The Anti-Christ is the WORST human who ever lived.
Today, we are about to see one of the facets of ministry that excites me so much about God and His Word. I call it the Big Picture or Panoramic View of the Bible. We started many weeks ago looking at Revelation 6. By the second verse of the chapter, God was introducing us to the first of four horsemen.
The white horse represents the “antichrist” influence Satan has always sought to pour out upon humanity. But now God shows us that the influence is taking the form of the most malignant person ever to live.
SATAN’s person introduced in Revelation is a figure God’s Word has described in many ways and places. This morning, I’d like to explain why it takes so long to go through the verses of Revelation. The answer is simple if you understand the nature of prophetic Scripture.
The Bible is unified, interconnected, and woven together by God, just like our body’s organs, and systems. One element within God’s Word is Biblical prophecies, interconnected and run through every corner of the Bible, like nerve cells woven through our human bodies. So, when preaching the Bible, two valid methods can be used:
• ONE method is to focus solely upon just one verse or passage out of the over 31,000 verses of the Bible, work only through the words and ideas of that verse alone, and then go on to the next. That is called textual preaching, or sticking to only the verse or text of the message.
• The OTHER method of preaching is expository preaching, which sticks to the text but also adds the weight of what God has said about that verse from any of the other 31,000 verses of the Bible. We are doing this type of expository preaching of the Word in Revelation.
All of the 404 verses in the Book of Revelation are incredibly tied to what God began in Genesis and is in the process of finishing. God has given pieces of information tucked away in the words of the Prophets about the events in the last days. These powerful lessons about His character and His plan teach us more about how to worship and serve God through every season of our lives.
Now, using the expository method of study, let me show you the immense weight of all that God has previously told us in the rest of the Bible about the coming false messiah called the antichrist. As we stepped into Revelation 6, we began to meet the worst human who will ever live. But as we did, we found a person about whom there are 27 Chapters of the Bible and counting.
Today, we need to pause and think about how many different chapters of the Bible are used by God to describe this evil servant of Satan. Here’s the tally so far:
• Jesus talks about him in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 (that is 3 chapters);
• Paul describes him in 2 Thessalonians 1-2 (that is 2 chapters); then
• John describes him in 1 John 2 & 4 and 2 John 1 (that is 3 chapters);
• Revelation devotes chapters 6-20 to describe his impact on humanity and his fate (that is 15 chapters); and now, in
• Daniel, we see him in Daniel 7, 8, 9, and 11 (4 more chapters).
So, this worst of all humans who ever live is already the subject of 27 chapters of the Bible. That is extensive coverage, and we haven’t even touched more. Think about this man, who has so many different names in the Bible: the man of sin, the son of perdition, the beast, the lawless one, and the Antichrist.
Satan EMPOWERS the Worst Human Ever.
Of all who have ever hated good, hated God, and hated Christians, the Antichrist will be the pinnacle. If we were to take all of the worst persecutors, deceivers, and malignant terrorists and stew them until they boiled down to the essence of evil, this is what would pout out: the man of sin, the son of perdition, and the false Christ. ROK-17
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