There are those under the altar who have been slain for their faith, who cry to the Lord asking how long will this continue.
........Revelation 6:11
"And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."

"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:. . ."
....................Revelation 13:7
........It is clear that the Antichrist will persecute the saint of God.

....................Daniel 7: 25
"He. . . .shall wear out the saints of the most High."

....................Daniel 8:24
"He shall destroy the mighty and the holy people."
........This undoubtedly refers to the Jews.

Today, God and religion are sneered at in contemptuous ways.

............The Antichrist will send terrible curses against those who dwell in heaven and he will move with violence against any who dare to agree to the cause of Christ.

There is no doubt that there will be many left behind that will regret not being ready for the rapture; but who will faithfully teach and preach the true reason for the event and that people everywhere should repent.

.............They will warn others of the character and purposes of the Antichrist.

.......Such preaching will arouse a fury in him.

.......................But he will demonstrate his own miracles and lying wonders to confuse the people's minds.

The rapture of the Manchild children will be a worldwide subject of conversation.

..................Their mysterious disappearance is bound to be an embarrassment to the Antichrist.

And the Antichrist will rage against them with awful blasphemies.
Revelation 13:6
"And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven."

Three of the ten kingdoms apparently are hostile to the "little horn", the Antichrist.
.........................Daniel 7:24
"24 And 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."

..............They oppose him and make war against him; but he overthrows them proving to be a military genius.

...........................The other kingdoms quickly fall into line not wanting the same treatment. They accept him and "give their power and strength unto the beast." ............Revelation 17:13

When the Antichrist appears, the "ten horns" of Daniel 7 have come into power and there are crowns upon their heads.

....But the world is in chaos.
....The nations are looking for a deliverer.

...........This man is showing himself to be a superman and able to have his authority respected.

The Beast/Antichrist is the cursed Son of Perdition.

...................................Being inspired by Satan, he get his pleasure by blaspheming the name of God with horrible curses and accusations.

People will worship the Dragon/Beast/Satan/Antichrist.

...................Satan is completely identified with the Beast and will get those whose names are not written in the Book of Life to worship him.

The Antichrist will hide his true idenity from the world in the beginning by deceit and trickery.

.....................The world will believe in him, but they will believe a lie, 2 Thessaloninans 2:10-11.

............Later he will remove his mask and show himself as Satan's masterpiece, which means that he will show himself as anti-God and anti-Christ.

By this time, the mystery of the rapture will be forgotten.

.....................Jesus came to this world and offered himself as the Messiah and king, but was rejected and crucified.

................................Now the world is permitted to have a king of their choice. But it will not be long before they will learn the foolishness of their decision.

But more than anything else, is the supernatural element.

................In a mysterious way, the spirit of the Beast comes from the Bottomless Pit, with power beyond anything ever demonstrated in the world before.

..........................This mysterious element will deceive the crowds and draw their admiration and worship.

The fact that the Antichrist will get such great power from so small of a beginning, will amaze the world.

..........The nations are looking for a strong man, that will bring order out of all the chaos.

...............His ability to make war will make him as the man needed.

......................They will say, "Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
................................Revelation 13:4

The Antichrist secures his power of the nations by deception and deceit.

.........................In Daniel 11:21-45, there is a detailed account of the rise and fall of the Antichrist.

......He comes into the kingdom peacefully.
......He uses flattery to get his power.
......He will become strong with a small people.

The Antichrist accepts the proposition that Jesus refused.

................As a reward, Satan gives the nations of the world to the Antichrist,
................then, he, the devil through the Beast, receives the worship of "all those whose names are not written in the book of life."
.........................Revelation 13:4

Revelation 13:4 shows that the world will worship the dragon which gives power to the Beast.

....Just as God desires the worship of His people,
.........Satan desires the worship of the people.

.................Satan once offered the world to Christ, if He would but fall down and worship him.
.............................(Luke 4:6-7).
The Lord rejected the devil's offer and rebuked him.

Paul showed that the Man of Sin would come "with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that parish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."
..........................2 Thessaloninas 2:10-11

The world will believe in this monstrous deceiver;
........they will believe that this man who claims he is God can solve the problems of the world.

.........................................Because they refused to believe the truth, they will believe the Antichrist's delusion.

Because man gave up his rule of the earth to Satan when he fell from the Garden of Eden the Antichrist will rule over the nations before Jesus returns.

...............At one time God sent the true Christ; but many rejected Him. Jesus said,"I am come in my Father's name and ye receive me not: If another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."
...................................John 5:43

The Antichrist's mouth will speak great blasphemies.

.............He is worshipped by the people.

.......Daniel speaks of him as a king who magifies himself exceedingly.

.............But in the end, the Beast [Antichrist] and his False Prophet are cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 19:20

The kingdom of the Antichrist is a system
.......and a kingdom both.

...........But more than that, it's head is a man.

There is no empire without and emperor,
..............no kingdom without a king.

The number of the Beast [Antichrist]
.......is not the number of a system,
...........but the number of a man.
.................................Revelation 13:18
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

The seven heads stand for the seven successive world kingdoms.

In Revelation 12:3, the crowns were on the heads.
....Here Satan is seen in his position through the past ages.

In Revelation 13:1, the crowns are upon the horns.
....Here Satan rules at the end of time, during the seventh kingdom.
....This is the kingdom of the Antichrist.
....The ten kings have come into power with the Beast.
....That is why the crowns are on the ten horns.

The Antichrist "speaks great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High. . . .and they shall be given into his hand until a time and a times and a dividing of time. Daniel 7:25

Revelation 13 speaks of the Antichrist kingdom [the little horn] in its final phase which will "continue forty and two months" [verse 5, a different way of expressing the same length of time].

The kingdoms dominated by Satan and his angels, come up out of the sea; that is out of the 'peoples, multitudes and nations', to take over the earth.

..........................................................Daniel 7 tells of the four world empires, Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome, will rise up from the earth, and then, ends with the 'little horn' or the kingdom of the Antichrist.

The vision of Revelation 13 goes along with Daniel 7.

.......Revelation 13 shows the Beast as he will be in the endtime, when the Antichrist comes to power.

.......Daniel 7, written 600 years earlier, includes the rise of the great empires of previous ages; Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome.

John said that he stood on the sands of the sea and saw a beast rising up out of the sea.

.....Waters or seas represent peoples or nations.

Revelation 17:15 interprets the meaning of the waters, "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."

There is one time, the job was so important that Satan embodied himself in a human being.



That was with Judas, when he betrayed the Lord.


"And after the sop Satan entered into him."

Satan and his fallen angels have possessed human beings before.

...............The devil occupies human bodies in the sense that his evil spirits possess the bodies of people.

.................................Jesus cast out these devils or evil spirits by the Spirit of God.

......................................................He added an important statement that Satan did not cast out Satan; showing, that evil spirits are under the control of Satan.

Now that the Manchild children cannot be touched by Satan, he tries to go after the Woman who gave birth the them.

...................He can't do it directly, he must have a body through which to work.

.....................................So we will see a Satanic spirit out of the Bottomless Pit take possession of the Antichrist.

Satan cannot manifest himself and accomplish his evil except through a physical body.
.............As a spirit being, he and his angels fought the Church as it sat in the heavenlies.

Now he is cast down to earth and the Manchild children has ascended to heaven and before the throne of God.