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ANTI-CHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET (3 OF 6)

by Zach Terry

Scripture: Matthew 24, Daniel 7
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Anti-Christ and False Prophet (3 of 6)
Series: The Second Coming
Zach Terry?
Matthew 24, Daniel 7


INTRODUCTION: Since the completion of the New Testament there have been hundreds of people accused of being Anti-Christ. Nero, Hitler, Bin Laden.There were a couple of kids at VBS this year that I thought would make good candidates for anti-christ. ??The title Anti-Christ referring to a specific individual is only used one time in scripture, that is in 1 John 2:18. In other places he is called -

- Daniel - Desolator, Willful King, Little Horn?- Paul - man of sin, son of perdition, man of lawlessness ?- Zechariah - Worthless Shepherd?- Revelation - The Beast

Text: Matthew 24:15-16 (ESV)

15 ''So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Jesus identifies the revealing of Anti-Christ as the decisive moment when the Great Tribulation will begin. Now he may be on the scene now, but we cannot say for certain who he is until he sets up his throne on the temple mount.

We can gain some insight in to where he will come from and how he will arise throughout the OT.

DANIEL - In Daniel 7 God gives a vision of 4 great kingdoms that will rise up and persecute Israel.

Daniel 7:1-8 (ESV)

1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. 2 Daniel declared, ''I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

?Sea in biblical languages is often used to refer to the Gentile Nations.

3 And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.

Beast 1 -

4 The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two ...

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