Antichrist Revealed – The Scriptures Expose The Man In Sheep’s Clothing

Who is the end-time antichrist?

           According to the written Word of God,

1. Antichrist will be a man.
2. Antichrist will be a Roman.
3. Antichrist will rule from the city of seven hills( Rome).
4. Antichrist will come from the ancient Roman Empire.
5. Antichrist will not have desire for women.
6. He will not be royal by birth.
7. He will carry an apostate church on his shoulder which is spread throughout the world.
8. Antichrist is the eighth king but is of the seven.
9. His predecessor will rule only for a short time, will be an imposer of taxes and he will be replaced cunningly without any confrontation but peaceably.
10. The antichrist has a healed wound.
11. The church he is carrying is immensely rich.
12. Has killed saints in the past but not at present;but he will again do so in the future.
13. HIS NUMBER IS 666.
14. He wears a sheep’s clothing to deceive many.
15. Speaks blasphemies against God.
16. He changes times and laws.
17. Always in friendship with the world leaders.
18. The church he shoulders rules over the countries of the world; and has influenced and intoxicated the people of the world.
19. He has a small army.

1) Antichrist will be a man

“I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.’’  Daniel 7:8

   ‘’Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of aman; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six’’. Revelation 13:18

2) Antichrist will be a Roman

‘’And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.’’

Daniel 9:26

           The city and the Temple referenced in this passage were destroyed in AD 70 by Titus and the Roman legions. Daniel 9:27 describes the ruler as one who will make a seven-year treaty with many nations including Israel, put an end to the sacrifices and offerings, and set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration. These are events that will be fulfilled in the life of the Antichrist. According to Daniel, the Antichrist will come from among the people who destroyed the Temple. Therefore, we can be certain that the Antichrist will come from among the Roman people.

3) Antichrist will rule from the city of seven hills( Rome)

3’’ So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.’’ Revelation 17:3,9

 The woman is an apostate Church and the beast who carries the church is the Antichrist and he has seven heads (seven mountains) or in other words he rules from the city of seven hills. Historically Rome is described as a city of seven hills.

4) Antichrist will come from the ancient Roman Empire

The dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon and the dreams of Daniel showed that there will be four great empires ruling the world in succession, they are the empires of Babylon, then the Medo-Persian empire, the Greeks, then the Romans, finally a mixed empire of Rome and the fragile governments as depicted by the feet made of iron and clay. (Daniel 2,7,8)

The feet represents the present generation where the iron (which represents the Roman Empire) and the world governments (which denotes ceramic clay) are mixed together even though they do not mix with each other. The present day ROME is represented by the Papacy. It is during this era that God will establish His Kingdom on earth.

44’’ And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.’’ Daniel 2:44

Daniel had 2 dreams in which he saw beasts, each representing empires that will be ruling the world in the future. (Daniel chapters 7 and 8)

Read Daniel chapters 7, 8. Notice that the beasts in chapter 8 parallel those in chapter 7. Daniel 8:20 specifically names Medo-Persia as the kingdom that precedes the rough goat, or Greece. It is the second world kingdom – the same power as the bear of Daniel 7. The empire was made up of two groups of people. The Medes came up first (represented in Daniel 7:5 by the bear coming up on one side), but the Persians eventually became stronger (represented in Daniel 8:3 by the ram’s second horn which grew “higher,” or taller). The three ribs in the bear’s mouth represent the three principal powers conquered by Medo-Persia: Lydia, Babylon, and Egypt.

Greece, the third kingdom (Daniel 8:21), is represented by a leopard with four wings and four heads (Daniel 7:6). The four heads represent the four kingdoms into which the empire of Alexander the Great was divided when he died. The four generals who headed these areas were: Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus. The four wings (instead of two like the lion) represent super-speed, which was true of Alexander’s conquests (Jeremiah 4:11-13).

23 “Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.

24 The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; he shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings.

25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High,

shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time. Daniel 7:23-25

The Roman Empire, the fourth world kingdom, is represented by a horrible monster with iron teeth and 10 horns (Daniel 7:7). Horns represent the 10 kings or kingdoms into which pagan Rome was eventually split (Daniel 7:24 and 2:41-44).  Roving barbarian tribes swept in upon the Roman Empire and carved out land niches for their people. Seven of those 10 tribes developed into the countries of modern Western Europe, while three were uprooted and destroyed.

When Rome fell it split exactly into 10 separate nations represented by the 10 horns of the fourth beast.

1.     The Saxons, originating the English nation.

2.     The Franks, originating the French nation.

3.     The Alamanni, originating the German nation.

4.     The Visigoths, originating the Spanish nation.

5.     The Suevi, originating the Portuguese nation.

6.     The Lombards, originating the Italian nation.

7.     The Burgundians, originating the Swiss nation.

8.     The Heruli,  disappeared in 493 A.D.

9.     The Vandals, disappeared in 534 A.D.

10.  The Ostrogoths, disappeared in 538 A.D.

The other horn(little horn) which arises after these but looks different from these 10 horns is the papacy which subdued the Herulis, vandals and the Ostrogoths

The little horn which came out of the fourth and final beast,  is well understood to perfectly fit with historic documentation as Rome. These ten horns perfectly symbolized the historic division of the Roman Empire into ten separate nations after its fall in 476 A.D.

The little horn arose after the ten nations were formed, that is, after 476 A.D., the year when the division of the Roman Empire was completed. Now, history teaches us, that the Roman Catholic Papacy imposed its religio-political supremacy from the year 538 A.D. on. That’s a mere 60 years after the division of the Roman empire that the little horn received the power.

Historical records reveal the papacy officially began its reign in 538 A.D. upon Emperor Justinian’s decree, and under the military protection of Belisarius. And the Bible says the little horn will rule for EXACTLY 1260 years before receiving a mortal wound.

Daniel clearly states that the final world empire before the establishment of Christ’s millennial kingdom will be a resurrected form of the Roman Empire and the antichrist will come out of this.

8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

9 And out of one of them came a little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land.

10 And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them.

11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.

12 Because of transgression, an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prospered.

Daniel 8:8-12

The large horn is Alexander the great. The four horns which came out of the large horn represent the four kingdoms into which the empire of Alexander the Great was divided when he died. The four generals who headed these areas were: Cassander (Macedonia and Greece), Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus. In the battle of Pydna(168 BC) fought between Rome and Macedon, Macedon effectively ceased to exist as an independent nation and became a client state of Rome. Thus from one of the notable horns, came the little horn who conquered the whole world, even the glorious land (Israel), and this was the Romans. And the little horn (papacy) killed the saints, spoke blasphemies, and in the future will set up the abomination of desolation.

5) Antichrist will not have desire for women

    Popes are celibate, and they do not marry.

37” Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.’’ Daniel 11:37

6) He will not be royal by birth

And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.         Daniel 11:21

7) He will carry an apostate church on his shoulder which is spread throughout the world

 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 

² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

³ So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 

⁴ The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

 ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

⁶ I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

Revelation 17: 1 – 6

¹⁵ Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. 

¹⁶ And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 

¹⁷ For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 

¹⁸ And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 17: 15 – 18

The harlot here is an apostate church (the church is always called as woman, eg: the true church is called the bride of Christ).This apostate church is spread over all the earth (the waters which you saw, where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues ). The ten horns are ten rulers who will obey the antichrist and they will destroy this apostate church and burn it with fire (will happen in the future) (Revelation 17:12, 13, 16). This harlot is also called the great city(Vatican) who rules over the kings of the earth.

8) Antichrist is the eighth king but is of the seven

10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Revelation 17:10,11

9) His predecessor will rule only for a short time, will be an imposer of taxes and he will be replaced cunningly without any confrontation but peaceably.

Pope Benedict was the seventh King and his rule was very short. He introduced the Robinhood tax when he was in power. He was replaced by the present Pope ‘peaceably’ without any confrontations while the old Pope was still in office. Thus Pope Francis became the 8^th king but is counted as of the seven because he took over the seventh position by intrigue.

20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.Daniel 11:20,21

10) The antichrist has a healed wound

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The wound happened in 1798 when French armies under Gen. Louis Alexandre Berthier marched on Rome, which had been declared a republic by Roman revolutionaries in league with the French, and demanded that Pius [VI] renounce his temporal [civil] sovereignty. At his refusal the pope was taken prisoner and held first at Siena and ultimately at Valence, France, where he died.

The wound was healed when the Lateran treaty was

signed on Feb 11,1929-which recognized the full sovereignty of the pope in the state of Vatican city(making the Pope monarch or King).

11) The church he is carrying is immensely rich

⁴ The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

¹⁸And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” Revelation 17:4, 18

16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Revelation 18:16

12) Has killed saints in the past but not at present; but he will again do so in the future

8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.Revelation 17:8

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.Revelation 18:24

In March of 2000 Pope John Paul II admitted that the Roman Catholic church killed hundreds of millions of Christians during their prophesied reign as those that would “wear out the saints.” John Foxe in his book, Foxes book of martyrs where he actually declared the total dead was at least 500,000,000. So yes, this little horn also did as Daniel said when it came to wearing out the saints.

13) HIS NUMBER IS 666

¹⁶ He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

¹⁸ Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.(Revelation 13:16,17,18)

In LATIN