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Antichrist means both “Against Christ” and “In the place of Christ”.

The Antichrist is a figure who will come to the forefront during seven years of affliction for the nation Israel.

This particular time is prophesied by Daniel; the last week of Daniel’s 70 weeks (the first 69 weeks already fulfilled being temporarily interrupted by the “graphing in of the gentiles” or “the age of grace” which will end when the “blindness of the Jews” is lifted.)

Currently, there are many signs this blindness is lifting; many Jews, including orthodox Jews and priests are realizing that Jesus is their Messiah and Savior.

Although it is a subject of debate, it is this author’s opinion that the rapture and resurrections of believers will take place immediately prior to the Antichrist being revealed when he signs a seven year peace treaty with the Jews. See Topic: What is the Rapture? and Topic: A Pre-Tribulation Rapture.

The Antichrist is described by scripture focusing on his ancestral beginnings and other indicators which will be covered in this posting: The SUMMARY below lists the ancestry lines which overlap and are mid-eastern.

SUMMARY:
1. He is Edomite
2. He is Syrian (from the boundaries of Antiochus IV’s era from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of India.)
3. He is Amalakite (from Gog and Magog)
4. He is most probably Babylonian from the same boundaries of Syria during Antiochus IV’s time (the King of the North in Daniel) which includes Babylon from modern day Iraq.

• The above four overlap, all mid-Eastern in nature, all descendants of their period.

TOOLS USED TO DETERMINE THESE FOUR ANCESTRIES.
1. Specific Scriptures
2. Ancient Word Studies
3. Hebrew Translations (Stew means pride, Clay is Edom)
4. The Greek Septuagint (Gog, the king of the locusts)
5. Symbolism (locusts), Metaphors (lightning, a beast, a sea monster, and a dragon), and Patterns (To boil, to storm, come as a whirlwind).

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The Antichrist is a progression of influence and power:

• He is the caterpillar in Amos 1
• He is the little horn in Daniel 7:8.
• He is the last head of the beast/dragon in Revelation
• Indwelt by Satan he becomes one with the beast, Satan

• His career begins by leading an army and ends as a Global Leader sponsored by “Rome” eventually becoming “The image of the beast”.
  • Jesus refuted Satan’s offer to fall down and worship him where Satan would give him all the kingdom’s of the world.
  • The Antichrist; however, will take Satan up on that offer.
    
• From “Locust Caterpiller” to “King of the Locusts”, to a “Little Horn” among ten horns, to replacing three horns with himself, to becoming the head over all ten horns, to global leader with the power of the dragon, to being assassinated, and becoming the “image of the beast”.

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THE FOUR ANCESTRIES ANALYZED

Edomite

Esau is called “Edom” in scripture and his descendants are called Edomites.

• The word Edom is synonymous with Adam. Both come from the Hebrew root word “Dom” or “Dam” meaning red blood or red wine. Esau was hairy all over and red; nicknamed Edom because of his redness.
  • Adam was made from the “clay” (also translated “dust”) of the ground and clay is red. The Lord compares men to pottery. The Edomites are referred to as clay/miry clay, found at the bottom of fouled waters.
  • Nebuchadnezzar’s statue foretells all the nations to come who will rule over the Jews from the time of Babylonian up until end times.
  • During the reign of the Antichrist, the clay (Edomites) refuse to adhere to the iron (current day “Rome/Club of Rome”). Since the Antichrist is one of the ten horns (ten tribes which attack Israel) He must be part of the clay and hence an Edomite.
  • The ten tribes are described in the battle of Psalm 83 and in the battle of Gog and Magog; “Gog” is also translated “Agag” (An Amalakite) where the Edomite ancestry overlaps with Amalakite.
  • The Edomites settled on Mt. Seir h8165, which is associated with Demons in Hebrew.
    
  • Deuteronomy 2:5 “Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
  • Genesis 36:8 So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.
  • Malachi 1:3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”
  • Romans 9:13 As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
• Esau traded his birthright for a bowl of red stew which infuriated God. The birthright is akin to one’s responsibility to serve their family, to act as a shepherd over them. It means being “chosen” to do so. It is like giving up one’s birthright and relationship with God. It is like seeing one’s salvation as something of no worth.
  • Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
    • In Hebrew, “stew” or “zud” is also translated as “pride”.
      
• The Edomite Antichrist will be indwelt by Satan during the seven year tribulation. Satan is compared to a sea monster who causes the waters of people to boil (stew, fret, worry, storm) and is called the king of the children of pride.
  • The root meaning of Mt. Seir is to storm, whirl away, come as a storm (See Isaiah 21)
    
    
    
    
    
    
• The Edomite Antichrist is indwelt by Satan who is described below:
  
  • Job 41:24 His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone.
    ³⁰ His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
    ³¹ He makes the deep boil like a pot;
    ³³ On earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.
    ³⁴ He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride.”
    
  • Ezekiel 32:² “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: ‘You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monster in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, And fouling their rivers.

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The Amalakite

The Amalakite is studied from three vantage points: 1) Who he is in regard to the Battle of Gog and Magog, 2) Who he is in regard to Agag, king of the Amalakites, and 3) Who he is in his connection with king Saul.

Gog of Gog (Agag) and Magog

• Ezekiel 38:17
  Thus says the Lord God: “Are you HE (Gog: The Antichrist) of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them (Israel) ?
• The Prophet above is Ezekiel
• The “HE” by reason of the prophets is the coming Antichrist: Balaam, Amos, Daniel, Joel, Ezekiel, and Isaiah.

King Agag (Gog), the Amalekite

• The names Agag and Gog are synonymous, interchangeable and identical. Some translations use “Agag” while others use “Gog”.
  
  • Numbers 24:7b in the Biblical Hebrew Bible
    “His king shall be higher than Agag,
    And his kingdom shall be exalted.”
    
  • Numbers 24:7b in the Greek Septuagint
    “His king shall be higher than Gog,
    And his kingdom shall be exalted.”
    
  • “His king” from Numbers 24:7 refers to the Millennium when Jesus reigns in Jerusalem. “His king” is Jesus who will be “higher” than Agag/Gog.
    
• “Gog signifies ‘high’ and eminent, one in a very exalted station: it comes from the same root, and has the same signification, as Agag, to whose height and exaltation there is an allusion in Num 24:7 … where the Samaritan and Septuagint versions read Gog: it is the same with Arabic, ‘Jagog’ …” (the New John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible)
• The prophet above is Balaam
  
• Which prophets wrote of Agag? King Agag is the descendant of Amalek. Many prophets spoke of Amalek in multigenerational warfare.
  
• Daniel 11 illustrates how God speaks of specific people according to their dynasties; likewise with Gog/Agag and Amalek.

Locusts of Gog/Agag

Locusts of Amos 7:1

• Throughout scripture locusts are symbolic for an invading, destructive army destroying everything in its path.
  • Amos 7:1 New King James -Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning (gleanings) of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.
    
• The comparison of translations indicate the locusts have a king: King Gog (aka Agag).
• Amos 7:1 Greek Septuagint, Contemporary English Version – Thus has the Lord God shewed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog.
• The prophet above is Amos

Locusts of Joel 1:4

• Joel 1:4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;
  What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
  And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

• Vision of the locusts in Joel chapter 1; The Day of the Lord (the phrase used for the seven year tribulation in scripture also called the Day of the Lord’s wrath) in Joel chapter 2
  • Compare with Isaiah 21
    
• Phrases in Joel used for end time events:
  • A day of darkness, gloominess Joel 2
    • Amos 5:18,20,
    • Zephaniah 1:15
  • The earth quakes before them, Joel 2:10
    The heavens tremble;
    The sun and moon grow dark,
    And the stars diminish their brightness.
    • Isaiah 24:20, II Samuel 22:8, Psalm 18:7, Isaiah 24:18-19, Luke 21:26, Revelation 16:17
• The prophet above is Joel

Locusts of Revelation 9:3 and 9:7

• Locusts also appear in the book of Revelation, the same event addressed by Joel and Amos. It’s the battle of Gog and Magog invading Israel in the middle of the tribulation. See Isaiah chapter 21.

• Revelation 9:3
  Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
• Revelation 9:7
  The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
• The prophet above is John the Beloved

• He is one of them: He replaces three of them with himself. (AsSyria, Edom, Amalek?)
• He is the eighth.
• Of the feet of Iron and clay, there are ten toes on Nebuchadnezzar’s statue.
• These are also the ten horns on the last of the seven heads on the dragon (Satan) where one is yet to come.
• All of the above are the same: ten tribes, ten toes, ten horns.
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• The Roman empire has lasted from the time of Jesus until modern days through the Holy Roman Empire. Today, the Pope claims he is the titular head of the Holy Roman Empire.
• If the Antichrist is part of the “clay” then who or what is the iron?
• Today, the Club of Rome is the largest and most powerful political union in the world consisting of everyone who is on the who’s who list of notables from scientists, wealthy, politicians, entertainers, leaders, educators, etc. whose desire it is to save the world through six agendas: reeducating children, redistribution of wealth, a global government, environmental issues, eradicating violence /wars, and population control. While their headquarters was in Winterthur, Switzerland, they are in every country of the world. The problem they have is that they want to save the world without God. The Club of Rome is the prime candidate for the iron in the ‘feet of iron and clay’ sponsoring political activists and leaders who promote their agenda. Key phrases include “redistribution of wealth”, “carbon footprint”, and “it takes a village to raise a child”. From the Clinton administration to Obama and Biden, the Club of Rome has been active to initiate change in the U.S. See https://dev.clubofrome.org/, See https://www.clubofrome.org/member/dorsey-michael-k/.

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The Syrian

(a) He is one of the four horns of the goat in Daniel’s visions, where the four horns represent Egypt (Ptolemy aka King of the South), Syria (Seleucus aka King of the North), Greek (Cassander of Macedon), Turkey (Lysimachus of “Thrace” Daniel 8:8, Daniel 8:21). These were Alexander’s successors which were four of his generals:

(b) The Antichrist is foreshadowed by the last King of the North; Antiochus IV, a Syrian foreshadow of the Antichrist, where the chapter skips directly from Antiochus IV to the coming Antichrist. Daniel 11:31

• Therefore; the choice is specifically narrowed down to Syria in Daniel 11:31 which ties Antiochus IV from history to the Antichrist at the end times. During this time Syria’s boundaries ranged from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of India which included modern-day Iran and Iraq.

• Daniel 11:31,35 they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation. ³⁵ ..the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time ((Fulfilled by Antiochus IV Syrian King of the North in the past and yet to be fulfilled by the Antichrist of the future also a Syrian King).

• Mark 13:14 The Great Tribulation “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not”…, “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

• The four horns on the goat in Daniel’s vision are Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Syria. The Antichrist is prophesied to be a descendant of one of the four horns on the goat:
  
  • Daniel 8:⁸ Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria) toward the four winds of heaven. ⁹ And out of one of them came a little horn (the Antichrist) which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land. ¹⁰ And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them. ¹¹ He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host (Jesus Yeshua the Christ); and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary (the Temple) was cast down. ¹² Because of transgression (of desolation), an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prospered.
    
  • This tells us that during this seven year time of tribulation the Jewish Temple will be partaking in sacrifices. Since there is no Jewish Temple, this means a third temple must be built before or during the tribulation.
    
    • A third Temple? An unbelievable prophecy until the last few years when the Temple Mount Institute declared every single item has been built and replaced and is ready for the coming Third Temple, claiming it can be put up in a short three months.
      See: The Temple Mount Institute
      Specifically: The Gallery of Items for the Temple
      
  • Which of these four (Greece, Turkey, Syria, or Egypt) will the Antichrist come from? The scripture in Daniel 11 with the King of the South and the King of the North narrow it down to Syria. The last Syrian king in the King of the North is Antiochus IV Epiphenes in which scripture makes a jump from Antiochus IV directly to the coming Antichrist thus narrowing it down to Syria.
    
  • Antiochus IV is a “shadow” and a “type” of the coming Antichrist. He is a “type” because his character and motivation is to annihilate the Jews which describes the coming Antichrist. He is a “shadow” because he casts a long shadow into the future where the Antichrist will be like him. He was called a “mad man” for a reason.
    
  • Antiochus IV (175 -164 BC) fits the description of the one who causes “the abomination that causes desolation” when he enters the holy of holies to declare that he is “god”… UNTIL Jesus, in 31 AD, 175 years later made the following statement:
    
    • Matthew 24:¹⁵ “Therefore when you see (IN THE FUTURE FROM JESUS) the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), ¹⁶ “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
      
    • Jesus is saying another like Antiochus IV, will fulfill this prophecy, but he will be horrifically worse.
      
      • Matthew 24:²¹ For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²² And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s (chosen one’s) sake those days will be shortened.

c) The prophecy of Micah confirms the Antichrist will be Syrian

Micah 5:5 (continued) When the Assyrian (Syrian) comes into our land,
And when he treads in our palaces,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight princely men.

Syria, during the era of Alexander the Great included the entire middle east with its borders reaching from the Mediterranean Sea to India. This included Babylon of modern day Iraq. Since the harlot in Revelation is Jerusalem’s idolatry and since the Antichrist will be ruling from Jerusalem then it is plausible that the Antichrist is specifically Babylonian. Sodom and Egypt are also mentioned in Revelation as Jerusalem, the first for its debauchery and the second for its worldliness, however; it is Babylon that is written on Jerusalem, the harlot’s, forehead.

The Babylonian

The Antichrist will rule in Jerusalem with his gentile army during the last half of the tribulation; three and a half years.

Jerusalem’s history is filled with idolatry by taking on the gods of other nations:

• Isaiah 57:³ “But come here,
  You sons of the sorceress,
  You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• Isaiah 1:21 The Degenerate City – How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.

The Antichrist takes harlotry to a whole new level:

• Revelation 17 – The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
  
• Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
  
• Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.
  
• Isaiah 14:19 speaks not only of Belshazzar’s party in Daniel 5 but is also a prophecy of the coming Antichrist as indicated by its description of the fall of Lucifer/Satan tying the spirit of Belshazzar to the spirit of the Antichrist with a conclusion that the Antichrist being Babylonian is not a stretch.

Babylon has a history – a one-world government, language, and all the world’s religions deriving from the tower of Babel. As Babylon was, so Jerusalem will be in the latter days when the latter rain is withheld.

• Ezekiel 22:24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’
• Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain.

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1. Gog is King of the Locust army.

• The armies of Gog and Magog are listed as ten tribes/nations.
• The armies of Psalm 83 are listed as ten tribes/nations
• There are ten horns (powers) who give their power to the Antichrist in Revelation.
• There are ten toes on Nebuchadezzar’s statue in Daniel in the last gentile kingdom of iron and clay.

2. The Edomites

Esau is called “Edom” in scripture and his descendants are called Edomites.

• The word Edom is synonymous with Adam. Both come from the Hebrew root word “Dom” or “Dam” meaning red blood or red wine. Esau had red hair and was called Edom. Adam was made from the “dust/clay” of the ground and clay is red. The Lord compares men to pottery. The Edomites are referred to as clay/miry clay. During the reign of the Antichrist, the clay (Edomites) refuse to adhere to the iron (current day “Rome/Club of Rome”). Since the Antichrist is one of the ten horns (ten tribes which attack Israel) He must be part of the clay and hence an Edomite.

3. The Conclusion concerning the identity of the Antichrist:

• He will be mid-eastern (Syria), probably Babylonian (Iraqi), A descendant of Agag (Amalakite), and Edomite, a descendant of Esau. Only with DNA would these lineages be able to be traced – although God does not need man’s technology, He can read our DNA with His eyes.

4. Concerning the identity of the Antichrist: One other interesting tidbit to be considered.

It is unfortunate that the book of Luke is written in Greek, but if it were written in perfect Hebrew this is how it would be read:

From Greek to English Translation: Luke 10:18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”

Same verse in Perfect Hebrew: Luke 10:18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning” (bārāq-pronounced baw-rawk’ Lightning H1300 from root H1299 ), then the word “from” (O = a transition), then heaven (bāmâ Heights ).”

Concisely (Ironically?) in Perfect Hebrew:
Luke 10:18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like [Barack O Bama?] (Lightning from Heaven).”

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OUTLINE OF EVENTS DURING THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION WHEN THE ANTICHRIST BETRAYS THE JEWS AND RULES THE WORLD FROM JERUSALEM.

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Verses using the word “Antichrist” by the prophet: John the Revelator: (AN Antichrist is not THE Antichrist but those who have the spirit of deception):

* I John 2:18 Deceptions of the Last Hour – Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
* I John 2:22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
* I John 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
* II John 1:7 Beware of Antichrist Deceivers – For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

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Related Concepts:

1. Syrian AND Babylonian
2. King of the North and the King of the South
3. Gog and Magog
4. King Agag
5. The Head with Ten Horns, Edomite
6. Amalekite
7. Locusts
8. The Little Horn
9. The Beast
10. Lightning from heaven