THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ANTICHRIST (4 OF 8)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
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The Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (4 of 8)
Series: The Church in the Last Days
Jeff Schreve
2 Thessalonians 2:2:3-12
The year was 175 B.C. A man came to power in the Greek Empire, Seleucid Dynasty of the Greek Empire. He reigned for 11 years. He was famous for two things. Number one, he almost took over Egypt. And number two, he brutally attacked, persecuted, terrorized, and murdered the Jews. He tried to eradicate Judaism from the land of Israel. History records that this man was Antiochus IV. He came into the temple, that very, very sacred place where the holiness of God was. He raided the temple of all its artifacts that were valuable, silver and gold and bronze, took all that. Then he erected an altar to Zeus. In the temple, in the Holy of Holies, he sacrificed a pig on the altar. When the Jews responded in horror and rebelled against him, then he had many of them killed. He sold many more into slavery. He made it a crime punishable by death if parents circumcised their sons as was commanded in Scripture for them to do. He made the Jews sacrifice to idols and eat the flesh of pigs, something abhorrent to a Jew, something that went against their laws that God had given them. He called himself Antiochus Epiphanes. Epiphany means ''the shining one'' (God Manifest). The Jews called him Antiochus Epimames, ''the crazy one, the mad man.'' He was eventually defeated. He died from a disease. But the Maccabean revolt came against Antiochus, this one who fashioned himself to be God, God Manifest. You know, the Bible speaks in Daniel's prophecy of this one. Antiochus Epiphanes serves as a foreshadowing of a ruler that is going to come that is going to wreak havoc on the Jews and on the people of God. He has many names in Scripture. He's called ''the lawless one.'' He's called ''the son of perdition.'' He's called ''the man of sin.'' He's called ''the prince who is to come.'' He's called ''the beast'' in the Book of the Revelation. But we know him best by the ti ...
Series: The Church in the Last Days
Jeff Schreve
2 Thessalonians 2:2:3-12
The year was 175 B.C. A man came to power in the Greek Empire, Seleucid Dynasty of the Greek Empire. He reigned for 11 years. He was famous for two things. Number one, he almost took over Egypt. And number two, he brutally attacked, persecuted, terrorized, and murdered the Jews. He tried to eradicate Judaism from the land of Israel. History records that this man was Antiochus IV. He came into the temple, that very, very sacred place where the holiness of God was. He raided the temple of all its artifacts that were valuable, silver and gold and bronze, took all that. Then he erected an altar to Zeus. In the temple, in the Holy of Holies, he sacrificed a pig on the altar. When the Jews responded in horror and rebelled against him, then he had many of them killed. He sold many more into slavery. He made it a crime punishable by death if parents circumcised their sons as was commanded in Scripture for them to do. He made the Jews sacrifice to idols and eat the flesh of pigs, something abhorrent to a Jew, something that went against their laws that God had given them. He called himself Antiochus Epiphanes. Epiphany means ''the shining one'' (God Manifest). The Jews called him Antiochus Epimames, ''the crazy one, the mad man.'' He was eventually defeated. He died from a disease. But the Maccabean revolt came against Antiochus, this one who fashioned himself to be God, God Manifest. You know, the Bible speaks in Daniel's prophecy of this one. Antiochus Epiphanes serves as a foreshadowing of a ruler that is going to come that is going to wreak havoc on the Jews and on the people of God. He has many names in Scripture. He's called ''the lawless one.'' He's called ''the son of perdition.'' He's called ''the man of sin.'' He's called ''the prince who is to come.'' He's called ''the beast'' in the Book of the Revelation. But we know him best by the ti ...
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