The signs that mark the end of the age.

[tatwo]

I enjoyed reading your post here @Whosoever...

It is quite ambitious and somewhat assuming but the picture I get is mostly something I can understand...I have a couple of comments, thoughts or maybe questions.

On 4/25/2025 at 10:54 AM, Whosoever said:

It doesn't matter how many years the anti christ reigns for.

Anti-Christ – for simplicities sake...may I give a proper working definition of “antichrist?”

Either one who puts himself in the place of, or the enemy (opponent) of the Messiah.  The term "antichristos" refers to an adversary of Christ, one who opposes or seeks to replace Christ.

In the New Testament, it is used to describe both a “spirit of opposition to Christ” and specific individuals “who embody this opposition.” The term is often associated with false teachers and deceivers who deny the true nature of Yahshua Christ.

By pure definition and according to John’s 1^st epistle and the second chapter...“antichrist’s” reign and impact was evident at least in the first century. It has grown increasingly more influential since then as we can see...and it will continue to do so until it reaches its crescendo or summit.

Tatwo...:)

[tatwo]

On 4/25/2025 at 10:54 AM, Whosoever said:

What this means is that the anti-christ will reign from Bowl 1 and Trumpet 1 through Bowl 6 and Trumpet 6 (armageddon).  This could be a span of up to 7 years.

Based upon the basic but correct definition of “antichrist” from above...and from the Scripture...the entity plainly referred to as “antichrist”...and the subsequent...”antichrist reign” is already occurring since it’s Scripturally written beginning...in the first century.

History plainly states that the “against Christ” or the “replacement Christ” which is the “false messiah”...which produces the “false bride – church”...is the “father” of the “state empowered agency” known as the “institutional church” which first acquired its “state sanctioned authority” during the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.

This is also where the “Babylonian harlot...mystery Babylon”...the “false bride of Christ”...arrives on the scene...or becomes “experiential”...for the lack of a better description. That however is a different discussion.

I am in no way suggesting that “antichrist” will not reign in “our future” no...it most certainly is and will continue. As I said before...its influence and incarnation...will increase and likely become more “spiritually discernable” until its destruction...so I can agree with you to that point.

The way you “wrote” it...“the anti-christ will reign from Bowl 1 and Trumpet 1”...makes is sound as though you are suggesting that its reign begins with “Bowl 1” and runs for 7 years...if I am interpreting you correctly? If I am not interpreting you as you intended here...I am sorry.

If I am interpreting you correctly as you state it...the thing that I see challenging you is that you are not accounting for the increase in impact or effect or the character of the “reign of antichrist” since the first century. Which I must say...is the same thoughts and beliefs I see in so many “Christians” today.

If that is indeed where you are at...that’s fine by me...as you wish...however I must say that a huge portion of your “understanding” of that which is “antichrist” is lacking simply due to ignorance.

I have no intention of offending you Brother...this only an attempt to inform your understanding with a more complete revelation. Let me say this...placing things like the “antichrist...beast...harlot and lawless one” as only having a place and by extension...effect...in ones future...or present for that matter...is scripturally incomplete thereby leaving one in a supremely and spiritually dangerous “mindset” due to the strong potential for un-discernedable deception.

Tatwo...:)

[Whosoever]

Boy! You don't get. Here's what you just said" "If I am interpreting you correctly as you state it...the thing that I see challenging you is that you are not accounting for the increase in impact or effect or the character of the “reign of antichrist” since the first century. Which I must say...is the same thoughts and beliefs I see in so many “Christians” today.

Revelation speaks 7 trumpets and 7 bowl's opperating in a linear time frame not begining in the first century. Also, the bible points to the "anti-Christ" as a HE.  In the 13th chapter of revelation it clearly states: "and the dragon gave "him" his seat, his thrown, and his great authority".  Again, Revelation states: "and they worshiped the beast and the dragon that gave him his power. 

We're not talking about a spirit that existed since the 1st century, we're talking about a "humanoid" (beast) that exists and opperates within the Trumpets and bowles. If I'm only talking about a time period during these trumpets and bowles, what does the time period of the 1st century have to do with it?

anti-christ makes his appearance on the world stage much earlier than the trumpets and bowl's.  What I'm talking about "IS" the trumpets and bowles, because that is when GOD steps in, in world affairs, and begins His cutting the days short right up to the sixth trumpet and bowl and ends this age at Armageddon.  GET IT! 

I don't need to discuss the increase in impact or effect or the character of the "reign of antichrist".  The bible does that by illistrating clearly the four horsemen, the number of the beast, the persecution of the saints, and then what I'm talking about - THE END OF THIS AGE AT ARMAGEDDON.