Will 2012 bring in the Antichrist?
2012 and the Antichrist. The coming of the Antichrist was prophesied in the Book of Daniel way back during the Babylonian captivity. That was hundreds of years BEFORE the FIRST appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. The devil has a counterfeit for everything that God has. The antichrist shall soon appear, and deceive many. Do not be fooled. He will do many miracles and deceive the very elect of God, if it were possible.
He will be the One-World Leader. He will lead the One-World Government. He will demand that every “citizen of the world” take the “Mark of the Beast”. He will be a great religious leader, as well, bringing about the One-world-religion. In the name of “peace”, he will wage war.
Daniel 9: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Notice from the passage above:
1. “The prince that shall come” is the Antichrist.
2. He and his people (gentiles) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
3. “The Messiah” was cut off after 62 weeks. The Messiah is Jesus, and he was crucified exactly 434 years (a prophetic week is a period of 7 years…62×7=434) after the command was given by Cyrus to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem (The second Temple).
4. The “one week” of verse 27 is the same week that is missing from verse 25 where only 69 weeks are mentioned. That last “week” is commonly called “Daniel’s 70th week.”
5. That one prophetic week, Otherwise known as the “Tribulation Period,” has not occurred yet. It is still off in the future.
6. Basically God’s prophetic clock stopped at the crucifixion of Christ on the cross of Calvary. No wonder. These last two thousand years have been known as “The Times of the Gentiles.” During this time, not only have Jews been saved, but millions and millions of Gentiles.
7. However, the clock will begin ticking again, immediately at the Rapture, for then the “Time of Jacob’s Troubles” begins. All the saved will be delivered before the destruction, as in Sodom, and as in the world-wide flood. Thus begins the Tribulation, Daniel’s 70th Week, the 7 years of hell on Earth, as God opens the seals of His wrath and pours out bowl after bowl of vengeance.
No one has to go through this horrible time. Accept Jesus as your personal Savior today!
