Prophecy Update: The Antichrist

The Bible is very clear that in the future there will be a temple on the earth that will be assaulted by a man called the antichrist. For instance in Second Thessalonians 2:3-4 it teaches us: “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” In the future a temple will be built in Jerusalem that will be the Temple of God. Jesus taught us in Matt.24:15 that the abomination of desolation will occur at a future time. For this man to come the temple has to be rebuilt and I think that Satan wants the Jews to rebuild so he can fulfill his desire to replace God in the hearts and minds of people on the earth.
In the past we have had many false prophets and many antichrists. In 1 John 2:18 it says, “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.” One of the antichrists who rose in the past 100 years was Adolf Hitler. He is the pattern for how and why antichrist will find a willing public to hate the church, kill Jews, and pervert Christianity. Edwin Black, who wrote IBM and the Holocaust talks about the tie between IBM and the ability of the Nazis to track all Jews and hunt them down. Hitler was a master of manipulating and deceiving people into believing a lie. Consider this letter from the founder of IBM:

July 5th 1937
Your Excellency Adolf Hitler
Berlin

Before leaving Berlin I would like to express my pride in and deep gratitude for the high honor I received through the order which you honored me…I will endeavor to do all in my power to create more intimate bonds between our two great nations. My wife and I join in best wishes for you.

Thomas J Watson (Chairman and CEO)
International Business Machines

IBM was responsible for corporate fraud and selling out Christians and Jews in Hitler’s Germany. The future antichrist will need businesses to assist him in tracking all people in the world. Consider how IBM helped Hitler. IBM helped with identification, expulsion, confiscation, deportation, and extermination of Jews using punch cards from IBM! The tag line of IBM is ‘Solution Company’ and they took a census for Hitler and tracked everyone. They asked religion questions, nationality, employment, etc. With this method they found out who every Polish Jew was in Berlin in the fur business, every Ukrainian Jew in Frankfurt in the legal profession etc. They took this information and began the systematic persecution of Jews. With the IBM cards they had all of the information to do whatever they wanted to the Jews. Today we see IBM on commercials advertising their information ability with a weird little icon on a screen called WATSON.

The ability of the Nazis to exterminate the Jews came about from companies who desired to make money from their machines that they sold to Germany. IBM had the Hollerith system, the precursor of computers today. Somehow companies will help the Antichrist track everyone on earth by putting a mark on the foreheads and hands of the people. The ability to do this right now is coming from many companies including IBM. The RFID chip is produced by many groups, many companies are coming together to force this onto the people. The Nazis not only perverted business but Christianity.

In May 1936, the leadership of the Confessing Church sent a memo to Hitler asking him to answer directly whether “the attempt to de-Christianize the German people is to become the official policy of the government. (Erwin Lutzer, Hitler’s Cross pg.143) A book that I read is called the “Third Reich and the Christian Churches” by Peter Matheson. He reveals the documents that the churches signed with the Nazis. For instance, the concordat signed between the Nazis and the Catholic Church states in Article 16, “Before Bishops enter upon the government of their dioceses they are to take an oath of fealty either to the representative of the Reich Government in the provinces or to the president of the Reich in the following words, Before God and on the Holy Gospels I swear and promise as a bishop loyalty to the German Reich.”pg.31 This type of oath was to be greater than the oath to Jesus!
In 1936 the Germans produced a document that defined Christianity in Germany. It said in one part: “We recognize today that the central and most important beliefs of the Roman and Protestant Church being negative Christianity are not in affinity with our soul; that they stand in the way of the organic forces of the peoples of Nordic racial character, and have to make way for the latter, and allow themselves to be readjusted to the values of a Germanic Christianity.”

The Bible is clear that the apostasy is coming. Christianity will be compromised and changed like it was in Hitler’s Germany. Antichrist will rise after the church is so compromised, it will be unrecognizable from the truth of the Bible. Today, we have churches that have compromised the truth for false teaching and false teachers.

Not only did Nazi Germany compromise business and Christianity to build the third Reich, it also went on a killing spree that caught the whole world. The rise of antichrist will also cause a killing spree that will go to the whole world and Armageddon. The Nazis had a special place in their heart for killing Jews. So will the antichrist!

The final solution is in play today by a host of anti-Semitic groups who wish the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. The Church needs to stand up to this evil and call it out. One of the false teachings in the church is replacement theology. This teaching states that God is done with Israel and the church takes over all of the promises. Unfortunately, Jews blame Christian churches who taught replacement theology for the holocaust. Hitler praised Martin Luther in Mein Kampf because of what Luther wrote. Luther wrote a pamphlet called “The Jews and their Lies” and said the Jews were a miserable and accursed people. Luther went on to say that the synagogues should be burned, money taken, houses destroyed, rabbis not allowed to teach, and the Talmud be confiscated. No wonder Hitler liked that! The Crusades and the Inquisition slaughtered Jews because the Jews supposedly killed Jesus. The simple command of God to love your neighbor was out and killing Jews was in. At one point one group of soldiers put Jews in a synagogue and sang a Christian hymn while they burned them.

In the original King James Bible of 1603, the title of Isaiah 43 is ‘God comforts the Church’ yet, the whole chapter is about God’s work with Israel. The examples are numerous. It is this type of thinking today that causes churches to deny that the Temple has to be rebuilt. The current state of affairs is ripe with the possibility of rebuilding the temple and the criticism and hatred coming from some churches is astounding. What we have today is anti-Zionism which is another form of anti-Semitism. Many businesses and churches advocate confiscation and destruction of Israeli businesses just as Hitler did with the help of IBM! I like Psalm 129:5, May all who hate Zion be put to shame.
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism is spreading in Germany again and it has a lot of people nervous. From a Polish paper this article says: “German leaders are increasingly alarmed about a resurgence of anti-Semitism 73 years after the Holocaust, stemming from an emboldened far right and an influx of refugees from countries hostile to Israel. Germany is marking the 1945 liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz with solemn ceremonies, but also warnings of the need for stronger vigilance. On the anniversary on Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned revisionist forces seeking to call into question the country’s commitment to atoning for its Nazi past. She said fighting anti-Semitism and racism must be a “daily task”. “It is inconceivable and shameful that no Jewish institution can exist without police protection, whether it is a school, a kindergarten or a synagogue,” she said.
Angela Merkel is part of the reason the Jews are being persecuted so I do not believe what she says. She brought in the Muslims who desire to kill the Jews and they are attacking them all over Germany! Yet, she refuses to see the connection between Muslims and the attacking of the Jews. Once again, we have the weak and evil compromise so that Satan gets his way.

The world hates Israel and we see it at the UN every week. What will the world do when Israel rebuilds the Temple? What will they do when Israel says they do not care what the world says and they do it anyway! It will be done! As politics surrounding the rebuilding of the temple continues to be contentious, Islam will have to find another reason to attack Israel if they rebuild off of the temple Mount. If the Jews say that you can have the dome of the rock we don’t care—what will the Muslims do. The Temple belongs by the Gihon Springs—it is a reason the temple will be built soon! The fulfillment of a 2000 year dream will cause Israel to come up with new strategies to defeat the Muslims! As nations move their embassies to Jerusalem, Muslims already feel the city slipping from their hands. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, it is not Islamic, period! It is Gods city, the city of the great king—the Jewish Messiah, the God of our fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob! The 70th year of the founding of Israel may be a year of great fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy!