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    ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion
    ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion
    ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion
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    ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion

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    Why buy a book on the Antichrist? Because while other books focus on when he will arrive and what he will do, this book does much more. The Antichrist has an historical past as well as a prophesied future. He will inherit the biblical-world kingdoms of his ancestors. He will exploit their religions and create his own. He is a recurring theme in Satan’s designs to rule the world and receive worship. He will fulfill those evil designs. He will cause the death of millions and be responsible for world-wide destruction. He will be almost as evil as Satan himself. The Antichrist, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion discovers the biblical portrait of the Antichrist through an in-depth discussion of every prophetic mention in Daniel, the Gospels, Paul’s epistles, and the Revelation. The conclusions reached are fit together to form his biblical story. The study includes a review of the Antichrist’s career and an imagined scenario of his entry into the world, rise to power, evil acts, and certain destruction at the return of Jesus Christ. Two appendices provide a time-line of the events of the tribulation and answer the question, Are the Rapture and Tribulation Near?

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    PublisherJames D. Quiggle
    Release dateMay 3, 2012
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    ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion
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    James D. Quiggle

    James D. Quiggle was born in 1952 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He grew up in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. In the early 1970s he joined the United States Air Force. At his first permanent assignment in Indian Springs, Nevada in a small Baptist church, the pastor introduced him to Jesus and soon after he was saved. Over the next ten years those he met in churches from the East Coast to the West Coast, mature Christian men, poured themselves into mentoring him. In the 1970s he was gifted with the Scofield Bible Course from Moody Bible Institute. As he completed his studies his spiritual gift of teaching became even more apparent. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany Bible College during the 1980s while still in the Air Force. Between 2006–2008, after his career in the Air Force and with his children grown up, he decided to continue his education. He enrolled in Bethany Divinity College and Seminary and earned a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theological Studies.As an extension of his spiritual gift of teaching, he was prompted by the Holy Spirit to begin writing books. James Quiggle is now a Christian author with over fifty commentaries on Bible books and doctrines. He is an editor for the Evangelical Dispensational Quarterly Journal published by Scofield Biblical Institute and Theological Seminary.He continues to write and has a vibrant teaching ministry through social media.

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      ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion - James D. Quiggle

      ANTICHRIST

      His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion

      James D. Quiggle

      Published by James D. Quiggle at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ANTICHRIST, His Genealogy, Kingdom, and Religion

      Published by James D. Quiggle 2011.

      Copyright © 2011 James D. Quiggle. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the Author. Email: thingsofq@hotmail.com, with Permissions in subject line.

      eBook (Smashwords) ISBN: 9781476279954

      Print (CreateSpace) ISBN-13: 978-1463694333

      Scripture may be quoted from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982, 1983 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Parts of the present work appeared in a slightly different version in The Epistle of Jesus to the Church, by James D. Quiggle, copyright 2007. Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers. www.wipfandstock.com. Chapter 8: Epistle, 214–216; Chapter 9: Epistle, 308–321; Chapter 10: Epistle, 324–347; Chapter 11: Epistle, 299, 378, 392–393; Chapter 12: Epistle, 389–390, 392–397; Chapter 13: Epistle, 430, 437; Appendix 1: Epistle, 74–78.

      Contents

      Publisher’s Note

      Preface

      Abbreviations

      Definitions

      1. Some Necessary Background

      2. The Statue of World Empires

      3. The Beasts out of the Sea

      4. The Little Horn who is not the Antichrist

      5. The Seventieth Seven

      6. The King who shall do according to his own Will

      7. A Few Things Concerning Daniel Twelve

      8. The Antichrist Conquering

      9. Satan and his Angels Cast to Earth

      10. The Beast out of the Sea

      11. The Beast out of the Bottomless Pit

      12. The Beast that Carries the Woman

      13. The Beast Destroyed

      14. A Review of the Antichrist’s Career

      15. A Summary of Things to Come

      Appendix One, Are the Rapture and Tribulation Near?

      Appendix Two, A Tribulation Timeline

      A Few Words About the Author

      Sources

      Endnotes

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE

      Hebrew words are transliterated and defined according to the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (herein abbreviated TWOT), unless otherwise noted. Bibliographic information is in Sources section.

      eBook Versions

      Certain Hebrew and Greek words cannot be accurately transliterated in the eBook versions of this work. The software used to convert documents to eBook format does not support the diacritical marks macron and hacek, nor the circumflex for certain letters. I have replaced both hacek and circumflex with a tilde (~) to give the reader some idea of how the words are spelled. No such substitute is available for the macron (which looks like the English long vowel symbol). Please consult TWOT, as appropriate for correct spelling.

      In the eBook versions I have placed references to sources into the body of the text using brackets. The references are shortened to the author’s name and page number cited, e.g., [Ames, 83]. When a source has two or more authors only the first is cited. Authors with the same last name are distinguished by the first initial, e.g., Brown, C., Brown J. Where a sentence begins with the author’s name followed by a quote I have shortened the reference to the page number where the quote will be found, and placed the bracketed number immediately following the author’s name. For example, Ames [83] wrote, God is everywhere because. Where an author has more than one work a short version of the title is also given, e.g., [Bush, Genesis, 25]; [Bush, Exodus, 37].

      In the eBook version references to lexicons and dictionaries are shortened to an abbreviation and index name or number (not a page number). For example, Hebrew words the footnote reference in the print version would be Harris et al., TWOT, s. v. "1124. laqah.", but the eBook reference is [TWOT, 1124]. To find the complete bibliographic information please refer to the Sources section.

      PREFACE

      Two important issues affect the analysis and conclusions reached in this book. They are the inspiration and interpretation of the Judeo-Christian scriptures commonly known as the Bible. Inspiration is God’s work of superintendence by which he presided over the human authors in their entire work of writing, with the design and effect of rendering that writing an errorless record of the matters he designed them to communicate [Archibald A. Hodge and Benjamin B. Warfield, Inspiration (1881. Reprinted, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1979), 17]. By means of divine inspiration the revelation God gave the Bible’s authors was accurately recorded by them, so that what they wrote, the Bible, is authentic, credible, and inerrant.

      The method used to interpret the Bible is essential to understanding what the author meant when he wrote the words. Two methods of interpretation have been developed. One is the allegorical method, which seeks a figurative or symbolic meaning in the biblical text beyond the plain and normal sense of the words. The other is the literal method, which understands the biblical text in the plain and normal sense of the words. This book uses the literal method.

      Understanding prophetic symbols and figurative language is not an exception to the literal method. A symbol is based on something real and literal, and communicates something real and literal. Biblical symbols communicate literal ideas and concepts. For example, a literal fire can cause damage, destruction, or purification (as in smelting ore to remove impurities). Fire used as symbol communicates literal destruction (Isaiah 5:24), judgment (Isaiah 66:16; Revelation 20:15), or cleansing (Isaiah 6:6–7). A figure of speech is in itself not literal, e.g., it is raining cats and dogs, but the figure, whether a simile, metaphor, or personification, communicates something literal. In the case of the metaphor, raining cats and dogs, the figure communicates a literal heavy rain. An example of a biblical figure of speech is turned the world upside down, Acts 17:6, to express the radical changes Christianity brought to the established social and religious order. The literal method seeks to understand how the Bible defines and uses each particular symbol or figure of speech to communicate a real and literal meaning.

      In relation to prophecy, the literal interpretive process considers all the parts of any particular set or series of prophecies, in order to understand the parts according to the context set by whole. Understanding end-times prophecy related to the Antichrist requires interpreting the individual prophecies from the prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Revelation, within the context of the whole end-times prophetic testimony. In an analogy, the individual prophecies are like the chapters of a book that, when taken as a whole, form the testimony of the book. In this book I will interpret each prophecy concerning the Antichrist, and place each in its proper place as part of the Bible’s whole view of the Antichrist and his genealogy, kingdom, and religion.

      For those interested in such things, the theology in this book is dispensational and the eschatology pretribulational and premillennial. Don’t let that stop you from reading the book and discovering what the Bible has to say about the Antichrist. He is coming, and the spirit of antichrist is even now in the world.

      Footnotes appearing in the printed version are incorporated into the text in the epub versions, and are usually identified by brackets or parenthesis.

      ABBREVIATIONS

      AD = Anno Domini (In the year of the Lord [since Christ was born])

      BC = Bello Christo (Before Christ [was born])

      ca. = about (an approximate date) (Latin: circa)

      cf. = compare (Latin: confer)

      e.g. = for example (Latin: exempli gratia)

      etc. = and so forth, and so on (Latin: et cetera)

      Ibid = in the same place (referring to the source cited in the previous entry)

      (Latin: ibidem)

      i.e. = that is (Latin: id est)

      KJV = King James Version

      NKJV = New King James Version

      v. = verse

      vv. = verses

      DEFINITIONS

      Antichrist: a human being who will be the chief opposer of Jesus Christ and his saved people during the tribulation.

      Antichrist-beast: the term I am using to identify the Antichrist when demonized and self-deified; the same person Revelation refers to as the beast.

      Beast: the name by which the book of Revelation identifies the Antichrist. The same person I am identifying as the Antichrist-beast.

      Biblical-world: the geographic area defined by those peoples and nations in the Bible that interact with the people and nation Israel.

      Church: the entire body of saved sinners (aka: believers) between Christ’s resurrection and his return for his church at the rapture.

      Davidic-Millennial Kingdom: the kingdom promised to King David and Israel at 2 Samuel 7:12–13, to be inaugurated and ruled by Christ, beginning at Christ’s second advent. Same as the kingdom promised to God’s Anointed (Messiah, Christ) at Psalm 2. Same as the 1,000 year reign of Christ at Revelation 20:4, 6.

      Rapture: the return of Jesus to take his church out of the world at the end of the church age. Jesus will return to the earth, in the air, resurrect the dead saints, transform the living saints, snatch his church from the earth into the air, and take them to heaven. The word rapture comes from from the Latin raptuare, which is a translation of the Greek hárpazō, to seize, in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, translated by the English caught up.

      Second Advent: the literal, visible, physical return of Jesus Christ at the end of the tribulation to destroy his enemies and inaugurate the Davidic-Millennial Kingdom.

      Tribulation: a period of seven prophetic years (2,250 days) beginning at an unknown time after the rapture, ending at the second advent, during which the Antichrist will rule the world and demand worship, God will send terrible judgments upon the world, many will be killed, and many will be saved.

      1. SOME NECESSARY BACKGROUND

      The identity of the Antichrist of end-times biblical prophecy has fascinated Christians for nearly two millennia—since the word, antichrístos, appeared in the apostle John’s first and second letters (the only place antichrístos does appear in the Bible).

      1 John 2:18, Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

      1 John 2:22, Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

      1 John 4:3, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

      2 John 7, For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

      For the apostle John and his Christian readers, the Antichrist was a person who was to come, and an ongoing disposition already in the world that, like the person Antichrist, opposed the genuine Christ, Jesus.

      Jesus the Christ, looking back to the prophet Daniel, identified the person Antichrist as the one who would be the abomination of desolation . . . standing in the holy place, Matthew 24:15. The apostle Paul said the Antichrist would be the man of sin, the son of perdition, the lawless one, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, 8. Paul’s phrase the mystery of lawlessness, v. 7, and his title the lawless one, v. 8, correspond, respectively, to John’s the spirit of antichrist, and the Antichrist." In the Revelation Christ again spoke of the yet-future Antichrist: he will be the conqueror of 6:2, and the beast of 13:1–7; 11:7; 16:13; 17:8–13; 19:19–20; 20:10.

      The Antichrist is not a pseudóchristos, a false Christ, such as those Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:24. To be antichrist is to be anti, against, Christ. The disposition most of mankind has against Christ has been working in the world since the first advent. The person who will be the tribulation Antichrist will be the chief person to oppose Christ and his people in the end-times. At a certain point in his career he will pronounce himself to be God and require all to receive his mark and worship him or be killed. He will oppose all religions, not just Christianity. However, his chief opposition will be toward everything about Jesus Christ: his Person, his works, his teachings, his salvation, and his people who believe on him as their Savior and worship him as their God, Daniel 11:36, 37; 2 Thessalonians 2:4. Although he assumes and imitates some aspects of Christ’s Person and ministry, he denies (as John said, quoted above), the Father and Son, and that God the Son came in the flesh: the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation. He will proclaim there is one God, that he is that God come to earth, and that all men shall now and forever dwell in his presence and render him worship. He will be avidly antichrístos.

      Who, then, is this person? Where does he come from? What does the Bible tell us about him? This book aims to provide the biblical answer to these and other questions.

      The primary focus of biblical prophecy in general, and biblical eschatology in particular, is the nation and people of Israel. Eschatology (es-kuh-tol-uh-jee), is the study of last things, from Greek lógos, to speak, and i, last, to speak of last things, by extension a discourse on the branch of theological knowledge dealing with the end-times. Eschatology is a branch of biblical prophecy dealing with the period of time popularly known as the end-times.

      The last things are those people and events which are yet future; those people and events that will occupy the world after this current age, the church age, is completed. The

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