BIBLICAL CIPHERS AND CODES - SEASON TWO - PART ONE (THE ANTICHRIST AND THE END TIMES) RECAP In the prequel, we identified God as the Master of Cipher and Cryptography, and the Bible as His enigmatic collection of ciphers. All these we proved using both the Old and New Testament. We stated the fact that the Biblical ciphers and prophecy could be hidden in the Bible’s record of history or prophetic utterances, which might not make much sense in the context of the time in which it was written, or even to the prophet delivering the utterance. Yet in just the right epoch of time God would unveil His hidden messages (Lk 24:25-27, 32, 1 Peter 1:10-12, 20-21, Eph 3:8-9), especially through His Spirit (1 Cor 2:10-14). We also saw that without receiving the decryption from God via His Spirit, the Words of the Bible would remain a mystery, even as the previously cited Passage shows (John 6:63-64, John 5:37-40, Lk 7:29-30). In the prequel we also explored examples of Biblical ciphers, especially pertaining to Jesus Christ. A major example we looked into was God’s hidden cipher through the Biblical Festivals. This is a cipher that captures God's plan right from creation to the end of the ages. It speaks of CREATION, REDEMPTION, RESTORATION and RETRIBUTION. It vividly portrayed everything that Jesus Christ had to accomplish, right down to the finest details, thus marking and identifying Jesus as the Messiah, because no one else in all of history has, or could ever, fulfill these details accurately (Matt 5:17-18, Acts 2:22-24). Many have come and gone, but none has perfectly satisfied God's description of the Messiah as Jesus Christ has (Acts 5:35-39). Just as God provided multiple ciphers and codes to help us identify Jesus Christ when He came in time, though sadly many missed the interpretation of His time and coming (John 1:9-13, Lk 19:41-44), so also has God provided sufficient amount of ciphers, both from the Old and New Testament, to help us identify the antichrist when he shows up in time, so that we would NOT be deceived, not by the main personality called THE antichrist — i.e. the man of lawlessness — (Matt 24:4-5, 11, 23-27, 2 Thess 2:3-4), nor his minions, i.e. antichrists, who are in the world today laying the groundwork for his arrival (1 John 2:18-25, 2 John 1:6-11). In this part, we'll be looking into the subject of THE antichrist and some of the Biblical ciphers that God has encoded concerning him. If you haven't gone through the prequel yet, I'll encourage you to do so. I'll put the relevant links at the end. That said let's begin. WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST AND WHY WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM The title does a good job at identifying what the antichrist is all about. “Anti” meaning “opposed to something” or “against”, hence we can easily surmise that the antichrist is someone that is opposed to the Christ, i.e. Jesus. Like we said in the introduction, there are many antichrists, past, present and future, who adamantly oppose the Messiah, Jesus (1 John 2:18-25, Phil 3:18-20). However, Scripture points to a specific antichrist who we are to watch out for. Because of the significant role that this personality would play, especially in his deceptive enterprise, that has the capacity to even trip up some of the elect (Dan 11:35-36, Matt 24:24-25 quoted below), God thought it necessary to encode the markers of this personality in Scripture, with the signals and warnings of his coming. If God took the time to encode His warnings, then we ought to pay attention and heed those warnings, because what MUST happen will happen; but we are warned so that we don't get swept away when it does happen. Dan 11:35-36 NIV [35] SOME OF THE WISE WILL STUMBLE, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless UNTIL the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time. [36] “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful UNTIL the time of wrath is completed, FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MUST TAKE PLACE. Matt 24:24-25 NIV [24] For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform GREAT signs and wonders TO DECEIVE, IF POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT. [25] SEE, I HAVE TOLD YOU AHEAD OF TIME. Please read also: John 16:1-4 So as unpalatable as it may sound, the antichrist is going to come, and we must be adequately prepared to stand our ground when he shows up. … For the rest of the post please follow the link below. Thanks … God bless and Shalom! Link for the current document: https://daniel-olatunji-publications.netlify.app/Biblical_Ciphers_Part_Two/ Link for the Free book: https://selar.com/TheBiblicalFestivalsOfGod Link for the prequel: https://daniel-olatunji-publications.netlify.app/Biblical_Ciphers_Part_One/