UNMASKING THE BEAST
The Antichrist
Part 5
Things the Antichrist will Do
that will Mark his Characteristics
FIVE
The
tribulation saints will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
The saints will be
handed over to him for a time,
times and half a
time.
Dan 7:25b NIV
The saints which are left behind after “the Rapture”
would be handed over to “the antichrist” for “a time, two times, and half a
time.”
In this prophecy “a time” is one year; “two times”,
two years; “and half a time” represents half of a year (or 6 months).
The tribulation saints will be helpless in the hands
of their adversary—“the antichrist” in “the Great Tribulation” 3 ½ years (or 42
months or 1,260 days).
They will be persecuted by the evil world-ruler who exercises
his authority for forty-two months. He will exercise satanic authority through
“Mystery Babylon” with fierceness like the lion; with strength like the bear;
with swiftness like the leopard; and with horror as a prophesied “terrible
beast.”
He will have the power to make war against the
saints who are left behind, and to conquer them in warfare because at such time
GOD’s divine protection would have been removed from the earth (Rev 13:6-7).
GOD’s Word says “the tribulation saints” should be
patient with endurance and faithfulness in “the Great Tribulation” (see verse 10).
The antichrist will issue a decree to his false
prophet to kill all the saints and people everywhere who refuse “the mark of
the beast” and who refuse to worship “the image of the beast.”
As Prophet Daniel watched in a vision in chapter 7
verses 21 and 22, “the antichrist” was waging war against the saints [the
tribulation saints] and defeating them, until “The Ancient Of Days” came and
pronounced Judgment in favor of the saints of The Most High.
“The antichrist” would not be able to reach the “the
Elect” which are the 144,000 sealed and protected, in the wilderness (within a
region in Jordan presently known as Petra). He will not be able to touch them
because, they are GOD’s chosen remnant—they are His Elect; called out of the
earth in accordance with His Covenant with Abraham; which He afterward, renewed
with the rest of the patriarchs.
“The Elect” is “the woman” that was given the two
wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in
the desert.
Even though “the tribulation saints” would be
oppressed and killed, THE LORD MOST HIGH will prevent the armies of “the beast”
from reaching His Elect [the 144,000], with a mighty earthquake—that’s the
earth that helped “the woman” by opening its mouth and swallowing the river
that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
The woman fled into
the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of
for 1,260 days.
Rev 12:6 NIV
When the dragon saw
that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth
to the male child. The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that
she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be
taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. Then
from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and
sweep her away with the torrent. But the earth helped the woman by opening its
mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
Rev 12:13-17 NIV
GOD ALMIGHTY Who is “The Ancient Of Days” will open
His court in Heaven and vindicate His people, giving them worldwide Powers of
Government in “the Millennium.”