What would you do if you knew the Anti-Christ?
Posted on 27/04/09 14:15
Okay, now I’m firmly in whacko territory. No one really believes all that stuff about the anti-Christ and apocalypse and angels breaking seals, right? Well, count me in the same camp as Carrie PreJean, Miss California-USA. I actually DO believe the Bible, and have spent a substantial chunk of my life learning its obvious lessons and the ones less-so.
What if the cultural changes in our lifetimes have been a portent of the appearance of Mr. Evil? Hang with me for a minute and think about what has happened since, say 1950, the second half of the 20th century.
Our country led the way and the entire world followed...
suit into the sexual rebellion. The sexual rebellion blurred the lines of family with skyrocketing out-of-wedlock births. The sexual rebellion erased the lines of family with the multiplied millions of legally-sanctioned abortions.
Family has always been so important to God. He sees us as individuals, but He also sees and watches over and judges us as families. The endless genealogies in the Old Testament were there in part to prove the bloodline of Christ. What do our scattered bloodlines really represent in God’s economy? That we are the living epistles of our time.
And what if all this moral lawlessness has been part of a grand design to obscure the heritage of the Man of the World who will soon take his wrongful place at the helm of power?
No, I am most definitely NOT talking about Barack Obama, despite the shrouded mystery surrounding the actual situs of birth.
No, I’m proposing something more radical.
For years, a wide swath of Bible scholars have drawn a blueprint of the ‘Man of Sin’. According to interpretations of Biblical passages implying his origin within a revived Roman Empire, he will arise from governance much like what we see in the modern European Union.
But what if instead of being an elected politician, the Son of Perdition will be a business leader, with ancestry in Europe?
Much was made in The DaVinci Code about the Merovingian bloodline. For most of Europe’s history the royals were absolutely obsessed with the purity of their bloodline, much in the same way that the Jews have been for most of their history.
Now I wouldn’t want to be Dan Brown on Judgment Day, but maybe he was on to something he didn’t realize. Maybe a sinister International Merovingian Man of Mystery will soon arise with a radical solution to the economic struggles that impact the entire planet.
This is not a plot for a new Austin Powers movie. No, this man has a far more sinister plan. And this guy can change persona and strategy if he thinks he’s been found out.
I kinda think this guy is too smart to show up in a three-piece suit, fresh from the Bilderberg conference, and announce that he’s the new leader of the world. No, I think he’s going to be more obscure, less obvious, but no less powerful. I think he’s going to be seen by many, but known by almost none.
There is spiritual precedent for this blindness that will exist in the lives of many, even Christians. It may stem from terrible crises that weaken us and reveal that the foundations of our lives are not built upon Him but upon something temporal.
This precedent was evident in Jesus’ day: Commentary on Mark 7:27-30 says that many Jews lost God’s spiritual healing because they didn’t recognize Jesus for who he was. And conversely, many Gentiles received spiritual healing and salvation because they did recognize Jesus.
Since God acts with consistency, and based on what God has revealed about the Last Days, many of us who wear the moniker of Christian may be deceived as well. I pray not, but I fear so.
So back to the original question: what if you learn the identity of the anti-Christ? What are you going to do with the information? What if he’s your neighbor, your work associate, your elected leader, your friend?
Our most serious questions never change. God asks of every soul, What would you do with Jesus of Nazareth? And I fear ~ no, I know ~ that if we don’t answer that question, once and for all, then on the nearing day when we have to answer this question of another, of one bent on our destruction, we may not have the right answer about Jesus Christ.
Our answer may be a shrug of the shoulders. A momentary stab of fear. And then on with our day.
And just like dawning days of World War II, I fear millions will do nothing, spiritually signing away their souls to the one bent on their destruction since before the beginning of time.
So what would YOU do if you knew the identity of the anti-Christ?
What if the cultural changes in our lifetimes have been a portent of the appearance of Mr. Evil? Hang with me for a minute and think about what has happened since, say 1950, the second half of the 20th century.
Our country led the way and the entire world followed...
suit into the sexual rebellion. The sexual rebellion blurred the lines of family with skyrocketing out-of-wedlock births. The sexual rebellion erased the lines of family with the multiplied millions of legally-sanctioned abortions.
Family has always been so important to God. He sees us as individuals, but He also sees and watches over and judges us as families. The endless genealogies in the Old Testament were there in part to prove the bloodline of Christ. What do our scattered bloodlines really represent in God’s economy? That we are the living epistles of our time.
And what if all this moral lawlessness has been part of a grand design to obscure the heritage of the Man of the World who will soon take his wrongful place at the helm of power?
No, I am most definitely NOT talking about Barack Obama, despite the shrouded mystery surrounding the actual situs of birth.
No, I’m proposing something more radical.
For years, a wide swath of Bible scholars have drawn a blueprint of the ‘Man of Sin’. According to interpretations of Biblical passages implying his origin within a revived Roman Empire, he will arise from governance much like what we see in the modern European Union.
But what if instead of being an elected politician, the Son of Perdition will be a business leader, with ancestry in Europe?
Much was made in The DaVinci Code about the Merovingian bloodline. For most of Europe’s history the royals were absolutely obsessed with the purity of their bloodline, much in the same way that the Jews have been for most of their history.
Now I wouldn’t want to be Dan Brown on Judgment Day, but maybe he was on to something he didn’t realize. Maybe a sinister International Merovingian Man of Mystery will soon arise with a radical solution to the economic struggles that impact the entire planet.
This is not a plot for a new Austin Powers movie. No, this man has a far more sinister plan. And this guy can change persona and strategy if he thinks he’s been found out.
I kinda think this guy is too smart to show up in a three-piece suit, fresh from the Bilderberg conference, and announce that he’s the new leader of the world. No, I think he’s going to be more obscure, less obvious, but no less powerful. I think he’s going to be seen by many, but known by almost none.
There is spiritual precedent for this blindness that will exist in the lives of many, even Christians. It may stem from terrible crises that weaken us and reveal that the foundations of our lives are not built upon Him but upon something temporal.
This precedent was evident in Jesus’ day: Commentary on Mark 7:27-30 says that many Jews lost God’s spiritual healing because they didn’t recognize Jesus for who he was. And conversely, many Gentiles received spiritual healing and salvation because they did recognize Jesus.
Since God acts with consistency, and based on what God has revealed about the Last Days, many of us who wear the moniker of Christian may be deceived as well. I pray not, but I fear so.
So back to the original question: what if you learn the identity of the anti-Christ? What are you going to do with the information? What if he’s your neighbor, your work associate, your elected leader, your friend?
Our most serious questions never change. God asks of every soul, What would you do with Jesus of Nazareth? And I fear ~ no, I know ~ that if we don’t answer that question, once and for all, then on the nearing day when we have to answer this question of another, of one bent on our destruction, we may not have the right answer about Jesus Christ.
Our answer may be a shrug of the shoulders. A momentary stab of fear. And then on with our day.
And just like dawning days of World War II, I fear millions will do nothing, spiritually signing away their souls to the one bent on their destruction since before the beginning of time.
So what would YOU do if you knew the identity of the anti-Christ?
