A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ANTI-CHRIST

One of these days . . . soon . . . a very well known man will exactly fit the description found in Zechariah 11:17.

Many people have read this passage in a shallow, quick way and never noticed that God has given us some very clear clues to look for when this Man of Sin is "revealed".

Here is the passage:  "What sorrow awaits this worthless shepherd who abandons the flock!  The sword will cut his arm and pierce his right eye.  His arm will be come useless, and his right eye completely blind" (NLT).

The King James Version renders this verse: "Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!  the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened."

Why is the "Anti-Christ" the "Anti-Christ"?  It is because he is the opposite of Christ.  When we look at the attributes of Jesus, we easily discover what the enemy of our souls looks like.  Satan's attributes are the exact opposite of the attributes of the Lord Jesus!

In this verse we first see that the man described here is "worthless".
What is the opposite of "worthless"?

Worthy!

Who is worthy?  Revelation 5:12 tells us "Worthy is the Lamb!"  The Lamb is Jesus!

The Anti-Christ is the exact opposite of Jesus Christ.  The Anti-Christ is "unworthy" . . . exactly like this passage in Zechariah describes him.

The second thing we notice is that the Anti-Christ "abandons the flock".  Our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, has promised that he will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).  He will NEVER abandon us!  But Satan uses and abuses.  He will buddy-up to you until he is through with you and then throw you on the trash heap.

The next clear thing we notice in this verse is that the "sword will cut his arm".

A sword lying on the table will not cut anyone's arm.  Someone must pick it up and physically use it to attack an opponent.

Anyone can clearly see that there will be an attemped assassination of the Anti-Christ.  But . . . it will be a failed attempt.  Whoever attacks the Anti-Christ will merely wound him . . . he will not kill him.

But the wound will at first appear to be deadly!

My guess is that the assassin will try to either stab the Anti-Christ with a knife or attempt to shoot him in the head.  The wound, entering the Anti-Christ's right eye will cause his right arm to be paralyzed . . . just as the Scripture explains.

Revelation 13:12 states: "whose fatal wound was healed."

This will be one of the reasons that people will worship the Anti-Christ.  They will think that he has been raised from the dead!

How very interesting it will be, if, in our lifetime, there is an attempted assassination of a public figure who is blinded in his right eye (expect him to wear a black eye-patch) and ends up with a paralyzed right arm!

This Scripture in Zechariah 11:17 will eventually be exactly fulfilled!

PEACE??? JEWS, "PALESTINIANS", AND GAZA

ANOTHER SUICIDE BOMBER BLEW HIMSELF UP ON A CROWDED TEL AVIV BUS--- CEASE FIRE?

HAMAS CELEBRATED BY PASSING OUT CANDY TO CHILDREN IN GAZA, LAUGHING AND DANCING IN THE STREETS.

NOW A "TRUCE"?

OH, YES, WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.  WHEN HAMAS RUNS OUT OF AMMUNITION, THEN A TRUCE.  DURING THE "TRUCE" HAMAS SMUGGLES MORE ROCKETS INTO GAZA FROM EGYPT, AND THE ENTIRE NIGHTMARE BEGINS ALL OVER AGAIN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsvkFdLF3Jg

THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA'S POSITION: "IF THE DOG BITES YOU IT IS NOT NEWS; BUT IF YOU BITE THE DOG THEN IT IS BIG NEWS."

THE PRESS NEVER SEEMS TO THINK IT IS BAD WHEN JEWS ARE KILLED OR INJURED.  BUT IT JUST GOES WILD WHEN THE IDF "MURDERS" PEOPLE IN GAZA.

HAMAS USES SCHOOLS AND CIVILIAN HOMES AS STAGING AREAS FOR THEIR ROCKET ATTACKS.  SO IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ISRAEL TO RESPOND WITHOUT KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.


BUT HAS WAR EVER CHANGED?  THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A WAR WHEN CIVILIANS WERE NOT INJURED.

GAZA?

MANY AMERICANS DO NOT REALIZE THAT THE AREA CALLED "GAZA" WAS GIVEN TO THE ARABS IN 2005.  THIS GIFT WAS SUPPOSED TO END ALL ATTACKS ON ISRAEL.

BUT GUESS WHAT?

NOTHING CHANGED!  HAMAS IMMEDIATELY BEGAN USING THE GAZA STRIP FOR ITS MILITARY BASES. 

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAID, "IF THE ARABS LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS THERE WOULD BE PEACE.  IF THE JEWS LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY JEWS."

THERE IS GREAT WISDOM AND INSIGHT IN THIS STATEMENT.

WE HAVE ALL HEARD ABOUT SAMSON IN THE BIBLE.

BUT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT REALZE THAT IT WAS THE PEOPLE IN GAZA WHO TORTURED SAMSON, GOUGED OUT HIS EYES, AND MADE HIM A SLAVE (JUDGES 16).

THE WORD "GAZA" MEANS "THE STRONG", AND IS MENTIONED 19 TIMES IN THE BIBLE.

THE PHILISTINES WERE THE DESCENDANTS OF MIZRAIM (FROM CAPHTOR), AND THEY WERE IMMIGRANTS.  THE MODERN-DAY PALESTINIANS ARE ALSO IMMIGRANTS AND NOT NATIVES OF THE GAZA STRIP.

THE HATRED THE ARABS HAVE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE IS CENTURIES OLD.  I HAVE AN ENTIRE ARTICLE ABOUT THIS SUBJECT ON MY WEBSITE, #37, (http://flc7.com/news.html). SO I WON'T ADDRESS IT HERE, EXCEPT TO SAY THAT THIS HATEFUL SPIRIT HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE BLOODLINE TO THIS PRESENT DAY.

"THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS: 'THE PEOPLE OF GAZA  HAVE SINNED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND I WILL NOT LET THEM GO UNPUNISHED!  THEY SENT WHOLE VILLAGES INTO EXILE, SELLING THEM AS SLAVES TO EDOM.  SO I WILL SEND DOWN FIRE ON THE WALLS OF GAZA AND ALL ITS FORTRESSES WILL BE DESTROYED.  I WILL SLAUGHTER THE PEOPLE OF ASHDOD AND DESTROY THE KING OF ASHKELON.  THEN I WILL TURN TO ATTACK EKRON, AND THE FEW PHILISTINES STILL LEFT WILL BE KILLED'" (AMOS 1:6-8).

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape" (1 Thes. 5:3). Just in from a friend in Israel:   "This is Israel Channel 2 prime time news. Our prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu is on the right and our foreign minister, Avigdor Liberman is on the left. The writing in Hebrew with white background reads: "Cease fire begins". The writing bellow with the black background read: " Siren in Beer Sheva". So it seems to me that this cease fire has a different meaning than the standard meaning. It means: We cease and they fire…. It's 1 hour and 20 minutes since the cease fire was declared and there have been 12 rocket launched into Israel already. What else can I report? Well, Thee was a bus blown up in Tel Aviv today. And 21 people were injured. Yesterday more rockets were launched towards Jerusalem, landing between two Palestinian villages near Bethlehem. The rocket count is over 1200 by now. Iron dome has been able to intercept over 400 and the other have landed, in some cases hitting homes, schools, cars, a bus, parking lots, greenhouses, cow sheds, playgrounds, factories, shops, apartment buildings, and open fields…. 2 Israeli men were killed yesterday from mortar shells in the area closest to Gaza. One is a young soldier, 18 years old. The other is a 29 year old Bedouin man from a village near Beer Sheva. The Palestinian media is excellent at promoting their agenda through exhibiting very upsetting images of injured and dead, especially children. Although you may be aware, I want to make a point of saying that although, sadly, civilians in Gaza have been killed, many of the images being used are false images. Images of injured and dead from the conflict in Syria are being presented as recent pictures from Gaza. On the other hand, the Jewish faith and world view does not worship death, but rather life. We raise our glass of wine and say: "Lehayim" (to life! ) . Also, we honor the dead and therefore do not parade disturbing pictures of our wounded and dead. Also, although there have been casualties, compared to the number of rockets fired and the places they hit, the casualties were few. I am sure that if we were able to see spiritual dimensions, we would be seeing so many angles around our southern cities and towns. On a personal level- since I last wrote I spent a couple days down in Beer Sheva, while my kids were up with their wonderful, faithful, fantastic grandparents in Jerusalem. Monday and Tuesday were days with many sirens and rockets. Since the kids were not with me I decided to venture out to try and get some things done. This meant I found myself outside during a few sirens. In one of them I ran into an art supply shop, near my home and when the booms happened the shop shook! Up on my 12th floor I hadn’t felt this shaking before. During another siren I ran into a little kiosk/ café. I stood in the back of the shop with the shop owner, his wife and daughter. Through the glass window in front I saw for the first time, the rocket flying through the sky, like a torch. When I left the kiosk a few minutes later after we heard all the booms, there were several little white clouds in the sky. These were where the iron dome missile intercepted the missile from Gaza. The picture, which I took a few minutes later, shows the top of the Beer Sheva court building, lit up by a street lamp, above and to the right is the moon. Then, higher up to the left of the moon, very faintly, you can see one of these little "clouds" of smoke." Who, like Samson, will "carry away Gaza's Gates"? Victory comes first in the Spirit realm! Even though you may live many miles from THE LAND, your faith, prayers, and intercession play a powerful part in helping to protect the Israelis. "Our Lord is greater than any other god" (Psalm 135:5)!

 

SOLAR STORM KNOCKS OUT POWER IN CANADA

"THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN."

WHO SAID THIS?

NOW THE "SIGNS" ARE HERE.



WHAT IS NEXT ON THE PROPHETIC CALENDAR?

JESUS WILL RETURN!!!

SOLAR STORM BLACKED OUT POWER IN CANADA:  http://thesheaf.com/2012/03/09/solar-flare-blackout-explosions-on-the-suns-surface-knocks-out-university-of-saskatchewan-radar-network/

DAYDREAMING IN THE PEW

IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING INSTEAD OF HEARING THE "ABC'S" OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN:

http://flc7.com/audio.html

CHRISTIANITY SHOULD BE MUCH MORE THAN DAYDREAMING IN THE PEWS WEEK AFTER WEEK.

THESE ARE SUCH EXCITING TIMES.

THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS!

THE MIDDLE EAST IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!

ISRAEL IS ON THE BRINK OF WAR.



Hamas fired a rocket at Jerusalem for the first time ever, hitting an uninhabited area outside of the city.

AND NOW ROCKETS HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM EGYPT INTO ISRAEL!



HAMAS ROCKETS LAND IN RISHON LETZION, SEVEN MILES SOUTH OF TEL AVIV.

IN ONE DAY 350 ROCKETS WERE FIRED FROM GAZA INTO ISRAEL.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=292463

THE U.S. DOLLAR IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.

THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS ARE LOSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE STOCK MARKET.

WE ARE BEING TAKEN OVER BY ISLAM.

MORE THAN HALF THE COUNTRY WANTS TO SECEDE.

HUGE COVER-UP IN BENGHAZI.

EVEN FOUR-STAR GENERALS ARE NOT SECURE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.

EARTHQUAKES ARE ROCKING PLANET EARTH!

VERY, VERY STRANGE WEATHER PATTERNS.

THERE WILL BE EVER-INCREASING TROUBLES AND WOES.

THE DOW HAS LOST MUCH OF ITS VALUE SINCE THE ELECTION.

AND . . . YES, IT WILL GET WORSE!

I WELCOME FEEDBACK, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.

DARE TO LISTEN "TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012":  http://www.trunews.com/listen_now.htm

I WILL APPOINT THE LEADER OF MY CHOICE

TWO TIMES IN JEREMIAH THE SCRIPTURE DECLARES, "I WILL APPOINT THE LEADER OF MY CHOICE" (Jer. 49:19; 50:44).

AND DANIEL 2:21 SAYS, "HE CONTROLS THE COURSE OF WORLD EVENTS; HE REMOVES KINGS AND SETS UP OTHER KINGS."

THESE STATEMENTS ARE BOTH REASSURING AND FRIGHTENING.

THOSE OF US WHO ARE BELIEVERS ARE COMFORTED BY THE THOUGHT THAT GOD IS RUNNING PLANET EARTH---AND EVEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

OUR FAITH IS NOT IN POLITICAL RULERS OR IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM.  OUR FAITH IS BASED ON THE SOLID ROCK, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!  HE CONTINUES TO RULE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN.

THANK GOD THAT AT A TIME LIKE THIS WE HAVE HIM AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL!

Daniel lived under wicked governments, and yet he prospered.  This is hope for all of us who love God.  The government may be wicked and corrupt, but God is still able to bless his people.

"So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and Cyrus the Persian"  (Daniel 6:28).


BUT FOR THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES, IT IS FRIGHTENING THAT OBAMA WAS ELECTED. WE KNOW THAT GOD GIVES A NATION WHAT IT DESERVES.  AND, NATIONALLY, OUR SINS ARE PILED AS HIGH AS HEAVEN. 

OUR SINS HAVE NOT GONE UN-NOTICED TO GOD.

SOME PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE U.S. IS BABYLON, OR A TYPE AND SHADOW OF THE FINAL BABYLON. THIS IS FRIGHTENING STUFF.  GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TOLD REPEATEDLY TO FLEE BABYLON LEST WE SUFFER IN HER JUDGMENT.

THERE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO ARE ACTUALLY PERMANENTLY MOVING OUT OF THE UNITED STATES.

I'M NOT CONVINCED THAT GOD IS SAYING TO ME, "LEAVE THE U.S." . . . YET!

BUT IF WE HAVE EVER EARNESTLY LOOKED TO HIM FOR DIRECTION IT IS AT THIS HOUR.  MANY MILLIONS OF GOOD AMERICANS ARE IN MOURNING.  MANY OF MY FRIENDS  SPENT THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 6TH WEEPING AND PRAYING.  THEY WERE ALMOST BEWILDERED AND FELT DESPAIR OVERTAKING THEIR SOULS.

AT MY AGE I'M MUCH MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, THAN ABOUT MYSELF.

IF OBAMA AND HIS WICKED CRONIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE CONTINUE TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE DURING THESE PAST FOUR YEARS . . . OUR NATION IS DOOMED.

WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST IS THE FACT THAT HE IS WEAKENING OUR MILITARY.
AND, OF COURSE, SINCE HE HAS HAD ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE RUNNING ANYTHING, OUR ECONOMY WILL SOON BE IN THE TANK AND WE WILL BE RATED AS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.

HIS SOLUTION IS TO PRINT MORE MONEY.  THE RESULT WILL BE THAT THE DOLLARS YOU HAVE SAVED WILL BE WORTH LESS AND LESS.

TRY TO IMAGINE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!

PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE THAT THE GOAL OF THIS PRESENT ADMINISTRATION IS TO DESTROY OUR NATION.

BUT IT IS NOT TOO LATE!

AS WE CRY OUT TO GOD OUR PRAYERS ARE HEARD ON HIGH.  HE NOT ONLY PUTS LEADERS IN . . . HE TAKES THEM OUT.

OUR NATION CAN STILL BE SAVED.

"IT IS GOD ALONE WHO JUDGES; HE DECIDES WHO WILL RISE AND WHO WILL FALL" (PS. 75:7).

"HE WILL STRIKE DOWN MANY KINGS WHEN HIS ANGER ERUPTS" (PS. 110:5).

"THEIR LEADERS WILL BE KILLED BY THEIR ENEMIES" (Hosea 7:16).

A PROPHET FACES HOSTILITY EVEN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD" (Hosea 9:8).

RIGHT ON TIME . . .

                                    The Coming Prince

Daniel 9

Sir Robert Anderson published the book The Coming Prince in 1894.  Anderson was far from being an ordinary man.  He was Chief Inspector for Scotland Yard, and knighted by Queen Victoria in 1901.

But for some reason or another, his book was in obscurity for a number of years.  Now it has come roaring back and his books are flying off the shelves in book stores.  And rightfully so!

For anyone who desires a full understanding of Daniel 9:25, The Coming Prince is a must-read.  If you are not someone who likes to read the style of writing from the 1800’s, then just read eleven pages of the book,  pp. 119-129.

For those who do not even want to read these eleven pages, I set below a summary of Sir Robert Anderson’s thoughts on Daniel 9.

There are two key phrases in Daniel 9:25: “from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem” and “until a ruler---the Anointed One comes.”

Anderson, with extremely careful calculations dates the “command to rebuild Jerusalem”: March 14, 445 B.C.

And he dates the time when Jesus presented himself as King as April 6, 32 A.D.

(It’s important to note that it says the “command to rebuild Jerusalem”, not the command to rebuild the Temple.)

The wording gets a little hard for us to understand when the Scripture says, “Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven.”

Basically, this means seven plus sixty-two.  Any child can add 62 and 7.  It is 69.

7 times 69 times 360 = 173,880.

(360 days are the number of days in a Jewish year.)

When you do the math, you quickly discover that from March 14, 445 B.C. until April 6, 32 A.D. there are exactly 173,880 days!

(Note: From B.C. 1 to A.D. 1 is one year, not 2 years.)

When this sinks in and “the bell” really goes off in your head, you realize that when 2 Timothy 3:16 says  all Scripture is “inspired by God”--- it is actually true.  There are no errors!  Scripture is God breathed!

“The Lord our God has secrets known to no one.  We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions” (Dt. 39:29).

Jesus referred to Daniel as a prophet (Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14).  So this settles it in my mind, at least, that what Daniel wrote in his book is dead-right-on-center accurate.

I do not believe that God just inserted some numbers because he wanted Daniel’s book to be little longer--- or that he wanted to confuse all of us ---  or that he had nothing better to do that day.  I also do not believe that the approach many “scholars” take is even intellectually based: “We will never know what these numbers mean, so let’s just skip over them.”

No!  Scripture is God-breathed!  He placed these numbers in the Bible to build our faith.  And when you take the time to think through this your faith in the inerrant Word of God will grow by leaps and bounds.

Even when you casually read the New Testament, you know that on several occasions Jesus charged his disciples that they should not make him known.

“I’m not going to this festival because my time has not yet come” (John 7:6).

“Then the leaders tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come” (John 7:30).

Again . . . did Jesus just casually say these things because he didn’t have anything else to say?  Of course not!

He knew Scripture so well (and he knew Daniel 9:25 so well) that he was aware that it was not yet April 6, 32 A.D.

But when the exact day did arrive, he made sure that he perfectly fulfilled the prediction of Zechariah 9:9.

“Rejoice, O people of Zion!  Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!  Look, your King is coming to you.  He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey---riding on a donkey’s colt” (Zechariah 9:9).

Jesus knew what he was doing that day.  A few hours earlier he had sent two of his disciples to get the donkey (Mk. 11:2-7).

And when he rode into Jerusalem on the donkey, exactly fulfilling the words of Zechariah, he presented himself as King—on April 6, 32 A.D.!  

This was precise!  It had been 173,880 days from the date of the edict of Artaxerxes Longimanus to “rebuild Jerusalem”.

If this does not ring your bell or wake you up, then you are sound asleep.

This is a faith-builder!

“ . . . they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation” (Luke 19:44).

The timing was so precise that if the crowds had not praised him, the rocks themselves would have cried out:

“And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out” (Luke 19:40).

“Now the great characteristic of the Jewish sacred year has remained unchanged since the memorial night when the equinoctial moon beamed down on the huts of Israel in Egypt, bloodstained by the Paschal lamb sacrifice; and there is neither doubt nor difficulty in fixing within narrow limits the Julian date of the 1^st of Nisan in any year whatever.  In B.C. 445 the new moon by which the Passover was regulated was on the 13^th of March at 7h. 9m A.M.  And accordingly the 1^st Nisan may be assigned to the 14 March.” Sir Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince, p. 123.

But do not take my word for it.  Get the book.  Do your own study.  It is only when these words resonate within your own heart that real life will arise! 

God’s Word is personal.  It is not enough that Sir Robert Anderson said it, or that I read his book and summed it up for you.  Do your own homework.  Satisfy yourself that this is Truth.

Then go pass it on!

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