there are 25 different titles for Antichrist in Revelation 25 25 he's called the man of sin the Lawless one you can just go right through and and um all of these titles are meant to give us a little glimpse into his character his personality he is the most wicked most awful person I mean take Hitler and Stalin and MSY Tong and all those people wrap them all up to one and then multiply them and you won't even come close to the awful uh character of this man and he's going to gain control of this world
and everyone will be under his domination because if they aren't they won't be able to function so David our audience curiosity my curiosity is um where does this man come from what can you tell us about us about him based on biblical Revelation all right I believe he comes out of the European Coalition the Bible says that early in his in his uh career he takes power over three nations and then with those three nations he gets power over the Europe European Coalition and then ultimately comes to power over all the world and uh when
we talk about the false prophet in a few moments you'll learn that his his uh strategy for gaining control of the world is to provide a license for everybody basically be alive uh we call it the mark of the beast but basically this license was set up to control the economy of the world and and the way the way you qualified to be able to eat and sell and buy and all of that was to worship the Beast who is the Antichrist the beast from the sea and so there that's where we get the mark
of the beast and and he he gain gains control over all the world here's the key thing that he does he makes a covenant with Israel at the beginning of his career and he promises to protect them from all of their Arabic enemies and and and and so Israel goes back home and they they kind of disarm they use all of their inventiveness and try to rebuild their economy and the Bible says while they're at peace he comes in in and he breaks the Covenant that he had made with them so the peace treaty is
is is is negated at the end of three and a half years he comes in and he violates their Temple he comes in and he destroys he see when he makes the Covenant he says you can continue your worship at the end of the three and a half years he says that's it no more I'm going to be worshiped now you you don't worship anymore and and what the Bible calls the the Abomination the of desolation the Antichrist actually goes into the Jewish temple I mean this is hard to comprehend he goes into the holy
of holies he removes all the furniture and he sets up a statue in the holy of holies which is an idol unto himself and he requires the whole earth to Bow Down and Worship what degree of persecution does uh does Antichrist uh Empower you know it's interesting this a very insightful question because it's not just all uh overt persecution just stop and think about it for a moment if you can't buy and you can't sell you can't pretty soon you don't have any food and my my belief is that many of the people during the
tribulation are going to die from starvation because there won't be any way they will not be able to participate in the economy of the world and they won't be able to eat and so little by little they will they will they'll die so we embody the most cruel of of of uh leaders empowered by sa Satan Satan yeah who has now assumed control of the world right just as God has a trinity Satan has a trinity an Unholy Trinity Satan responds to God the Father the Antichrist responds to God the Son and the false prophet
responds to God the holy spirit so you got an Unholy Trinity empowered by Satan and their purpose is to do evil at its greatest ever unpack a little bit about this false prophet is it a is it someone with a theological background someone who seen as a religious type figure I mean there are all kinds of theories right but his whole purpose is not religious his the religious leader the false prophet really becomes the economic Zar under the lead under the rulership of the Antichrist and he manages he's religious and he's the religious leader and
the economic leader and he's the one who enforces the mark of the beast he's the one who causes everybody to bow down to the Antichrist he's the worship leader really he makes them worship the an Christ and if they don't they don't get a Mark if they if they have a mark they've already capitulated to worship the Beast something's got to happen here right what happens well the first thing that happens is the Antichrist is now in control and he can ultimately finally do what he wants to do he's going to March against Israel and
wipe them off of the earth what um the uh former president of Iran said he wanted to do the Antichrist will now determine to do he will March will March toward he will March toward Israel and then all of a sudden he'll begin to start hearing things that are happening other armies are coming toward him from the north from the south the Eastern Army is coming across the Euphrates river and he has to stop for a moment and try to deal with that well he does and to kind of fast forward as quickly as we
can all of a sudden all of these armies are together and there is a new opponent that they weren't apparently aware of the Lord Jesus Christ comes back and these enemies that were fighting each other now have a common opponent so they all come together to fight against Jesus Christ and what we call the battle of Armageddon I've seen where that's going to take place in Israel it's the most marvelous battle field you've ever seen right but all of a sudden all these armies are together and Jesus Christ comes back and so the Antichrist leads
the armies of the world against Jesus Christ and the Bible tells us that that Christ comes back with his holy ones and with all the angels and Christ by the breath of his mouth I tell our people when I preach this he goes yeah and all the rebellious people of the Earth are destroyed and it's such a great destruction that the 19th Chapter of Revelation says God has to summon the birds of the air from all over the Earth to come and clean up the Carnage that's created is that seen there at armagedon is that
what we refer to as the apocalypse is that that apocalyptic moment when Jesus Christ is finally ultimately revealed to the whole that's the apocalypse the revealing of Jesus all right so Jesus comes destroys uh Antichrist takes down the uh uh takes down the Weaponry takes all the Allies everything the coalitions all fall apart what happens then next according to the word of God all all of those who rebelled against the Lord are destroyed and only people left on this Earth are people who are believers in Christ or followers of Christ right the um the Carnage
is cleaned up and Jesus Christ comes and he sets up his kingdom on this Earth it's called the Millennium which is a word which is easy to remember it's made out of two words Mill which means a thousand and Anam which means years so the Millennium is a thousand years Jesus Christ sets up his kingdom on this Earth and all those who were followers of him are there and the Bible says those of us who lived in uh were raptured will be with him and will help him administrate what goes on during the Millennium and
King David will be his vice Regent and it's going to be that's one of my favorite chapters because everything that was in Eden and was destroyed by the Fall now comes back and it's even better but then there is the biblical revelation of Jesus Christ the judge and uh there is a there are several judgments in the Bible but this one you refer to is it the great white Throne judgment just as there are no unbelievers at the Judgment seat of Christ there are no Believers at the great white Throne all unbelievers of all time
will stand before the judge of all the Earth and give an account oh of themselves and the Bible says and the books will be opened and they will be judged out of the books and the books aren't listed in the Book of Revelation but if you read the scripture carefully you begin to pick up on some of them uh there's there's the book of their life what they did with their life their words their conscience but the most important book is The Book of Life and the Bible says in Revelation chap 20 and if their
name is not found written in the Book of Life the Lamb's Book of Life they will be cast into the Lake of Fire and and suffer forever and ever so there is the future of ones who do not know Christ right what about the future of Satan uh this horrible terrible harassing accusing creature well let me tell you about Satan and his and his buddies at the end of the tribulation at the at the battle of Armageddon the false prophet and the Beast are cast into Hades that's what the Bible says right I'm just I'm
just telling you what the scriptures is right there sure then a thousand years happens Satan's still there he's bound but he's not been cast into the lake of fire yet at the end of the of of the millennium the Bible says he joins his two buddies in the Lake of Fire they actually are in hell for thousand years before he is and they become the first inhabitants of hell and the Bible says those who have rejected Christ and have followed Satan in his ways who have taken the mark of of the beast in order that
they might escape the Judgment they will be cast into that Lake of Fire along with Satan and the false prophet and the Beast and that's a very uncomfortable thing for people to say say but I like to remind everybody that if God did not do that he couldn't be God if God could passively stand by and watch the evil that we're beginning to see even in our world today and do nothing he would disqualify himself as the god of the earth he must do right and even though we we know he does right with love
and mercy and Justice he also does right with judgment and at the end his judgment will be poured out then what happens then the Bible says this is this is momentous it's just the Bible says that the kingdom of our of Our Lord will be delivered unto the Father the whole if you read the the stories and Dwight Pentecost says there's more in the Bible about the Millennium than any other subject in Prophecy if you read all of the Old and New Testament scriptures about the Millennium and the and the beauty of it and I
think in my chapter I have like 10 or 11 characteristics of the Millennium people live to be old they have children uh when they're 100 years old and there's no death and there's no sickness and the Millennium is just this pristine thing that in in the back of our mind we we look for that's just going to be extended for eternity and it's called Heaven God has a plan and it's laid out for us in the scripture some of it is dark but in every dark place there's always a parenthesis of his grace and mercy
God never leaves us without a witness even during the tribulation he sends 144,000 people and two Mega witnesses to this dark Earth because of his love and and his compassion for people if you don't get to heaven it won't be because God doesn't want you there he's done everything he knows how to do everything that can be done including giving his own begotten son to pay the penalty for your sin and mine so when you stand before the Lord someday and he says to you why should I let you in my heaven I hope you'll
be prepared to say because I received your son the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior and my substitute and he has promised me the gift of eternal life and if you haven't done that wherever you are as you watch this and listen to this the whole purpose of this is not to make you smarter about Revelation but to help you know that God loves you that Christ died for you that he paid a way for you to go to heaven and you have to make your reservation in the here and now because after you die
it will be too late is it appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment [Music]
