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Thats what I mean with the "acting like Christ" thing Christ was God, with us. The anti christ will do the same. Christ honored a God while He was with us, the God of Abraham. But He also told us that He was "He".
I believe the anti christ will do the same, but from a religion where Christ was "just a prophet", one that preaches that His followers "have it wrong", and one that claims Christ will come to tell us this, and to point to the /real/ messiah.
I believe that version of "Christ" will be the false prophet, though But yeah, he will do as Christ did, claim to be god on earth, but in the name of a false god created by satan.
I believe the anti christ will do the same, but from a religion where Christ was "just a prophet", one that preaches that His followers "have it wrong", and one that claims Christ will come to tell us this, and to point to the /real/ messiah.
I believe that version of "Christ" will be the false prophet, though But yeah, he will do as Christ did, claim to be god on earth, but in the name of a false god created by satan.
However, it is, in my view, doubtful that the one Islam touts as their messiah will be the one who "confirms the covenant" as we see here:
Daniel 9:24-27
King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]24 [/SUP]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.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]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.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]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.
[SUP]27 [/SUP]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.
The Mahdi of Islam stands in direct opposition to what Jews believe in regards to the Covenant of Law, which is what I think is the covenant in view here.
Rather, it is much more likely that the Antichrist will be a political figure who, when he confirms the Covenant, acknowledges the right of the Jews to practice their religion to the point that Temple Services are reestablished. We could see a scenario where this Mahdi does so, since Antichrist will be deceitful and crafty, lol, but, again we consider that this would be the exact opposite of the goal of radical Islam, who seeks to completely destroy Israel, and hinders her from practicing their religion.
Antichrist will be someone that the entire world will look to as a "savior" of sorts, and I believe he establishes himself in the first half of the Tribulation by addressing the calamities unleashed on the world through the opening of the Seals and certain Trumpet Judgments. It's kind of like today, where many Political Religionists look to their candidates to solve the problems they see as critical to their lives. For the Pro-Choice, for example, the thought of voting Republican is absurd, because they have historically been in opposition to their world-view.
So too with Antichrist, I just have a problem seeing the world, much less Israel, embrace someone from Islam. It's not impossible, and I do not deny the possibility, but I myself have my doubts.
And I don't see the Antichrist as at first being someone who is considered a messiah in a religious sense, because we know that many in the world stand in opposition to the idea of Christ. Christians make up, from latest statistics I am aware of, of less than ten percent of the World's population. The messiah that arises in the Tribulation will first be political, in my view, and will have the support of the world in majority.
To bring this back to topic, again we realize the religious nature of politics. In a recent thread, a member placed politics above religion as the most volatile subject in regards to debate. I think this might be interpreted as an indication that perhaps politics have a predominant position in their worldview, and based on the Politics Boards I have participated on a number of forums, this is not something unreal, but a reality that Christianity has to face.
God bless.