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Chapter 17: A Person Called Anti-Christ (666)?

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 A FALSE PROPHET... A FALSE KINGDOM... A FALSE KING

 

If  Peter had then introduced a premature or false kingdom - in defiance of the warning of  2 Jesus - who has been its governor?  Christians have created an Anti-Christ expectation; an Anti-Messiah figure which is expected to rise in the future.  Through the centuries they have tried to identify him.  One who would supposedly mislead the whole world and introduce a false peace on earth.  Many world figures have in the past been so identified - the Pope, Adolf Hitler etc.  They all failed.  And still he is sought in the future.  But is such a false God/Messiah really to be found in the future?  Or has he been with us, in disguised form, through the 2000 years of tribulation, as predicted by 2 Jesus in the prophetic sermon and by the Lamb in his first seal? “Ruling” over a false and premature thousand years “Peace Millennium” of Rev. 20 -   a “millennium” that has strangely lasted for two millennia now?  This is a false “peace millennium”, which, in fact, resides in the tribulation of the first five seals of Revelation, awaiting the sixth seal with its preceding signs.  Are we not approaching the seventh millennium of recorded history?  The true millennium of  peace and rest - the Sabbath Millennium?

A false “Peace”?

              1 Thess.5  :2    “…for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come (future -

                                      with Elijah) like a thief in the night (Peter says God calls it complete)..

                               :3    While people are saying “Peace and security” (which is the current

                                      Church “Kingdom” position), destruction will come on them suddenly...      

                               :4    But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise

                                      you like a thief.”

Surely this Paul knew that the “true peace” only comes AFTER “that day” and not before.  He warns them in his next letter that “that day” has not yet come, warning them against false prophecy.  He is a friend of 2 Jesus and an enemy of Peter.

Any consideration of such an Anti-Christ figure has to take cognisance of  the position in relation to Daniel’s 70 weeks.  The Anti-Chiliastic Church, for instance, in its post-70th week position, having appropriated Israel’s kingdom prophecies for itself, cannot possibly explain its futuristic expectation of an Anti-Christ figure, as such a figure is clearly limited to week 70.

Alternatively, the expectation of an Anti-Christ figure in the future by this Anti-Chiliastic Church is, in fact, a statement that the 70 weeks are yet incomplete.  Such a statement nullifies its entire Theology and existence.

The two prophecies by 2 Jesus and the Lamb, together with those in the book of Daniel, indicate that such a person would have to appear before the fulfilment of the great prophecies of Israel, before Elijah and before Yom Yahweh, at which time he will expire.  All indications are that he would exist within Daniel’s extended 70th week - which is the present time.  We have to find him in the past and present.  And, according to 1 Paul, he has to be revealed for Elijah, Yom Yahweh, Yahweh Himself, and the Conquering Messiah to come; for the “delay” to be revoked, for Michael to arise and for the great prophecies of Israel to be fulfilled.  Before any of that can happen, says 1 Paul, we have to discover what the “secret power” is - which was already at work in his time and is still preventing the revelation of this strong man.  The secret power, which is protecting him and which needs to be removed for him to be revealed.  We believe the secret power is hidden in... the changing of the declared times of Daniel’s people - Israel. 

The introduction of Elijah and Yahweh by the Synoptic Gospels - through the pen of Mark - presupposes that the Anti-Christ had previously come and gone.  The Gospel writers do not identify him and Church explanation is that he is Antiochus Epiphanes - the middle of week 70 supposedly being in163 BC!?  Yet, when 2 Jesus and the Lamb are allowed to speak for  themselves they/he places the Anti-Christ in the immediate future from their/his perspective.

2 Jesus, in the Prophetic sermon, is in fact warning his Jewish audience that:

                  “Be warned.  Many will come in my name and make  “Messiah” of me and persecute you because you won’t believe them.”        

The Lamb:

              Rev.6   :1       I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals.  Then I  heard 

                                    one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”

                            :2       I looked, and there before me was a white horse!  Its rider held a bow,

                                     and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

 Let us now identify the characteristics of the “strong man” on a “white horse” and look for one who would fit the picture.  He and other false “anointed ones”, performing great signs and miracles, would appear (Matth. 24:24, 2 Thes. 2:9) before the preceding signs of Yom Yahweh (Matth. 24:29).  If we have to believe the Elijah of the Synoptic Gospels then these had previously come and gone.

It is important to remember that this entire concept concerns the religion and the people of Israel, who are the people of the Book (The Bible).  They are the main players in the story. It is their expectation which is under threat.  It has to be judged from their perspective and not from the position of the Gentile Church.  

 

The Characteristics of the False King/God/Messiah:

1.    He will try to change the set times and Torah (Dan. 7:25).  Will be a man of Torahlessness (2 Thes. 2:3).

2.    He will abolish the daily sacrifice, desecrate the temple, in the middle of “that seven” – 70th week (Dan. 9:27; 11:31; Rev. 13:6).

3.    He will forsake the Holy Covenant (Dan. 11:30c,32).

4.    He will make a covenant with many for one “seven” (Dan. 9:27).

5 ... He will declare peace to the world - a false peace.

6.   No one will be able to work or do business without his mark on right hand or forehead

       - his name or the number of his name (Rev.13:16-18)????  So it is thought. Or does this belong to another?

7.    He will wage war against the saints (of Israel); speak against the Most High – for a

       time, times and half a time – second half of week 70 which, as we have seen, has now been

       extended by 2000 years by virtue of the “Delay”.

8.    The “man of lawlessness” who sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God (2 Thes. 2:4).

9.    He will already be in existence (Dan.7:8; Rev.6:2) BEFORE the arrival of the

       Conquering Messiah, in heaven (Dan.7:13; Rev. 12:5).

10.  He represents a foreign concept, a foreign ideology - the beast from the sea (Rev. 13:1).

11.  He recovers from a deadly wound and has the whole world follow him – for 42 months

       - second half of week 70 (Rev. 13:3-5).

12. He has an image made of himself to be worshipped by the world (Rev. 13:14).  He has a

       local false prophet promote him - the beast from the land (Rev. 13:11-12).

13. He sets up the abomination of desolation in the temple.  (Dan. 9:27, Dan 11:31, Mark 13:14, Matth. 24:15).

14.  Is associated with the number 666? Or is he?

Where are all these characteristics found?  They are all found in the Roman Catholic Church and inherited by the Reformation!  They have unwittingly occupied this extended latter half of week 70, while believing to be post-week 70.  Their founder, inspiration and architect of their theology is Saint Peter... the prophet and Vicar of its Kerugmatic Christ.

 

1.  Changing of the set times and Torah... a man of Torahlessness.

              Dan.7    :25     He will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints and

                                      try to change the set times and the laws.  The saints will be

                                      of week 70, now extended by 2000 years due to “delay”) 

                                      handed over to him for a time times and half a time. (The latter half

 

Even though the Chiliastic Church might believe a “future Anti-Christ” will only be empowered for seven years – the last full 70th -  that time has already been vastly expanded.

              2 Thes.2 :3       Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not

                                      come until the rebellion occurs and the man of Torahlessness  is

                                      revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

What are the “set times”?

              Lev. 23  :1      ..These are my appointed feasts/times...

                            :3       .the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly.

                            :5       Yahweh’s  Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the

                                      first month.

                            :6       On the fifteenth day of the first month Yahweh’s Feast of

                                      Unleavened Bread begins, for seven days... A High Sabbath

                                      (Shabbat Gadol) on the first and last days.

                            :11     On the day after the Sabbath... the feast of Firstfruits.

                            :16     Count off fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath... the

                                      Feast of weeks/Shavuot/Pentecost.

                            :23     ...On the first day of the seventh month... a day of rest and

                                      sacred assembly... Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets.  

                            :27     The tenth day of the seventh month...Yom Kippur/Day of 

                                      Atonement/Day of the Fast.

                            :39     So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month... 

                                      Sukkoth/the Feast of Tabernacles.

              Lev.5     :3       For six years sow your fields...

                            :4       But in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a

                                      Sabbath to Yahweh... the Sabbatical year.

                            :8       Count off seven Sabbaths of years... forty nine years…

                            :10     Consecrate the fiftieth year... the Year of  Jubilee/Yovel.      

 

              Dan.9    :24     Seventy sevens (weeks of years) are decreed for your people...

 

              Ps. 89    :37     It (David’s throne) will be established forever like the moon,

                                      the faithful witness in the sky.              

                               

              The Biblical month begins with the New Moon  - Rosh Chodesh - a Sabbath of its own, eg. Ezra 3:5. 

All of these have been changed or abolished by the Roman Catholic Church.  The Sabbath changed to a Sunday, first day “Sabbath” day of worship. “Easter” at “Lent”.  Pentecost, not a day of celebrating Torah but of “deliverance from law unto grace”.  Yom Kippur “fulfilled” on a day of “Easter”.  Unleavened Bread and Sukkoth abolished.  The seventy weeks and “Kingdom” prematurely appropriated – ignoring “Delay”.   The Lunar Biblical calendar replaced by the Gregorian Solar calendar and the institution of an unbiblical “Christmas” at the mid-winter solstice

               How many most sincere and devoted Christians know that they did not replace

              God’s people and that all these festivals are not Jewish festivals and times but are

              those of Yahweh that will never change

  All of these festivals are not only set times, but also Torah, which have been changed.

 

              And yet... there is 2 Jesus... and 3 Jesus to come... when the Man of Torahlessness

              has been revealed. They both are, and will be, totally devoted to the Set Times and Torah.

More about Torahlessness under “Forsaking of the Holy Covenant” later.

    

2.  Abolish the Daily Sacrifice and desecrate the Sanctuary in the middle of week 70.

               Dan. 9   :27     He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven, but in the

                                      middle of that ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.

              Dan. 11 :31     His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and

                                      will abolish the daily sacrifice.

              Dan. 12 :7       ...It will be for a time, times and half a time...

                           :11      From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the

                                      abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1290 days.

              Matth.24:15    So when you see standing in the Holy Place the abomination that

                                      causes desolation...

               Rev.11  :1       ...Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count

                                      the worshippers there.

                           :2       But exclude the outer court, because it has been given to the

                                      Gentiles.  They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.                      

                           :3       ...My two witnesses will prophesy for 1260 days.

             Rev. 13  :5        The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and

                                      blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty two months.

                            :6       He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name

                                      and His dwelling place.      

Whether these statements of desecration of Temple and Sacrifice pertain to military or spiritual interventions, and whether they are limited to the latter half of week 70 after revoking of “delay” or encompass its present extended form... they are sanctioned by the New Testament.  Let us look again at the contradictions between 1 and 2 Jesus and how David is misrepresented.

  1 Jesus                                                                          David

Hebr.10 :5 Therefore, when Christ came                       Ps.40 :6 Sacrifice and offering you did not

                   into the world, he said: “Sacrifice                          desire, but my ears you have

                   and offering you did not desire,                              pierced (for obedience?)

                   but a body you prepared for me.                                 burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

             :6 With burnt offerings and sin                                      :7 Then I said, “Here I am, I have

 

                 offerings you were not pleased.”                                  come with the scroll written for me

 

                                                                                                    (or it is written about me in the scroll)

             :7 Then I said, ‘Here I am - it is       

                 written about me in the scroll                                   :8 To do your will, O my God, is my

                - I have come to do your will,                                      desire; your law is within my heart."

                 O God’...?? (Vital statement omitted)

2 Jesus:

               Mark 1   :43     Jesus sent him (the man healed from leprosy) away with a strong warning:

                             :44     “See that you don’t tell this to anyone.  But go, show yourself to

                                        the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for

                                        your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” (Testimony of your

                                        healing and my observance.)                      

Hebrews is quoting David in his own predicament - not “Christ” - from Ps. 40.  The entire Psalm testifies to this.  David knows that without a change of heart, sacrifices and offerings are useless.  However, a contrite heart will bring joy to God and make those sacrifices and offerings acceptable:

               Ps. 51    :16     You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take

                                      pleasure in burnt offerings.

                            :17     The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart,

                                      o God, you will not despise.

                            :18     In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

                            :19     Then there will be righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to

                                      delight you; then bulls will be offered on your altar.   

In quoting David from Ps. 40:6-8, the author also misquotes him in omitting his last statement, namely:

              Ps.  40   :8       “...your law is within my heart.”

This is another case of dishonesty of the New Testament writers in creating a slanted ideology. The anonymous author of the Epistle to the Hebrews has formulated the sacrifice of Jesus to be the end of the “useless and failed” sacrificial system and of the “Old Covenant” introduced by Yahweh and endorsed by Yeshua.  Failing to recognise “Asham” - the Guilt Offering - the author has described the sacrifice of the Lamb as the final Yom Kippur offering - the once a year entrance by the High Priest into the Most Holy Place (with his own blood) - as the final consummation of the sacrificial system.         

               Hebr. 9  :7       But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a

                                      year (on the tenth day of the seventh month) and never without blood...

                            :11     When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here...

                            :12     He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he

                                      entered The Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood…

For 1 Jesus to have been able to do this, God had to change Torah:

              Hebr. 7  :12     For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a

                                      change of the law.   

 

Abolition of the Levitical Priesthood? Changing of Torah? ...NEVER!

              Jer. 33    :17     This is what Yahweh says: “David will never fail to have a man to sit

                                      on the throne of the house of Israel,

                            :18     nor will the priests, who are Levites, ever fail to have a man to

                                      stand before me continually to offer burnt offerings, to burn

                                      grain offerings and to present sacrifices.

                            :20     “If you can break My covenant with the day and My

                                      covenant with the night , so that day and night no longer come at

                                      their appointed time,

                            :21     then My covenant with David My servant - and My covenant with

                                      the Levites who are priests ministering before Me - can be broken...”

 

              Matth. 5 :18     I (2 Jesus) tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not

                                      the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen (yod or tittel)

                                      will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is

                                      accomplished”

 

              Lev. 23  :27     The tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement…

              Lev. 16  :2      Yahweh said to Moses; “Tell your brother Aaron not to come

                                      whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in

                                      front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die…”

For Yeshua to have performed what the author of Hebrews ascribed to Him, this is when it would have had to happen - the tenth day of the seventh month and at no other time.  This aberration by Hebrews is another instance of the changing of time and law, in the same way as the Passover Seder cannot be celebrated at any other time - as the Church does with Communion - but only on the fourteenth day of the first month.  

The author of Hebrews has “tried to change the Law... tried to abolish the daily sacrifice” as a result of “changing of the set times…”.  The Church has maintained, as Gospel truth, the Crucifixion of Jesus as the abolition of the daily sacrifice... in the middle of “that seven”, the 70th week.  It has insisted on believing this unknown person at the expense of both the prophet and 2 Jesus.     

             “…and he will try to change the set times and the law...”

              “...and he will abolish sacrifice and offering in the middle of that seven”

             “...for a time, times and half a time...”

We have seen from our study of Ezekiel 40 - 48 how, in the Yom Yahweh, the Prince in Israel - in his capacity as High Priest in the Order of Mechizedek - will function alongside the Zadokite Levitical priesthood, and not at the expense of that unchanging priesthood.  And also, from Mal.3, how 3 Jesus - the Conquering Messiah - will restore the Levitical priesthood to its proper order and function... when he comes.  

 

              ASHAM DOES NOT ABOLISH THE TEMPLE ORDER. 

              ASHAM RESTORES IT. And 2 Jesus endorsed Moses in the man he healed of leprosy

 

3. Forsake the Holy Covenant

              Dan. 11 :30     ...Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the

                                     holy covenant.  He will return and show favour to those who

                                     forsake the holy covenant. 

                            :32     With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the

                                     covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

              Dan. 12 :6       “...How long..?”

                            :7       “...It will be for a time, times and half a time.” 

All occupying and opposing forces in Israel have in the past opposed and denigrated Yahweh’s covenantal system with His people, Israel.  A covenantal system which had its rudimentary origin with Noah and firmly founded with Abraham.  It was further developed in Moses in the giving of Torah and will be renewed in “the Day…”.  Both the Mosaic, Torah-based Covenant and its future renewed version are functions of the Abrahamic Circumcision Covenant.  This Grand Covenant was targeted by the Babylonians in their destruction of the temple.  The Persians had the temple restored and it was once again desecrated by the Greeks through Antiochus.  The Romans, through Titus, then destroyed the Temple in 70CE.  All these forces committed abominations in the Temple, denied the institutions of Israel and qualified for the title of men “of lawlessness/Torahlessness”.  And so 1 Paul was aware of another “man of lawlessness” who had to be revealed before Yom Yahweh could come.

What is the “Holy Covenant”, the Brit Kadosh?  Kadosh means to be set apart; to be different from the surrounding idol worshipping nations.  Yahweh says He sets his people apart - makes them different - by His Torah.

              Ex. 19    :5       “Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all

                                       the nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole

                                       earth is Mine,

                            :6       you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a set apart nation.

Yahweh then gave them the substance of the Set Apart Covenant, which is Torah.  Yahweh sets His people apart by His Torah.  All enemies of Israel would always seek to forsake or defy the Set Apart Covenant.

And so the Church of Rome also sought to “forsake or defy the ‘Holy’ Covenant” in its effort to distance itself from that “rejected nation”.  By using that esoteric term “holy” to interpret “kadosh”, the meaning of “set apartness”, and the means by which Yahweh attains it for His people, is lost to the Church.  We now find the terms “Old Testament” and “New Testament”, “Old Covenant” and “New Covenant”.  The “Old Covenant” is dead and buried.  The “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31:31-34 has been appropriated prematurely - before the revoking of delay - at the expense of the Holy Covenant.

There is no such thing as “Old Testament” and “New Testament”.  They are merely terms and symptoms of Replacement Theology.  There is only one Bible, the Bible as it existed in the time of Yeshua.  Everything else, apart from the God given Revelation, is commentary, which has to be tested against the Bible with its “Holy Covenant”.  The Canon of the New Testament, as confirmed by Athenasius, Bishop of Alexandria, at the end of the 4th century is a product of the Replacement Church which was, and remains captive to the idiosyncrasy of Yom Yahweh.  When Paul says “All scripture is God given, Spirit inspired and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16), he is referring to the Bible as it existed at that time.  He would never have thought that his writings would become a “New Bible”.  Had he known, he would have been far more careful and would not have contradicted himself so violently in Galatians - the “slave woman” (“Old Covenant”) to be cast out as redundant, and 2 Corinthians - “the ministry that brought death...”.  If indeed it was written by the original Paul and not by some pseudo-Paul.

The Church has forsaken the “Holy Covenant” – both Circumcision and Torah - of which 2 Jesus had said “not one yod or tittel, the least stroke of a pen, would ever change”.  And it found its inspiration in these outrageous statements of  2 Paul and also Hebrews.  The author quotes the “New Covenant” from Jer. 31:31-34, which is an event of the future “Day”, in Hebr. 8:8-12 and comments:

              Hebr.8   :13     By calling this covenant “new”, He has made the first one obsolete

                                      and what is obsolete and ageing will soon disappear”     

The Church thus calls the “Holy Covenant” obsolete... This is “the ministry that brought death”... in the middle of “that seven”.

This “New Covenant” will not  replace the “Set Apart Covenant” but  renew it, not on stone tablets but by the Ruach Hakodesh - the Set Apart Spirit - in the hearts of God’s people.

              Ezek.36 :27     And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees 

                                      and be careful to keep My laws.

However, perhaps the greatest inspiration for the Church to forsake the Holy Covenant comes from 2 Paul’s statement to the Galatians;

                Gal.  5  :2       Mark my words!  I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be

                                      circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

                            :3       Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised

                                      that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

                            :4       You who are trying (?) to be justified by law have been alienated

                                      from Christ.

What “Christ” is this that would dispose of circumcision and Torah observance - on account of himself - for people to get “saved”?  Certainly not the Jesus of whom it is written that he was circumcised on the eighth day, had his first born and purification rights performed and was taught Torah at the feet of Hillel.

To say that, if circumcised, Jesus will be of no value... is simply outrageous, never mind the motives of those who encouraged the Galatians to be circumcised.  James’s Torah observant Church will tell you so.  They would certainly have practiced circumcision.  Torah observance - obeying the whole law - is in any event a non-negotiable for God’s people, and not a means of “trying to get saved”.  “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling” said 2 Jesus, who came “not for the righteous, but for the lost sheep of Israel”.  These “righteous” - the “Tzadikim” - were made Kadosh by Yahweh’s Torah.  A “righteousness” and “salvation” for Yeshua’s people that existed before his crucifixion.   

In fact, the opposite of  Paul’s statement should be true:  “Circumcision and ‘obeying the whole law’ would make the circumcised and observant “Christ” most valuable to you”.  How else are we to interpret Paul (the other “Paul?”) in his circumcision of Timothy?

              Acts 16  :3       Paul wanted to take him (Timothy) along on the journey, so he

                                      circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all

                                      knew that his father was a Greek.

Timothy was a Gentile.  Did Paul say to him “I am now making Christ of no value to you”?  Surely not.  Is Paul being double minded?  Or are there two different persons involved - a true and a false Paul?  The Church fathers, with their anti-Jewish notion, elected to believe the latter of the two personas. 

What was this Paul trying to do?  Introduce a foreign “Christ” to the Gentiles? A "Christ" whose philosophy was foreign to the Bible and to any of the Jesus figures we have seen?  Yet we have seen from the “Gospel to the Gentiles” from Isaiah, endorsed by 2 Jesus, that the Gentiles would honour the same Holy Covenant as Israel in order to one day be brought to God’s house of prayer for all nations.  God’s salvation - collectively and personally - has always been a matter of grace and not of merit.

Paul’s statement is a double whammy to the “Holy Covenant”:  Abolition of circumcision and abolition of Torah.  The Church has became a lawless society... and it shows.

Circumcision, in its broadest Covenantal sense has, in any event, far greater significance than “personal salvation”.  It has everything to do with the eventual fulfilment of God’s plan for His people, Israel, and all who join her... the “mystery”, which He has revealed to His servants the prophets, which will come about at the revoking of the “delay.”

Long live the Holy Covenant!

 

4.  Make a Covenant with many for one “seven”.

              Dan. 9   :27     He will confirm a covenant with many for one “seven”, but in the

                                      middle of that “seven” he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.

 The Anti-Chiliastic, Roman Catholic and Reformed Church has claimed fulfilment of Daniel’s seventy weeks for itself.  It has moved beyond that final “seven” into uncharted territory, where it has created a “kingdom” which is foreign to Biblical expectation.  And it has moved beyond the time window of “circumcision” and the existence of the “Anti-Christ/Anti-God/Anti-King... without recognising the “delay”.  What “future covenant” a “future Anti-Christ” will confirm with many for a future “one seven” is beyond comprehension.

 To secure its “kingdom” the Church proceeded to create a profoundly unbiblical “covenant”, the “Covenant of Infant Baptism”, which it deems necessary for “salvation” - in the place of infant circumcision.  Entrance into the “kingdom community” without this is impossible. “Baptism”, or “Mikvah” was a standard part of Torah purification rights performed at the annual festivals and for various other purposes.  Nowhere in the Bible or the New Testament is there any instruction that this procedure should attain Covenantal status… at the expense of the clearly defined “Circumcision Covenant”.  Nor can it be derived from “The Great Com-mission” instruction of  2Jesus:

               Matth.28  :19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them

                                      in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

                               :20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

What did he teach them?  As a Jewish Rabbi he taught Torah - nothing more, nothing less - and as part of Torah... Mikvah.  Whether this “Scripture” was original or added in, it would be impossible to construe covenantal instructions from these statements.  In any event, “everything I taught you…” - Torah - would always include circumcision.  And he never denounced his own circumcision or indicated that it would become redundant and not applicable in the future.

This “Covenant of Infant Baptism” or “Covenant Theology” - as the physical expression of the premature “New Covenant” or “New Testament” (B’rit  Hadashah) - has its origin in the baptism of Yeshua by John the Baptist.  The Church fathers have deemed it valid from that day.  Conversely, as we have seen, this “baptism” was also the beginning of his three and a half year ministry, which introduced that last “seven,” having been revealed (introduced) at the completion of week 69, as our study of Daniel’s 70 has shown.  Yeshua was the Anointed Prince in Israel, destined to be “cut off and have nothing” – after the 69th week, or mid 70th.  The net effect of this is that the Church has unwittingly created and confirmed an unbiblical covenant with many “for one seven” - originating with the baptism of Yeshua and covering the entire expanded last “seven,” which is still in progress - while believing itself to be in a post 70th week position.  This is the legacy of the false prophet.

The Church has therefore forsaken the “Holy Covenant” and established its own “covenant” with many for one “seven.”


5. Declare Peace to the world - a False Peace.

1 Thes.5:2 "...because you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 

..............:3 Because when people say "Peace and security" -then suddenly destruction comes over them."

This Paul clearly sees "the Day...", followed by true peace, in the future. The Church, however, declares that we are living - and have been living for 2000 years - in the Post Yom Yahweh, Post 70th week Messianic Milennial Reign of Peace of Rev. 20. And it has a Jesus - 1 Jesus - who now rules over it and who will return thereafter to "judge the living and the dead", according toRev. 20:11. A Jesus who now declares "peace". This is the result of the premature appropriation (in the past) of the Yom Yahweh, and misrepresentation thereof in the future.And, yes, "destruction" has regularly come upon the world - the Great Tribulation of Yom Yahweh to follow.

 

6.  No one can work or do business without the “mark.”

                    Rev. 13  :17     ...so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is

                                                the name of the beast or the number of his name.

It is a well known fact from history that throughout the life of the Roman Church it had dominated and subjected the people of primitive Europe.  It had denied the people access to the Scriptures and forced its will on all who lived in their domain.  The Pope, as the Vicar of Christ had sole authority to interpret the Scriptures and discern “Deus Vult” - the will of God.  The Church conducted its “kingdom” literally with an “iron fist” on behalf of Christ.  And it used its various Orders,  eg. Franciscan, Dominican and the notorious Order of Loyola of Ignatius de Loyola, to do its bidding.  Its most powerful agency was the “Inquisition”, a type of “holy court” which had powers of enforcement and judgment.  Many died in the fires of non-compliance.  And people had to be baptised to be part of society and to participate in their normal activities of survival.

The Jews of Europe were especially targeted with the threat of “baptism or death”.  Many complied just in order to survive.  Many refused and were martyred.  Others fled into exile.  They just could not survive, perform business or follow careers without the “sign” - having to denounce their circumcision.  The Spanish Inquisition was particularly harsh in this regard.

No baptism… no survival.  It was the rule of thumb of the Medieval Church - the sign of Christ on their foreheads.  And the sign of the Cross.

However, this “number of his name” may not belong to the sought after “Anti-Christ” after all.  It may indeed belong to the False Prophet (to be discussed shortly).

 

7.  Make war against the saints, blaspheme the Most High.

              Dan. 7   :21     As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and

                                     defeating them,

                            :22     until the Ancient of Days came (advent of Yahweh in Yom Yahweh)

                                      and pronounced judgment in favour of the saints of the Most High,

                                      and they came and possessed the kingdom.      

                            :25     He will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints…

 

              Rev. 13  :6       He opened his mouth to blaspheme, and to slander His name and His

                                      dwelling place and those who live in heaven.      

                             :7       He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer

                                      them.  And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language

                                      and nation.    

                            (:5     ...to exercise his authority for forty-two months.)

We have seen the multiple mistaken identity of Yahweh and His Name.  We have seen the “Holy Covenant” forsaken, called a failure and discarded.  Central to the Holy Covenant is “My House of Prayer for All Nations”, which has been dismissed by the “New Testament” Church as redundant.  This has come about mainly through the Epistle to the Hebrews and some of the writings of Paul.  The Church now believes that, as there is no Temple in the “present kingdom”, there is obviously no more need for it and the modern “temple” now consists of the body of believers in Christ.

They also believe that God had obviously taken Jerusalem and the Temple from the Jews in His “New Kingdom” dispensation.  They saw it as symptomatic of His rejection of them... the “God killers”.  The scourge of Anti-Semitism was born and the Jewish people became fair game for the Church and the people’s of the world who persecuted them relentlessly.  History bears witness to the Crusades of the 10th and 11th centuries, of which the Popes said: “Deus Vult” - God wills it.  The Pogroms, Inquisition and the Shoah (Holocaust) are the most notorious of the endless persecution of God’s people - exactly as Daniel, 2 Jesus and Revelation predicted.  Yet, a different outcome is at hand - as all three of them also predicted. 

Yes, the “saints” who would be persecuted and defeated are the righteous in Israel.  The Gentile Church resorts under “every tribe, people, language and nation”.  And it all happened in this extended second half of week seventy.  The persecution is likely to increase when the “delay” is revoked and the “forty two months” reverts back to real time...  “They will trample on the Holy city for 42 months”.   

 

8.  The “Man of Lawlessness”... who proclaims himself to be God.

              2 Thess.2  :3    Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come

                                      until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed,

                                       the man doomed to destruction.

                                :4    He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called

                                       God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple,

                                        proclaiming himself to be God.    

                                 :7    For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one

                                        who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out

                                        of the way.

                                :8    And then the “lawless one” will be revealed... (and that day will

                                       come)

This Paul is clearly an apologist for Torah - the “Holy Covenant”.  He opposes the future “rebellion” against Torah and he is aware of the then already  present “secret power of lawless-ness” and the one behind it, who would have to be removed in the future for the “lawless one” to be revealed.

The other “Paul”, or “Pseudo Paul” takes a diametrically opposing position by promoting a “Christ” who appears to have no need for circumcision and of obeying “the whole law”.  These sentiments contain the seeds of “lawlessness” and “rebellion”.  Unfortunately, the Church has taken its cue from this latter “Paul” and embarked on a course of “rebellion” against God and His Word for the duration of this extended “seven.”

1 Paul had to know that the false message from his fellows, as to the Day of the Lord having come, which he was warning the Thessalonians against, had to entail the changing of time.  He had to know that this premature announcement of Yom Yahweh had to contain the seed of lawlessness.  And he had to know who was responsible.  He also had to know that “…that Day” had been... delayed.   

We now know that it was Peter who announced “the Day” and the Kingdom of Israel prematurely - in defiance of 2 Jesus – from Joel.  And we also know that this “premature kingdom” would have to take on different proportions, as none of the expected conditions prevailed.  These different proportions then came in the form of “lawlessness and rebellion”

The “secret power of lawlessness” is thus contained in the premature introduction of a non-existent “kingdom”, which became the allegorised “Spiritual Israel” at the expense of “Holy Covenant Israel.” The changing of the set times and Torah is the essence of the "secret power of lawlessness." 

Who then is 2 Paul’s “lawless Christ”...the one who distances himself from circumcision and Torah… the one protected by Saint Peter?  The one so strenuously warned against by 1 Paul?  Is he not the “Yahweh” introduced by a premature Elijah, and called Jesus... 1 Jesus... in the premature “Yom Yahweh”, which 1 Paul warned about?  The one who failed in his mission as Messiah of Israel?  Trinity Theology has declared him to be “God”!

“He sets himself up in God’s temple proclaiming himself to be God”.  There are two instances that allude to this:

 i.  We have already seen how Paul invokes the promise of Yahweh to Israel in Lev. 26:11,12

     and applies it to the Gentiles in  2 Cor. 6:16-18

              Lev. 26  :11     “I will put My dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

                            :12     I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.”

                                      after having  told them to...

                            :2       “Observe my Sabbaths (plural) and have reverence for My sanctuary

                                      (dwelling place).”

 

              2 Cor. 6 :16     What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?  For

                                      we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live

                                      with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they

                                      will be My people.”

                            :17     “Therefore come out from them (the idol worshipping unbelievers)

                                       and be separate (kadosh = holy), touch no unclean thing (Isa.52:11)           

                            :18     “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters,

                                       says Yahweh Almighty.” (2 Sam.7:14)

 Contradictions abound.  Yahweh made a promise to His circumcised, Torah observant and Sanctuary honouring community about His future Temple and His presence in their midst... the detail of which we have seen.  Paul invokes this on a non-circumcised, non-observant, Sanctuary-despising community outside of Israel, and declares that they - the body of “believers” - are now that temple.  He then proceeds to invoke other scriptures of  Israel in exhorting them to be “kadosh” by being observant - “touch no unclean thing.” These are elements that he discounts and ridicules in other writings of his!

            It is inconceivable.  Yet the net effect is that Christ, being elevated to the level of God,

is placed in “God’s temple” ...which is supposedly the Church.   

 

ii.  Secondly we find a Jesus who questions his Davidic descent and hints at his own deity in God’s Temple.

              Matth.22  :41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

                            :42  “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”

                                   “The son of David,” they replied.

                             :43  He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit,

                                    calls him ‘Lord’?  For he says,

                            :44  ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your

                                     enemies under your feet.”’

                           :45     If then David calls him ‘Lord’, how can he be his son?”

Is this Jesus denying that he, the Christ, is descended from David and claiming that he is equal to God?  We have seen this quote from Psalm 110:1 and its counterpart in Ezek. 44:3... the Prince in Israel in the presence of Yahweh in the Kingdom Sanctuary - the Prince who has to present sacrifices for his own sin and therefore cannot be “God”.  We have also seen who the “Prince” will be...  “David will be Prince in Israel…” (Ezek.34:24; 37:24,25) - surely he will be a son of David.  Matthew presents Psalm 110:1 as though the two “Lords” are equal and the second could therefore not be the son of David... “The Lord said to my Lord...”  Is Matthew trying to promote his divinity theology of Jesus in order to supplement his “Virgin Birth” philosophy? 

 

The Hebrew text, however, clearly discerns between the two.  The first “Lord” is “Yod hey vav hey” - Jehovah or Yahweh, depending on the unknown pronunciation of the vowel sounds.  The second “Lord” is “lamed alef dalet nun yod” - l’adonai or l’adoni, which is a title for a person of high esteem, similar to Mister, Sir or Master.  And so David says “Yahweh said to my Master…”, or…”my esteemed descendant” - his most esteemed anticipated descendant. The same distinction between “Lord” and “lord” is found in Mal. 3:1.

 

This distinction is quite clear.  Yahweh is not speaking to an equal counterpart of  himself in a heavenly context.  He is speaking to his highly esteemed conquering servant in an earthly Sanctuary context - the Prince in Israel.  However, the net effect of Matthew's Jesus’s dialogue with the  Pharisees is that he, the “Christ,” is not Davidic of descent, but God... in God’s temple. 

 

9.   Already Active before Conquering Messiah arrives in the heavens

               Dan.7    :8       ...This horn had eyes like a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

                            :9       As I looked , thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took

                                      his seat...

                            :11     Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was

                                      speaking.

                            :13     In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son

                                      of man coming with the clouds of heaven.  He approached the Ancient

                                      of days and was led into His presence.

                            :14     He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples,

                                      nations and men of every language served him.

                            :25     ...a time, times and half a time.

 

              Rev. 6    :1       I watched as the Lamb opened the first seal

                            :2       I looked, and there before me was a white horse!  The rider held a bow,

                                      and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on

                                      conquest.

       

              Rev. 12  :5       She will give birth to a male child who will rule all the nations with an

                                      iron scepter.  And her child was snatched to God and to his throne.

                            :6       ...1260 days. (This is the time of revoking of “delay” - the

                                      same timeline remaining, which is the sixth shofar of the seventh seal).

                            :7       And there was war in heaven.  Michael and his angels fought against

                                      the dragon…

 

              Dan. 12 :1       At that time, Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will

                                      arise...

                            :7       ...it will be for a time times and half a time…..

                                      (The latter half of week 70 -  which has been hijacked by the false

                                     “king”- will see the demise of the King of the North - Dan.11:29-45)

Ever since that pagan, sun worshiping king Constantine had his vision of a cross in the sky with the words, “In this sign conquer”, the Crusading Church has had the emblem of the cross on all their insignia and weaponry in their grand effort to rule the world... and failed... on behalf of Jesus. 

Could these verses about the Conquering Messiah arriving in heaven possibly speak of Jesus and his “ascension”?  If so, the “Anti-Christ” would have had to exist before his time, during his time and even today.  Neither the Bible nor history have any knowledge of such a person.  No.  The “Anti-Christ” has to exist between the Lamb and “the Day of the Lord”, between 2 Jesus and the revoking of the delay, which is... now.  And the “Anti-Christ” exists before the Bethlehem birth of the Davidic Messiah (1st seal before 7th seal) and his ascension at the revoking of the “delay” - at the commencement of real time.  Who is he?

 

10.  A Foreign Concept... from the sea.

                Rev. 13  :1      ...And I saw a beast coming out of the sea... many horns and

                                      heads, each with a blasphemous name.

                             :2      The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear

                                      and a mouth like that of a lion.  The dragon gave the beast his power

                                      and his throne and great authority.

                            :3       One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but

                                      the fatal wound had been healed.  The whole world was astonished

                                      and followed the beast.

 

              Dan. 7   :3       Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up from the sea.

                           :4-7   ...like a lion, ...like a bear, ...like a leopard, ...one with large iron teeth...

                            :8     ...a little horn (“Anti - Christ“,  before the Conquering Messiah

                                      appears in heaven)

This beast, empowered by Satan, with its many heads and coming from the sea, is a collective image of  the system of idol worship so pervasive throughout the  known world and known history of the time.  This is a system from outside Israel that has expressed itself through numerous cults and names, among others:  Isis, Osiris, Ra, Horus, Tammuz, Adonis, Astarte, Dyonisis, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Zeus, etc.  Furthermore, they are representative of successive empires - Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome.

All of these “gods” exist only as images.  They are myths and have statues in high places.  Some are proposed to have died and come to life again, symbolised by seasons of suffering and well-being, drought and rain, barrenness and fruitfulness.  They all have frenzied festivals dedicated to them.  Within all of their systems are manifested a holy mother and child configuration.  And so Zeus, the Sun god, had a mid-winter festival to commemorate his return or rebirth, which became incorporated in the new Roman religion, Christianity, as Christmas.                

Nimrod, the son of Cush, the son of  Ham, the son of  Noah, became the first “Anti-Christ”, opposing Yahweh and challenging Him by seeking to build his own empire by subjecting many peoples.  He was worshiped as “a mighty one”, presumably a son of the Sun god.  Legend has it that Shem, the blessed son of Noah, in seeking to protect the honour of Yahweh, persecuted and executed him. 

The beast from the sea, a composite of many idolatries, empowered by the dragon, would therefore impose an extension of himself on the people of Israel through a false prophet from within themselves.

 “Satan, go away from me.  You are a stumbling block to me….” says 2 Jesus to Simon Peter.        

 

11. ..He recovers from a deadly wound and has the whole world follow him - for 42 months - second half of week 70 (Rev.13: 3-5).

We have dealt painfully with the Resurection story and Paul and Luke's claim that it was widely predicted by Torah, the Psalms and the Prophets. And we have found no such substantiation for these claims..of what is supposedly the greatest event in the religion of Israel. Yet the "whole world" has been made to subscribe to it.

12.  The Image and the False prophet... from the earth

              Rev. 13  :11     Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth.  He had two

                                      horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

                            :12     He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and

                                      made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose

                                      fatal wound (meaning that he was dead) had been healed.

                            :13     And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire

                                      to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. (Is

                                      this the fire of that day of Pentecost?  The whole event was

                                       corrupted) 

*                          :14     Because of the signs* he was given power to do on behalf of the

                                      first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth.  He ordered

                                      them to set up an image in honour of the beast who was wounded

                                      by the sword and yet lived.

                            :15     He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast,

                                      so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the

                                      image of the beast to be killed.

None of these beast “gods” exist.  They are mythical figures that exist as images in the minds of their “subjects” and as carved or sculpted idols which are worshipped.

So also does 1 Jesus not exist.  He is a creation, a construct, of the Gospel writers, at the instigation of a false prophet.  He exists only as an image, a caricature, created and  empowered by the false prophet from the local people of Israel, and his succession in Rome – by means of a fictitious Yom Yahweh.  He is empowered to do all the things ascribed to him - all the characteristics we have seen.  We do not find a physical “person” being followed or worshipped, only an image of an idea with a spiritual inspiration - a myth empowered by the dragon. 

Even if 2 Jesus, Yeshua, the “Jesus” that does exist, was the Davidic Messiah;

             1.  Born from the house of David,

            2.  Circumcised on the eighth day,

            3.  Sat at the feet of the great Hillel,

            4.  Fully subscribed to Torah - which he confirmed would never change,

            5.  Fully endorsed the Temple service and confirmed that observing Gentiles would also be invited...

 Yes, even if he was that one... HE WOULD NEVER EVER CHANGE TO BECOME THE ARCHITECT OF ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS ASCRIBED TO HIM.                      

*,*“Signs” for example the violent deaths of Ananias and Sapphira for what appeared to be repentable and forgivable sins of no major magnitude (Acts 4:32 – 5:1-11).  The whole sequence of events is quite out ofcharacter with the approach of Yeshua to sinners and his teaching from Torah on how to deal with them.  They were under no obligation to sell their property, nor had they any obligation to reveal the price or to submit the full amount if they did sell it.  It was clearly a freewill offering of their own choice.

Could Peter accuse them of lying to God by the power of Satan?  No!  And the further events surrounding Sapphira are astounding.  No one pleaded with her to repent.  They simply allowed her to die.  Peter had no right to enquire from her as to the price of the land and then accuse her of lying to God.  No.  These were freewill arrangements among men and not binding instructions from  God.  And if she did lie to Peter she could have repented and retained the right to decide what amount to give - if any.

Nevertheless, the whole Church was gripped with fear... to this day.  It smacks of Inquisition.  The first of the infamous Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church.  To rule by fear.  History is rife with the manipulation of gullible people.  Cult leaders requiring their followers to sell all their belongings and leaving them destitute.  This is not the way of the Elohim of Israel.  Even in our  day, great Evangelical leaders enrich themselves under the guise of “Prosperity Gospel”.  Yes, there is the Torah principle of Tithes and Offerings - yet often misrepresented in building huge empires and personal castles – without honouring  Torah, Sabbath, Circumcision - the great institutions of Yahweh for all generations.  And many Christians lie about their business dealings and get away with it.

The image of  Jesus held by the medieval Church must have been of a violent and uncompassionate god; a type of  Marcionite Demiurge (the herecy of Marcion held that the god of the Old Testament was a bad god - a demiurge - while the god of the New Testament was a good god).

This is The Vicar of Christ.

P.S. See the contradiction resulting from the fear;

                 Acts 5  :13  No one else dared join them….

                             :14  Nevertheless more and more people believed in the Lord (Jesus?) and were

                                   added to their number.              

 

13.  The Abomination that causes Desolation in the Temple

               Dan. 9   :27     ...in the middle of that seven he will put an end to sacrifice and

                                      offerings.  And one who causes desolation

                                      will place abominations on a wing of the temple.    

                        11 :31     His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and

                                      will abolish the daily sacrifice.  Then they will set up the

                                      abomination that causes desolation.

            

              Mark 13 :14     “When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing

                                      where it does not belong…” (2 Jesus)

              Matth 24:15    “So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that

                                      causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel (2 Jesus)   

2 Jesus points to this event as being in the future from his position– he points to the time when “the daily sacrifice is abolished in the middle of that seven”.  1 Jesus - and the Anti-Chiliastic Church – in their post-70th week position, have to find it in the past… in Antiochus Epiphanes.

In  previous desecrations of the temple, often in the month of Av (July), abominations would have been performed by conquering heathen armies.  No doubt Antiochus, in 164 BC, would have been no different.  He sacrificed a pig on the altar and brought idols into the temple - possibly an image of himself.  Many Roman Emperors proclaimed themselves to be gods and were worshiped as such - Caligula for one.

However, some of the worst abominations performed in the Sanctuary came from within Israel herself.  2 Chronicles 33 tells the horrendous story of detestable practices by king Manasseh involving altars to the Baals and the starry host in the temple of the Lord.  Sorcery, divination, witchcraft.  A carved image in the temple.  And he sacrificed his own sons in the fire.  Jeremiah has told us that it was because of these abominations of Manasseh that the land and the temple was left to them... desolate.

“The abomination of desolation” will consist of these:  a carved image, worship of the heavenly bodies - the sun in particular.  And the Name of the Lord - which He said would be in the temple and Jerusalem forever (2 Chron.33:4,7) - will be defiled.

Ezekiel, in his vision, saw an example of this in the remnant of Jerusalem, while in exile in Babylon.  Ezekiel 8 tells the story of the detestable things performed in God’s temple by the elders of Israel.  These included:

            1.  The idol of jealousy or the idol that arouses God’s jealousy (:5).

            2.  On the walls crawling things and detestable animals (pigs on the altar?) and all the idols of Israel (:10).

            3.  Seventy elders burning incense (:11).

            4.  Women mourning for Tamuz (:14). 

            5.  Twenty five men with their backs to the temple, worshipping the sun (:16).

Second Commandment:    You shall have no other gods before Me.

Third Commandment:       No idols in the image of anything in the heavens…

                                            Not to bow down before them and worship them

                                             “I am a jealous God…” (An idol that provokes God to

                                             jealousy in Ezekiel’s vision).

Fourth Commandment:    You shall not profane the Name of the Lord your God.

Every Roman Catholic Church in the world has an image of Jesus, with a sun halo around his head before which the faithful bow down - with their backs to the temple - as though he is God, while the clerics wave their incense and pray to Mary.  A Church that has professed to be the “temple of God” since the days of Paul - in the middle of the extended “one seven.”

What if... 3 Jesus, the Son of Man Messiah, appears and builds the temple?  Will not the Church - the king of the North - mistake him for “Anti-Christ” and oppose him by placing their Jesus-image in the temple?  Daniel may have seen this.

              Dan. 8   :9       Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in

                                      power to the South and to the East and toward the Beautiful Land. (Is this

                                       from Rome to Jerusalem - a foreign beast from the sea?)

                            :10      It grew until it reached the host of heaven, and it threw some of the starry

                                      host down to the earth and trampled on them.

                            :11     It set itself up to be as great as the Prince of the host; it took away the

                                      daily sacrifice from him and the PLACE OF HIS SANCTUARY was

                                      brought low. (This is the false messiah.)

                             :12     Because of rebellion, the host of the saints and the daily sacrifice were

                                      given over to it.  It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown

                                      to the ground.

                             :13     ...How long..?

                             :14     ...2,300 mornings and evenings (1150 days); then the

                                        (His) sanctuary will be reconsecrated.     

                               :24     He (the horn) will become very strong, but not by his own power…

                               :25     ...Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.

Does this not speak of an entity that would exist in the time span from after the Greek Empire, through the time of “delay” to the culmination of week 70?  It cannot be a single person.  Is this not the created and empowered image, the empowered figurehead who would grow strong and strike out from the place of his origin, at the head of the Crusading hordes and overpower the host of the saints of Israel?  Is this not the “one” who would eventually confront the Conquering Messiah - 3 Jesus - when he appears to build his sanctuary before being raptured at the revoking of the delay? Represented by his “Vicar” who will place his carved immage in the newly constructed Sanctuary in the greatest of all Crusades?  An image of a non-existent figurehead that is to become the “Abomination of Desolation” in the Messiah’s sanctuary.  The one who will be destroyed by the breath of his mouth – his spoken word - “not by human power” - when he (3 Jesus) comes to his temple in “the Day…”, according to Mal.3:1.  This is the time when the sanctuary will be “reconsecrated” as the final expected event of week 70 (Dan. 9:24).  

 

14.   666 ?

For centuries many have looked out for the “Anti-Christ”, finding him in numerous abominable figures of history, eg. Adolf Hitler.  The stories abound.  And they are always looking for him in the future, despite the Anti-Chiliastic  Church’s post-70th  week position (and thus, post-“Anti-Christ” position).  The elusive number 666 is always attached to the search.  However, is this association valid?

Revelations 13 reveal two beasts of tribulation inspired by Satan. The first beast:

              Rev. 13  :2       The beast (from the sea - foreign to Israel) that I saw resembled a

                                      leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion.

                                      The dragon gave the beast his throne and great authority.

                            :3       One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound (he was

                                      dead), but the deadly wound had been healed (rose from the dead).  The

                                      whole world was astonished and followed the beast.   

                            :5       The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and

                                      to exercise his authority for forty two months.

                            :6       He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name and

                                      His sanctuary.

This beast appears to be a composite of the four beasts of Daniel’s vision (Dan. 7), with their lion, bear and leopard features and a “little horn” who:

              Dan. 7   :25     He will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints and try to

                                      change the set times and the laws.  The saints (of Israel) will be handed

                                      over to him for a time, times and half a time. (forty two months)

The “head with the deadly wound” and the “little horn” appear to be the same... Anti-Christ or false Messiah.  From Dan. 7 it can be seen that this person PRE-DATES the Son of Man Messiah, whose arrival in heaven - in the future - is recorded in Dan. 7:13.  The “head with the deadly wound” and the “little horn” both blaspheme God and “rule” for the latter half of Daniel’s 70th week which - at the risk of becoming boring - has now been extended by two thousand years as Paul’s “man of Torahlessness” remains hidden by the “secret power of Torahlessness”. 

This first beast - from the sea - of Revelation is fully described in Rev. 13:1-10.  The second beast - from the land - occupies Rev. 13:11-18...the local false prophet.  Throughout the description of this second beast, whenever there is a reference to the other beast - on five occasions - there are clear distinctions between the two.

              Rev. 13  :12     He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and

                                      made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose fatal

                                      wound had been healed.   

                            :14     Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first

                                      beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth.  He ordered them to set

                                      up an image in honour of the beast who was wounded by the sword

                                      and yet lived.

                            :15     He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast…

The last verse of this section on the second beast, however, contains no such distinction:

              Rev. 13  :18     This calls for wisdom.  If anyone has insight, let him calculate the

                                      number of  the beast, for it is the number of a person.  His number is 666. 

If we then, in view of these clear distinctions, consider this last verse, we have to conclude that it speaks of the second beast (from the land) who is the subject of this section of Rev. 13. – the local false prophet. 

Daniel’s four beasts refer to four kingdoms (Dan. 7:17) and the composite form thereof in Rev.13 has to represent the Satanic system of idol worship which permeates those kingdoms. The heads and horns are then an expression of all these numerous idols, eg. Isis, Osiris, Ra, Horus, Dyonisis, Astarte, Zeus, Sol Invictus, etc.  Worship of the Sun God, in various forms, would be one, or some, of those heads, which finds expression, through its many horns, in numerous cultures. A “Jewish Anti-Christ” would then be an extension of this foreign “beast”, at the behest of the local “False Prophet.  

So the first beast is not  “a person” but a conglomerate with numerous identities.  “Anti - Christ” is but a singular expression of a vast demonic system, which contains numerous identities of which one comes to Israel.  The term “Anti-Christ” for the composite beast is in any event not a Biblical name, but a Church invention. 

The second beast then, whose number is 666, is a single “person”.  666 is therefore not the number of the “Anti-Christ”.  It is the number of the False Prophet...the number of his name.

Shimeyon Kefa

            Pey(Fey) Yud Kuf       Nun Vav Ayin Mem Yud Shin   (Hebrew back to front).                                                                                                                                                    T                           . .                                                          :                       .             

Hebrew is a language of Consonants, written from right to left.  The vowel sounds - niqqud - are a later addition in the form of dots and dashes, mainly beneath the consonants.  Biblical Hebrew was written without niqqud and the vowel sounds were a matter of inherent understanding.  Only the consonants have numeric value.  Wikipedia on Hebrew numerals show these to be:

(Unnumbered niqqud are shown in brackets)

Name of Consonant                                                              Numeric value

Shin                                                                                       300

(hirriq “ i “)

Yud                                                                                       10

Mem                                                                                      40

(shva   short “ e “ or silent)

Ayin                                                                                       70 

Vav holam (dot above vav “ o “)                                          6

Nun                                                                                        50

 

                                                         Sub total                       476

 

Kuf                                                                                        100

(zeire  “ e “)  

Yud                                                                                       10

Pey (without dagesh - central dot = Fey)                                 80

(kamatz   “a “)

                                                          Sub total                       190

                                                          Grand total                  666

We have a False Prophet whose name is :      Shimeyon Kefa

                                                                            Simeon Petros

                                                                            Simon Peter

And the number of his name is... 666.

Some would say the “Kuf” should be “Kaf”, with a different numeric value.  Some translations do use the “kaf”.  However, without the central dot (dagesh) the “k” attains a softer or gutteral (“ch”) sound.  Both this, and the English translation “Cephas” - the “C” and not “K” -  would lean toward the use of “kuf”.  Little distinction is made between the two.  

Kehilah” - community or Church” -  is spelt with the “kuf.”  

It could also be said that “Kefa” should have the final “alef” or that the “nun” of “Shimeyon” is the final form (“nun sofeet”), both of which would alter the numeric value.  The “alef”, however, is a silent letter and has no real value as indicated by the later addition of the “kamats” (“T”) below the “pey” to indicate the hard “a” as opposed to “ah”, which the “alef” would allude to. The transliteration also does not have the “ah”.  The “nun” aspect would also be questionable. Would the ancient Hebrew or the associated Aramaic of the time have made these distinctions? But let us look more closely at the whole Kefa/Petros/Rock matter.

                 Matth.16  :18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my

                                        Church and the gates of hell will not overcome it.         

Kefa, the “Rock of the Church?  Really?  Where does “Peter” come from?  The man’s name was Simon.  In John 1:42 we see Yeshua giving him the name “Kefa” which means “a stone”.  In the Greek New Testament it is rendered, not as “Petros”, but as “Kefas”.  The Hebrew dictionary does not know of Kefa as “rock”.  The Milon Hebrew dictionary renders it as “a little green stone used for purposes of divination”.  It quotes Dr. Hugh Nibley as suggesting the most accurate English translation would be “Seerstone”.  It would therefore be an object of occultic purpose.

The Greek dictionary does not know of “Petros” - neither as a name (in the name search) nor as an object.  It knows “petra” which can be a stone or a small rock.  And it renders “Petra” as of female gender.  Yet  Matthew’s Yeshua, probably quoting the same event as John, is reported as calling him “Petros”... and then addresses him as “Satan.”

              Matth. 16   :18          And I tell you that you are “Petros” - Peter - and on this rock will

                                                I build my church and the gates of Sheol will not prevail against it.

                                  :23          Satan, go away from me.  You are a stumbling block to me.  You

                                                do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men... (Greek philosophy?)

“Kefa” - the “seerstone” - cannot be translated into a non-existing Greek name “Petros” and then be rendered as “rock”.  Even the female form “Petra” would not be accurate.  

 This is the most incredible interaction!  Why would Yeshua entrust such enormous universe moving powers to one whom he addresses as “Satan” and a “stumbling block” to him?

                                  :19          I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you

                                                bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose

                                                on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Would it be for purposes of fulfilment of the prophecy of Job?  That Israel would be tested by Satan in the same way as Job was... through the premature introduction of the “kingdom” by Kefa/Petros?                           

What is Matthew’s Jesus really saying?

              Matth. 16   :17          Blessed are you Shimeyon Bar Jonah...

                                 :18          And I tell you that you are Petros...

Is that what he said?  No.  There is no way in the world that this Torah-teaching Hebrew Rabbi, whom we perceive to be a Jewish Messiah and who appears to have had no dealings with Greeks or their culture, would give a Greek name to a man with such a profound Hebrew name!  The original text of Mathews Gospel could not possibly have contained the name “Petros”.  It had to be “Kefa” as in John’s Gospel.  And from that perspective the name “Petros” would not have appeared in any of the original books of the New Testament. 

It is preposterous for the Gospels to contain that name so abundantly, especially before the time of Matth. 16:18 - This is the only place where the name “Petros”  could have been entered into the scripture  It appears that, from here, the name was  imposed on all the books of the New Testament... for ideological purposes.  The transliteration of the Greek name “Petros” into the Hebrew/Aramaic text is certainly an ideological interference.  (See Hebrew rendition of the King James New Testament:  “pey - zeire yud - tet - resh - vav holam - samek”  =  Petros; Matth. 16:18). (The Hebrew consonants are here rendered left to right - which is inverted - for purpose of matching the Greek)

What would  the purpose of such an ideological interference be?  As this person appears to have been endowed with enormous power and authority he could not be allowed to have a name of ridicule for those who wished to use him.  If he was to be the “rock” upon which an empire was to be built, he would have to be given a name that would resemble that rock.  The “rock”, however, on which the Church would be built, is neither rendered as “Kefa” nor “Petros”, but as: “samek - segol - lamed - patach – ayin”: “Sela” or “Se’lah” = Rock.  And it does not refer to the person, but to the revelation given to Simon in Matth.16:16,17 just previously;

                    Simon Peter(?) answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God

                    (Matthew’s deification by the “virgin birth” theory).”

                    Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you

                    by man, but by my Father in heaven.” 

There remains another major question mark regarding this foundational ideology of the Church, as derived from Matthew.  According to John’s Gospel, it was not Simon who received the “revelation” of the identity of Jesus.  It was Nathanael.

             John 1    :49     Then Nathanael declared; “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the

                                      King of Israel”.

As Kefa did not feature here, this real new name was left unchanged... for us to know.  It is no surprise that the mighty Catholic Church refused to have the laity read the Bible for sixteen centuries - for fear of being caught out!   

Mark’s rendition of this interaction between Yeshua and Peter is very brief and merely states that it was Peter who received the revelation.  There is nothing in Mark about the change of name and Yeshua also addresses him, “Peter”, as Satan.

              Mark 8   :29     ...Peter answered, “You are the Messiah”.

                            :33     “...Out of my sight, Satan!”

Mark:3:16 contains an explanation in brackets:

              Mark 3   :16     These are the twelve he appointed:  Simon (to whom he gave the

                                      name Peter)

Could this have appeared in the original?  Or is it part of the general imposition of the name “Petros”, and its concomitant ideology, on the New Testament?

And so we find Yeshua addressing this man both as “Kefa” and as “Shatan” - both as “small green stone of divination” and as “the dragon”.  Is there not a clear correlation - cleverly disguised by the imposition of the non-existent “Petros”?  The Church had disposed of Urim and Thummim - those sacred objects in the poach on the heart of the High Priest - by which Yahweh communicated with the king and the people of Israel.  Urim representing light and Thummim, absolute truth.  Instead, it opted for the “Seerstone” as its source of  “truth”.

Finally, on the name “Kefa”:  It is not the strong one which it is presented to be.  And, together with its female connotation, it would therefore qualify for the “kuf” rather than the “kaf” in its numbers.

Simon Peter is the one who unwittingly sowed the seed of a “False Messiah”.  His succession in the Roman Babylon created that False Messiah on the model of their prevailing platform of idol worship and the Mystery religions, which is the “substance” of the first beast.  The False Messiah exists only as an image, as do all the idols of the nations... without substance.

 

THE FINAL TEST OF THIS THESIS IS THE MORTAL CONFLICT BETWEEN

 2 JESUS (ACTS 1:7) and ST. PETER (ACTS 2:16,17):

2 JESUS:        No one knows when Yom Yahweh will come… when Elijah will

                        come… when the kingdom of Israel will be restored… when the Son

                        of  Man Davidic Messiah will come.  Only God knows.

 St. Peter:        God says all these things have happened.