Ronald Nolette
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1. The beast has been around for over 2000 years (Revelation 17:8, Revelation 17:11-13, 1 John 2:18-23, 1 John 4:1-3, 5-6, 2 John 1:7, and 2 Thessalonians 2:3-13). No man has lived that long on earth. Only a wicked spirit or an evil empire could possibly fulfil that portrayal.
2. How can a literal human being be literally “in them that perish” (2 Thessalonians 2:10)? This would suggest him being in every single unsaved person. Only a spirit can do that.
3. The beast carries the allegiance of all the non-elect. No single human being has or ever or will possess that wholesale allegiance. Only a broader worldly spirit enjoys all the loyalty of the wicked.
4. There is nowhere in Scripture that shows human beings in the abyss (Luke 8:31, Romans 10:7, Revelation 9:1, 2, 11, 11:7, 17:8, and 20:1, 3). Any time it is mentioned, it is shown to be the exclusive abode of Satan and his demons.
5. What man possesses 7 heads? These describe 7 wicked kingdoms in history with 7 kings ruling over them. No man can possibly satisfy that.
6. According to the original Greek, and in contrast to what many people teach, 666 is the number of “man,” not the number of “a man.”
7. Finally, what human being in history lives in, and rises up out of, the sea at the end? Such an idea is non-sensical.
Well teh beast is called a man. YOu reinterpret him to be something other. and you reinteprret him to be here for over 2,000 years.
So pray tell when did the beast get his start somewhere around 1 AD? and if he is around that long- who/what is he?
I do believe that the antichrist is a hybrid just like the beings of Gensis 6. angle marrying human women and producing a hybrid race. The antichrist is the physical son of satan! Just like Jesus had a unique birth, so won't the antichrist, the counterfeit son, have a unique birth. We have the real trinity and the counterfeit trinity.
Satan (father)
antichrist (son)
false prophet (holy spirit)
Genesis 3 shows that when teh seed of teh woman (singular) shall crush the seed of the serpent (singular) Both match in cased number and form. so if the seed of the woman is a "person" so isn't the seed of teh "serpent" a person. Unless of course you have reinterpreted that as well.