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How will you know it’s the Antichrist? What is the revealing of the Antichrist?

The Activity Of Satan

Power

Signs

False Wonders

Deception of Wickedness

Revelation 13

Fatal wound which had been healed.

Dies and comes back to life

head as if slain - exact same language as The Lamb having been slain (Rev 5)

This is a false resurrection purposely to imitate the Christ.

Ability to make war against the Saints and overcome them.

implied that the Restrainer is gone and he is free to do as he pleases.

for 42 months. 3.5 years. The Day Of The Lord.

Who are the Saints mentioned here? Israelites and Gentiles who come to faith after the Rapture.

The Deceived (vs 10)

They will perish

the did not receive the love of the truth

Are not saved

The Delusion (vs 11)

(Deluding influence)

A wandering out of the right way.

Error - same word as “spirit of error” in I John 4:6

False judgment or opinion

influence - energeia

work

operative

active

Can metonymically mean the works or miracles themselves...

Fraudulence, deceit. False miracles, delusive signs

So that they WILL believe what is false.

Matthew 24:24 NASB95

“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

The problem with AI / Deep Fakes / False Flags / Misinformation / Disinformation

The Followers of the Antichrist

They all may be judged

They did not believe the truth

Took pleasure in wickedness

John 3:18–20 NASB95

“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.