While so many people are speculating on who the Antichrist is going to be, with some ridiculous nominees mind you, the False Prophet seems to be a forgotten person. Not much is written about him but he will obviously have a lot of power. In the prophecies of the end time in the gospels, such as Matt. 24 it says false prophets-plural will be so convincing that they will convince everyone but the election of grace with their claims. There will be many false prophets in the last days but one will have incredible power over the world’s religious, and especially Christian population. What is written of him is in Revelation 13:11 where it says he will have two horns like a lamb but will speak as a dragon. What the two horns like a lamb means is that he will be a Christian in the eyes of the world. Jesus was our Lamb. Speaking as a dragon means he will be Satan’s mouthpiece. The False Prophet will be in the clothes of a Christian, but will bring his followers to Satan. There are a few easy to understand verses in Rev. 13 of what the False Prophet will do. After his reign, he will suffer the same fate Satan will in Revelation chapter 19:20 and 20:10.
While many are wondering what the beast spoken of in Revelation is, they aren’t wondering what church this mouthpiece for Satan will come from. I think that’s an important question to ask. Does the Bible give an idea? I think it does. Among the churches spoken of in Revelation chapters two and three, only one church does Jesus threaten to remove from its place among the churches of Christ. That is the church of Ephesus.
What is the church of Ephesus today? All indicators point the church of Ephesus to being the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is the church of Peter, as many know. Peter was martyred in Ephesus. You can also make sense of the wrongs the church of Ephesus has committed in Revelation 2:1-7. Jesus says he appreciates their tireless work but he is still against them. The reason is because they have left their first love. Jesus then says to repent quickly and do the first works or he will remove their candlestick from its place. What is the first love for any Christian? Christ is. What should be the first work of any Christian church be? To teach the word of God. That is something the Catholic Church absolutely does not do. They have ceremony, not teaching of God’s word. I know some will say “the Catholic church does have classes on teaching God’s word”, but that isn’t their first work is it? Having some class in the back whenever someone decides to take it isn’t a first work. These aren’t my words. These are Jesus’ words. You be the judge of what the first work should be for any Christian church, and you should realize it’s not giving a wafer after a ceremony.
In order for the False Prophet to have such power over people he would probably have to come from the Catholic Church. They put so much power into the hands of men. The Pope, Cardinals, Canon Law are powers taken away from God and put into the hands of men. In medieval times the popes had more power than kings. All a pope would have to do is accuse a man of heresy and that would be the end of his life. The Catholic Church puts men in charge of forgiving man of sin. No man can take away sin. “Do this and give ten ‘Hail Mary’s’ and you will be forgiven.” Ridiculous. The Catholic Church took it upon itself to redefine christianity by giving power to men, making Mary a deity (Mary, Mother of God… as if God had a mother), bowing to idols, and so on. They still call Mary the Virgin Mary. She wasn’t always a virgin. She had other kids after Jesus. How did that happen? Mary might have given birth to Jesus but she is not the mother of God. How can one call her a mother of something that existed before her? Mary was an incredible woman and chosen by God to mother His child. No greater honor could be bestowed upon a woman. Even with this Jesus did put her in her place on a number of occasions. He let her know what he was here to do and she should not get in his way. The bowing to idols even if they are of Jesus is wrong. I know that is going against Catholic doctrine at a huge level, but it is wrong. When it says to not bow to idols, it doesn’t say don’t bow to idols unless they are of Jesus. Why is bowing to any idol wrong? Because they were made by the hands of men. Sinful men. It’s not what is made that matters. It’s who makes it that does matter. It says it plain as day in Exodus 21:4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;”. Nowhere does it say “well you can make one of me. That’s okay.” Purgatory is another power taken away from God and put into the hands of men. Nowhere is Purgatory even hinted at in the Bible, but with Purgatory the Catholic Church can increase donations so people will have to spend less time there. With Purgatory, men look to other men to lessen their stay in Purgatory. I’m sure this angers God at an incredible level.
You know who agrees with the church of Ephesus being the Catholic Church and what will happen? The Catholic church does. St. Malachy was one of the greatest Catholics in history. He had many prophetic visions, even those concerning popes. Through his visions he would give the names for all of the popes in the Catholic Church’s future. He mentions that the last pope will betray the faith and after his tenure there will be no more Catholic Church. This is all real, actual Catholic prophecy. The reason you may not know about it is because the Catholic Church is trying to keep a lid on it, because after Pope Benedict XVI there will be only one pope left of the names given by St. Malachy. His name will be Pope Petrus Romanus, and according to the prophecy of St. Malachy, he will be the one to betray the faith. Pope Petrus Romanus will be the False Prophet spoken of in Revelation. With this, the candlestick of the church of Ephesus will be removed from its place.
Define some of these “ridiculous nominees.”
I think you yourself need to understand that while having good intent, you do mislead your readers in certain areas, for example, saying that the False Prophet will deceive Christians, when in fact, the False Prophet, who will be an Anti-Elijah figure, claiming to be Elijah, will actually be sent by Satan to deceive the Jewish world, not the Christian.
Christians will NOT be on the earth in such great numbers then, as they are now. Why? 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 explains it.
When the Holy Spirit leaves this world to allow Satan to rule (he who letteth will let and then that Wicked is revealed), He takes ALL true Christians (those that actually have an indwelling of the Holy Spirit in them) with Him back to Heaven. The Tribulation therefore is for the unsaved, and moreover, for Jews to finally become saved…NOT Christians, as they are already saved. Remember, God spares them from the “wrath to come.” Get your doctrine right.
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Comment by Templar Mason — August 31, 2008 @ 4:36 PM |
One, just about anyone famous has been called an antichrist candidate. Two, where does it say the False Prophet will be an anti-Elijah figure claiming to be Elijah? Explain the False Prophet having two horns like a lamb for me if I am indeed wrong. I hate traditional teaching, but even they know that the False Prophet will be a false Christian. The False Prophet is only for the Jews? That’s pretty disturbing. I realize that still there may be some Christian teachers who think the Jews have it coming, but to say that the False Prophet is only for the Jews isn’t accepting the world influence he’ll have.
So every Christian will be gone eh? The rapture doctrine. Why does Ezekiel 13:20 condemn teachers who teach their flock how to fly? What does that mean? According to Revelation, the mystery of God will be finished at the blowing of the seventh trump. If all of the sudden before anything happens millions of people are gone, all of them being Christians, wouldn’t also the mystery be gone? Only by death alone will ANYONE escape the tribulation period. That word “escape” in Luke 21:36 is really the Greek word “εκφευγω” (ek-FYOO-goh), which actually means “to flee out from”. When you add that with it saying escape “all these things”-plural, it means that one gets to escape those judgments, not the period of judgment. If anything 2nd Thes. chapter 2 clears up what Paul said in the 1st letter to the Thessalonians in saying Christ will not return until the son of perdition is revealed.
I find it amazing that I am told by you to get my doctrine correct but yet you don’t know what the False Prophet even is. I think that is a pretty basic part of Christian faith that even traditional teaching gets right. There is absolutely no chance that the False Prophet is anyone other than someone who is seen as a Christian in the eyes of the world. I’m afraid that people like you who are thinking they just get to fly away and you realize that you won’t be taken away will have their faith dashed and be vulnerable to the most convincing con man this Earth will ever see. Get my doctrine right? I mislead no one.
Comment by Jesse Norman II — September 1, 2008 @ 12:42 PM |
I would like to respectfully submit that Mohammad is the most likely candidate for the “false prophet.”
The Israelic confession of faith: “Hear oh Israel, the Lord our God is one God.”
The Christian confession of faith, while acknowledging the Israelic confession of one God, adds of Jesus, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
The Islamic confession of faith: “There is one God, and Mohammad is his prophet.”
The numbers of Christianity (as a whole) and the numbers of adherants to Islam are nearly equal worldwide. Islam spread through the Christian world, and many Christian churches were converted into mosques, including the Dome of the Rock.
While I do agree with you that Catholicism is an aberration of Christianity and contains idolatry, she is more in line with Old Testament harlot imagery used of unfaithful Israel. To date, it is Christians in many Muslim countries who are in fear for their lives (the genocide in Sudan, along with persecutions throughout the mideast).
Just food for thought. The destruction of the false prophet spoken of in Revelation need not mean that this man be alive at the time of Christ’s judgment, but that his followers and adherants who do exist will no longer be able to persecute the followers of Jesus (they will come to an end).
Comment by Keith Bradbury — November 28, 2008 @ 10:28 AM |
Yeah, the False Prophet would have to be alive at the time because his responsibility is to gather up believers of many religions together under the tent of the Antichrist. So, yeah the False Prophet will be alive and no it won’t be Mohammad. There was a reason why the False Prophet has two horns like a lamb. The lamb identifies him as a Christian in the eyes of the world. What did you mean by Christ’s judgment? As it is written in the original Greek, the permanent judgment doesn’t happen until the end of the next age. Not after this one. After Jesus returns and ends this age, he does give judgment by dividing the faithful on Earth from the unfaithful, but that’s not permanent. As it says in Rev. 20:5 the dead lived not again in the next age until the thousand years were fulfilled. The dead are those who made the wrong choice. Everyone else lives during the entire millennial age. These are all true doctrine according to what’s written in the original Greek.
Comment by Jesse Norman II — November 28, 2008 @ 6:54 PM |
The first resurrection in all likelihood refers to the firstfruits, or the 144,000 (the Jews who came into the kingdom prior to the judgment that fell upon Jerusalem in 70 AD, a judgment which was from God but carried out by Titus, the Roman). The thousand years refers to the expansion of the church. Rev. 20:7-9 says, “When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.”
Note the following: “like the sand on the seashore” refers to their great number and to their claim of descendancy to Abraham. They surround the city (Jerusalem), are gathered for battle (whether through force of arms or forced conversions), and they have spread across the earth like a plague, which sounds an awful lot like Islam to me. This would put Christ’s return as both the judgment and final resurrection. The 1000 years has already occurred, Satan was unleashed and he established Islam as the false religion.
Magog, which refers to nomadic Scythians from ancient references, were notable in that they were barbaric, ruthless, and had no unifying leader. Gog, however, is a prophetic reference to the leader of Magog. Interestingly peoples who make up the adherants of Islam are united in their hatred of both Christianity and Judaism and it is out of Islam that we have seen some of the most barbaric practices in the name of Jihad.
In prophetic language, the identifiers Gog and Magog need not reference a specific tribe, but what that tribe was associated with (in the same way, when we use the term “assassin,” we are not necessarily referring to the original hashish or the followers of Hassan, but to their practice of eliminating by secrecy their opponents). Magog was particularly barbaric. According to ancient historians, they drank the blood of the first enemy they killed; they carried the heads of the victims to their chiefs; they scalped their enemies and used the scalps as “napkins”; they used the skins of their victims to cover their quivers; they drank from the skulls of their victims; they practiced blood brotherhood by drinking each other’s blood mixed with wine.
Mohammad is quite clearly an anti-Christ figure, as he relegated Jesus to one of the prophets (thereby accepting Christ as part of Islam), yet denied that Jesus was crucified. He claims to be God’s prophet, the great prophet, the FINAL prophet. The entire world he converted while he was alive WAS Christian at the time. In fact, if you look at a map of where all the churches in Revelation are situated, you can see that they all are now in Islamic territories. For example, Ephesus is in muslim-controlled Turkey (now known as Kuşadası).
Comment by Keith Bradbury — November 29, 2008 @ 1:29 PM |
I’m really trying not to be disrespectful, but you’re way off on all of this. I really don’t know how you got to where you are. So the thousand years is already up? This already happened? Then where is Jesus? Where are the saints? They would have came and gone by now and the great white throne judgment would have already taken place, again as it is written in the original Greek. As is written in the original Greek, to which I’m sure you haven’t looked a bit at from your writing, once Jesus returns that ends this age. Then a new age begins and it will last for a little more than a thousand years. The dead are not allowed to live until the millennium is over. Once that period of time is over, Satan will be loosed from his prison and will go out and try to deceive the world once again. When or where did that happen? Where is the bottomless pit that he supposedly already came out of? Where has Satan been? None of the things written in Revelation have happened yet. Apocalypse is Greek for “to reveal”. You don’t reveal about the past. You reveal about the future. The reason why most everything is written by John of Patmos in the past tense is because he was taken into the future. When it says “I saw these things” it’s because he did see those things. These things have not happened yet. Islam is more than a thousand years old. Titus the Roman came in 76BC, not 70AD. You still haven’t gone anywhere near what it said about the Antichrist having two horns like a lamb yet.
If the judgment of Christ is after he returns and that is the final judgment, then who are the dead that don’t live until the thousand years is up? In Matt 24:3 when the disciples ask Jesus for the signs of his coming and the end of the world, that word “world” is really the Greek word “αιων” (ahee-OWN) which means age. When Jesus returns that ends this age. You can just take that and go from there and see how erroneous your interpretation is.
Comment by Jesse Norman II — November 30, 2008 @ 1:00 AM |
false prophets,whatever,we all know the roman church defies Gods teachings by the worship of icons & the romans CAN NOT deny this most basic of the Lords teachings.
TRUE !!!
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well well.. you really need to think about what you are saying sir.. no reasoning.. no facts.. plain simple theories in air.. why can not you apply a suitable logic or even a good looking flaw-less philosophy to your articles.. !!
Comment by kamal thakur — July 14, 2009 @ 2:27 PM |
well well… I have no idea what your complaint is based on since I did use facts and documented them. Where is your complaint credible? The church of Ephesus is well known to be the church of Peter. He was martyred in Ephesus. Those are St. Malachy’s predictions. Jesus only threatens to remove the church of Ephesus. The False Prophet will be a Christian in the eyes of the world and would have to have a lot of influence to bring the world to Satan from a religious point of view. The doctrine of the Catholic Church does go against what is written in the Bible. If you’re going to comment and complain, at least base it on as if you actually read my article. I made nothing up. It’s that you don’t like it is the problem. Well gee, that’s just too bad. No facts… come on, man. What did I say that you can’t easily corroborate as being a fact? Get a clue.
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Someone that shall go nameless needs to move on and find something else to do. Your comments are not going to get through. I will not tolerate profane language to be put on here, especially considering you’re insanely obsessive about me for some reason. Because of you specifically is why I have it where every comment must be okay’ed by me before it’s posted. How many comments are you going to post that do not make it before you get that? You seriously need help. Do yourself a favor and go rent a video or something and leave me alone. I’d say “grow up”, but more than likely you are older than I am. I’m sure there are some “hating Palin” websites that would love to hear you foam at the mouth and throw childlike tantrums and insults. Absolutely pathetic. Get a life.
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May Christ’s peace be with you Jesse Norman II!
The Beast, Antichrist, and False Prophet are the opposites to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There are many occurences of preachers using the Book of Revelation to expound upon further themes. The fact is, like the warning included therein, the Book of Revelation speaks well for itself. In todays computer age it seems so easy to find Scripture, but also as easy to find tainted Scripture. Much of the early Church knew little, except by word of mouth concerning the Book of Revelation. It would be better if everyone would only read it, as it contains a hopeful message all by itself.
A similar circumstance is how I happened along this site, searching “Petrus Romanus”. The original prophecy of “heavenly names” was given to Innocent II as he struggled to lead his flock during a schism. To see the extent of the papal office through the course of time was a consolation to him for his faith was tested. Yet I have read through pages of commentation concerning the St. Malachy prophecy that would seemingly rather bring back the schism than offer further hope.
One finds it little mentioned, but this is so – that “Petrus Romanus” is Christ’s angel (St. John the Baptist) resurrected. We speak of the end, but we pray “world without end” – the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning – in Christ’s words “The last shall come first, and the first shall come last.”
Comment by Edward Palamar — October 4, 2009 @ 9:38 PM |
May Christ’s peace be unto you as well, Edward. Thanks for the comment. God bless.
Comment by Jesse Norman II — November 7, 2009 @ 2:56 AM |