The truth about the ____________.

• Left Behind, p. 212-213

Is the Antichrist of "Left Behind" the Antichrist of Scripture?

II Thessalonians 2

• 2:1 parousia - 2nd coming
  • Matthew 24:3
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:19
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:15
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23
  • James 5:7
• 2:1-2
• 2:-3,4 -- a description of the ______________.

There are ________ references in the Bible to "antichrist":

1. 1 John 2:18
   KEY POINT #1 - Antichrist is not only singular -- it is also ___________.
2. 1 John 2:22
   KEY POINT #2 - Antichristos means " _________ of Christ" -- it seeks to usurp the place of ______ in the community of Christ.
3. 1 John 2:26
   KEY POINT #3 - ___________ is the Antichrist's dominant strategy.
4. 1 John 4:2,3
   KEY POINT #4 - The Antichrist is ___________ in the world.
5. II John 7
   KEY POINT #5 - The Antichrist begins in the ____________ but ends in the world of _____________.

II Thessalonians 2

• 2:3
  KEY POINT #1 - The great apostasy of the Antichrist must come _________ the second coming of Christ.
  • 2:8
2:3
KEY POINT #2 - The Antichrist is ________ the church of Christ, not _____________.
• "son of perdition" John 17:12
• 2:4 "temple"
  • 1 Corinthians 3:16
  • Ephesians 2:19-21
• 2:3,4
  KEY POINT #3 - The Antichrist __________ the place of __________ within the church of Christ.
• 2:5-7
  KEY POINT #4 - The Antichrist is unleashed when the __________ empired collapses.
  • (Read Daniel 7:3, 7:16-17, 23-25)
  • All of Daniel 7
  • "day equals year" see Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:5
  • 2 Thessalonians 2
  • Revelation 13

What, then, is this Antichrist power? Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers clearly identified the ________ in _________ as the Antichrist power.

• All Roads Lead to Rome, by Michael de Semlyen
• "three angels" see Revelation 14:6-13
• L. E. Froom
• "all the world wonders" Revelation 13:3
• "come out of her" Revelation 18:4

What difference does it make? Millions are blinded to the truth that the final deception occurs inside the Church!

How can I know the truth? Claim God's promise in Jeremiah 33:3

• John 16:13

Martin Luther: "Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me. Amen."