Talk:Rapture of the saints
Then Shall the Wicked One Be Revealed
- 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
- or that is worshipped;
- so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
- showing himself that he is God.
- 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you,
- I told you these things?
- 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
- 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
- only he who now letteth will let,
- until he be taken out of the way.
- 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
- whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
- and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
- 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
- with all power and signs and lying wonders,
the Church is not tied to the prophetic program.
The Church is an interruption,
it is a parenthetical period of time.
Paul is in full agreement with everything
that prophecy has said concerning the final seven years of Daniel’s 490 year prophecy.
In verse 4, he speaks of the son of perdition
in verse 3 as the anti-Christ.
He is also referred to as the wicked one.
Daniel calls him the prince that shall come.
It is all references to this man, anti-Christ,
who is going to one day appear on the stage of world events
and he is going to become the absolute totalitarian dictator of the world.
this man will oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God.
He is going to be an arrogant individual.
He is going to have no compunction
about telling the world
that he is the God for which they are looking.
- 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
- or that is worshipped;
- so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
- showing himself that he is God.
Daniel 9 refers to him as the ‘prince that shall come.’
Daniel 9 is the very bench mark of the prophetic program.
verse 24 he says that, “70 weeks of years”
– 490 years.
- 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.
in this prophecy 483 of the 490 years were fulfilled at Christ’s first advent.
“…making an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness….”
The work of the cross was His first advent.
But that was only 483 years.
So there were 7 years that were yet unfulfilled,
but which, according to the prophetic program,
after Christ had been rejected and had been raised from the dead;
had ascended back to glory
then would come the 7 years as Daniel is prophesying,
and then Christ would come and set up the kingdom,
and Israel would be the light of the nations
and evangelize the pagan world.
Israel did not accept the king,
Israel did not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah
and consequently God sent them into a spiritual blindness and a dispersion in about 70 A.D.
Not that He is through with Israel.
No time at all for what they call replacement theology,
it is a manifestation of the error of men.
But rather, Israel has only been set aside.
Not forever but for a period of time known only to God Himself.
The closest we can come to when that being set aside will end is in
Romans 11.25
- 25 For I would not, brethren,
- that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
- lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
- that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
- until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
They will remain blind spiritually
to the fact of who {was} is Jesus
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
The fullness of the Gentiles is the Body of Christ,
the Church.
When the Body of Christ is complete,
God is going to pick up His prophetic program
where He left off with Israel.
And that will be this final 7 years in Daniel 9.27
After the 483 years were fulfilled at the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ,
then we have in verse 27 the appearance of the prince that shall come,
mentioned in verse 26 and now verse 27.
Daniel 9:27
- 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.
He is going to come out of the geographical area of the old Roman Empire.
He wil confirm the covenant with many
there will be no peace in the Middle East
until this man of sin makes it happen.
You can not stop something unless it is going!
Israel will get the temple back
and have temple worship.
That is going to be part of the peace agreement.
This man is going to make an agreement between the Arab world and the Jews,
that they can have temple worship.
We know they are ready.
At the Temple Mount Institute
they have all the ramifications of temple worship ready to go.
They have the clothing for the priests hanging on mannequins.
They have all the shovels and all the various utensils
for the sacrifices all ready.
But, look what horrible thing happens.
In the middle of the week,
this man is going to cause all this temple worship to stop.
Matthew 24.15-16
- 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
- spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
- stand in the holy place,
- (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
- 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
the man of sin this anti-Christ,
will come into the temple in Jerusalem and defile it
and not only cause temple worship to stop
but also will turn on the Jews
with the most horrible persecution that Israel has ever experienced.
Israel will be at the very core of the wrath of God.
it is also going to be the wrath of Satan.
Because when he is cast out of heaven at the mid-point
and he comes back to the earth,
he knows that he has but a short time,
and so he too,
will be pouring out his wrath.
The wrath of God, as well as the wrath of Satan,
and it is going to be beyond human description.
He will be indwelt by Satan even as Judas was.
And he is going to be the most despicable human being who has ever ruled this planet.
Daniel 11.21
- 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.
He is going to be the smoothest tongued rascal you have ever dreamed
he is going to overcome all with his flattery,
and his smooth silver tongue oratory.
Daniel 11.22
“And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.”
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he “works deceitfully.”
Now we sometimes think politics are pretty deceitful,
present day politicians know nothing of deceit
as this man is going to pull on them.
Daniel 11.36
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, (which I think is symbolic of the sea of humanity, the masses of people ) and saw a beast (now, not some animal but it’s an empire and an emperor. It’s a two fold meaning here in Revelation. Sometimes it speaks of the empire of the beast and sometimes it speaks of the man himself. But he sees a beast, an empire, a government) rise up out of the sea, (of humanity) having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy.” (this anti-God individual who will proclaim himself as God.)
Then the picture of the empire is in verse 2 and it is going to be likened to a compilation of all the great gentile empires beginning with Babylon,
the Medes and the Persians,
the Greek, the Roman and our present day Western European revived Roman Empire.
We are still describing this man who will come into the temple in Jerusalem and set himself up as God.
“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.”
“And they (the people of the world) worshipped the dragon…“
That is Satan worship.
the world is going to worship the dragon.
They are going to become Satanists.
God will permit this to happen and so He permits him to have power “to continue 42 months.”
Well how long is 42 months?
Three and one half years!
So from the time that he defiles the temple and turns against the nation of Israel,
there will be 3 1/2 years to finalize the 7 years of Tribulation.
And as that 7 years is ended with the return of Christ
now this man will finally meet his doom.
He cannot usurp the coming of Christ. Rememb
he comes as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and he is going to be the ruler, not only the planet but of the universe!
