What does the Bible say about where the Anti Christ will come from and what will the time after the rapture be like?

By: Rev. Jackson V. Plant

 People say that the antichrist will come from the new Roman Empire; some say that he will come from Israel; some have said that it is Bill Gates or Ronald Reagan and even Bill Clinton or Saddam Hussein.  Well this does not fit with scripture and I will examine why.

1. First we need to look at the prophecies in Daniel.

Daniel 7:16 (KJV)

¹⁶I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

Daniel 7:17 (KJV)

¹⁷These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7:18 (KJV)

¹⁸But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

Daniel 7:19 (KJV)

¹⁹Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

Daniel 7:20 (KJV)

²⁰And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

Daniel 7:21 (KJV)

²¹I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Daniel 7:22 (KJV)

²²Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Daniel 7:23 (KJV)

²³Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Daniel 7:24 (KJV)

²⁴And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

Daniel 7:25 (KJV)

²⁵And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel 7:26 (KJV)

²⁶But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

Daniel 7:27 (KJV)

²⁷And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Daniel 7:28 (KJV)

²⁸Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

This talks about several kingdoms in the history and the ones that will form at the end,

2. First we have the revived Greek empire then there will be the revived Roman empire.  We see from scripture that the antichrist will rise to power from the revived Greek empire and he will rule the revived Roman empire.

Here are the empires of history and then the revived ones.

Egypt:  Pharaoh

Assyria:  Sennacherib

Babylonia:   Nebacanezer

Medes: Darius

Persian:  Cyrus

Roman: Julius Caesar

Greek: Alexander, from him the following came from his generals that took over;

Ptolemy (Cleopatra) Egypt

Secukid: Assyria (Iraq, Syria)

Lysmachus: Thrace (Turkey)

Cassander: Macedonia (Greece)

Now the bible specifically mentions the Assyrian:

^{Isaiah 10:24}Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. ²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. ²⁶And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. ²⁷And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. ²⁸He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: ²⁹They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. ³⁰Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. ³¹Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. ³²As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ³³Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. ³⁴And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

^{Isaiah 14:25}That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. ²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? ²⁸In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. ²⁹Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. ³¹Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. ³²What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

^{Isaiah 30:31}For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. ³²And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. ³³For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 52:4⁴For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. ⁵Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. ⁶Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

⁷How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! ⁸Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. ⁹Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. ¹⁰The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. ¹¹Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. ¹²For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.

¹³Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. ¹⁴As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: ¹⁵So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Now I know that some will say what does this mean about the Assyrian?  Well it is a prophetic word that mentions Jesus and the Assyrian being beaten and destroyed by Jesus, well this did not happen before Jesus came and it did not happen as of now so that means that it will happen in the future.

So this tells us that he will come from one of the 4 Greek empire nations, and since the Assyrian nation was mentioned it is logical to conclude that he will come from this. 

What is the one world religion?

 After long research and prayer I have come to the conclusion that the religion is Islam.  And this is how I came up with it.

1. The Anti-Christ is going to come from the Middle east region, specifically Iraq area.

2. He will be a Prince or King.

3. He will have to be acceptable to both the Jews and the Muslims and to do that he needs to be Muslim since the Arabs will not allow a Jew to rule them.

4. The Muslims believe in the Koran that Jesus will come back and take his believers.  The Jews believe that the Messiah will come for his people and rule.  This will fulfill all of this as he will come as a peace maker, remember that to have peace you need to conquer the opposition. 

5. Muslim is the only belief where if you do not accept then you are beheaded.

Lets look at the other prophecies. 

1. The Anti Christ will have his seat of power in Babylon.  Allot of people teach that this is figurative and not literal.  I submit that this is literal.  Just 1 year ago this would have been impossible, but now with the war or terror, which incidentally is with the Muslim terrorist that will require a Muslim to stop.  Now Iraq is wide open for a new leader and for prophecy to take place. 

2. The mark of the beast.  The technology is in place now but this is what I see happening after the rapture happens.  When the rapture happens the Earth will see a period of upheaval like never before.  When 911 happened the stock market fell almost 1000 points and the economy almost collapsed.  After the rapture occurs, Millions of Christians will suddenly disappear, there will be pandemonium and panic.  This will be a time for something drastic to happen.  On will come the Antichrist and there will form a one world government.  The first order of business will be to reestablish the economy, so there will be a universal currency like the Euro.  Everyone will like this idea, however with the collapse of the world economies, it will be too expensive to print all of the new monies so they will institute a debit/credit card to fix this.  This has problems also with people loosing them and forgetting the pin.  So they institute a microdot chip and put it in the skin of the hand or on the forehead so it is easy to be read by a scanner, and no need for money and it is automatic.  We already have a precedent for this with the SIM chip that is in our cell phones. Well I believe that the leader will demand that everyone convert to Islam or be put to death.  The prerequisite of this chip is to convert or else.

3. False prophet- The Catholic church is widely thought to be the entity that is mentioned in the book of Revelation as being the Whore of Babylon and the false prophet.  Pope John Paul II is very sick and will probably not be around much longer; I believe that the next Pope will be the one mentioned.

I am writing this to show how prophesy is being fulfilled, Please ask yourself that if Jesus were to return now since all of the prerequisites have been met to his return would you be ready?