Ok here's some food for thought, some will be like sweet cake, some might be bitter and hard to swallow. LOL
Why does the antichrist have to be on the scene for the tribulation to start
for?
Matthew 24:6. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places.
Matthew 24:8. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall
kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew 24:10. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one
another, and shall hate one another.
Matthew 24:11. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall
wax cold.
Matthew 24:13. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved.
Matthew 24:14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Jesus talks about quite a few things happening before the "abomination of
desolation".
Read them and find out what they are, write them down 1 by 1 and find them in revelation or are they happening now?
The words Jesus Christ spoke matches Revelation word for word,
though Revelation goes into a lot more details it does follow the same
series of events.
Here's a question I'll ask as a fool "If you was God, wouldn't you be really
really angry if the Jews rebuilt the temple after they rejected and killed
your son?"
Would not even that cause the wrath of God on the world to begin?
The antichrist is a man. He use to be a son of God, fallen angel. The fallen
angels in genesis was men enough to have women and produce offspring, the fallen angels wasn't born as babies and grew up, they became real men, same as the angels threw out the bible that came as real men. It could be a person possessed by a fallen demon or a real demon who can take on human form if he wishes! It's not satan himself!
Rev 13:18 does not say it's a man possessed by the devil, I think you meant
verse 2, it says satan gave him his power, but remember satan only gets
chained a thousand years while the actual antichrist & his prophet gets
thrown into a lake of fire, kinda like a Mob Boss and his cronies, the
cronies do the dirty work and get caught, the Mob Boss gets probation for a thousand years till he's released and does the deed himself!
Rev 13:2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
You will pull your hair out on this one but you should read this with a
opened mind! I'm still not saying it's true, but do some simple history
research on it before throwing it out! Isn't that what happened last century
with Hitler? Conquer and to conquer, he came peaceably to conquer the hearts and minds of the people, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries, : for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people? Then shall there be war, Then the Great Depression, Then famine, Then the souls under the alter? Then the "a little season" happens while the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Then the abomination of desolation? How could the abomination of desolation occur unless the temple is rebuilt? How could the abomination of desolation occur unless the 1st 4 seals set back Israel as a nation again?
Tell me how a country could conquer another country like what happened last century again?
Bountaries has been set everywhere & like Iraq it will not be allowed by the world or the USA.
Unless it's a different kind of conquer like a religion like islam?
Everybody has nukes now and there wouldn't be nothing left of the entire earth if everybody went to war like they did last century. No humans left! This is a true statement in of itself!
And the biggest problem I have is that the 1st seal in Revelation would have said it was the antichrist if it was, it's not a puzzle for us to figure
out, he tells us plainly what is gonna happen so we will know, he tells us
when the bottomless pit is opened, he tells us where the beast comes from, he tells us the events that will happen up to the point that the beast is released. Read the 1st seal of itself and show me where it says that at?
He also tells us he will return to get us before we have to accept the mark of the beast!
Yours in Christ
Marty