The COLOSSAL LIE!
God Almighty also calls the man of sin a great "false prophet" (Rev. 19:20).
Notice the profound effect his false "prophetic utterances" will have on the Christian-professing world:
When Jesus Christ returns to punish the world for its sins and to stamp out war and bring peace at last, will the world accept Him as the Messiah?
Not at all!
They will refuse to heed — "and they repented not" (Rev. 16:9). They will instead run from Christ — even calling for the rocks to fall on them, hiding in caves — FLEEING from the face of God Almighty! (Revelation 6:15-16)
But why?
Because that "false prophet" will have deceived them into believing the biggest lie ever told!
Into their ears, he will have poured the insidious, diabolical lie that the returning King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ, IS the ANTICHRIST — that He is the Devil incarnate!
And the world will believe him because God will have sent them "strong delusion, that they should believe a lie"! (II Thess. 2:11)
What the False Prophet Will Claim
Already the clever deception is being spread. Notice this false prophecy revealed well over a century ago: "Antichrist will fight a successful battle at Mageddo (Armageddon) in Palestine after which . . . he will thereafter become lord of the world" (Prophecy for Today, p. 71).
Your Bible states that through Satanic influence, the False Prophet and the Beast will muster the armies of the nations to FIGHT the returning Jesus Christ (Rev. 16:13-14, 16; 17:13-14). They will be convinced He is the Antichrist, the enemy of the world!
Bible prophecy reveals Jesus Christ will be victorious when He returns — not the Antichrist: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. . .
"And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should SMITE the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS"! (Rev. 19:11-16)
"The Kings will send armies to the Holy Land," continues the false prophecy, "but the Antichrist will slay them all"! (ibid. page 69)
Revelation 19:19-21 shows this is exactly what the returning Christ — not the Antichrist — will do! He will cause their flesh to "consume away while they stand upon their feet . . ." (Zech. 14:12).
But to continue with these diabolical false prophecies: "Antichrist and his army will conquer Rome, kill the Pope and take the throne . . . the Jews will come from everywhere, and accept Antichrist as the Messiah" (ibid. p. 68).
Your Bible reveals Jesus Christ is to destroy the Beast and the False Prophet by casting them into the lake of fire! (Rev. 19:20) The Jews will then acknowledge, for the first time, that the returning Jesus is indeed their Messiah. Notice it in Zech. 12:9-10.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son . . ." (Zech. 12:9-10).
More Satanic Deceptions
Continuing the false doctrine which the False Prophet will proclaim: "After the destruction of Rome, Antichrist will appear and exalt himself above pagan deities and the Trinity . . . Coming to Jerusalem, he will succeed through false preaching, miracles, gifts, terror, aided throughout by the devil.
"An evil spirit will come out of the air and descend on his followers. He shall feign a resurrection from the dead, cause rain to fall . . . perform other wonders, all through the power of the devil . . . The Jews will welcome him" (Prophecy for Today, p. 66).
Now read your Bible! After the fall of Rome (see Rev. 18), it is Christ who will stamp out the pagan religions and false Christianity. He will descend to the Mount of Olives, "which is before Jerusalem on the east" (Zech. 14:4). Then He will make His HOLY SPIRIT available to all human beings (Joel 2:28, 32). It will be the time of the first resurrection. The dead in Christ will rise from their graves! (I Cor. 15:50-55)
Yet all these plain scriptures are made to appear as though they were the work of the Antichrist instead of Christ. The Holy Spirit is diabolically labeled "an evil spirit" that "will come out of the air and descend on his followers."
That is BLASPHEMY against the Holy Spirit! That is the UNFORGIVABLE SIN — for the False Prophet knows better!
The False Prophet will claim: "And in the presence of all he [the Christ, who is falsely labeled the Antichrist in this diabolical prophecy] exhibits himself as taken up into heaven with trumpets and sounds, and the mighty shouting of those who hail him with indescribable hymns; the heir of darkness himself shining like light, and at one time soaring to the heavens, and at another descending to the earth with great glory, and again charging the demons, like angels, to execute his behests with much fear and trembling. For he will show forth his demons brilliant like angels, and he will bring in hosts of the incorporeal without number" (Ante-Nicene Fathers, "Hippolytus," p. 250, Section XXIX).
But your Bible — the inspired Word of God says: "Behold, he [Jesus Christ] cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him . . . and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him" (Rev. 1:7). "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT, and the dead in Christ shall RISE first: and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the AIR"! (I Thess. 4:16-17. See also I Cor. 15:50-53)
Jesus will travel around the world with the speed of lightning, gathering the resurrected saints into the clouds. The real antichrist — the man of sin — falsely labels the saints of God "demons brilliant like angels"! The Prophet Daniel was inspired by God to tell us that the resurrected and changed saints "shall shine as the BRIGHTNESS of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness [will shine in the resurrection] as the STARS forever and ever"! (Dan. 12:3)
And as for the "indescribable hymns" — "And they sung as it were a new song before the throne . . . and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth . . . the FIRSTFRUITS unto God and to the Lamb"! (Rev. 14:3-4)
The false prophecy continues: "Then that abominable one [meaning Jesus Christ — what blasphemy against God Almighty!] will send his commands throughout every government by the hand at once of demons and of visible men, who shall say 'A mighty king has arisen upon the earth; come ye all to worship him; come ye all to see the strength of his kingdom: for, behold, he will give you corn; and he will bestow upon you wine, and great riches, and lofty honors. For the whole earth and sea obeys His command. Come ye all to him — (ibid. p. 249, section XXVIII).
But Revelation 14:6-7 says: "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters."
Soon, even other Devilish false prophecies, recorded over many centuries, will be read from pulpits into the ears of gullible people. The False Prophet will place his so-called "divine" approval on them.
The people will believe these false prophecies — the only teaching they have ever learned. They don't know what the Bible really says, because they have been taught not to study the Bible. They will be absolutely convinced that the returning, glorified Christ is the Antichrist! And that the man of sin is Christ in the flesh!
We are beginning to see this happening before our very eyes! The call for "church unity" is just the beginning. The WHOLE WORLD is being deceived by it!
Don't YOU Be Deceived!
Satan knows the prophecies of God. He trembles at God's Word (Jas. 2:19) because he knows it will come to pass! He hates God's Kingdom — and His Law! No wonder he has influenced his followers to prophesy this satanic deception: "Antichrist [by which the victorious Christ is meant] will be an iconoclast [an idol breaker]. Most of the world will adore him. He will teach that the Christian religion [today's counterfeit Christianity] is false, confiscation of Christian property is legal, Saturday is to be observed instead of Sunday, and he will change the Ten Commandments [that is, restore them to their original form, including the often-deleted second commandment against idols].
"All his wonders could not be written in a book. They will be more wonderful than the Old and New Testaments! . . . He will read people's minds, raise the dead, reward His followers and punish the rest"! (Prophecy for Today, p. 70)
Your Bible says Christ is the One who will destroy idols! Jesus Christ is the One who will reveal how perverted this world's pagan practices — labeled, falsely, "Christianity" — have become.
Christ is, moreover, the LORD of the Old Testament. At creation He instituted worship On the SEVENTH DAY, not Sunday!
Jesus Christ spoke the Ten Commandments. He will restore them to their original form, not as they have been misnumbered in so many catechisms. And Christ is the One who will RAISE the dead and REWARD His followers!
Now you see in full the diabolical plot being hatched by Satan the devil. Here you see laid bare a few of the deceptive prophecies Satan will inspire the end-time false prophet to preach!
It is simply Satan's age-old attempt to assume to himself the office of God, while he assigns the intervention of the TRUE glorified Christ to the Antichrist!
Thank God YOU don't have to be deceived!