The Anti-Christ

How It Was Then

I remember a time:
• when children could safely play outside.
• shops were closed on Sundays because people went to church
• TV’s worst program was Dallas
• police acted like police and judges were not corrupted
• women dressed modestly
• pornography was illegal

How It Is Now

Wickedness, sexual immorality, injustice, fraud, and corruption are multiplying. The world is spiraling to an end and the end of the church age. It is the end of God’s patience before He unleashes His wrath as the world is being prepared for the Day of the Lord – the Day of His Wrath.

What Does Daniel say?

The book of Daniel reveals God as:
• sovereign over all the kingdoms
• the remover of kings and installer of kings
• the Revealer of Mysteries

How Will this All Happen?

Daniel’s vision also reveals that in the end Gods kingdom will:
• destroy all the previous kingdoms (Daniel 2:21,44)
• be the eternal kingdom

 

Before Christ returns to set up his kingdom on earth before that there will be an ungodly 4th empire the worst of the worst the book of Revelations reveals it.
It is called the tribulation period, the day of the Lord, even the day of wrath which is a period of 7 years divided into two time periods of 3 1/2 years.

The 4th Great Empire

The 4th great empire will be ruled by a satanic empowered Anti-Christ, called the boast little horn in Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7: 11, the prince of the people Daniel 9:26, the king in Daniel 11:26.

Daniels great vision prepares the reader for this coming empire be describing what will precede it, what characterizes the anti-Christ and what will happen in his rule.

There is going to be an ultimate anti-Christ, one person, able to do such wonders that he almost deceives the elect themselves.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh Preacher and Writer)

Things will get far worse before it will get better with Jesus. It’s the same for salvation. It is only once you see how bad you are that you see your need for the Savior. The passage was looking at Daniel 11: 36-45

The Great Vision of Gods Future Plans for Israel that Encourages You to Trust His Word and Savior

1. Vision of the Persian history preparing for the anti-Christ Daniel 11: 2
2. Vision of the Greek history preparing for the anti-ChristDaniel 11: 3-4 (Daniel 11:5-20 next week)
3. Vision of the Greek type of Anti-Christ Daniel 11: 21-35 (3rd sermon)
4. Vision of the actual Anti-Christ Daniel 11: 36-45 (4th Sermon)

And under the fourth point, we discover:

10 Characteristics of the Anti-Christ that May Protect the Believer from Deception:

1. Self-gratifying Daniel 11: 36
2. Snob
3. Slander
4. Successful
5. Sell out – Daniel 11: 37
6. Sexual deviant
7. Self-deification
8. Substitute –Daniel 11: 38
9. Subjugator – Daniel 11: 39
10. Schemer