{"id":1765,"date":"2009-02-07T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/07\/debunking-the-local-islamic-antichrist-malarky.html"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:51:52","slug":"debunking-the-local-islamic-antichrist-malarky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/debunking-the-local-islamic-antichrist-malarky.html","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the local Islamic Antichrist malarky because scripture actually indicates the Antichrist is Global"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am liking the teaching of Nathan Jones. He gives very good answers to those who expect a local Muslim Antichrist. Besides this article he also had a very good article the other day on the Divided States of America<\/a>.\u00a0 I wrote on this topic myself and like me, Jones also see the possibility of a break up of the United States because of deep moral divisions.<\/p>\n

Having said that, lets go to this new article about the rational for a Global or Local Antichrist.<\/p>\n

The Muslim Antichrist proponents see the Beast and its Antichrist fighting a regional war against Israel. They deny that the Antichrist will have power over the whole world. To me the weight of scripture makes a Global Antichrist argument a no brainier. Revelation and many other scriptures clearly indicate that the Antichrist will control the whole world. Nathan Jones has taken the time to put together many of the scriptures that should make it perfectly clear that the Beast\/Antichrist will become truly Global. He also gives other good arguments against the reasoning of the critics of a Global Antichrist in his article. I will just add one scripture of my own to prove that the Antichrist is Global.<\/p>\n

Rev 13:7\u00a0 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0 And all that dwell upon the earth<\/strong> shall worship him<\/strong>, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

People can look at the whole council of God and see that the power of the Antichrist will be truly Global or they can cherry pick scriptures to try to support their own wordview of a local limited Islamic Antichrist figure. Nevertheless, there can be only one truth about this Beast\/Antichrist and that is what is clearly taught in scripture. Read again the scripture above and the ones Jones quotes in his article and there should be be no confusion.<\/p>\n

The main thing I would like to add to the conclusion given by Nathan Jones is that the ten Kings of the ten Kingdoms that give there power to the Beast for one hour may not be ten heads of existing nations. These kings very will could be leaders of ten regional governments. The plans for regional powers have been in the works for a long time and we already have at least five regional governments being formed as I speak. Certainly others will soon soon pop up.<\/p>\n

Global Or Local Antichrist?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Nathan Jones<\/p>\n

Will the Antichrist rule over every nation of the earth, or just 10 of those nations? Will he be a global ruler, or a local ruler over a coalition of nations? Will the world tremble under his iron grip, or only the nation of Israel fear his wrath? Global, or local Antichrist?<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where does the local view<\/strong> that the Antichrist will rule just ten nations come from? Revelation 17:12-13 is the answer. It reads, “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.”<\/p>\n

As the text states, in the future ten kings (presidents, dictators, whatnot) will arise to rule kingdoms and will for a short time in history grant their power to “the Beast,” which Bible prophecy students will recognize as the Antichrist. The Antichrist is given rulership over the ten kingdom nations.<\/p>\n

The local view stops with this description. All the further acts in Revelation that the Antichrist commits against the Jews is just for the Jews, and as this view holds, has nothing to do with the rest of the world. It’s Israel against a ten-nation empire, and that’s that.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The global view<\/strong> takes Revelation 17:12-13 and puts it into context with other passages that express the scope of God’s wrath during the Tribulation, the time period the Antichrist has such prominence in. The references are as follows: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(see full article)<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe Bible makes it clear the Antichrist will rule ten nations, but it also makes it clear their boundaries and authority encompass the entire planet. Like the Flood debate, the literal, biblical descriptions concerning the world-wide scope of God’s wrath upon the whole world overwhelmingly support a Global Antichrist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I am liking the teaching of Nathan Jones. He gives very good answers to those who expect a local Muslim Antichrist. Besides this article he also had a very good article the other day on the Divided States of America.\u00a0 I wrote on this topic myself and like me, Jones also see the possibility of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,38,7,338,11],"tags":[72,79,53,13,6,317,55,150],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beastantichrist","category-bible-prophecy-teachers","category-global-governmentbeast-government","category-islam-islamofacism-and-terrorism","category-tribulation-period","tag-antichrist","tag-beast","tag-bible-prophecy","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-perspectives","tag-revelation","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-st","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6775,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}