4.2.1 --- The Antichrist and the peace pact
The antichrist will
come into the world as a man with a strong personality but friendly, helped by
the false prophet who forces mankind to worship him. He is very clever. The
world is going to be misled by him, in the way as is written in Daniel 11 vs.
21: “The angel went on to explain: “The
next king of Syria will be an evil man who has no right to be king, but he
will come unexpectedly and seize power by trickery “. The same can be
red in Daniel 8: 25, “Because he is
cunning, he will succeed in his deceitful ways. He will be proud of himself
and destroy many people without warning. He will even defy the greatest King
of all, but he will be destroyed without the use of any human power”.
Here we see the image of the Antichrist, and his way to come to power. He even
faces "the greatest king of all". We see how the Antichrist comes as
a man who
acts as if his
intention were to reach a peaceful world.
In Daniel 9 vs. 27 we
have red before: “That ruler will have a
firm agreement with many people for one week (1), and when half this
time is past, he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings. The Awful
Horror (2) will be placed on the highest point of the Temple and will
remain there until the one who put it there meets the end which God has
prepared for him.”
Note: The scope of
this document is not to go in much depth
about the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 :24, that begin with The Edict
of Artaxerxes given to Nehemiah In
approximately 445 B.C.
and the Command to "Restore And
Build Jerusalem".
(Dan.9:25)
For a better understanding of the
week that is mentioned in
verse 27 of Daniel 9, the following explanation is given:
(1) - "For one week":
The 70 weeks
are divided into three parts: a period of seven
weeks (49 years, verse 25.), a second period of sixty
two weeks (434 years verses. 25-26),
and a last week,
(verse 27), the most
terrible of all, culminating in the ruin of
the antichrist.
(2) --- "The awful horror": is also described in
(Daniel 11:31 and 12:11). This mysterious expression
refers
to the desecration of the sanctuary by King Antiochus
in 168 B.C. (see also Daniel 7:25). Also the Lord
Jesus
referred to this event as we read in
Matthew 24 verse 15: “You will see ‘The
Awful Horror’ of
which the prophet Daniel spoke. It will be standing in the
holy place”.
We can conclude from this that a
desecration of a holy site
in Israel will occur again under the
command of the
antichrist.
We read that the
Antichrist makes a peace pact for the duration of "one week",
which is actually seven years. But in the middle of these seven years, or after
42 months, the Antichrist suddenly interrupts this covenant and shows its true
face.
The same we can read
in 1 Thessalonians 5vs3, where it says: “When
people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction
will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a
woman in labor, and people will not escape”. We see how suddenly the pact of peace is
broken (by the antichrist).
