I've made it easier, I put some in italics in each quote.
a man is going 5:20 to come on the scene who is going to 5:22 dazzle the world with the brilliance of 5:25 his coming by the way hang on to that 5:27 word because coming is a word that is 5:30 coming up 5:33 and he is going to say i have a plan 5:36 to solve all of this chaos in other 5:40 words no more jihad
Antichrist's Origin
Basic Training Bible Ministries | 6 Aug 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Qq-56zJnE
675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.573 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth574 will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. the supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.575
676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgement. the Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,576 especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.577
Catechism of the Catholic Church Article 7
"FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAlN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD"
I. He Will Come Again in Glory
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1V.HTM
A) They attribute to the Antichrist (or to the Beast, in case someone prefers to distinguish them) the quality of charisma and basically showing it by brilliant plans solving (or promising to solve) actual problems.
B) They are not found in the Bible. Or at least I couldn't find them.
Arrogant and brilliant are not the same. Being admired and having charisma is not the same. To single out people whom some few think brilliant and as having charisma, and curb that brillancy and charisma by tactics of suppression and marginalisation, is a known way for tyrants to curb opposition. Will be done by the Antichrist too.
Being arrogant against those in Heaven, and being admired for being "invincible" or "unkillable" are in the Bible. Being brilliant, being personally admired because of charisma, offering solutions to actual problems, are not in the Bible, about that man.
And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time And judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and perish even to the end And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.
[Daniel 7:24-27]
Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God 5 Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time 7 For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way 8 And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity
[2 Thessalonians 2:3-11]
And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy And the beast, which I saw, was like to 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 own strength, and great power And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast And they adored the dragon, which gave power to the beast: and they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the beast? and who shall be able to fight with him And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do two and forty months And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation 8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning of the world
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 13:1-8]
These other ones are about smaller antichrists:
For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect
[Matthew 24:24]
Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us; but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us But you have the unction from the Holy One, and know all things I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son
[1 John 2:18-22]
For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a seducer and an antichrist
[2 John 1:7]
They may also apply at various times to the ultimate Antichrist, but probably not all of the time.
In none of these passages do I find offering men an apparent solution to their problems.
It may be true. It may be an extra thing to look out for. But it is not the obvious go to in order to determine who it is. We take King of the North in Daniel 11 to be primarily Antiochus Epiphanes, but what's said about him would apply to Antichrist as well in some points (probably including being "king of the north" in some comparison). There also I find no brilliance or charisma other than sheer power and success in battle.
And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they shall not have strength And he shall come upon him and do according to his pleasure, and there shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand in the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his hand
[Daniel 11:15-16]
Vienna could see both Hitler in 1938 and Stalin in 1945 as fulfilling this. More Stalin. Munich could see Bismarck and Wilhelm as fulfilling this in 1866 and Paris the same two in 1870. Saigon would c. 100 years later and some see Ho Chi Minh as fulfilling it. "I have more guns" isn't brilliant. "I'm in power" can be pretty uncharismatic except to cronies. "Do as I say, or I kill you" hardly qualifies even as a false miracle. This part of Antichrist's carreere will be pretty different from the small antichrists working by subtler spiritual seductions.
My point is, having a brilliant take on Babel (like, Nimrod's Babel = Göbekli Tepe, tower project a then unrealisable rocket project, Nebuchadnezzar's city named after Nimrod's rather than built on same rockbottom, I think that is brilliant, but then I am the guy who (humanly) came up with it, so I'm biassed) may or may not coincide with heterodoxy (so far no one has convinced me my idea is "rewriting the Bible", but again, I'm biassed). But if there is anything to look out for, it's the heterodoxy, not the brilliance, if any.
The guys who take this kind of stuff to be brilliant are geeks. And other geeks than computer geeks, on top of that. Not numerous enough and not powerful enough to give Antichrist his social leverage.
Corporatism and Distributism* may be very brilliant solutions to economic problems. But they are hardly likely to be realised on a large world wide scale. They would be attacked by both Capitalism and Communism. Their adherents would again not be powerful enough for worldwide social leverage. But perhaps for nationwide.
The idea that Antichrist will be some kind of Ford or Bismarck (like pro-cheap cars or against local guilds within Germany, each adressing some kind of problem in some way) is not in the Bible. It is one possible interpretation, but not the only one. And definitely not my own brand of problem solving, since it's impopular. Just as impopular as not building the tower because God was not sending another world wide flood was in the years between Noah's death and Peleg's birth.** Compared to either version of Class War (more power to employers, less power to employees, or more power to employees, less power to employers each taken to its maximum), Corporatism and Distributism are like "not building the tower" ...
But the fact that CCC in 1992 put this kind of line into its catechism, it kind of shows an influence of Protestant thought, which was arguably partly already in the 80's saying "Antichrist will be brilliant and have charisma" ... is there more Protestant influence?
I think there is one more meme that some Protestants take, which some of them push to taking me as the Antichrist. Perhaps. For one week, my visitors from Singapore were 1666 per day, Brazil 907 per day, Viet Nam 906 per day. But, they usually don't comment on my articles. "According to the 2020 census, 18.9% of Singaporeans identify as Christians – 37.1% of which identified as Catholic and the 62.9% as 'Other Christians' (chiefly Protestants)." Wiki. In the two other countries, Catholics by far outnumber Protestants, but Evangelical Protestants are growing.
This other meme is, "Antichrist is in the wings" ... Chuck Missler said it before and perhaps up to his death in 2018. Not absent. But also not already openly on the stage (though in as yet a somewhat more peaceful role). Just "in the wings" ... one of the arguments is "the katekhon is the Holy Spirit within the Church and is taken out of the way when the Church is raptured" ... I'd agree with a Patristic view, the katekhon is the Roman Emperor. Not the Roman Empire and especially not the Pagan one, but the Roman Emperor.
"Can't be, he was 'taken out of the way in 476' ..."
"When? Romulus Augustulus was survived by Zeno (as Chuck Missler would have agreed!)"
"OK, but 1453."
"Constantine XI Palaiologos was survived by Frederick III, as well as by Charles VII, both successors of Charlemagne, and within 100 years replaced by Ivan IV"
"Wait, when do you think they ended?"
"France in 1830, Austria and Russia in 1918"
"OK, but the Antichrist didn't come in 1830 or 1918"
"Some French would argue or have argued already Lewis Philipp and Napoleon III were Antichristian by secularism, and pretty much no one would deny that Lenin and Bela Kún were so."
So, if the katekhon is already out of the way, the Antichrist could already be in the open. Not yet fulfilling those dire verses in Apocalypse 13, but already having some kind of leverage to get closer to it, and an open one. Meaning, me in the wings, that would not make me a candidate.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Paschal Baylón
17.V.2025
Apud Villam Regalem, in Hispania, sancti Paschalis, ex Ordine Minorum, Confessoris, mirae innocentiae et poenitentiae viri; quem Leo Papa Decimus tertius caelestem eucharisticorum Coetuum et Societatum a sanctissima Eucharistia Patronum declaravit.
* Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI proposing them in Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno. See also Chesterton for Distributism and Seipel, Dollfuss, Schuschnigg, a little less good Mussolini for Corporatism, and Hilaire Belloc for both. ** Some have accused me of rewriting the Bible because of the chronology, but it's the one of the Christmas proclamation. In other words, of some manuscripts of the LXX of Genesis 11. As well as the Samaritan version. God was born in the flesh 5199 after Creation, 2957 after Flood, 2015 after Birth of Abraham. This is LXX minus second Cainan (who could be a copyist's mistake both in Luke 3 and in LXX Genesis 11, since for both we have manuscripts without him).
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