The Antichrist Revealed!

The identity of the antichrist has been revealed! As has the mark of the beast! Now what are they? Thankfully, the Bible gives us several key characteristics that there is only one possible option for who the antichrist is. Now one fundamental principle we need to lay down for this study is how Daniel chapters two, seven, and eight all parallel each other. They simply use different symbols to discuss the same topic, each time with additional details.

Now in Daniel chapter two, God gave Nebuchadnezzar and then Daniel a dream. The dream was this statue detailing the history of the ancient world, and even on down to our time as well. Babylon was followed by Medo Persia. They were followed by Greece. They were followed by Rome.

They were followed by medieval and modern Europe. The kingdom of God will follow that. In Daniel two and seven, Babylon is the head of gold and the lion with wings. Medo Persia comes next, followed by Greece, followed by Rome. In Daniel seven gives us an added detail telling us that Rome has two stages.

First, there is imperial or pagan Rome, and then they turn into religious papal Rome. Daniel eight shares all the same information, except by the time Daniel eight was written, Babylon had fallen, so they are not in that chapter. Here's another chart that may help you understand more. So in Daniel seven, we start in verse 23 going on to verse 25 to identify who the antichrist is. First off, the Bible says that this would be a different kind of kingdom.

He would devour the whole earth. He would try to conquer the world. Now if we look at the kingdoms that came before, we have Babylon, Greece, Medo Persia, Rome, Pagan Rome. These are all warlike empires, very bloodthirsty empires. But this would be a different or diverse kingdom.

So there's something significantly different about who the Antichrist and his kingdom is. Now I will tell you who it is now, and as the study goes on, you will see how the Bible supports it. The Antichrist of Bible prophecy is none other than the Roman Catholic papacy. And so whoever is acting in the office of pope, they are the current acting Antichrist. Right now, it's Pope Francis.

Now the Bible goes on to say that these 10 horns that the that Daniel saw in this vision are 10 kings. So right away, the Bible is explaining itself. Anytime you see a horn in Bible prophecy or a beast or a mountain, but in this case a horn, it's talking about a king or a kingdom. And these 10 kings parallel the feet and the toes of Daniel chapter two. And it says that after these kingdoms would arise, this diverse king would.

And one of the fascinating and interesting parts of pagan Rome is it was not conquered from the outside, it crumbled from the inside. And as that crumbling process was happening, these barbarian tribes came from other parts of Europe, and they carved out kingdoms for themselves from Roman territory. These would be the tribes that would eventually morph into the niece the nations of Europe. These nations were the Visigoths. They became Spain.

The Anglo Saxons became England. The Franks became France. The Alemanni became Germany. The Burgundians became Switzerland. The Lombards Italy.

The Suebi Portugal. Now the Bible goes on to say that this little horn power would arise and subdue three kings. Now this happened over a period of years, but they were done being conquered by May. In fact, you can't find them today. These three tribes or horns or kingdoms that were conquered are the Heruli, the Ostrogoths, and the Vandals.

The Bible goes on to say that this horn would speak. It would have a man at its head. The Roman Catholic Vatican has a man at its head. It goes on to say that he shall speak pompous or great or blasphemous words against the most high. Now in the Bible, there are two definitions for blasphemy.

According to Luke five twenty one, one definition for blasphemy is claiming that you have the right to forgive sins that were not committed against you. And in John ten thirty three, the other definition for blasphemy is claiming to be God when you are not. Now Jesus could claim to be God because he is God, but the papacy has always claimed to be God in the flesh, and they claim the right to forgive sins that were not committed against them. Those are the blasphemous words the Bible speaks about. Bible goes on to say that this antichrist power would wear out the saints of the most high.

Over a period of about twelve hundred and sixty years from May to seventeen ninety eight AD, the Roman Catholic Vatican persecuted everyone who would not bow down to their ungodly demands. In fact, it is estimated through historical records that the papacy is responsible both directly and indirectly for the martyring of between 50,000,000 and a 150,000,000 people. The Bible goes on to say that this antichrist power would think that they could change times and laws. Why do Christians keep Sunday? It's because of the antichrist.

They claim the papacy claims that they have the right to change the Sabbath from one day to another. And the Sabbath is the only commandment of the 10 that is both a time and a law. Now the Bible goes on to say that the saints of the most high will be given into his hand until a time, times, and the dividing of times. Mathematically, this works out to three and a half years. Now here's where we need this chart.

In the bottom left of this graphic, you can see that a day in Bible prophecy equals a year of literal time. Now if we go by the Jewish reckoning of what a year is, when we add three and a half years, that is twelve hundred and sixty days or twelve hundred and sixty literal years. This time period started, according to the Bible, in May when they conquered the last of those three horns that the Bible says they plucked up by the roots. And if we add twelve hundred and sixty years to May, then we get to 1798. We'll come back to that date shortly.

For now, let's go to Revelation 13 and look at the remaining characteristics to identify beyond the shadow of a doubt who the antichrist is. First off, the Bible describes this antichrist power as having different elements of all the beasts from Daniel chapter seven. And remember, the Vatican is a religio political power, so it is diverse or different from all the kingdoms that came before it. And so it would incorporate all of the religious elements from these ancient pagan religions into its own. Now John says that he saw a beast rise up out of the sea.

Now according to Revelation 17 verse 15, seas represent a highly or densely populated area. So this antichrist power, this religio-political power would rise up in a densely populated area. And remember, Daniel seven and Daniel two says it would happen in medieval Europe. And sure enough, the papacy arose in Italy in the middle of densely populated Western Europe. The Bible goes on to say that the dragon would give the antichrist his power, his seat, and great authority.

The dragon is defined in Revelation 12 as Satan himself. So the antichrist, the papacy is controlled by none other than Satan himself. Now the Bible goes on to say in Revelation 13 verse three that this antichrist beast power would receive a deadly wound, but that the wound would be healed, and all the world will wonder after the beast, wonder as in cognitive. Now if we go back to this chart and zoom in on the twelve hundred and sixty years, again, it goes from May to 1798. In 1798, the French army sent their general into the papacy and took the pope captive.

This was the deadly wound. The Catholic church has never since enjoyed the same level of influence or power since. But as we said, the Bible says their deadly wound will be healed. And if you Google the papacy, specifically pope Francis, you see exactly that. He has been traveling the world for years, trying to make amends with all the different religions that they have persecuted in the past.

The entire world is looking to the pope for the various solutions they want for their countries. Some countries want him to solve their economic problems. Some countries want him to solve the climate problems of the world. But almost everybody is looking to the papacy to solve their problems. The deadly wound is almost healed.

Now as we talked about earlier, one of the characteristics is that it is very blasphemous. We talked about those two things. But also when we look at the title of the pope, it's Vicarius Fili Dei or Vicar of the Son of God. And you take these Roman numerals and they add up to six six six. And the Bible says that the number of the beast is six six six.

So now that we know who the beast antichrist is, what is their mark? They claim that their mark of ecclesiastical authority is changing the Sabbath from Sabbath to Sunday. Sunday is going to be the mark of the beast. Pope Francis, again, has been working for years to make this happen all over the world. He has been calling for a Sunday law for years as the papacy has been doing for decades, if not centuries.

Nobody who keeps Sunday has the mark of the beast yet. It is not yet the mark of the beast. It will become the mark of the beast when the nations of the world enforce it by law. What about you, my friends? Will you accept the mark of the beast, or you accept the seal of God?

THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST

The United States and American Protestants are going to try and force you to accept the mark of the beast. There is so much debate on who the antichrist is, and watch the video that this is in response to to learn who the antichrist is and what the mark is. But who's the false prophet, and who's gonna help them tie it all together? In Revelation 13, we find two beasts. The first one is the antichrist, the Roman Catholic Vatican.

The second one is none other than The United States Of America. Now as we have arlready talked about, there was a prophecy in the Bible known as the twelve hundred and sixty days. And if we study these texts right here, what we find is that in Bible prophecy a day of prophetic time equals a year of literal time. So this twelve hundred and sixty day prophecy in the bible is actually a literal twelve hundred and sixty years. This prophecy is also listed in the bible as the time, time and half of times, three and a half years and forty two months.

It's all the same prophecy. And as we discussed in the last video, if you have questions, watch that one, then come back to this one. The twelve hundred and sixty years began in May when the Roman Catholic Papacy destroyed the last of those three kingdoms that stood in its way. Thus began the famous period of history known as the Dark Ages or Medieval Europe. This went on until the year 1798 when as Revelation thirteen three says, the papacy received its deadly wound experience.

That was when the French general marched into the Vatican, took the Pope captive, and he died in exile. And the Vatican has never since enjoyed the same power, but the bible says that deadly wound would be healed. And if you follow the papacy, especially in the last twenty or thirty years, major inroads have happened. For example, back in, I think, it was 2015, pope Francis spoke to United States Congress, which was completely unheard of before that. But around the time that they lost their power, that deadly wound experience, the bible tells us another nation was rising up.

It says in Revelation thirteen eleven, I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. Now remember according to Revelation 17 verse 15, waters represent densely populated areas, and therefore earth represents quite the opposite. So around the time that the papacy received its deadly wound there was a nation rising up out of the symbolic earth around that time in a sparsely populated area and they did not conquer another nation. It says coming up out of the earth, growing like a plant is the is what the Greek pictures for us. Then it says this lamb like beast had two horns like a lamb.

Now, remember according to Daniel seven, horns represent kings or kingdoms. So, these two horns represent two different sides of a kingdom. When The United States was founded, it was founded on two main principles, and simplified those are civil and religious liberty. The founding fathers of The United States Of America wanted a nation without a king and a church without a pope. However, the Bible says that this nation would begin to speak as a dragon.

According to Revelation 12, the dragon is none other than Satan himself. Now how does a nation speak through its laws? So Bible is telling us that The United States will eventually pass laws that simulate the dragon speech, and the Bible gives us a strong indication of what those laws will look like. It says that The United States will exercise all the power of the first beast that came before him which we discovered in the last video is again the Roman Catholic Papacy, the Vatican. And The United States will force not only its own citizens, but all the earth to worship the first beast.

This is after the deadly wound is healed. It's not quite fully healed yet, but almost. Now you may say how is that possible The United States is a guardian of religious freedom? Yeah, it used to be, but it's moving away from that. Now you will rarely hear me speak about politics, I hate politics with every fiber of my being because it's so divisive.

But I will speak about politics when they fit bible prophecy. And no, I don't identify with any branch of the political spectrum. Now for the last over two hundred years, the Vatican has been trying to figure out how to get that power back that they lost. And this is where pope Francis has been so successful in bringing many of the world's religions under his umbrella. He's gone to see Muslims, Mormons, Lutherans, and all other kind of religions.

In fact, there have been packs signed between certain protestants and the Vatican agreeing that the protest is over. If you are a true Christian seeking truth, you will protest what the Vatican is doing eventually, sooner or later. And another important point to bring out is that the United States government is largely controlled by people who identify as Catholics. President Joe Biden, he's a Catholic. In addition to that, the supreme court is comprised by nine people, six of which are Catholics.

Only one is a Jew and only one is a Protestant. And people may still wonder how is this going to happen? We don't know exactly the events that are going to lead up to this, but the Bible does give us some strong indications. There will be false miracles, there will be a false revival, we're going to see some weird stuff. The last few years have been so weird I've seen jokes online saying stuff like I wouldn't be surprised if aliens split open the sky.

And while we're not gonna have any visitants from other worlds, what we are gonna see is some very strange things. We're gonna see fire fall from heaven. We're gonna see those false revivals and those false miracles. And because most Christians don't study their Bibles, they're going to fall for a hook, line, and sinker. But how is The United States going to pass these laws?

What's the method? What's the controlling factor? This is where the false prophet comes into play. A prophet in the Bible, true or false, is a religious figure who claims to speak for either the true God or a false God. Now because we're dealing with prophecy here, we're not talking about a literal individual figure.

We're talking about a group. The Bible says that there will be an image to the beast. What's an image? An image very simply is a replication of an original. Now, since this is an image to the beast, what we're going to see is a religious power here in The United States that replicates all the principles of the Vatican.

And the Bible says these false miracles, these false revivals are going to lead to this creation of the image of the beast. Now because this is religious, what we're talking about here is apostate American protestants. And if you've noticed, the evangelical world in particular has been extremely politicized over these past several decades. I'm sure you've heard the claim, you're not Christian if you vote for this. You're not Christian if you vote for that.

When my friends Jesus told us, his kingdom is not of this world. As Christians, if you want to read about politics, if you want to vote, whatever, keep your mouth shut. Preach the gospel, not politics. And I say that on the authority of the word of God. Our business is not to get involved in the governments of the world.

Our business is to get involved in the kingdom of God. It is this politicizing of the Christian world, especially here in The United States, that is going to lead to the mark of the beast. By nature, the Roman Catholic Vatican is two things. It is religious and it is political. It is a union of church and state.

So the image to the beast will be the same exact thing. Apostate American Christianity will seize control of the United States government, and they will force congress to pass the mark of the beast. Again, if you don't know what that is, if you come across this video for the first time, go back to the video before this, you can find it linked below in the comment, or the caption rather. The mark of the beast is when the United States government controlled by apostate Christianity here in this country, it's when they force Sunday sacredness on first this nation and then the world by law. Now one of the things that the book of Daniel shows us in the stories of of Daniel two, in the story of Daniel six, and Daniel five, is that world governments have no right to get religious.

They have no right to pass religious laws. They are secular and only secular. Now if those leaders wanna serve God, then fine. But they have no right to pass religious laws except they protect religious liberty. And the Bible says these powers combined, The United States, the Vatican, the false prophet will cause everybody, almost everybody, to accept the mark of the beast.

Now just as The United States was able to ration, different things during World War two, for example, they're going to do it again. They're going to control buying and selling. How will that look like? We don't know, but we know it will happen because the Bible says it will. They won't be able to buy and sell.

God's people will suffer those economic sanctions first, and then comes the death penalty. The Bible says that as many as would not accept the mark of the beast, that would not worship the image of the beast, they will be allowed to be killed. Yes, my friends. The United States Government is going to become so corrupt that they will allow anybody and everybody to kill those who refuse to accept the mark of the beast. Now Revelation twenty two eleven gives us the indication that at this point God's people will not be allowed to die, because he has only allowed his people to die when it's resulted in the conversion of other people.

So this is not something we have to fear my friends, but it is something we need to prepare for. Trust Jesus now.