"Antichrist": Broad Deception By Narrow Definition

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I can't afford that journey quite yet, But I would love to one day. That would be amazing.
Yes, it would be. I hope if you ever do go, you stay safe.

I meant to apologize for misunderstanding when you said
your church went, thinking it meant you had gone also.
 
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By definition Anti, means, opposed to, against
Satan wants to kick God off the throne and be God...yet when Christians hear "antichrist", their view is always limited to a bad dude that wants to oppose Christ, even though the Bible in their hands tells them Satan wants to take the place of God, stand in the place of God, etc. We either are going to have a limited view of the word and thus have a limiteless pool of candidates for Antichrist, or we're going to have a BIBLICAL view of the word and understand that the papacy is the prophesied Antichrist which Satan uses to be "in place of", "in stead of", in behalf of", "for" Christ at the same time he sets himself up "against" Christ.
 
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The Antichrist is also called "the Beast", "the Man of Sin", "the Son of Perdition", "the Little Horn" (and several other titles). Therefore there is no mistaking the Antichrist as being an individual. He -- an individual -- sits in the future temple at Jerusalem claiming to be God. Therefore substituting the pope or the papacy for the MIRACLE WORKING Jewish Antichrist is sheer folly.
It is not folly to do so, for this reason: When Paul says, "...that the MAN OF GOD may he perfect..." is Paul referring to just one man, or many men?

When God said, "When Israel was a child I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son..." is God referring to a single person or an entire nation? What about "Esau" or "Moab" which are singular but used to refer to hundreds of thousands/millions of people?

I could keep you busy all day with such examples, so please stop attributing "folly" to a what is a well established Biblical precedent of referring to entire nations and kingdoms in the singular.
Orthodox Jews are presently anticipating the coming of their "true Messiah". Since they have rejected Christ as their true Messiah, they will be welcoming a false Jewish Messiah, coming in his own name. He will dazzle the world with His miracles, and the whole world will worship him (Revelation 13).
That's got nothing to do with the antichrist and everything to do with Satan's grand deception of coming as Jesus....the two are separate and distinct.

Antichrist was to arise among the ashes of the fallen Roman Empire way back in the SIXTH CENTURY according to the prophecies of Daniel...Satan's impersonation of Jesus will be just before Jesus comes, obviously.
 

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Antichrist was to arise among the ashes of the fallen Roman Empire way back in the SIXTH CENTURY according to the prophecies of Daniel...Satan's impersonation of Jesus will be just before Jesus comes, obviously.
Both the Vatican and the British Royal Family were part of the Roman Empire, both have their authority at church, one in the Catholic Church, and one in the Protestant Church. Not saying one or both are the one in question, but it's good to keep your eyes open.
 
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The identity of the antichrist has no bearing on the timing of the gathering of the church. It is after the gathering of the church that the first seal will be opened which is represented by that rider on the white horse, the antichrist.

Regarding the pope being the antichrist, you are close, but I lean towards one of the future popes as playing the part of the second beast who is the false prophet. The pope of that time will be the one who will perform those miracles, signs and wonders on behalf of the first beast which is the anitchrist and will also be the head of that one world religious system. The purpose of the miralces, signs and wonders will be to deceive the inhabitants of the earth and to support the antichrist who will be proclaiming himself to be God or anything that is called God.
wow...you really think Satan rides a white horse? LOL A "horse" in the Bible refers to "God's people" not agents of darkness (e.g.: "...and hath made Israel His GOODLY HORSE IN BATTLE." So, when the four horsemen go forth to conquer, we see the white horse as the church going forth with the Gospel in purity, followed by the "red" persecuted church, then by the black horse of compromise corrupting the church, and finally the pale dead horse of the Dark Ages where the papacy banned the Bible, took over Christ's ministry, etc., and a famine arose "not of bread, but of the hearing of the Word of God"

The 7 Churches, Seals, and Trumpets all parallel each other...they start in the day of the prophecy and trace down to the end of time....yeah, I know: "WHAT ABOUT THE THIRD PART OF THIS AND THAT!!!???" Trust me, you've been listening to Irvin Baxter's Sensationalist TV for too long. There ain't gonna be a nuclear war that will kill 1/3 of mankind - Historicism.com bro.
 
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Satan wants to kick God off the throne and be God...yet when Christians hear "antichrist", their view is always limited to a bad dude that wants to oppose Christ, even though the Bible in their hands tells them Satan wants to take the place of God, stand in the place of God, etc. We either are going to have a limited view of the word and thus have a limiteless pool of candidates for Antichrist, or we're going to have a BIBLICAL view of the word and understand that the papacy is the prophesied Antichrist which Satan uses to be "in place of", "in stead of", in behalf of", "for" Christ at the same time he sets himself up "against" Christ.
What is the papacy again?
 
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This interpretation sounded good 400 years ago but by now certainly you have started to realize that it is dated. The RCC lost its place in the world and the world moved on.
Uh, the beast would receive a deadly wound, and then it would be healed. The papacy is so back on center stage that we've got flippin Jesuits and Catholics everywhere - SCOTUS, Congress, even your President went to a Jesuit school. "And all the world wondered after the beast" is being fulfilled before our eyes if we but open them.
They certainly demonstrated that spirit of antichrist that has been in the world since John wrote about it, nevertheless the prophecy of Daniel that Jesus said would be the signal to look up, and the prophecy that Paul said would happen in the Day of the Lord which had not come yet when he wrote (even though there were many antichrist spirits) this prophesy is still future an it turned out that it was not the Pope which is today a laughing stock to the world and has no power over any nation nor will he ever again. That ship has sailed. The world has moved on.
Yes, the pope is so yesterday's news that all the religious leaders of the world went to the Vatican and bowed down before him just a few years ago...he's regarded as the spiritual leader of the world. Kenneth Copeland all but had an orgasm after catholic-wannabe Bishop Tony Palmer told the world during that live Pope/Protestant debacle, "LUTHER'S PROTEST IS OVER...IS YOURS?" Copeland spoke in tongues, prayed for the Pope, alongside James Robison and company, and then after they all sign the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" in which they all agreed with the heresy of Catholicism...the pope's back bro :)
 
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Both the Vatican and the British Royal Family were part of the Roman Empire, both have their authority at church, one in the Catholic Church, and one in the Protestant Church. Not saying one or both are the one in question, but it's good to keep your eyes open.
The Royals are such a handful - they control the world's banking elite and are the major hub in the wheel of the global monetary system of which Revelation 18 speaks in its description of the NWO...along with Babylon, which is the Papacy presiding over all the occult world religious systems which bow to her as the global religious leader, and the "kings of the Earth" which are the governments led by Luciferian secret society members such as Bildebergs, Council of 500 and 300, Tri-Lateral Commission, Freemasonry, Illuminati, B'nai B'rith (Jewish Freemasonry), Skull and Bones (German chapter of the Illuminatti), etc.

Our world is run by devil worshipers and is adored by many gullible folks, including Christians who defend the Papacy fiercely from accusations that it is the prophesied Antichrist, though the Papacy would have massacred their whole family for the crime of simply possessing a Bible just a couple hundred years ago. Will such Draconian measures return for those who resist once the last remaining superpower in the West forces everyone to bow down and worship her? You betcha.
 
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Uh, the beast would receive a deadly wound, and then it would be healed. The papacy is so back on center stage that we've got flippin Jesuits and Catholics everywhere - SCOTUS, Congress, even your President went to a Jesuit school. "And all the world wondered after the beast" is being fulfilled before our eyes if we but open them.
Yes, the pope is so yesterday's news that all the religious leaders of the world went to the Vatican and bowed down before him just a few years ago...he's regarded as the spiritual leader of the world. Kenneth Copeland all but had an orgasm after catholic-wannabe Bishop Tony Palmer told the world during that live Pope/Protestant debacle, "LUTHER'S PROTEST IS OVER...IS YOURS?" Copeland spoke in tongues, prayed for the Pope, alongside James Robison and company, and then after they all sign the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" in which they all agreed with the heresy of Catholicism...the pope's back bro :)
Jesuits and Catholics, Going around the world assisting the poor. How bad are we. lol. What is your religion? Hunting down Demon's? I truly don't know where you are coming from brother. And your problem with other religious leader's showing Him respect.Copeland would even consider doing so. You believe
as him. Rather than indulging in conspiracy theories. You should sit down and listen. Maybe you will learn something real...
 
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The Royals are such a handful - they control the world's banking elite and are the major hub in the wheel of the global monetary system of which Revelation 18 speaks in its description of the NWO...along with Babylon, which is the Papacy presiding over all the occult world religious systems which bow to her as the global religious leader, and the "kings of the Earth" which are the governments led by Luciferian secret society members such as Bildebergs, Council of 500 and 300, Tri-Lateral Commission, Freemasonry, Illuminati, B'nai B'rith (Jewish Freemasonry), Skull and Bones (German chapter of the Illuminatti), etc.

Our world is run by devil worshipers and is adored by many gullible folks, including Christians who defend the Papacy fiercely from accusations that it is the prophesied Antichrist, though the Papacy would have massacred their whole family for the crime of simply possessing a Bible just a couple hundred years ago. Will such Draconian measures return for those who resist once the last remaining superpower in the West forces everyone to bow down and worship her? You betcha.
Did you get your info from that movie "God father 3".
 
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What is the papacy again?
Historians all recognize that when the Roman Empire fell (for all intents and purposes) in 476 A.D. and when the dust settled there remained Ten Barbarian nations (Ten Horns which came up out of the Fourth Beast, Rome) bickering and fighting with each other relentlessly for decades, finally they resolved themselves to a common solution: ask the Bishop of Rome to be their leader. The Bishop sat down in the "seat of the Caesars" and even took the name "Pontifex Maximus" from the Caesars to himself, the Francs led by Christian convert Clovis placed his army at the Bishop's disposal, and the Papacy - THE UNION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE SECULAR STATE - was born, and reigned for 1,260 years from 538 A.D. until 1798 A.D. when the same sword of France that murdered millions of Godly "heretics" for the papacy turned itself against the papacy. "He that killeth with the sword must be killed by the sword" says John of the First Beast of Revelation 13, the Papacy.
 
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Jesuits and Catholics, Going around the world assisting the poor. How bad are we. lol. What is your religion? Hunting down Demon's? I truly don't know where you are coming from brother. And your problem with other religious leader's showing Him respect.Copeland would even consider doing so. You believe
as him. Rather than indulging in conspiracy theories. You should sit down and listen. Maybe you will learn something real...
Depends on who you think I'm referring to. Lay Catholics who love Jesus as I'm sure you do? No. But anyone who thinks they can take the place of Jesus and demand that I seek the intercession of a sinful priest for forgiveness, who tells me that Jesus' death has nothing to do with my obtaining salvation, but only to do with lessening my time in Purgatory...well, that's a whole other kettle of fish.

Ecumenicalism is not Biblical, bro. Bible says come out and be ye separate. The Papal movement to get everyone into a spiritual soup bowl says come in and be inclusive...or else. Just a matter of time.
 
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Historians all recognize that when the Roman Empire fell (for all intents and purposes) in 476 A.D. and when the dust settled there remained Ten Barbarian nations (Ten Horns which came up out of the Fourth Beast, Rome) bickering and fighting with each other relentlessly for decades, finally they resolved themselves to a common solution: ask the Bishop of Rome to be their leader. The Bishop sat down in the "seat of the Caesars" and even took the name "Pontifex Maximus" from the Caesars to himself, the Francs led by Christian convert Clovis placed his army at the Bishop's disposal, and the Papacy - THE UNION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE SECULAR STATE - was born, and reigned for 1,260 years from 538 A.D. until 1798 A.D. when the same sword of France that murdered millions of Godly "heretics" for the papacy turned itself against the papacy. "He that killeth with the sword must be killed by the sword" says John of the First Beast of Revelation 13, the Papacy.
"He that lives by the sword ,dies by the sword? what is your point? The problem with you is that in 538. It was all politics. Men claimed to be "Catholic" so they could get an office. Like everything else. People evolve. Do you really thing that you are the first person to see this. Suffice it to say. The Catholic church has evolved with the times. I don't know how you are involved with your church, or is you have one.But the men of our church, serve our community. That is our focus. What is your's...
 
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"He that lives by the sword ,dies by the sword? what is your point? The problem with you is that in 538. It was all politics. Men claimed to be "Catholic" so they could get an office. Like everything else. People evolve. Do you really thing that you are the first person to see this. Suffice it to say. The Catholic church has evolved with the times. I don't know how you are involved with your church, or is you have one.But the men of our church, serve our community. That is our focus. What is your's...
Don't tell me I've got problems, please. And maybe get a history book on Protestant history to see that the intrepid Protestant Reformers all discovered that the Papacy is the Antichrist of prophecy way back in the time of Luther? You're following an institution that is the most blasphemous organization to ever grace the topside of the Earth.

Do you believe Francis is the "Vicar" of Jesus, meaning he "takes the place of Jesus"?
Do you believe that forgiveness is obtained only by acknowledging the supremacy of the Pope as "king of heaven, Earth, and Purgatory"?

Do you believe there's efficacy in eating a piece of "dead bread" that is claimed to transform into the literal body of Christ? And the wine to be the blood of Christ?

Do you believe "the church is above the Bible and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact"?

You see, I'm not a Catholic for two reasons: I've got a Bible and a few brain cells knocking around.
 
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Depends on who you think I'm referring to. Lay Catholics who love Jesus as I'm sure you do? No. But anyone who thinks they can take the place of Jesus and demand that I seek the intercession of a sinful priest for forgiveness, who tells me that Jesus' death has nothing to do with my obtaining salvation, but only to do with lessening my time in Purgatory...well, that's a whole other kettle of fish.

Ecumenicalism is not Biblical, bro. Bible says come out and be ye separate. The Papal movement to get everyone into a spiritual soup bowl says come in and be inclusive...or else. Just a matter of time.
Catholics entire goal is that everyone in this world find's the Lord. Is that a bad thing? And you are right. I lived in the secular world. (As I NO doubt you have). I Thank God that I was baptized. Planted the seed. The seed that grew and grew until I can stand before Christ as a man. And if were not for me speaking to my priest. I would done some dumb thing's. You know. Maybe not...
 
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"He that lives by the sword ,dies by the sword? what is your point? The problem with you is that in 538. It was all politics. Men claimed to be "Catholic" so they could get an office. Like everything else. People evolve. Do you really thing that you are the first person to see this. Suffice it to say. The Catholic church has evolved with the times. I don't know how you are involved with your church, or is you have one.But the men of our church, serve our community. That is our focus. What is your's...
There's no such thing as an evolving church...unless truth starts evolving. Truth is constant, and therefore the faith is constant. Catholicism has NEVER been in line with the truth - it merely hijacked it from the true church before it wasted and vexed it until in order to worship Jesus in spirit and truth, you had to literally hide away in a cave or remote wilderness as did millions of the saints of God like the Albegensis, the Huegenots, the Waldenses, the Lollards, the Bogemils, and many many others while the Papacy reigned in the large populations for centuries, while pointing everyone away from Jesus to itself, selling forgiveness for a coin in the coffer, and trafficking salvation to the highest bidder. It's a matter of history.
 
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Catholics entire goal is that everyone in this world find's the Lord. Is that a bad thing? And you are right. I lived in the secular world. (As I NO doubt you have). I Thank God that I was baptized. Planted the seed. The seed that grew and grew until I can stand before Christ as a man. And if were not for me speaking to my priest. I would done some dumb thing's. You know. Maybe not...
That is not the goal of catholicism, bro. The goal of Catholicism: control. The church has never renounced its sins of the past. I've got quotes in my files where the church claims TO THIS DAY to have recourse to torture, to punishments for heresy, and boasts how she "lit the fires of the Inquisition".
 
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There's no such thing as an evolving church...unless truth starts evolving. Truth is constant, and therefore the faith is constant. Catholicism has NEVER been in line with the truth - it merely hijacked it from the true church before it wasted and vexed it until in order to worship Jesus in spirit and truth, you had to literally hide away in a cave or remote wilderness as did millions of the saints of God like the Albegensis, the Huegenots, the Waldenses, the Lollards, the Bogemils, and many many others while the Papacy reigned in the large populations for centuries, while pointing everyone away from Jesus to itself, selling forgiveness for a coin in the coffer, and trafficking salvation to the highest bidder. It's a matter of history.
Did I not just say that???
 

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The Royals are such a handful - they control the world's banking elite and are the major hub in the wheel of the global monetary system of which Revelation 18 speaks in its description of the NWO...along with Babylon, which is the Papacy presiding over all the occult world religious systems which bow to her as the global religious leader, and the "kings of the Earth" which are the governments led by Luciferian secret society members such as Bildebergs, Council of 500 and 300, Tri-Lateral Commission, Freemasonry, Illuminati, B'nai B'rith (Jewish Freemasonry), Skull and Bones (German chapter of the Illuminatti), etc.

Our world is run by devil worshipers and is adored by many gullible folks, including Christians who defend the Papacy fiercely from accusations that it is the prophesied Antichrist, though the Papacy would have massacred their whole family for the crime of simply possessing a Bible just a couple hundred years ago. Will such Draconian measures return for those who resist once the last remaining superpower in the West forces everyone to bow down and worship her? You betcha.

I see you have studied conspiracies 101. You think are gonna start chipping everyone soon? The technology is almost there to do it. That 5G network is a game changer.
 
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I see you have studied conspiracies 101. You think are gonna start chipping everyone soon? The technology is almost there to do it. That 5G network is a game changer.
Chipping, vaccination, whatever they've got planned, it's gonna happen soon. The tech is here. The Military Industrial Complex has built up NOT FOR THE PURPOSE of defeating Communism or Terrorism, but for forcing "all the Earth and them that dwell therein" to bow down to the Antichrist. I got a thread called "How to Go To Heaven If You Get The Mark" and it made some laugh andothers a bit angry LOL Check it out.

https://christianchat.com/conspirac...go-to-heaven-if-you-get-the-mark-chip.191150/