Randy Kluth
Well-Known Member
All I can say is your theory can be worked out with kingdoms. What kingdoms that can be worked out, is in the past. My point is it has been Satan pulling the strings and influencing the kingdoms. There is only one man revealed as a false prophet. If anything is going to be revealed in the 4th seal when 2 billion humans die, we are not told.
Jesus and the writers warned us not to look for humans calling themselves "Christ" and if they do, mark them as an antichrist and ignore them. With this in mind, looking for an Antichrist instead of a false prophet goes against Revelation and the rest of the NT.
If Satan tries to come back after the 4th seal and proclaim to be a "saviour", I doubt it will last long. Perhaps the majority of those killed will be Christians beheaded for their testimony. Did not Nero blame the Church for the economic collapse and have them killed even while Rome was being destroyed? If the war, famine, plague, and wild beast kill mostly Christians, there may not be too many left alive at the rapture. But until the 4th seal is opened and governments turn on each other, no one may be able to predict what happens. Personally a world wide revival of Repentance and turning to God is God’s Will and my prayer.
You're right that we're not supposed to waste time speculating on who the Antichrist will be and on when he will come. We're told to leave the "times and seasons" up to the Lord, and focus on our current responsibilities.
The purpose we are given this information about Antichrist and the False Prophet at all is because it explains to us that we have similar things happening to us now that we have to be advised how to deal with. We have to endure and to faithfully proclaim the message of the Kingdom without fear, and to expect difficult times.
Since nothing is clear yet about the future we are just engaging in speculation. Nothing wrong with that, but I personally need more explicit descriptions before I will take a stand on anything. I'm not at all sure there is just one man--it really sounds like two men to me, and none of them sound like they are Satan. But it's certainly not something to get distressed over. It's just speculation.
It is important, however, to know how to discern between truth and deception in our present time. The fake "good" is all around us, pretending to provide order and security through governments that are filled with corruption. This also is a "false Christ."
I agree that there will be relatively few real Christians left in the world towards the coming of Christ. However, I also think it's possible we might get one more revival in the world. It will inform the world one last time that God's Kingdom is coming, and they better get ready!