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March 15, 2020 1:35 pm
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What you doing tonight well if you like most believers you probably wondered just who the antichrist might be today. Dr. David Jeremiah concedes that we can't know who the antichrist is, we can certainly know what is by exploring the seventh chapter of Daniel as he continues the series. The handwriting on the list. As David introduces today's message antichrist will you know when I started to teach the word of God in this subject would come up. I know it was in the Bible.
I actually believed it but the idea of a single individual gaining power over the nations of the world was was a little bit hard to believe that it is today. I mean the earth is a shrinking planet with ever-increasing needs and the Bible makes it clear that there will be a leader that will arise out of the world stage and take control over everything. It's not only the testimony of Daniel.
It's the testimony of the apostle Paul in the New Testament and other references to this are riveting were going to begin our study of that today as we talk about the antichrist. This is Daniel chapter 7 verses 15 through 28 and I hope you'll join us in the Scripture as we start this subject which is very intriguing to a lot of people. What does the Bible say about the one of the most popular indoor sports of theologians is to choose to identify the attic Christ spoken of by Daniel and by John when you survey the literature of the history books and what has been said about this subject. In times past, you could almost choose anybody want to and you find somebody who will agree with you before we look at the seventh chapter and what it has to say about the antichrist. I thought I would just share some of the ideas with you that have been put forth over recent days as to who this person might be. In fact, the role is so extended that the Edinburg encyclopedia listed 14 different people whom I qualifies the antichrist during the 1930s. In the early 1940s. Another very popular idea began to grow it came about because of the pamphlet that was circulated, identifying Adolf Hitler is the antichrist and the pamphlet was a little tract entitled the beast, the false prophet in Hitler and it was published in the year I was born 1941, and it was a very serious suggestion as to the fact that Hitler must be the antichrist. In fact, I'd like to give you a little test tell you prove to you that it must be Hitler I can do that if you just follow along with me not want to do this and I want you to cooperate while I'm doing it and after I'm done doing it. You stop doing it too all right.
So we stay together but you know over the book of Revelation. In the 16th chapter and the 18th verse were told that the number of the attic.
Christ is what 666 right. I've been on a few flights.
Flight 666 makes me nervous when I want to show you how you can prove that Hitler's antichrist are you ready for this. Obviously if the number of the antichrist is a three digit number. We have to deal with three digit numbers to demonstrate the reality of who this person is so if you start with three digit numbers. What's the first three digit number. What is a class C right if you have to know moralize the alphabet. You start with the number 100 and you say equals 100 B equals 101C equals 102 or 26 letters in the alphabet so you going to get from 100 to 125 each of the letters equaling a number all right with me. Now I want you know some very interesting H equals 107. I equals 108T equals hundred 19 L equals hundred 11 equals 104R equals 117 and if you add 107-108-1191 11 104, 117, it adds up to one single number 666 and so obviously there is the antichrist right eight members fun fact. If you do this right you can be the antichrist don't have to follow three simple rules when you use this science, which by the way is called the science of Jamaica. It was started earlier even before this whole thing happened. It's the science of equating a man's name with numbers and here the only rules you have to follow if you want to make it do what you wanted to do number one if the proper name doesn't work at a title number two.
If it doesn't work in English try Hebrew, Greek or Latin. I number three if those things work sheet on the spelling and if you do that you can make anybody the antichrist. I have seen some of the most ridiculous things I've studied the subject to demonstrate numerically who the antichrist is that you would believe it. And I haven't even touched the hem of the garment. You know what I'm convinced I'm convinced that 666 is the number of different interpretations of who the antichrist is something nobody knows what that number means nobody, and I don't personally believe everything I know what it means until God wants us to know what it means when God wants somebody to know what it means and I don't really think I'm to be worried about that, but when God wants somebody know what that means everybody will know what it means you would not believe the craziness that goes on in identifying who the antichrist really. I remember back during the Six-Day War. When the Jews were so victorious. There were some folks who said that Moshe Dion was the antichrist patch over so I wound and all that's one of the most tenacious candidates for the antichrist is Judas Iscariot you know that there are many folks who believe that Judas Iscariot will be the antichrist resurrected in the end times and biblical scholars of the name and rundown of men like MRD Han teach them and hear the reasons why it must be him. First of all, Christ designated Judas as a devil in John chapter 6 and verse 70 and it's the only place in the Bible were a human being was ever designated as a devil.
The fact that the son of perdition was used by Jesus of Judas in John 17 to and then it was used by Paul of the antichrist, and second vessel means 230 may not obviously must mean those two are the same one in Revelation 18.
Eight it says that the antichrist arrival will be a return trip to the earth because it's the beast that was and is not, and yet is or is another translation puts it, the beast that shall come. So, obviously, since Judas is Artie been here. He's gone enough to come back so he feels that requirement in Revelation 13, three relates that I had was wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed. We all know how Judas was wounded to death so MRD Han and other scholars tell us that the antichrist is Judas Iscariot some more modern and up-to-date ideas is that Christ might be our people like John F. Kennedy. I remember when that was a popular idea. Back in the 1950s 1956 to be exact, a Bible teacher identified John F. Kennedy as the antichrist and here was reasons you went through death and resurrection is a PT boat commander in the South Pacific during World War II. You know the story of the miraculous survival of John Kennedy in World War II. The second reason it was given for saying that he was the antichrist was a most unusual occurrence that is a Requiem mass was said for him when he was voted into the presidential convention and he received. Guess how many votes 666 votes when he was elected to the presidential convention and if you want to bring that up to date. You could add to that that he was shot through the head right and his brother was assassinated in the same way which gets even more interesting as you get over the book of Revelation and I want to tell you something folks that there were people during that long ordeal that many of us remember vividly when John F. Kennedy was lying in state and people were filing by there were people all over the world who expected that he would get up out of that coffin as the resurrected antichrist and began to rule the world course he did not. I suppose the most current popular candidate for antichrist is Henry Kissinger and I've heard all the numbers games on him to have people take out the luncheon proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the one by the number system and of course as you examine him in history, you discover that he was a veritable miracle worker and diplomacy. I don't care what you say about him or what you think about him. He did some unbelievable things as a diplomat as negotiators gathered in Geneva for the first peace talks in history between the high-level Arabs and the Jews. The ABC morning news of January 5, 1974 quoted an Israeli officer is saying quote the whole piece does not lie in Geneva but it lives wherever Henry Kissinger is." I could go on and on with what some have predicted, but it really is my purpose to satisfy the idly curious, or to gratify your love for the sensational. I don't know the antichrist is what I know what he is and I know that the Bible says that he is more than just an insignificant person who will appear sometime in future.
There is more than just a passing reference to him in the Scripture.
There is much information about him in the Bible. The seventh chapter of Daniel has set the stage for our understanding of this prophetic phenomena. It reminds us that the sovereign God is in control and he takes us through the steps of human government from the time of Daniel the prophet and the Babylonian kingdom to the end of human government when Christ the King returns, God gives us the whole scheme of things and into that scheme.
This individual fits.
Now if you want to understand the seventh chapter of the book of Daniel.
Let me give you little catchphrase that sort of like a signpost along the way to help you see some of the epics that are described here in the seventh chapter. The first use of this is in the second verse and it's this phrase I saw in my vision by night verse two I saw in my vision by night signpost one and what follows is Daniel's presentation of the three great kingdoms of the world babble in Medo Persia and Greece.
The second signpost is found in the seventh verse and again. It's the same one and after this I saw in the night vision and what follows is the vision that Daniel had of the fourth great kingdom which was the kingdom of Rome and which is still in essence alive and well, though it has been dispossessed of its authority and dominion the Roman kingdom is still alive.
It is never been taken over by a greater kingdom and the Bible teaches that when Christ comes back that it will be this final form of the Roman kingdom over which he is victorious and then the third use of this phrase is in verse 13 and I saw in the night visions, and behold, and then this is the introduction to the final chapter.
When Christ comes to rain upon the now listen carefully. The antichrist fits in till the last part of that second epic when you're clear down to the end of the final form of the final kingdom. The Bible says that a man, a Superman will arrives to take leadership over that final form of the Roman kingdom and that is the person we call antichrist. Now if you're taking notes and if you read the Bible you need to know that in the Bible this person's called by a lot of names and sometimes when you're reading to the Scripture if you don't know what names apply to him you going to confuse him with something else in the Scripture, let me just tell you that even in the book of Daniel. There are several names for the antichrist in the seventh chapter. He's called the little horn, the little horn. That's his name. The word horn is a word for power and authority and the concept of the little horn is that he starts out as an insignificant ruler, but he evolves into a great gigantic king when you move from the seventh chapter 2 the eighth chapter he gets a new name in the eighth chapter.
He's called the King of fierce countenance, that's his name in chapter 8. When you go from chapter 8 to chapter 9 gets another name he's calling chapter 9 the Prince that shall come, and if you go to chapter 11. He's called the willful King there's four names for this person in the book of Daniel alone when you come to the New Testament.
You enter into the book of Matthew in their he's called the abomination of desolation and in the writings of John the apostle.
He's called the antichrist and in the book of Revelation is called the second beast. Now if you don't know all these names and identify them with the antichrist you're going to get proxy all mixed up, so you need to get your glossary correct in your vocabulary right we cannot identify who this person is, but there are a number of plain marks which make it comparatively easy to recognize this person. Whatever the Scripture brings them before us in the Bible. And so it's these marks that we want to look at but before we do, let me ask you to think with me for a moment about the fact that though we believe that as Christians and as believers were going to be caught out of this place before the final manifestation of the antichrist that there are some things going on in our world today. That makes the study of this man very important to us this statement. I quote he said the truth is that the method of international committees has failed.
What we need is a person, someone of the highest order of great experience of great authority of wide influence of great energy let him calm and let him come quickly either a civilian or military men, no matter what is nationality, who will cut all the red tape and shut about all of the committees and wake up all the people and galvanize all the governments for whom we wait let him come quickly. The man we need is a man for whom we wait will take charge of the defense of the West once more. I say it is not too late, but it is high time letting come." What the man is saying is this, that the world is right for a leader who will come upon the stage of our world seem and command the respect and command the following of the world because nobody in the world seems to have the answer to our international problem in all the world is looking for someone to solve them.
And so when they had a Christ comes in by supernatural revelation begins to demonstrate that he has the ability to lead the world they will fall down at his feet. They will be so anxious to see them come the vacuum is been created when Mussolini was strutting in force across much of the Mediterranean world.
He was asked one time to explain his swift rise to power. You know what he said. He said I found Europe full of empty throne rooms, and I simply walked in and took one of them."
That's the way to be in the end time the antichrist will come and find a vacuum of world leadership and you walk in to that place people will be hungry for someone to follow. He's going to be that kind of a person for a number of reasons. I just like to suggest some of them to you. Look at the seventh chapter disorders an outline and will come back to it later.
Number one, this man called antichrist that we don't know who he is. We know what he is in the first thing we know about him is he's a charismatic leader is a man with great charisma, charismatic leader, he will be a great public speaker.
Verse eight tells us that verse eight says yes, a mouth speaking great thing.
Verse 20 says he has a mouth that speaks very great things. Verse 25 says he shall speak great words against the most high. If you study the 13th chapter of the book of Revelation, which is the comparative study to the seventh chapter of Daniel Revelation 13, five, says, and there was given onto him a mouth speaking great things. In fact, a little bit later on in the program of antichrist establishes an image that everybody supposed to worship and even his image speaks some folks think he does it through ventriloquism. Some folks think it's demon possession. I don't what it is but this man is a man of great oratorical power. Someone has said that the antichrist will be noted for wonderful eloquence.
He will be able to capture the attention and the admiration of the world you will be able to move the masses.
Someone has said he will be like Melanchthon William Jennings Bryan and Gladstone all wrapped up in men and women every silver tongue liberal orator and atheist is a forerunner of Batman ever heard liberals were great orators never heard him great liberal pastors great great in the sense of their renowned you come away so will until you realize that you know what they said they just seem to say it well. That's the way the antichrist will be great swelling words of oratory. He will be able to use the media.
I believe you be able to stand in front of the television cameras and move the masses in everyone hears them speak will be caught up in his charisma is a great speaker. I remember back some years ago, listening to the orations of some of the great political men and realizing that we don't have many men like that these days.
So when this man comes on the scene with his charisma in front of the cameras in front of the masses and is able to weld these masses into activity all the people will follow him. The Bible goes on to say that not only will you be a tremendous speaker, but there will be something about him physically that's attractive. It says in verse 20 that is more stout than his fellows in the word stout.
There is a word which means to be abundant in size and rank, sometimes in the Bible it has to do with being a captain or T4 Lord is a man of high rank or of impressive appearance like Saul in the Old Testament was head and shoulders above his fellows. This man when he walks into the presence of others will immediately capture their attention. There's something about him is a charisma as he speaks about his very person that will attract people by any human magnetism to follow him.
That's what you been charisma leader. Secondly, I want you to notice that not only will he be a charisma clean up when he'll be a clever leader, this man will be the master politician of all history. The greatest diplomat who ever lived. Verse 20 says he has eyes that phrase is a reference to his mental ability to his intellect to his cleverness, he will be able to solve the problems of the world with his cleverness with his wisdom, good illustration of that's in the eighth verse it says in verse eight that he's going to rise up at the time of the 10 King Confederation and he will subdue three other kings and verse eight describes it graphically. It says I consider the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn before home. There were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots of what this is talking about is that there are three other powers involved and that the antichrist moves in and he replaces those powers in the Scripture says he plucks them up by the roots, which sounds rather cataclysmic, but it's not that at all. The phrase the plucked up by the roots means literally to squeeze out push out by subterfuge to come in and cleverly replace. So somehow, politically, diplomatically, cleverly, the antichrist will move in and he will get three kings together and somehow he will politically maneuver them until he interrogates the power they have to sell, replaces them, and he stands now in their place is a clever politician. We have a lot more about him tomorrow.
Actually, tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday as we talk about who he is and then Wednesday and Thursday what he does and I'm think there's any prophetic subject that creates more interest than when you talk about this guy, because we all know it's coming and we can see how the nations are getting in a position where they would be susceptible to such such a curse that will see right here tomorrow as we continue our discussion of the book of life in the middle of it so you don't want to miss seventh chapter is really key chapter will see right there tomorrow for more information on Jeremiah ceilings the handwriting on the please visit our website David Jeremiah adult/radio we offer two free ways to help you stay connected monthly magazine Turning Points and our daily email devotion sign-up today and David Jeremiah adult/writing David Jeremiah adult/radio we need to be sure to ask you a copy of David's helpful houses to questions about living in the last square gift of any amount you can also purchase the Jeremiah study English standard version.
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