There have been a lot of studies by a lot of scholars with the aim of finding out the descent of the antichrist. The book of John has been used in many different studies to show that he will be Jew. In the 43rd verse of the book they quote the words that Jesus used when he said that he came in name of the lord and is cast off but another man will do the same and he will not be rejected. This is evidence he will be Jew and they will welcome him as their savior.
Many other prophesies as per the bible oppose this evidence by stating that Jews would not accept the intruder as their messiah. In the book of revelation, it is said clearly the man will pretend to be the God in middle of tribulation and the Jews then would be outraged hence cast him off and that would in return turn against them in anger.
Other researchers hold the argument that he must be gentile. They oppose the Jewish argument with the evidence that the man will be taken in by the Jews as a political leader when he implements the treaty that guarantees their security. He would also grant them the power of building the temple again.
They say that the Jews will not accept him to be their spiritual liberator and therefore when he claims being God they will not accept him. There is also another evidence of him being a gentile in the book of revelation as pictures of him being a beast as he arises from the sea. The use of sea in the bible is to signify gentile nations.
There is a new line of research that has the suggestion that the Muslims could produce antichrist. This is so because of recent domination of Muslims where they want everyone in the world to share their religion and worship their God
The proof for this claim is the fact that the man is said to have risen from the Seleucid area in Greek hemisphere. This is in Assyria specifically. In the modern day this place is either Iraq or Syria which are areas mostly lived by people of Muslim religion.
Many scholars are rushing to prove who antichrist is by just looking at common headlines in the holy book rather than take time to analyze the scripture well and get to understand what they really mean. The important thing that they should know is that god has done great things and plans to do even more so they should stop paying too much attention on the horizontal matters.
About the Author:
No comments:
Post a Comment