For more description of the Beast
of Revelation, popularly known as the Antichrist, see the prophet, Daniel’s
writing. Old Testament prophecies have an immediate context for the writer and
those who would have read or heard his prophecies and they have a future
context for us to consider. Think about how the Holy Spirit describes both the
king of Tyre and Satan in the same passage in Ezekiel 28:11 and beyond. If these
passages I’m going to read point ahead not only to an immediate tyrant like
Antiochus Epiphanes of history but also forward to the end times then we have
some information on this person.
First, he will regard himself
above any god, particularly the God of the Bible.
Daniel
11:36 And the king shall do according to
his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and
shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till
the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
He will
reject the God of his ancestors and he will not care for the desire of women
which could mean he is a homosexual. He places himself above any god.
Daniel
11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of
his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify
himself above all.
And if
this is a description of the Beast of Revelation he will honor Einstein’s god,
the impersonal, inert god of physical processes and forces, perhaps being an
atheist. It is hard to say.
Daniel
11:38 But in his estate shall he honour
the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with
gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
He will sit
in the rebuilt temple though declaring himself God as Paul calls him the son
of perdition.
2Thessalonians 2:3
¶ Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God.
We will only know for sure when it
happens and while the church is going to be spared God’s wrath the Bible does
not say they will be spared the wrath of the Beast, the Antichrist. However,
the question will arise, will the church still be on the earth when the Beast
begins his activities.?
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