and her “Daughter of Zion” the Church” (Rev. 12:1-6) with “Holy Spirit” (oil) lighting their lamps shining God’s truth (Rev. 11:4; Comp. Zech. 4:11-14).

With the destruction of religious Babylon, the power of the holy people is shattered:

Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished. (Dan. 12:7 NKJ)

Adonikam was headquartered in Jerusalem, so when he ascends from the abyss of spiritism, 3 ½ years counting from the beginning of the end time “week”, his first act is to kill YHWH’s prophets Moses and Elijah (Rev. 11:7).

Then with zeal he begins the worldwide persecution of the Church with all true believers in Judea.

Back to the interpretation of Matthew 24:

9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
10 “And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
11 “Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
12 “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
13 “But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
14 “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

This is telescoped to the end. Jesus returns to detail events preceding the persecution of Christians in Matthew 24:15. Here main events are listed. The Great Tribulation of the Church begins, anyone still believing in Jesus name slated for death. The TARES among the Wheat will play the part of Judas, revealing the location of any hiding from the authorities. False prophets will prophesy false hope, lyingly claim Christ was already on earth gathering His forces for the great war. “Blessed is he” who “endures to the end”, he will be raptured 1,335 days counting from the beginning of the end time week (Dan. 12:12; Rev. 14:12-16).

Global gospel preaching is exponentially increased. The Holy Spirit filled Church is strong and doing exploits, not caring about their lives being put to death (Rev. 7:14; 12:11). They hack the cloud preaching the gospel worldwide (Rev. 14:6-7) and God’s angel joins them:

6 Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth– to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people–
7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.” (Rev. 14:6-7 NKJ)

144,000 Jewish Martyrs for Christ (Rev. 7:3-10), Lady Zion Militant with her Daughter of Zion, a great crowd who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:14 NKJ):

and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” (Rev. 7:10 NKJ)

Back to the interpretation of Matthew 24.

Jesus returns to the time when the “Man of Sin” morphs into the “Son of Destruction” abomination. He now standing where he ought not, in the Christian church the Temple of God:

15 “Therefore when you see the `abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ” (whoever reads, let him understand),
16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 “Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
18 “And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
19 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
20 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
21 “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 “And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

“And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NKJ)

The “abomination of Desolation” rose up in the Church at “midweek” (1,260 days; 42 months; 3.5 years). The “man of sin” “False Christ” Chancellor Adonikam morphed into the “son of Destruction” (2 Thess. 2;3) “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) “Antichrist” (1 John 2:18).

However, the Beast required another 30 days to fully set up his “image”, or 1,290 days. This is a quantum computing Artificial Intelligence patterned in the Beast’s image, his personality. He is joined to it, therefore he and this network together are the “abomination that causes desolation”.

With it he runs the 666 membership only economy and it gives him near “god-like” omniscience and omnipotence. He is directly interfaced with it, so everywhere the internet is, he is. The AI filters out everything not important to “see and hear” in real time. With a thought Adonikam can kill anyone who tries to disconnect from the NET.

He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. (Rev. 13:15 NKJ)

[I skipped over the role of United States and Britain, the “Beast with two horns like a lamb”, how their “black ops technology” and power extended this abomination worldwide. For more on how they deceived the world to build this monstrosity see Britian and America in Prophecy]

Therefore, believers in Judea have 30 days to flee Judea. Believers flee to the mountains and the land of Jordan formerly known as the land of Edom, Moab and Ammon. The Antichrist Beast power in those lands is weak, and fleeing there are spared even after the Beast “King of the North” subdues the King of the South, Egypt (Dan. 11:40-43).

Christians are persecuted to near extinction. They are commanded not to resist, what will be will be:

9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. (Rev. 13:9-10 NKJ)

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.
31 “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:30-31 NKJ)

Although a Trumpet sounds this event is unlike the miraculous “twinkling of an eye” change from “natural bodies” to “supernatural bodies” and then being “caught up” to meet Christ in the air. The Rapture doesn’t appear to involve angels, but this gathering does.

(1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 10:7; 11:15; 14:12-16). Unlike Matthew 24:31, Angels don’t appear to be part of that apart from blowing the Trumpet. Christ sends out His angels gathering the Elect Jew and Gentile from the four corners of the earth (Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:31) before the bowls of God’s wrath are poured out upon the earth (Rev. 16:1). It would appear these came to saving faith in Jesus after the Rapture.

Its no argument against a Trumpet sounds in both events. The last trumpet seems to span multiple events (Rev. 10:7; 11:15-19). However, the “last Trumpet” in this series does not rule out another “Great Trumpet” (Jos. 6:5) will sound before a movement of the army of God (Isa. 27:13).

Angels are sent out when the terrifying sign of the end of the age is seen in the sky, the heavens are opened (Rev. 19:11):

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.
31 “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:30-31 NKJ)

This is not the same as being taken for Judgment:

23 “Then if anyone says to you,`Look, here is the Christ!’ or`There!’ do not believe it.
24 “For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25 “See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you,`Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or`Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
27 “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
28 “For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together…

38 “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39 “and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
40 “Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
41 “Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. (Matt. 24:23-28, 38-41 NKJ)

This telescopes to Armageddon. Luke provides context, this occurs when Christ is “revealed” (Lk. 17:30) paralleling when Judgment was revealed from heaven by the Flood of Noah’s Day and the fire and brimstone when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed (Lk. 17:26-29).

26 “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29 “but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
32 “Remember Lot’s wife.
33 “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34 “I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.
35 “Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left.
36 “Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him, “Where, Lord?” So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” (Lk. 17:26-37 NKJ)

Angels gathering the Elect from the earth, and gathering the wicked for judgment, are two sides of the same coin. The angels gather the Elect to save them, and the angels gather the wicked for Christ to punish them. Christ speaks of one then the other, they are not to be confused.

Christ is revealed as He enters our sphere through an “opening in the sky” at Armageddon. Jesus’ angels separate the wicked from the just (Mt. 13:47-50) taking them to Armageddon to be slain with the Beast and his armies. All slain are cast into furnace of fire known as the Lake of Fire upon death and carrion birds eat their flesh. But the Beast and False prophet are cast into the lake of fire while still alive, body and soul (Rev. 19:11-21)

17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God,
18 “that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.” (Rev. 19:17-18 NKJ)

With the Elect Jew and Gentile greatly anticipating Christ’s return at any moment, they are targets for deception. Satan will inspire many false Christs and prophets do great signs and wonders hoping to deceive even the elect. They claim Christ already has arrived and is somewhere on the earth, “Here, There!”.

Don’t believe it, because every eye will see the return of Christ through the Gate of Heaven opening in the sky. Just as it is impossible a lightning storm happen unseen, so it is impossible every eye not see Christ’s return. Moreover, when Christ does return, He will slay the Beast, Satan’s Nephilim Kings of the East called Mighty Ones, and their armies at Armageddon. There the carrion birds like eagles will be feasting:

Back to the interpretation of Matthew 24:

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,
16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
17 “For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:12-7:1 NKJ)

God rolls up the roof of our MEROS matrix like a scroll

The rest of Matthew 24:32-44 requires no interpretation

Just before the first bowl of God’s wrath (Rev. 16:1) is poured out, God removes His remaining “assets” from the earth. All the Elect Jews and Gentiles who missed the rapture, but repented and believed in Jesus after seeing all these things, are now gathered by Christ’s angels to join Christ’s army in heaven.

Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power (Ps. 110:3-4 NKJ)

1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying:
2 “When leaders lead in Israel, When the people willingly offer themselves, Bless the LORD!
3 “Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
4 “LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth trembled and the heavens poured, The clouds also poured water;
5 The mountains gushed before the LORD, This Sinai, before the LORD God of Israel. (Jdg. 5:1-5 NKJ)

Christ will bring the redeemed with Him when He comes (1 Thess. 4:14).

All the events of the end time week of seven years “occur rapidly” within one seven year “week” revealed in the book of Revelation, they “quickly take place” (Rev. 1:1) events one after another so fast it overwhelms the earth’s ability to cope.:

The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave Him to show His slaves what must quickly take place. He sent it and signified it through His angel to His slave John (Rev. 1:1 CSB)

35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

42 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
43 “But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44 “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
46 “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
47 “Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
48 “But if that evil servant says in his heart,`My master is delaying his coming,’
49 “and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,
50 “the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of,
51 “and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:35-36, 42-51 NKJ)

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian 1/3 of the earth
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




An Explanation of Daniel’s 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300 Days

Daniel's days

The Explanation of Daniel’s Days 1,260, 1,290, 1,335, 2,300 Days

Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle following an incorrect picture will leave some pieces that don’t fit anywhere. That analogy explains why Interpreters, trying to force Daniel’s Days fit the picture of a Third Temple in Jerusalem and Antiochus-like Abomination which ends Jewish Sacrifices, can’t make Daniel’s Days 1,290, 1,335 and 2,300 fit naturally into their construct.

The claim the numbers are symbolic, refer to events beyond the end time “week”, or differ because of something unexplained happening, are manifestations of cognitive dissonance.

A Critical Thinker realizes the Jigsaw pieces don’t fit because the Interpreters have the wrong picture in view.

Daniel’s Days:

2,300 days

13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, “How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under foot?”
14 And he said to me, “For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.” (Dan. 8:13-14 NKJ)

1,260 days = “middle of the week” = 3 ½ years ends sacrifices and offerings to anything called God on earth (2 Thess. 2:3-4). These global sacrifice (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and offering (04503 מִנְחָה minchah) are different than the “Continual/Daily”(08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd ) given to God by Christendom taking up Christ’s cross daily. Their sacrifices end starting the End Time Clock (Dan. 12:11) when apostate Christendom receives the man of sin as the Christ.

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and offering (04503 מִנְחָה minchah). And on the wing (03671 כָּנָף kanaph) of abominations (08251 שִׁקּוּץ shiqquwts) shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.” (Dan. 9:27 NKJ)

1,260 days = “a time, times and half a time” = 3 ½ years

Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished. (Dan. 12:7 NKJ)

1290 days counting from the start of the end time “week”, which begins when Christian apostates receive the man of sin as the Christ, their apostasy “taking away” (05493 סוּר cuwr) the Daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd ) taking up the cross of Christ.

30 days more are required “to set up” the abomination of Desolation’s AI Network 666 membership only economy, 1,290 days.

“And from the time that the daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd ) sacrifice is taken away (05493 סוּר cuwr), and the abomination (08251 שִׁקּוּץ shiqquwts) of desolation (08074 שָׁמֵם shamem) is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NKJ)

Both the Beast and his image that will be set up are abominations causing desolation:

Part. שׁוֹמֵם the desolator (i.e. Antiochus Epiphanes [?]), Dan. 9:27. הַפֶּשַׁע שׁוֹמֵם (for פֶּשַׁע הַשּׁ׳), ibid. Dan. 8:13, the sin of the desolator, and שִׁקּוּץ שֹׁמֵם abomination of the desolator, Dan. 12:11.-Gesenius’ Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon To The Old Testament Scriptures (p. 835). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

And from the time when the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination of the destroyer set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NOY)

1,335 days

“Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (Dan. 12:12 NKJ)

The church is the Temple of God.

The Third Temple: Does scripture anticipate a future Jewish Temple?

The End Time Clock begins when it receives the “man of sin” false Christ as the Christ, that apostasy taking their daily sacrifice to Christ away.
https://endtimenews.net/daily-sacrifice-shall-be-taken-away/

At 1,260 days the “man of Sin” morphs into the Antichrist Beast Son of Perdition. And he breaks the covenant he made with “the many” earth’s religious people, that they could still worship anything called God. He now exalts himself above them all (Dan. 9:27; 2 Thess. 2:3-4).

At 1,290 days another aspect of the abomination of desolation appears, it is the Artificial Intelligence made in the Beast’s Image, Networked to him giving him god like “real time” control over the economy (Dan. 12:11; Rev. 13:11-18)

At 1,335 Days the Church is Raptured (Dan. 12:12; Rev. 14:14-16).

Then Michael and his angels gather all who repented and believed after the rapture and destruction of Gog and Magog (Ezek. 39:1-7; Dan. 12:1; Mat. 24:31).

At 2300 days the faith of the Church the Sanctuary of God is Vindicated, victorious, declared right:

And he said unto me, Until two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings: then shall the sanctuary be vindicated. (Dan. 8:14 DBY)

And he said unto me: ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be victorious.’ (Dan. 8:14 JPS)

And he saith unto me, Till evening — morning two thousand and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right. (Dan. 8:14 YLT)

Why do most translations refuse to translate this text literally? Translator bias, “this can hardly be said of the sanctuary”.

The Hebrew verb, weniṣdaq (the only occurrence of the niphal of ṣdq in the MT!) should mean “will be justified.” But this can hardly be said of the sanctuary.- Hartman, L. F., & Di Lella, A. A. (2008). The Book of Daniel: a new translation with notes and commentary on chapters 1-9 (Vol. 23, p. 227). New Haven; London: Yale University Press.

But it can be said of the Church the Sanctuary of God.

At 2,300 days (counting from the beginning of the seven year week), just before the Bowls of God’s wrath are poured out, the Israel of God will be celebrating in heaven. Their faith in God justified by God’s judgments being made manifest:

Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
3 They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!
4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.” (Rev. 15:1-4 NKJ)

Other Dates:

The Holy city is tread underfoot for forty-two months, while God’s two witnesses prophesy (Rev. 11:2-3). Then the Seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15) Beast ascends to slay them and continues ruling for forty-two months (Rev. 13:5). Adding the two equals a seven year “week”, alluding to Daniel 9:27 where the covenant is kept till mid-week, then desolations begin.

The two witnesses prophesy and Lady Zion is in “the wilderness” protected and nourished for “one thousand two hundred and sixty days” (Rev. 11:3; 12:6). As 1,260 days doesn’t appear elsewhere, this might link the two. The “nourishment” is the preaching of God’s two witnesses. Therefore the “wilderness” is where God’s Sanctuary now is because Jerusalem has become like that “great city Babylon” spiritually called Sodom and Egypt (Rev. 11:8). The TARES cast out from the wheat are trampling the outer court.

That makes the true church one of the “sects” within the Religious Harlot Babylon the Great, but being nourished by God and kept spiritually clean. Location within Babylon the Great affords the church political protection against the face of the Dragon (Rev. 12:14-17; 18:4). Unbelievers who dwell on “the earth” (including the TARES in the courtyard) greedily drank up the river of spiritism spewed at Lady Zion meant to carry her away into idolatry (1 Cor. 12:2. 2 Th. 2:7-12. Rev. 12:15-16).

A Recap:

Both halves of the End Time seven year “week” are described as “a time and times and half a time”. Lady Zion is nourished in the wilderness, at the altar of God for “a time and times and half a time” (Rev. 12:14) until the Beast ascends, slays the prophets, and destroys Babylon the Harlot (Rev. 17:16-18; 18:1-3). Although the church escapes Babylon’s destruction (Rev. 18:4) the Great Tribulation “wears out the saints of the most High” during the last “time and times and half a time” (Dan. 7:25; 12:7; Rev. 14:8-13).

We don’t know the day or hour our LORD returns (Mat. 24:36), but that is because God may cut the days short (Mat. 24:22; Mark 13:20).

That principle applies to events that aren’t about His Return.

While we can calculate the rapture will occur precisely 1,335 days after Moses and Elijah begin preaching (Dan. 12:12. Rev. 14:14-16) counting from the start of the End Time “week” (Rev. 11:3), God may “shorten those days” catching us by surprise.

The end time seven year “week” (Dan. 9:27) begins when the False Christ is accepted into the apostate church condoning sin (2 Thess. 2:3-4), the apostasy removing Christendom’s “daily” sacrifices and offerings to God (Dan. 12:7, 11). Multiple events happen at one thousand two hundred and sixty days. Moses and Elijah are slain when the man of sin morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction Antichrist opposing the very definition of God declaring his hybrid nature above all the “Elohim Designers” which in “Scientific Atheism” means he denies the Father and the Son like a true Antichrist.

At “mid-week” he ends all religious worship of any God save himself, at one thousand two hundred and sixty days or 42 months (Rev. 13:5) thus ending all other sacrifices to God worldwide (Dan. 9:27).

Evidently the Antichrist requires 30 days to set up his 666 idolatrous membership only economy, 1290-1260=30. Then for 45 days the Great Tribulation martyring all who refuse his mark begins in earnest. Blessed is he who endures to the end the church’s trial to 1,335 days (Dan. 12:11-12) for they will be raptured (Dan. 12:1-2. Mat. 24:13. 1 Cor. 15:52. 1 Thess. 4:16-17. Rev. 14:9-16). Rev. 14:13 extends the open-door policy to include any new believers who convert after the rapture, for 2,300 days counting from the beginning of the end time week. (Mat. 25:31-33. Dan. 12:1-2).

Perhaps the seven-year end time week be “shortened” lest no flesh be saved (Mat. 24:22; Mark 13:20).

But I personally believe the Dates, with the benefit of hindsight, after all what is predicted occurs, will be found precise, amazingly so.

The Daily Sacrifice shall be taken away: Daniel 12:11
The Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 Explained
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Excludes the Pretribulation Rapture
The Third Temple: Does scripture anticipate a future Jewish Temple?
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed




The Third Temple: Does scripture anticipate a future Jewish Temple?

third temple

The First Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar about 586 BC. The Second Temple replaced it only to be destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans. The Third Temple has yet to be built. Many believe Bible prophecy implies a Third Temple will take its place in the End Time.

The argument for a Third Temple by Professor John F. Walvoord is as follows:

On the basis of Matthew 24:15 with supporting Scriptures from Daniel, 2 Thessalonians 2, and Revelation 11:1, it may be concluded that Scriptures anticipate a future temple with a sacrificial system which will be under way at the time “the prince that shall come” exercises his authority, desecrates the temple, and establishes himself as the object of worship.- Walvoord, J. F. (1968). Will Israel Build a Temple in Jerusalem? Bibliotheca Sacra, 125, 99–106.

Not mentioned in the Professor’s argument is the changed reality created by the Advent of Christ, the creation of the “Israel of God“:

15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. (Gal. 6:15-16 NKJ)

That changes how Old Testament prophecy is to be interpreted, often in a way not suggested by the Old Testament context.

For example, Paul applies Hosea 1:9; 2:23 which context applies ONLY to Israel, to the Church (Rom. 9:24-26). Israel is now “enlarged” to Paul’s mind, Gentiles were grafted in (Rom. 11:17-20) to become one redeemed “Israel of God” (Eph. 2:11-13, 19; 3:6). Therefore, texts which the OT has fulfilled in Israel, are fulfilled in the Greater “Israel of God” which includes the church. Having been grafted in, the “wild olive tree” is now a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree (Rom. 11:17) and only when fulfillment is seen in all those once “not my people” Jew and Gentile (Hos. 1:9-10) that “all Israel will be saved” (Rom. 11:26).

[The words would be “sealed” to Hosea’s understanding, but unsealed to Paul knowing its application to the Israel of God.]

Another example, God makes a New Covenant with Israel in Jeremiah 31:33-34, but Paul applies it to the Church in Hebrews 8, because the Church is now part of the “Israel of God”. The context of the Old Testament however, applied this to “the house of Israel” and “house of Judah” (Hebrews 8:8-12), not Gentiles. Therefore, a “Biblically partial literal hermeneutic”, which omits the New Testament “Israel of God” reality created by Jesus Christ”, will fail to correctly interpret Jeremiah’s prophecy. The words are in effect, “sealed” until future New Testament revelation “unseals them”.

[One could suppose if Jeremiah saw in his vision the Israel of God while receiving the words of the prophecy, he would have been confused, the words being “closed up and sealed till the time of the end” (Dan. 12:9 NKJ). But Paul knowing the Christ Event, easily perceived its actual fulfillment. To Paul the words were unsealed.]

That is why Walvoord’s founding presumption is wrong. He interprets the Abomination of Desolation and its effect on the Daily Sacrifice solely as if it refers to Antiochus’ IMAGE in Daniel 11:31. THEN the need for a Temple is obvious. BUT the New Testament doesn’t look back at the Antiochus image, it looks forward to the ANTICHRIST PERSON who stands up where he ought not. Antiochus is not the Antichrist and he never did what scripture says the Antichrist will do.

Christ cautions us NOT to generalize the Abomination of Daniel 12:11 with Antiochus, when he prays “let the reader understand” (Mat. 24:15; Mark 13:14). The Abomination set up in the end time (Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14) is different than the image Antiochus set up. In the End Time the Abomination is a man; hestanding where he ought not” (Mk. 13:14 ESV), ἑστηκότα and δεῖ are masculine. Only the abomination in Daniel 12:11 (LXX) matches the precise Greek in Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14.

Absolutely lethal to Walvoord’s Biblically partial literal hermenutic, if the words describe an Antichrist who rises up in a Third Temple, why didn’t Daniel, enabled by God to understand enigma, dream and vision (Dan. 2:47; 4:8-9; 5:11-12), understand the words (Dan. 12:8). If Walvoord’s methodology is correct, why did our LORD say the words are “closed up and sealed?” (Dan. 12:9). That certainly is NOT what Walvoord is saying.

In other words, if the Antichrist rises in a rebuilt Third Temple and ends its Daily Sacrifice, what is “closed up and sealed” in these words (Dan. 12:7-11)? Answer: Nothing. Therefore, the Antichrist does NOT rise up in a rebuilt Third Temple, because the words ARE “closed up and sealed”. It was their “end time” fulfilment in the enlarged “Israel of God” which left Daniel confused (Dan. 8:27; 12:8).

“All scripture is inspired and beneficial for…correction” (2 Tim. 3:16)

The words are “closed up and sealed” to all using the “Biblically partial literal hermenutic” used by Daniel and Walvoord. Without the added New Testament Scripture revealing the “Israel of God”, the words remain “closed up and sealed”.

Only a “Biblically complete literal hermeneutic” can unseal the words of Daniels END TIME prophecies. When the LORD said they are “sealed until the time of the end” (Dan. 12:9), that implies end time information “unseals them”, not divine revelation.

While the Old Testament defines the Temple and Daily in a Jewish Context, the expanded “Israel of God” New Testament reality gives it wider application. The Church is the Temple of God for all those once called “not my people,” and its Daily Sacrifice is taking up the cross of Christ daily.

Only a “Biblically complete literal hermeneutic” that defines words literally according to usage throughout the Bible, where the Christ Event changed their application or meaning, is the “literal hermeneutic” used by the apostles Peter and Paul..

So how did the Advent of Christ and the expansion of Israel into the “Israel of God” “unseal” the words? The Temple of God is the Church, and its service in Christ is the Daily Sacrifice, IN THE END TIME when these prophecies are fulfilled.

Both Paul and Peter transfer Temple imagery, its priesthood and the Daily Sacrifice to the church. The Church the Temple of God (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21), its members are Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). Christians offer up “the Daily Sacrifice” (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1; Lk. 9:23; Heb. 13:15).

Other parts of Walvoord’s argument also fail upon close inspection. For example, the New Testament never hints the destroyed Temple will be rebuilt. If its so central to understanding end time prophecy, that is inexplicable. Against any possibility it will be rebuilt is God’s obvious wrath against it: “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). That total destruction implies God’s Wrath against it is eternal. In fact, that is expressly required by Hebrews 8:13. What is obsolete does not return, contradicting Walvoord’s conclusion totally:

In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (Heb. 8:13 NKJ)

Nor did the professor explain how Paul, an apostle of Christ, could call a Christ rejecting Temple built in the future “the Temple of God”. Its a fact of the New Testament, Paul ONLY calls the Church the “Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19. 2 Cor. 6:16. Eph. 2:21) even while the literal Temple in Jerusalem still stood. It is unsound special pleading to interpret 2 Thessalonians 2:4 otherwise.

As for the Temple in Revelation 11:1-2, it is not a literal Temple:

1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
(Rev. 11:1-2 KJV)

This Temple has only two compartments, the inner with the altar and worshippers, the outer given to the nations. That is unlike any Biblical Temple:

At Jerusalem the naos was the central temple building, which included an entrance hall, a forecourt, and an inner chamber, or holy of holies. This design was used for Solomon’s temple, the temple in Ezek 40–48, and the Herodian temple. In the first century CE a table, lampstand, and incense altar stood in the forecourt; the holy of holies was empty. The altar for burnt offerings stood outside the temple (Josephus, J.W. 5.216–25) -Koester, C. R. (2014). Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. (J. J. Collins, Ed.) (Vol. 38A, p. 484). New Haven; London: Yale University Press.

The apostates in Christendom are this outer court. They have been “cast out” (1544 ἐκβάλλω ekballo) from God’s presence and will soon be destroyed.

Therefore, Professor Walvoord’s argument was circular, it assumed what it hoped to prove, that the New Testament had to be forced to fit Old Testament definitions. Nothing in the New Testament suggests the Third Temple must be rebuilt.

The abomination of desolation in Daniel 11:31 is in the past, almost all commentators are agreed it was fulfilled by Antiochus IV about 164 BC. The Abomination set up in the end time (Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14) is very different than the image Antiochus set up. This one is a hestanding where he ought not” (Mk. 13:14 ESV), breathing, speaking and killing all who refuse to worship (Rev. 13:14-15). Only the abomination in Daniel 12:11 (LXX) matches the precise Greek in Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14. It follows from our LORD’s prayer “let him that readeth, understand” that we should not generalize and ignore unique details when reading this text.

The precise phrase Christ used “βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως”[1] (Mat. 24:15; Mk 13:14) is found ONLY in the LXX Daniel 12:11, and the Hebrew it translates is also slightly different than that found in Dan. 11:31:

Part. שׁוֹמֵם the desolator (i.e. Antiochus Epiphanes [?]), Dan. 9:27. הַפֶּשַׁע שׁוֹמֵם (for פֶּשַׁע הַשּׁ׳), ibid. Dan. 8:13, the sin of the desolator, and שִׁקּוּץ שֹׁמֵם abomination of the desolator, Dan. 12:11, i.q. βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως, 1 Macc. 1:54; 6:7 (either the altar or the idol which Antiochus caused to be erected over the altar of the temple at Jerusalem.) [But see, Matt. 24:14, as to the “abomination of desolation,” as something even then unfulfilled].-Gesenius, W., & Tregelles, S. P. (2003). Gesenius’ Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon To The Old Testament Scriptures (p. 835). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

The “Continual Sacrifice” ( תָּמִיד08548; ἡ θυσία 2378) διὰ παντὸς (“the sacrifice through all [day]”) ceases from “religious apostasy” (הוּסַ֣ר 05493; ἀποσταθῇ 868 lxx).[2]

In the NT Church, the “continual sacrifice” is the figurative offering of ourselves to God daily, in word and practice—it is the “taking up the cross of Christ daily” (Lk. 9:23):

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ (Comp. Mk. 9:49)

Compare:

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ

Therefore the ending of the “continual sacrifice” does not require the Jewish Temple, to be consistent with the rest of the New Testament it requires the Church the Temple of God (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19. 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21).

When the already fallen away Church receives Adonikam the “man of sin” as “the Christ” (2 Thess. 2:3-4), sacrifice and offering to the True God has ceased (Dan. 12:11). After he morphs into the Son of Destruction 666 Beast at 1,260 days, it takes another 30 days to fully set up his image the abomination of desolation, 1,290 days. The desolation caused by this “breathing” image is unlike any before it. As it is the image of the Beast, both are the Abomination (Demon filled) causing desolation, the “son of destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) aka the “Desolator” (Dan. 9:27; 12:11).

 

END NOTES
[1]Our Lord cautioned critical thinking was necessary. Analyzing this from every perspective and picking the solution that manifests elegance.

Jesus is God the Eternal Son, His perspective sees both fulfillments, that in the first century and that in the end time. Hence “let the reader understand” is written not just those hearing, but to US who read.

An abomination of desolation is any event or thing that causes the Temple of God to be desolate of God’s presence and consequently its valid use. It therefore can have dual fulfillment in the literal Temple, and the Church as the Temple.

The first century abomination can be found in two events, the pagan ensigns worshipped by the surrounding Roman armies (Lk. 21:20), Jerusalem being the holy place. Or the acts of the Zealots and Idumeans who took over the Temple and murdered thousands including the High Priest, installing “the clown Phinnas” in his place. Drunk in women’s clothing they celebrated. That was an abomination of desolation.

The abomination in the end time is a person “standing where he ought not.” (Mk. 13:14 ESV) What connection to an image does he have? In Revelation 13:15 the image of the Beast can breathe, kill any who don’t worship. Its given life by the dark arts of the false prophet, an abomination indeed. The 666 Beast himself therefore is the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not, in the holy place of the Church the Temple of God. When the fallen away church accepts him as “the Christ”, all sacrifice and offering to God ends because of their apostasy. At 1,260 days (Dan. 9:27; 12:7) the “man of sin” declares himself above every definition of God (2 Th. 2:3-4) and it takes him 30 days or on the 1,290th day (Dan. 12:11) the Quantum AI connected to every device is set up. This gives the Beast real time “God like” ability to see and hear everything, and react with deadly force anywhere if anyone try to resist. This abomination enforces his 666 Mark membership only economy (Rev. 13:15-18).

[2] Some insist it is unhistorical “the Daily” not refer to a sacrifice of lambs in a literal temple, or the “abomination of desolation” not be an idolatrous image like that of Antiochus. But it follows from Daniel’s not understanding the prophecy the words used have unfamiliar meaning (Dan. 12:9). What is the likeliest cause of Daniel’s confusion AND the unsealing of the meaning of the words in the end time? Only in the end time did reality uncover the additional meaning the words have. Daniel had no knowledge of the Church, that it would become the true Temple of God after the abomination of the crucifixion made desolate the Temple of the Shekhina Glory of God (Dan. 9:24, 26; Mt. 23:37-39; 27:51; 1 Ki. 19:11). He didn’t know Temple imagery and Priesthood were now properties of the Church.

Let’s consider this in reverse. The Word of God testifies Daniel had “an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences” (Dan. 5:12-16). So why was he confused about “the Daily” and the “abomination of desolation”? When prophesying about Antiochus nothing suggests he was confused then, so why in the end time prophecy are the words causing Daniel confusion? What unseals them in the end time? The only plausible answer to both questions, these words gained meaning unknown to Daniel that becomes known when end time events add new meaning to them.

God the Holy Spirit dwelt in Daniel (Dan. 4:8. Cp. Lk. 1:15) granting him “knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas (Dan. 5:12 NKJ).

So why didn’t Daniel understand his own End Time prophecy? Nothing in it was mysterious to him. The “holy” (06944 קֹדֶשׁ qodesh) “people” (05971 עַם `am), the “Daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd), the “abomination” (08251 שִׁקּוּץ shiqquwts) of “Desolation” (08074 שָׁמֵם shamem) are things he fully understood. Yet Daniel says: ” Although I heard, I did not understand” (Dan. 12:8):

9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise (07919 שָׂכַל sakal) shall understand. (Dan. 12:9-10 NKJ)

When Daniel asked for understanding he is NOT told prophets in the End-Time will unseal the words, rather “critical thinkers” in the End Time would understand”. The Hebrew שָׂכַל sakal means “to be prudent, be circumspect….to give attention to, consider, ponder”, i.e., critically think about every possibility that conforms to the text.

Therefore, Bible Believers aware of the modern context in which the prophecy unfolds are the wise who understand sealed words that confused Daniel.

For example, unknown to Daniel Christ’s apostles interpreted OT Temple imagery as applying to the Church. Believers in the Church became the priests sacrificing daily through their prayers and offerings and taking up the cross of Christ.

As Christ fulfilled the law the “continual” [08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd] sacrifice (ἡ θυσία δι παντoς, LXX) became a function of Christ’s ministry. Confirming this, the apostles apply Old Testament Temple imagery to the Church, calling it “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). We offer up “the Daily Sacrifice”::

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ

As we take up Christ’s cross daily (Lk. 9:23) our sacrifice and service is continual:

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ

Now that we have the “interpretive keys” to understanding the prophecy Daniel could not, lets interpret it:

7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, when the Man of Sin morphs into the 666 Beast (2Th. 2:3-4) at “mid-week”, all things will be fulfilled within three and a half years (Rev. 13:4-5. Seven years total).

8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand .

11 “And from the time that the daily of Christians is taken away by their apostasy (so the count begins at the start of the end time week), when the Man of Sin appears and is hailed as “the Christ”, there will be 1260 days. Then he morphs into the 666 Beast Adonikam at “midweek”. An additional 30 days passes when Britain and America join the Revived Roman Empire of the Beast and set up his 666 image mark membership only economy. To buy or sell his Mark must be on hand or forehead and all who refuse to take it will be slain (Rev. 13:11-18). 1260+30=1290 days.

This is the Great Tribulation, it will last 45 days during which most of the Church will be martyred. The Harlot Babylon’s religious ministry has no place in the New World Religion of the Beast so it is burned with fire (Rev. 14:8-12; 7:9-14).

12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days, for you will be raptured (Rev. 14:12-16).

13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.” (Dan. 12:7-13)

[3] Professor John F. Walvoord’s book “Jesus Christ Our Lord” is a tour de force exposition of God the Eternal Son. I thank God for the Professor’s insight into the scriptures, including biblical prophecy. I am in his debt. He showed incredible grace accepting the phone the call of a no body like me, wanting to thank him for making clear just how great Jesus art, God the Eternal Son. I am forever in his debt and nothing on this site implies otherwise.

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The Katechon Restrainer of the Mystery of Lawlessness: Who is He?

Katechon

The Katechon Restrainer: Who is He?

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. (2 Thess. 2:6-7 NKJ)

One of the most baffling problems in the New Testament and in eschatology is the identity of the “restrainer” in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7. Verse 6 has the neuter participle τὸ κατέχον (“what restrains”) and verse 7 has the masculine participle ὁ κατέχων (“he who restrains”). More than a dozen views have been proposed.-Powell, C. E. (1997). The Identity of the “Restrainer” in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7. Bibliotheca Sacra, 154, 320.

The context identifies who the Restrainer is. He restrains the “mystery of lawlessness” that “is already at work” (2 Thess. 2:6-7). What “secret power of lawlessness” is working in this context affecting the Thessalonians? The “spirit…word….letter as if from us” that upset the Thessalonians the “Day of Christ” had come. The “mystery of lawlessness” is spiritism and only God can restrain that. He is “what restrains” and “He who restrains’ Satan’s power inspiring delusions.

Spiritism had inspired so much false prophecy Thessalonians were beginning to “despise” all prophecy (1 Thess. 5:20). The apostle John saw the same events occur in congregations he pastored. So many “antichrists” rose up it reminded John of the end time “hour” during which the Antichrist arrives:

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.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. (1 Jn. 2:18-19 NKJ)

The “mystery of lawlessness” is the opposite of the “mystery of godliness” (1 Tim. 3:16), “sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth” (2 Thess. 2:13 NKJ).

Therefore, the “mystery” or “secret power” inspiring heresy and apostasy is spiritism.

God “sends” the deluding “energy of spiritism”(2 Thess. 2:11) when He “takes out of their way the decree” (cp. Col. 2:14) that has prevented Satan and his angels from fully manifesting themselves on the earth.

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. (2 Thess. 2:6-7 NKJ)

“The decree (enforced by the Holy Spirit) is taken out of the way” (2 Thess. 2:6-7 compare Col. 2:14). Revelation 9:1 refers to this event. A “star fallen from heaven”; what “restrained the fall of the Star (Rev. 9:1) was removed and it “free fell” (4098 πίπτω) to the earth. Now spiritual wickedness from heavenly places (Eph. 6:12) and from the Abyss are released onto the earth.

Removing the restraint of spiritism results in three “woes” (Rev. 9:12). The first woe was releasing the spirits of Demons imprisoned in the Abyss (Rev. 9:2-11). The second woe is removing what bound the four destroying angels in the Euphrates (Rev. 9:14-15). The third woe is Satan and his demons appearing on the earth after Michael and his angels cast them out of heaven (Rev. 12:7-12).

1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. (Rev. 9:1-3 NKJ)

John could not describe the appearance of the “locusts” precisely (Rev. 9:7-10), as he does the demon cavalry (Rev. 9:16-19). This implies they are incorporeal, “spirits of demons” that can’t be clearly seen. John can only approximate what they “look like” Rev. 9:7-10.

[John identifies their king as “the angel of the abyss”. He is the reason why these spirits of demons are imprisoned in the Abyss. Two names are given to this angel “Abaddon” and “Apollyon” (Rev. 9:11), both point to “the destroyer” (1 Cor. 10:10; Num. 16:46-49; Heb. 11:28 compare 2 Sam. 24:16). This “Destroyer” is the same “destroyer” God restrained from destroying if there was “blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts” during Passover (Exod. 12:23). The text doesn’t say the angel ascends out of the abyss with the demons. This “angel” is the “king” of those in the Abyss, and as Demons have only one king, its Satan. That fits 2 Thess. 2:3 where the “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) is called the “son of destruction (684 ἀπώλεια)”. In 1 Corinthians 5:5 Satan destroys the flesh of a sinner.]

The Second Woe is the demon cavalry under the authority of the four angels bound in the River Euphrates. This symbolizes the Nephilim army (corporeal as John describes them precisely) now permitted to enter our Matrix. Bound in the River Euphrates is symbolic of being restrained “at the border” of the Holy Land. The symbolism is clear, these leave the heavenly realm (TELEIOS) of the “sun rising” and enter our MEROS (1 Cor. 13:10), commanded by the “kings of the East” (Rev. 16:12).

The Third Woe is Satan and his angels (Nephilim) appearing on earth after Michael and his angels cast them out of heaven (Rev. 12:7-12). Then the End Time is just as it was in the Days of Noah, the Nephilim walk among men (Gen. 6:4).

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (Rev. 12:7-12 KJV)

When the decree of God restraining the mystery of lawlessness is removed (2 Thess. 2:6-7), the tsunami of spiritism is just as it was in the Days of Noah (Luke 17:26 cp. Mat. 24:29, 37).

Therefore, the Katechon is God the Holy Spirit. Only He could restrain the reappearance of the Nephilim on the earth, and release the demonic captives in the Abyss.

Context confirms this, the “secret power of lawlessness” is opposite of the “secret power of godliness”, God the Holy Spirit inspiring Sanctification in God’s Holy Word of Truth:

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, (2 Thess. 2:13 NKJ)

Notice how Paul contrasted those inspired by spiritism who did not love the truth, and those inspired by the genuine Holy Spirit who are sanctified by the Holy Spirit via God’s Word of truth (John 17:17). They are in juxtaposition, polar opposites opposed to each other:

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,
14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:9-14 NKJ)

In the end time many who believed themselves “Christian prophets” will hail the miracle working Adonikam as “The Christ”. Sometime after the “Elohiym” [Nephilim Fallen Ones] arrive, the miracle working false Christ “Man who condones Sin” morphs into the Big Mouth Beast, the Son of Perdition Antichrist, and the false prophets follow to their everlasting destruction.

On Judgement Day these apostates will Christ for Mercy claiming they knew Him:

22 “Many will say to Me in that day,`Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 “And then I will declare to them,`I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matt. 7:22-23 NKJ)

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