God's Fisherman - Satan's Hunters - Book Series Part 10 - "Chapter 9"

Chapter Nine: Satan's Final Hunter

At the End of the Age, Satan will directly attempt to forbid God's Everlasting covenants from being completely fulfilled by Messiah at His second coming and during His Millennial Kingdom. He will do this by demonically influencing his final Hunter — the Antichrist. Just as Satan conspired against God's original fishermen by attacking them individually through his original Hunters, he will desperately attempt to thwart Messiah's fulfillment of the Everlasting covenants by possessing and inspiring the Antichrist to battle against Him at His second coming. Additionally, during the last three and a half years of the age, Satan will influence his final Hunter to instigate and spew out his wrath, terror, and destruction on all of God's people — Jew and Gentile alike — because he will understand that his time is short.

As we have discussed, Satan certainly understands biblical prophecy, which includes the Everlasting covenants, the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters, the time of Jacob's trouble, and Messiah's second coming. It is the premier reason he inspires these horrendous and gruesome acts during this prophetic period.

Could Satan's original Hunters — those who directly attempted to forbid God's Everlasting covenants to His original fishermen — bestow indispensable knowledge about Satan's final Hunter at the End of the Age? Do Satan's original Hunters, along with the biblical prophets, validate the region from which the final Hunter, the Antichrist, will rise? Do the biblical prophets call the Antichrist by the literal name of this region? Let us review the maps of Satan's original Hunters so that we can gain a clearer picture of the final Hunter.

As discussed previously, consider Nimrod and the region he occupied. The Lord declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet fulfilled, so we must understand the geography. That region is ancient Assyria. We can look at the boundary lines of today to gain further understanding, but that is Nimrod's region — and it is very important in light of what the biblical prophets say. Similarly, Hagar and Ishmael were in the Middle East. Esau and Edom were in the Middle East. Philistia is where Gaza is today — and consider what is happening there now. After reviewing these maps, it is clear that all of Satan's original Hunters who directly attempted to forbid God's Everlasting covenants originated from a specific location: the Middle East.

What is even more remarkable is that Satan's original Hunters inhabited the exact region that is currently ruled by radical Islamic countries that vehemently hate the nation of Israel. It must be understood, of course, that this study is focused on regions and not on specific people, as there are millions of Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa who are faithful, fervent believers in Yeshua the Messiah.

What conclusions, then, can we draw regarding the Middle Eastern region as it correlates with Satan's final Hunter? Isaiah 46:9–10 declares: "Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is no other; I am God and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.'" Ecclesiastes 1:9–10 adds: "That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, 'See, this is new'? It has already been in ancient times before us."

Since the living Word proclaims that God declares the end from the beginning, and that what has been will be again, this principle also pertains to Satan's final Hunter.

Now let us examine the origin of Satan's final Hunter, the Antichrist. In the book *God's Prophetic Timeline: Messiah's Final Warning*, Daniel's visions and prophecies are examined in great detail alongside Revelation. For the sake of summary here, we will examine Daniel 7 and Revelation 13, because these prophetic chapters validate where the final Hunter will rise from and identify the 10 Kings of his conglomerate kingdom.

Daniel 7 proclaims there will be four different kingdoms that will rise out of the earth before Messiah's second coming. Before exploring this prophecy, recall that Daniel was commanded to shut up the words and seal his book until the time of the end, which includes all of his prophetic visions. Daniel 7 can also be validated as an End of the Age prophecy because it prophesies about the same little horn that is prophesied in Daniel 8 — which God's messenger Gabriel repeatedly declared to Daniel was a vision for the End of the Age. If Daniel 8 is an End of the Age prophecy about the little horn, then so is Daniel 7, because it foretells the same little horn. Daniel literally names the empires in Daniel 2 and 8 that will rise to power at the End of the Age, and these perfectly correlate to Daniel 7. With the knowledge of these empires and their prophetic foreshadows in history, Daniel 7's four kingdoms in exact order are as follows: the lion is Babylon, the bear is Medo-Persia, the leopard is the Grecian Empire (modern-day Turkey), and the fourth is the Antichrist kingdom.

Reviewing the maps confirms that the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian Empires all ruled over the same land area — the Middle East and North Africa — because they conquered one another in succession. Now, comparing those ancient maps with the regions of Satan's original Hunters makes the pattern unmistakable. Nimrod: Middle East. Hagar and Ishmael: Middle East. Esau and Edom: Middle East. The Philistines: Middle East. Although the three kingdoms of Daniel 7 ruled over a larger region, all three encompassed the principal region of Satan's original Hunters. Keep in mind that the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian Empires are today all Islamic nations with dominant Muslim populations.

What can we make of Daniel's fourth kingdom — the Antichrist kingdom — and does it correspond with Revelation 13? Daniel 7:7 says: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns." That detail is critical. The first three beasts did not have ten horns. The fourth beast did. That is precisely why Daniel said it is different from the first three. Please hold that in mind as we turn to Revelation 13.

In Revelation 13:1–2, John describes one beast that absolutely parallels the fourth beast in Daniel 7, which substantiates the region from which the Antichrist and his kingdom will rise: "Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion."

We must understand that the beast in Revelation 13 is Daniel 7's fourth beast. The reason is this: John says he saw the Antichrist beast kingdom and that it looked like a lion, a bear, and a leopard. He is taking us directly back to Daniel 7, where the first three beasts are the lion, the bear, and the leopard. John is telling us that the first three kingdoms of Daniel 7 will form the fourth kingdom as a conglomerate. Daniel 7's fourth kingdom has ten horns; Revelation 13's beast has ten horns. It is the same beast. John is confirming that the first three kingdoms — the lion, the bear, and the leopard — will constitute the fourth beast, and then John affirms it by saying he saw one beast, and it was all three of them together.

Therefore, the conglomerate land areas of the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian Empires represent the land area of the ten kings of the Antichrist kingdom. The ten horns are kings, and the ten crowns confirm their royal authority. Rome is not in view here. The text speaks only of the first three kingdoms. Most biblical scholars correctly identify the first three as Babylon, Persia, and Greece, but then incorrectly shift to Rome for the fourth — and that is a mistake. Revelation 13 must be consulted. John saw one beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and ten crowns, and the beast he saw was the leopard, the bear, and the lion. Those three kingdoms — and only those three — make up the Antichrist kingdom. The conglomerate of the lion, the bear, and the leopard from Daniel 7 is the same fourth kingdom with the ten horns, confirming a consistent geographic pattern running from the original Hunters all the way through to the End of the Age: the Middle East and North Africa.