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CONFIRMED: He's Been Hiding in Plain Sight... (Bible Mysteries Explained) · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  The Antichrist. The Antichrist.
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  The Antichrist. Antichrist.
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  Who is the Antichrist? I've grown tired of people
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  claiming they know who this man is without really understanding
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  why. So I've gone on a deep dive to
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  find out when this guy will arrive.
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  Has he already been? How he will rise to become the
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  world's most powerful leader? And perhaps most shocking of
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  all, who do I think this man is? OK, so I believe there are three
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  possible candidates. And once I've presented all the
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  evidence before you, I'm going to tell you which of these I
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  believe the Antichrist really is #1 Caesar Nero.
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  Now this is going to blow you away.
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  The Bible says here is the mind which has wisdom.
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  The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman
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  sits. There are also 7 kings. 5 have
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  fallen. One is and the other has not yet
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  come. And when he comes, he must
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  continue for a short time the beast that was and is not
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  himself also the 8th and is of the seven, and is going to
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  perdition. So let's break this down.
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  John was given a revelation by God, and he saw 7 kings, 7
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  rulers who would sit on the seven mountains or the seven
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  hills in other translations. Now guess how many hills there
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  are in Rome? There are 7.
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  So who are these 7 kings? Well, at the time John was
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  writing Revelation, there had been 7 emperors of Rome.
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  Who were these emperors? Well there was Julius Caesar,
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  there was Caesar Augustus, there was Tiberius, there was
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  Caligula, there was Claudius, Caesar, Nero, and there was
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  Demetrian. And what does John say will
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  happen to these 7 kings? Well he says five of them have
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  fallen, meaning 5 will die naturally. 1 is.
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  So at the time that John was writing there was one who is
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  still alive, and then there was one we can conclude died
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  naturally. And then he says that one out of
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  the original 7 will come back and he will be the 8th who is
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  going to be the beast, which is another name for the Antichrist.
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  Now here's where it gets very crazy.
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  The first emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar, was taken out.
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  The second emperor, Caesar Augustus, died in old age.
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  Naturally, the third emperor of Rome, Tiberius, was poisoned.
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  The 4th Caligula was also taken out.
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  And then the 5th Claudius, again he was poisoned.
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  And then we come to the sixth number six, the 6th emperor of
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  Rome, Caesar Nero committed age 31 because he was awaiting the
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  death sentence in jail. And then lastly #7 Demetian was
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  alive when John was writing Revelation.
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  Now isn't that interesting? Here we have 5 emperors who have
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  fallen, one who is 1 who's still alive right now, and one who
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  died naturally. But the prophecy which John
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  wrote down was this. Out of the original 7 who has
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  already died, one would come back and he would be the
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  Antichrist, the beast. So where did I get Nero from?
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  When the book of Acts we actually read that the apostle
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  Paul appealed to Caesar. Who was this Caesar?
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  It was Caesar Nero, and you know the apostle Paul as well as I
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  do, What was his one passion in life?
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  He had to preach the gospel. Woe to me if I do not preach the
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  gospel, Paul said. And I believe that when the
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  apostle Paul met Caesar, he would have preached Christ, the
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  cross and the risen Savior. OK, so one theory goes like
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  this. Caesar Nero for a period of time
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  was a very successful ruler. And then his mind sort of
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  unhinged, he went insane. And some people claim that after
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  he met the apostle Paul, that was the thing that sent him
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  insane. You know, after he rejected the
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  gospel, something spiritual happened to his soul and it sent
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  him on the wrong tracks of life. But whether you agree with that
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  theory or not, there is one thing you've got to admit to me,
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  and it's this. Nero was one of the most evil
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  men who ever walked on the face of this earth.
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  And he did some very Antichrist things.
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  You know, he had his own wife taken out.
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  In fact, two of his wives were taken out and his own mother as
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  well. Nero was obsessed with his own
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  popularity. He was popular at the time.
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  People loved him and he loved Greek tradition, this idea that
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  you can be your own God and that you're worshipped.
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  Did you know this? Nero absolutely hated
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  Christians. He had Christians torn to pieces
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  by dogs. They were burned to life.
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  Some of them were even crucified, like our Savior.
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  And Nero had relations. He did wicked things that are
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  too shameful for me to speak publicly.
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  But I will say this, what he did would shock even all of our
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  newspapers today. But perhaps most suspects of all
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  is this. In the Hebrew language, every
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  single letter is given a number. And if you add up the numbers of
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  Nero's name, guess what number? It adds up to the mark of the
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  beast. But hey, before we get too
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  excited, if you add up the numbers of Barney the Dinosaur,
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  it also equals 666. I never trusted that guy anyway.
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  And also, the Book of Revelation was written in Greek, not
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  Hebrew. But then at the same time, let's
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  not forget that Hebrew was the original language of God's
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  people, the people of Israel. Another name for the Antichrist
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  is the Son of destruction. And if there's one man who
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  brought utter destruction to earth, it was Adolf Hitler.
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  The Bible says he shall speak pompous words against the Most
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  High, shall persecute the Saints of the Most High, and intend to
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  change times and law. Then the Saints shall be given
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  into his hand for a time and times and half a time.
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  What we know about the Antichrist Christ is he is going
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  to destroy many of God's people during the Tribulation.
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  So when all those millions of Jews and all those Christians
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  were put to death in the Holocaust, I can imagine many
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  people wondered, is Hitler the Antichrist?
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  And not only this, just like the Antichrist will force his mark
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  upon the world, so Hitler forced the Jews to wear a mark on
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  themselves during his reign. But perhaps the strongest piece
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  of evidence of all is this. Hitler had one goal in life.
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  He wanted to take over the world.
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  He wanted world domination. And what does the Bible say
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  about the Antichrist? The 4th beast shall be the 4th
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  Kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other
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  kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and
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  break it into pieces. You see, the Antichrist is going
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  to set up the greatest empire this world has ever seen.
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  He will dominate the entire world, but he won't do it by his
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  own power. The Bible tells us he'll be
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  indwelt by the spirit of Satan and Satan who was once cast out
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  of heaven because he wanted to be worshipped, He wanted to
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  raise himself up, he wanted to exalt himself above the Most
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  High God. Well, he will be the reason why
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  the Antichrist will also want to be worshipped because he will
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  have the power of Satan operating through his mind and
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  heart. It is important to remember this
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  Kingdom which will seem utterly impossible, which will devour
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  the whole world and everyone will think no one can stop it.
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  The Bible says when the Lord Jesus Christ appears, he will
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  slay the Antichrist with the very breath of his mouth.
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  All right. But everyone just stop here for
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  a minute because we should never forget this.
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  Hitler did not achieve global power.
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  He did not achieve total world domination, but the Antichrist
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  will. And another reason that should
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  make us a little bit skeptical is this.
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  The Jews hated Hitler, and for a very good reason.
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  But the Scriptures tell us that the Jews will see the Antichrist
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  and they will love him. They'll see him as a sort of
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  Messiah, as a sort of savior for them.
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  Jesus said I have come in my Father's name, and you do not
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  receive me. But if another comes in his own
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  name, him you will receive. And as you know, Jesus was a
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  Jew, but the Jewish people rejected him.
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  They rejected their only Messiah.
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  He came to his own, but his own did not receive him.
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  But there's one thing we can be sure of, and it's this.
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  The Jewish people will not reject the Antichrist.
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  They'll receive him and they'll welcome him.
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  And in a moment's time, I'm going to tell you just why that
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  is. But first, I want to hear from
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  you. Do you think Adolf Hitler could
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  be the Antichrist? Well, before I tell you the
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  answer, in a moment's time, let's hear who the third
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  Antichrist might be #3 a famous celebrity.
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  Let me let you into a secret. I love reading the comments from
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  all of my YouTube subscribers all around the world.
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  It encourages me so much. But one thing it has done is
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  it's exposed me to different theories of who you believe the
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  Antichrist is. Some people say it's him and
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  then others say no, no, it's definitely him.
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  No, maybe it could be this person.
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  No, it's this or it's him, it's him, it's him, it's him, it's
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  him. And the problem with all of
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  these different ideas swirling around the Internet is they
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  can't all be right. There can only be 1 Antichrist.
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  And guys, I'll say it again, I could be totally way off with
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  who I believe it is when I give you the answer in a moment's
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  time. So what are the signs we need to
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  look out for so we can identify who this person is?
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  Well, we know the Antichrist is going to speak blasphemous
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  things about God. He's going to be a blasphemer of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. We know he's going to perform
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  miraculous signs, which is going to woo the whole world into
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  following him. We know that the Antichrist is
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  going to be a great communicator.
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  He's going to be the finest public speaker, and he's going
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  to be full of confidence. And we also know that the
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  Antichrist will not be attracted to women.
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  The Bible says he shall neither regard the God of his Father's
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  nor the desire of women. And perhaps the most revealing
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  sign of all is this. During the seven-year
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  tribulation, the Antichrist will do something no man has ever
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  achieved. He'll bring peace to Jerusalem.
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  Now, as I say that very sentence, it seems totally
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  impossible as we think about the current tensions that are going
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  on in the Middle East. But he will.
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  He'll restore the temple. He'll make a covenant, a promise
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  to the people of Israel. And just when the Jewish people
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  believe that he is their Messiah, they believe that
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  they're in safe hands, the Antichrist will turn on them.
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  He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering in the
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  temple. He shall do cruel things to the
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  Saints of the Most High. And worst of all, he will take
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  his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
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  Jesus Christ himself warned us of this in Matthew 24 when he
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  spoke of the abomination of desolation.
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  So really, until the Antichrist rises to power, until he brings
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  peace to the Middle East and everyone starts worshipping him,
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  ultimately we won't know really until the day that he comes.
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  So yes, we can have all of these ideas, but at the end of the
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  day, they're just opinions. And as Christians, we're called
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  not to base our lives on opinions.
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  We're called to root our lives into Scripture.
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  But that being said, if you really push me in a corner, and
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  if you really pressed me and said, Joe, who do you think the
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  Antichrist is? I probably say to you, I believe
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  it is Caesar Nero or someone like #1 or dare I say someone
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  operating in the same spirit as Nero Nero.
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  I almost hesitate to admit to this because I don't want to go
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  too far with this, But a possibility that has ran through
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  my mind is the Antichrist is going to mimic the Lord Jesus.
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  We know that for sure. And I have wondered if there
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  will be some way in the future where people from the past can
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  be brought back. And I do wonder if Caesar Nero
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  will rise from the dead and then suddenly he will lead the whole
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  world into worshipping the beast himself and all that is wrong
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  and all that is dark. And listen to me, I do find it
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  fascinating how in Revelation 17 it says about this person that
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  he was meaning he was once alive, but now he is not.
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  But someone from this original 7 will become the 8th, the 8th
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  king, and he will be the Antichrist who will rule the
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  world. All right, a little disclaimer
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  here. If you haven't subscribed
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  already, I would encourage you to do so because I actually have
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  another Antichrist video coming out very soon where I'm going to
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  give you some more modern day possibility of who if I am wrong
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  about Nero, which I very well could be.
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  Well, these are the other guys of who I think it could be also.
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  It is absolutely crucial that you remember this though the
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  word Antichrist means in the place of meaning taking the
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  place of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the most urgent question you
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  need to ask yourself is not who is the Antichrist, but who is
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  the Antichrist in my life? What is taking the place of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ? Is there something that is
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  reigning in your life where Christ should be reigning?
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  Because only the Lord Jesus Christ has the right to sit on
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  the throne of your life. Maybe you're listening and you
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  are absolutely obsessed with another person.
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  A few years ago I was preaching on the streets and I met a man
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  who said I am God. So I asked his girlfriend is he
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  God? And she said yes, he's God.
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  You see, there are many people who worship their boyfriend or
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  their girlfriends or even their friends.
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  This is a total sin. But maybe you are worshiping a
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  sin. Maybe you're a turning over and
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  over and over against the same sin, or maybe you worship a
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  dream, an idea that you will one day become famous and popular
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  and you yourself will exalt yourself above everyone.
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  Friends, if that is you again, I will say, repent and turn from
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  that sin. If you have not yet put your
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  trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, you must do that now.
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  Because as we look at the world, we've got to say we are changing
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  very, very quickly. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
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  returns, when the one who conquered the grave comes back,
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  you want to make sure sure that you're on that winning side.
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  Because I'll tell you one thing, you do not want to be on the
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  side of the Antichrist, Satan, the beast and the false prophet.
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  No, you want to be on the side of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And there are two types of people that get into heaven,
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  perfect people and forgiven people.
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  And unless you are perfect, you need the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Because on the cross the wonderful Saviour took in his
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  body our lies, our blasphemy, our pride, our filthiness, all
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  our sin, and he was crucified. That you and I can be forgiven
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  and have a home in heaven. So I plead with you today, this
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  very day, receive the Savior of the world.
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  Know that your sins can be forgiven, that you could be
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  washed white and snow, and that you have eternal life.
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  And you are trusting in the most powerful one, the Christ who
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  will one day return. And when he returns, he'll blow
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  with his breath and he'll slay the Antichrist and all the
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  powers of darkness. That's the man you want to
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  follow. That's the Lord Jesus Christ, my
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  Lord, and my saviour. Now I do wonder if there's
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  anyone asking this question. Joe, why didn't you mention the
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  two witnesses? Well, the answer is this.
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  I've made an entire video about the two witnesses and again, who
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  I think they are, which isn't the common thought out answer.
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  If you want to see who I think they are, click this video right
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  away.