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HOUSMAIL HM010
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December 1998 IDENTIFYING THE ANTICHRIST This
morning the following question was posted on another E-mail list which I
receive. I thought it might be worth sharing my answer. QUESTION I
remember once being shown a video about "The Antichrist" where,
from what I could make out, a charismatic Jewish leader dressed in white
robes appeared on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem exhorting the people to
"cleanse the sanctuary", destroy the Mosque of Omar and reinstitute
the priesthood and temple services. A large Jewish crowd overpower the Arab
guards and arsonists set fire to the Mosque. Arab nations are outraged and
mass for war. Let
us say that this happened sometime in the next six months and was played out
on CNN. Jews and Christians are divided... Some say it is the Messiah... some
say the Antichrist. What
would we say? MY
ANSWER Personally,
I think my Historicist identification of the Antichrist, would be unshaken! Antichrist
has been around since the FIRST CENTURY! He is not one, but MANY! The world
has been living in the "LAST TIME" since John wrote his first
epistle! (1 John 2:18) Antichrist
is not a preacher of Judaism. (Nor is he a pagan.) Antichrist
is John's "many false prophets" of a "false christ". (1 John 4:1) He
is the many "christians" who have RE-INVENTED Jesus in a different
form. He
is the many "christians" whose "false christ" says
different things compared with the REAL CHRIST ..... who preach a "false
gospel" offering salvation on different terms, and who say different
things about the meaning of repentance and obedience! The
literal meaning of the word "antichrist" is "in place of Christ". In
English, "Vicar" means "in place of". "Vicar of
Christ" means "in place of Christ". I
would still point to the succession of men who have been known for centuries
as the "Vicar of Christ", as the MAIN prophets of "another
christ"! The
apostate system comprised of the "Mother" Church, and the
"daughter" Churches, are amongst John's MANY! (Revelation 17:5) Allon |