Antichrist; Some Observations

What Everyone Gets Wrong about the Antichrist
Sean McDowell | 3 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRCpsZlOu8

Now, I'd say, it's not absolutely necessary that the individual Antichrist claims to be God.

Adore the beast could refer to giving divine attributes to the beast system, for instance medicine.

Recall the recent pandemic?

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Second Temple Judaism had a unique place of worship.

Catholicism has a principal place of worship.

Peace treaty is not in any clear prophecy about the antichrist. You may think of this one:

And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.
[Daniel 9:27]

Check previous verse:

And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation
[Daniel 9:26]

It mentions Christ.

The "covenant with many" is the Eucharist, the New Covenant.

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keyman 66

@keyman6689

There is always an Antichrist in every generation. Satan doesn't know when the "end times" will be. He always has someone waiting in the wings to eventually be "the" Antichrist.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

"Satan doesn't know when the "end times" will be."

How do you know that?

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth, and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 12:12]

He has some kind of knowledge of the times, doesn't say how much.

keyman 66

@hglundahl "...only the Father knows." Matt 24:36

Satan doesn't have any hidden knowledge. He's not omniscient. As you point out, he knows his time is short. We know that, too. We're told Jesus can come back at any moment. But it's been 2000 years. Could be 2000 more. We don't know. Satan doesn't, either.

Every generation thinks they're the last ones. We all see signs that could be biblical prophecy fulfillment. It's possible that Satan may have figured out some clues from the Bible that we haven't. He's very smart, perceptive, and cunning.

My point is he doesn't truly know any more than we do. We're told to always be ready. Satan is, too. I grant he may have deciphered some information from the Bible that we haven't yet. Still, I don't believe it's possible to come to full knowledge of exactly when. It's hidden for a reason.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@keyman6689 "We're told Jesus can come back at any moment."

Not quite, the katekhon has to be removed first.

I hold this happened in 1918.

So, day and hour, we cannot know.

I think we might be able to know the generation (if I live twenty or thirty years more, it may well be in my time, but it could be way sooner than that).

And Satan could know that too.

The thing about generation is this, people are still alive who were born before ASCII was well known and we can now calculate whether their names add up to 666 in ASCII.

@keyman6689 "Satan doesn't have any hidden knowledge. He's not omniscient." But he does on occasion talk to One Who Is. As in Job. So, he could have knowledge that's hidden from us, certainly knowledge that was hidden from earlier generations.

keyman 66

@hglundahl It's pure speculation to think that Satan knows something we don't because God told him. That's certainly possible. But not likely. The removal of the restrainer will tip him off, imo.

Are you saying the restrainer was already removed in 1918? What was that?

My belief is that the restrainer is the church, which will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air. That will send the world into chaos. This could happen at any moment, like a thief in the night. At some point, whether immediately or possibly decades later, globalism will be instituted and the Antichrist will establish himself. After 7 years of tribulation, Jesus returns to step foot on the earth and begin his 1000 year reign.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@keyman6689 The restrainer is NOT the Church, she will NOT be raptured pre- or mid-trib.

She is not under the wrath, and likewise Israel in Goshen was not under the plagues of Egypt, but however under the threat of Pharao.

Why? Jesus said "all days, until the consummation of time" in the last verse of Matthew.

So, the restrainer which is taken out of the way is the Christian Roman Emperor, successor of Roman Emperors who were less good, but still restrainers, insofar as their evil had a certain magnanimity, which did not allow them to condone full scale the kind of evils the Antichrist will do.

On 17 July 1918, Nicolas II of Russia was killed. On 12 November 1918, Charles I of Austria (IV of Hungary) removed from the Hofburg with a kind of abdication.

Immediately, you had Lenin in Russia and Bela Kun in Hungary, clear precursors of the Antichrist.