Day of the Lord and the Antichrist

So, as we continue forward, my friends, we'll go to 2 Thessalonians 2. This is where it really gets really good. But we have to understand it from 1 Thessalonians 4, 5, and then 1 Thessalonians. We've got to take him in the trajectory of both letters to understand what he's saying. So now he's going to speak about the day of the Lord and the resurrection. And then look at what the apostle says.

"Now, brethren, concerning, remember what he said in 1 Thessalonians 5, concerning. Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our gathering together to Him, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as it is from us, as though the day of the Lord, the day of Messiah, had come."

So, what is he trying to say, my friends? This is getting into the resurrection, or what some people call the rapture, which is a false theology. This is about the resurrection. Look at what Paul says. This is Paul talking now. "Brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord," which is on the Feast of Trumpets, the day of the Lord, "and our gathering together to Him." There is your rapture. There's your resurrection at one time, not seven years. Paul did not say He's coming on... the Lord Yeshua on the day of the Lord, but seven years before that the believer is going to be raptured. He never said that. And if he were, he would have said that. How detailed this is. "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua, on the Feast of Trumpets, the day of the Lord, not the tribulation, and our gathering together to Him." My friends, we all know the English language. When it says "and" in there, that means they're both together as one. In the Hebrew, it's a "vav" or a "waw" combined. Don't separate. Don't divide. Rightly divide the word of truth. We've got to understand this. "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of Yeshua, the day of the Lord on the Feast of Trumpets for His wrath for 10 days, and our gathering to Him." What does he mean by that? It means when He returns on the Feast of Trumpets with the trumpet of God, and the dead rise first, and the believers who are with Him and keeping the commandments go with Him, that He's going to pour out His wrath for 10 days, everybody. And you'll be hidden in the pavilion of the Lord, like King David said in Psalm 27, like Zephaniah says in the book of Zephaniah, like Isaiah says in Isaiah 26:3. They said Yom HaKaseh, the hidden day, the day of the Lord. You want to be hidden in that day. What day? Because of the wrath that He's going to pour out. He never talks about the Antichrist. He never talks about the seven-year tribulation. Isaiah doesn't. Zephaniah doesn't. David doesn't. He said we'll be hidden in that day. And we have to have the knowledge to understand King David, Zephaniah, Isaiah, Paul. And if we don't, then one is in very much danger of being caught as a thief in the night if they're on that earth at this time.

So again, whether we're here or not, we can all sit here and debate that all night. But what about your children? What if you're gone and your children are here? Don't you want your children to understand this? Don't you want your grandchildren to understand this? I mean, it's not just about us. If we can get the focus off of ourselves, it's about mankind to understand when He comes for the day of the Lord. I could care less about the Antichrist. The day of the Lord, when He comes, you want to be hidden in that day. You want to be Yom HaKaseh. You'll be hidden in that day in the pavilion of the Most High because of what Yeshua is going to do on this earth. What is He going to do? "Who is this who comes from Edom, who comes from Bozrah with garments stained with blood?" And Yeshua says, "It is I. I'm coming from My wrath, My day of vengeance, and My garments are stained with all of their blood." Amen and amen and amen.

So, my friends, you want to be hidden in that day of Adonai. The Antichrist. Who cares about that? Everybody get out of the spirit of fear of the Antichrist. Goodness, Jewish people and Christians, I've never seen anything like it in my life. Where is the faith in Yah? Where's the Holy Spirit? Where's everything that He has taught us to have? Not a spirit of fear, but of power through the Holy Spirit, Yeshua, the Father, a sound mind. Okay, that's what we've got to have. Not all this spirit of fear. "Please get me out of here because I'm scared of the Antichrist. I'm scared of the beast kingdom. I'm scared of the mark and all this stuff." Well, be scared then. But if you're not educated, then I guess you people should be scared because that's what it's going to be. The fear will come upon them and they'll have heart attacks. They'll have, I mean, people are going to fall away just like the apostle is about to tell us.

So, that being said, let's turn back to the scriptures here. "Now, brethren, you and me, all of the believers, concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, on the Feast of Trumpets to pour out His wrath for 10 days, and our gathering to Him, which is one event, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as a lot of people are, as it is from us, as though the day of the Messiah had come."

So, they were shaken. Some people said the day of the Lord has already come. And Paul's saying, "No, the day of Adonai has not come." And He's trying to relate to them so that He could comfort them, that He could edify them. I mean, this is truly amazing what Paul was writing here. Verse number three: "Let no one deceive you by any means." Hello, didn't Yeshua say that in the very beginning of Matthew 24? And guess what? All of our brothers, all of our Christian friends and our Jewish friends, or not all of them. I'm sorry, I repent of that. Not that's that's wrong. Most of them are deceived right now. And we've got to help them understand these things. "Let no one deceive you by any means. For that day," what day? The day of the Lord, "will not come unless the falling away comes first." My goodness, look around. "And the man of sin is revealed." How about that? "The son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God and that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." Think about that, my friends. That is super important to digest responsibly. "Let no one deceive you by any means." By any means. Yeshua said that in the very beginning. Do not be deceived. Do not be deceived. Do not be deceived. Christians and Jews deceived.

So again, we've got to listen and we've got to read. "For that day of the Lord on the Feast of Trumpets, the hardest 10 days of wrath, will not come unless the falling away comes first," which you're seeing right now, of course, with mankind, including Jews and Christians, "and the man of sin is revealed." So the Antichrist has to be revealed before the day of the Lord and the resurrection can occur. All right? Let me make this point really quick. The Antichrist is not some European that's just going to be deceiving and whatever. He's a military commander like Nebuchadnezzar. Please go read Daniel 4 and understand the statue, understand the numbers, understand all of these things. The area that Nebuchadnezzar came out of. He's going to be a military commander just like Nebuchadnezzar, but worse. Just like Yeshua said, the worst time in human history, everybody, is what is going to happen in the seven-year, the time of Jacob's trouble, the seven-year tribulation period. And Daniel 4 gives you a great understanding of that. Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Okay, so I want to make a quick point on this that's mentioned in the scripture right here. Luke 10:18. I put it in there for a reason. "Why Luke like lightning from heaven?" Goodness, what does that mean? Well, we all know that Yeshua says that as the east is from the west, the lightning is from the east to the west. That's His one of His signs that He is returning. It's not a vertical descent. We've got to understand what He's trying to tell us. What is He trying to tell us? Well, according to Paul, at the three and a half year mark, if we understand the timeline that goes into other understandings, all of Satan is going to be thrown out of heaven at the midway point of the tribulation. That's Revelation 12. Daniel 12 goes through that as well. He's going to be thrown out of heaven. Daniel 8 goes through that as well with a third of his angels with him. You know, all of these things. What does that mean? That means that when Satan's thrown out of heaven at the three and a half year mark, according to all the scriptures, he's going to indwell the Antichrist for sure. And he's going to, or I'm sorry, yeah, Satan's going to indwell the Antichrist for sure. And he's going to go into the temple and put himself as God, showing that he himself is God. And guess what? Some of the Jews and the Christians are going to say, "Yes, there's our Savior." Because they don't understand the times and the seasons. They don't understand what the situation is. They don't understand they've been deceived. Christians like, "There's my rapture. I saw lightning from heaven. That's Yeshua." No, it's not. The first one's the evil one, everybody. And then Yeshua is going to come from the east to the west.

This is super important. I don't think you're too far away from that here in the next couple of years, maybe this shmita. You don't know. You just have to pay attention to the times and the seasons. But who's to say that some Christians and some Jews won't be deceived by this? Of course, they will. Because think about it, Christians are looking for their rapture for seven years. We're in the three-and-a-half-year mark. It's been terrible across the world, the book of Revelation. And then you see Satan fall like lightning from heaven. All that's Yeshua because they're not reading, they're not understanding the times or the seasons. They don't know the prophetic timeline. And they're going to go in there and bow down, take the mark of the beast, and it's going to be hell. That's what the Bible says. If you take the mark, you go into the lake of fire. So again, this is why we should all be a little bit more zealous about these things and understand them. If people don't want to take that as zealous, that's on them. That's on them because they have no clue how to help other people understand these things. And people aren't reading, is what I've come to understand. Jews are not reading the Bible. Christians aren't reading the Bible. And we have no clue, as Jews and Christians as a whole, what's going on with the prophetic timeline of God. And again, people are going to be caught as a thief in the night. And I don't want to see anybody caught as a thief in the night, a Jew or a Gentile. But unfortunately, that will be the case because of what the scriptures do say.

So again, let's read 2 Thessalonians in order. Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and that means one event, and the gathering to Him, just one event on the Day of the Lord's Feast of Trumpets. We ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or word or letter as if the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you, my Christian friends. Let no one deceive you, my Jewish friends. That's what the Jewish Messiah said in Matthew 24. For the day, the Day of the Lord will not come, and the resurrection will not come, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed. That's very simple to understand if we read it in order. The son of God, or that is called God, or that is temple of God, showing himself as God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness, lawlessness not following the Torah, is already at work. Obviously, only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. I'm not going to get into that because that's another debatable issue, but that's, in my opinion, the Archangel Michael in Daniel 12. If you go read Daniel 12, it'll show you he'll stand up out of the way. Three and a half years, it will be hell on this earth. And that's why he is the restrainer. It's the Archangel Michael. He's the only one that deals with Satan throughout the Bible. It's the Archangel Michael. He is that. So, please forgive me, I did go there. I didn't mean to go there. But just understand that's the proper understanding. Daniel 12, if you read it, the Archangel Michael, who stands over the sons of Israel. What does that mean? He's standing over the sons of Israel right now, spiritually speaking. Who cares about the Iron Dome and all that stuff, man-made stuff? He's the one who's standing over the sons of Israel in Daniel 12. And when he stands up out of the way, go read the rest of Daniel 12, and it's the three and a half years. So, he's going to stand up out of the way, and then it's going to be Nebuchadnezzar. That's what's going to happen. The military commander coming down to deal the business to the Middle East and also to Judah. Please realize what is going on in the Holy Bible with the prophecies.

All right, let me see where I left off. And the lawless one will be revealed. Excuse me, let me get myself out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed when the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming, the Day of the Lord. No tribulation language in this whole teaching right here in Paul. None of it in 1 Thessalonians 4-5, 2 Thessalonians 1 and 2. Only the Day of the Lord language. So, at the brightness of His coming, the coming of the lawless one is according to the working of, of course, Satan, when he's thrown down for three and a half years. He goes himself into the temple, shows himself as God. Here comes the beast, the mark of the beast. If you read Revelation, the last three and a half years only is when that will be. And here you go with the deception with the Jews and the Christians, man. You know, with the Islamists and whoever else you want to include in that, they're going to all bow down just like everybody bowed down to Nebuchadnezzar. So, friends, there is a great correlation. People, if you just go read Daniel 4 and go read what it says in Jeremiah 25, Jeremiah 25 literally talks about Nebuchadnezzar just destroying the Middle East. God gave him that power, including Judah. Well, go read the rest of the chapter at the end of the chapter, and you tell me if that's not second coming event language that Jeremiah bled into to help us understand there's going to be another military commander that destroys Egypt, destroys Libya, destroys Sudan, and goes to Judah. He's going to conquer three kings out of the ten. Daniel names those three kings in Daniel 11:4-43. He names them literally. He's going to rock them. Nebuchadnezzar, Antichrist, will. Isaiah 19, "I will turn you over to a cruel master." Daniel confirms that in Daniel 11:40-43. My friends, this is super serious, especially for the Jewish people. Super serious. Especially with what we're seeing today. We've got to realize and help everybody who we can understand these things because a lot of people are going to die. A lot of people are going to go to hell. A lot of people want to take the mark of the beast. And I don't personally want to see anybody take the mark of the beast. I don't want to see anybody go to hell. Nobody. Not Islam, the Islamists, the terrorists, the Jews, the Gentiles. I don't want to see one human being go to hell. And that's why I say what I say.

And as we continue, the coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan. That's Revelation 12. That's also Revelation 13 as well. He's going to indwell him with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception. And Messiah says, "Do not be deceived, among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved." And for this reason, God will send them a strong delusion, world politicians, everybody, a strong delusion from Satan and also for Antichrist, the false prophet, that they should believe the lie, the falsehood, that they will all be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. My friends, that is what the apostle is speaking of. He's talking about only one thing in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Thessalonians 5, 2 Thessalonians 1 and 2. Only one thing: the Day of the Lord. And then he adds to it for our education. Whoever wants to take the apostle literally, the Day of the Lord and the gathering of the saints, only once, one time. No, "before seven years I'm gonna get you." "Three and a half years I'm gonna get you." You never see that in any kind of literal language with the Holy Bible and the Holy scriptures and the prophets. That is a man-made doctrine that is going to deceive a lot of people. And when the Antichrist gets indwelt with Satan in the three-and-a-half-year mark of the seven-year tribulation, boy howdy, the Jews and Gentiles or Christians are going to bow because they don't have the education and the knowledge of what Paul said, the times and the seasons.