It will be an underground revival as the Church has been taken and the Holy Spirit will not be in full power as God allows the Antichrist to rule. Those who get saved will be killed and most by beheading it will be the worst time ever to be a christian. But those killed will receive glorified bodies just like we will. So still better to be saved than to give up, many a christian has been killed in times past and even now. Muslims are killing Christians as fast as they can and by beheading.
Here is the Catch 22 though. I used to be a Volunteer Prison Chaplain in the Prison where the most violent inmates in California were housed. The threat of violence with them only brought the response, "Bring it, I can take it!" When I taught about the Tribulation Saints, I found a way make the seriousness of refusing the Mark of the Beast real to them. I would say to the Christian inmates, "I know you can say in a macho attitude that there is no threat, including being beheaded, that could make you deny Christ and accept that mark. BUT, can you watch them behead your two year old daughter and not take the mark to save her life; or watch them behead your baby boy and not take the mark to save his life?" They would get real silent, and the macho attitude would disappear.
I think that is exactly how EVIL things will get when the Holy Spirit and the Church-age believers are Called Out to go to Heaven for the Wedding of the Lamb. That Evil in the form of the Antichrist, cannot come to full power while we are here, because we have the Holy Spirit in us, but the Bible says there is a time when HE will be taken out of the way. If the Holy Spirit is going some place "out of the way", so that Antichrist can come to full power, WE HAVE TO GO WITH HIM; because Christ promised HE would never leave us.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (NKJV)
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7 [/SUP] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains
will do so until
He is taken out of the way.
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8 [/SUP] And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
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9 [/SUP] The coming of the
lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
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10 [/SUP] and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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11 [/SUP] And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
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12 [/SUP] that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Antichrist will form a seven year peace treaty with Israel, allowing them to build the Third Temple, and 3.5 years later, breaks the treaty, putting an end to the sacrifices in the Temple. The Antichrist will actually set up his throne in the Holy of Holies and demand to be worshipped as god. I know many think that in and of itself is the Abomination of Desolation, but I suspect that is not the whole story.
Daniel 9:27 (HCSB)
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27 [/SUP] He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And
the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (NKJV)
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3 [/SUP] Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
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4 [/SUP] who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that
he sits as God in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
What is the ONLY Seat in the Temple and it's location?
CORRECT, it is the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies.
Exodus 25:15-22 (HCSB)
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15 [/SUP] The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.
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16 [/SUP] Put the ⌊tablets of the⌋ testimony that I will give you into the ark.
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17 [/SUP] Make a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
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18 [/SUP] Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.
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19 [/SUP] Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat.
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20 [/SUP] The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.
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21 [/SUP] Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the testimony that I will give you into the ark.
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22 [/SUP] I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
Leviticus 16:15 (NKJV)
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15 [/SUP] "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which
is for the people, bring its blood
inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it
on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
Since it says the Antichrist will SIT as God in the temple, it will be in the Holy of Holies (the Inner Room), not on one of the wings of the temple.
What then is the Antichrist going to put on one of the two Wings of the Temple?
Could it be a
guillotine to begin the beheadings?
Is that the Abomination of Desolation prophesied?