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A CHRIST WHO IS THE WRONG CHRIST

      The word "Christ" is from the Greek "Xristos." In Hebrew you
will find the transliteration "Messiah" from "Mashiach." In either
case, the word means "anointed" or "anointed one." This
"anointing" is found in the Old Testament to refer to an act of
anointing a prophet or ruler with a vial of Olive Oil as a symbol that
he is the chosen one of God for a specific task (see Lev. 4:3, a
priest; 1Chr. 16:22, a prophet; Lev. 6:20, a high priest; 2Sam. 22:51,
a king; and Hab. 3:13, Jesus Christ). What someone has failed to
observe is the fact that a wicked man or a demoniac being can also be
"the Lord's anointed" in the sense that such a one has received
permissive power from God for purposes of destruction. A vivid case in
the Old Testament is the demon-possessed murderer, Saul (see 1Sam.
24:6,10).

      Saul (as it will be brought out) is one of the most perfect
TYPES of the antichrist to be found in scripture. (A study of types,
incidentally, is the place where all amillennial and postmillennial
theologies fall short. The Old Testament is a dead book without a
knowledge of the types in it which deal with future events, and as it
has been pointed out before, the Old Testament contains 18 types of
the man called "the Beast." It also contains 21 types of the
Lord Jesus Christ.)

      The fact that David is afraid to kill Saul because he is
"the Lord's anointed" (and he was--1Sam. 9:16) is a fact that needs
prayerful meditation and study. The infidel will alibi around it a
number of ways. The quickest way is to say that David, as all ancient
Hebrews, was religiously superstitious and had that unnameable dread
of the "unknown" (Mana) which made him attribute divine dealings to
human beings, etc., etc. This type of thing only reveals the ignorance
of the infidel, and the fact that he has been reading trash written by
men as stupid as himself.

      Another way to explain David's fear is to say that he had a
complex about rebelling against authority because of the etc.,
etc. A third way is to say that the anointing symbolized
something, and although Saul was anointed, the anointing wasn't
real because Saul didn't live up to it; therefore David's fears were
groundless, etc., etc.

      A much more faithful method of handling the problem would be to
search the scriptures that deal with the protection and permission
which God often grants or delegates to Satanic personages. In so
doing, the investigator will stumble upon one of the greatest extant
truths of epistemology, and a truth, incidentally, that is always
overlooks (100%) by psychiatrists who are supposed to major in this
field. This epistemology deals with methods by which a man can obtain
truth and the method by which he is sidetracked or deceived in his
efforts to obtain it. It hinges on the passages in 1Samuel 24:6,10,
Romans 13:1-3, and the first two chapters of the most ancient book
known to man--the Book of Job. (Job is written 1500 B.C., and Job will
be found to be a contemporary of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The writer
writes in the first person, showing that he is handling the
stylus before Moses is born. Check Job 1:1 with Genesis 46:13, Job
6:19 with Genesis 25:3, Job 2:11 with Genesis 25:2, and Job 4:1.
The author of Job is found in Job 32:2-9, 15-17.)

      Now Saul is the Lord's ANOINTED. He is the Lord's anointed by
PERMISSION (see 1Sam. 8), that is, he is the people's choice (1Sam.
8:5,20), and as such, he holds the Old Testament pew that Caesar
occupies in the New Testament, being chosen by the religious leaders
of Israel. (See the election results in John 19:15.) Neither Saul
nor Caesar were God's choice for a leader of Israel. Both were man-
made choices made with an eye to world-conformity and a desire to
"avoid trouble" (John 12:48). Neither Saul nor Caesar were God's
choice in the matter. Where the people chose Saul for his height
(1Sam. 10:23,24), God chose David for his bravery. When the test came,
Saul (who measured over 7 feet in stature) sat down and watched
David, a young lad, go out and tackle a Hamite monster that
outweighed him 200 pounds and had the "reach" on him by at least 18
inches.

      The Pharisees chose Caesar in order to retain their good
standing in the political world, but God chose His Son, Jesus.
When the test came, Jesus saved His people from their sins (Matt.
1:21, Luke 1:69-77), while Caesar (Titus) burned their city and
crucified 500 Jews outside the city walls. The lesson in both cases is
clear to an open-minded man. God may give you what you want and
allow you to believe what you want to believe, but that does not mean
that it is the truth or that it is even worth the powder and shot it
would take to blow it into Hell.

      God grants power and authority to personages and governments
that He does not approve of. Hitler, Stalin, Alexander, Pope
Gregory, Nero, Bloody Mary, Pharaoh, Charlemagne, Hannibal, Pope Leo,
Scipio, Ghengis Khan, Frederick, Peter the Great, Hirohito, Pope
Urban, Castro, Batiste, Trujillo, Kennedy, and Franco may all find
their place in Romans 13:1-6, where "the powers that be are ordained
of God," but none could take the passage and prove from it that
they were godly, approved of God, blessed of God, or even AWARE of
God! The passage only shows, as in the case of Caesar and Saul,
that God permits them "to be." We are getting on touchy ground
again--I can feel it! You see, wherever authority is the crux of
the argument, there is a rebellion against it. There is within
man a natural instinct to look for a higher authority, but to reject
and resent authority if that authority is absolutely sinless and
holy. Hence, God will give the man what he is looking for--
authoritative corruption!

      2Thessalonians 2 will bring the point closer to bear as this
passage points out a ruler who professes to have absolute
authority. Furthermore, he has given the privilege, from God,
of deceiving anyone who does not love the truth, and we are
told in the passage (2Thes 2:11,12) that God is the author of this
delusion which damns the truth-rejector! What new doctrine is this?

      It is that ancient doctrine of Job 1 and 2, wherein the lid is
taken off the spirit world by the revelation of God, and we are
allowed to look at the peculiar operations of the "mystery of
iniquity" (2Thes. 2:7). It is called a "mystery" because none of
the Greek philosophers were able to grasp it. Not one in the lot--
Socrates, Zeno, Epicurus, Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle, or Democritus--
ever grasped this fundamental operation of "truth and deception." All
without exception (and Hobbes, Russell, Darwin, Huxley, Spinoza,
Hegel, Kant, James, Kierkegaard, Hume, Locke, and Berkley, who follow)
began with the theoretical MISTAKE that there is no active, living,
personal force in the universe which opposes truth, and has power
to defeat it where sin is involved in the life of the truth-seeker.
In plainer words, the moral issue and the absolute authority on
moral issues were rejected at the start, and every one of the
philosophers from Socrates to Bernard Shaw worked under the
insurmountable handicap of having God Himself against them for
rejecting His revelation concerning the things they professed to
"think" about.

      Once Satan is eliminated from the thinking process as a force to
be reckoned with, then the battle is lost (Rev. 12:9,11). The Bible
clearly sets him forth, sets his operations forth, and gives human
examples of how these operations work--Saul and Caesar are notable.
2Thessalonians 2 brings this tremendous truth home with force: "God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness." Again, it can be seen why a preliminary
chapter is necessary on "The Decline of Biblical Christianity," for
the passage in 2Thessalonians 2 is too hard and brutal for the
"modern mind," as it was too hard and brutal for the philosophers of
the 18th and 19th century.
      The passage brings home "to roost" that terrible truth that the
whole issue does not hinge on "interpretations," "translations," or
"recent discoveries." It hinges on the fact that men resent the
Bible being an authority on settling MORAL issues. Note: "had
pleasure in unrighteousness."

      Three words are found in the passage in 2Thessalonians 2 which
disqualify it in the minds of modern man as being a valid explanation
for obtaining accurate epistemology. The three words are not hard to
find--they are "the TRUTH," "a LIE," and "UNRIGHTEOUSNESS."

      Now all philosophers and scientists (see Col. 2:8 and 1Tim.
6:20) profess to be seeking truth. Both groups profess to abhor
a falsehood, and both groups, if put on the spot, would justify
their own religion by whatever works they could produce to prove
that they were not "unrighteous." There is a conflict here.
Where the Bible says, "Thy word is truth" (John 17:17), Pilate
retorts, "What is truth?" To which Jesus replies, "I am the
truth" (John 14:6). To which philosophy and science reply,
"There is no such thing as ABSOLUTE TRUTH; all truth is RELATIVE."
To which the Bible answers, "For this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should BELIEVE A LIE: That they all might
BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH...." The conflict gets more
brutal by the minute. Somewhere in the melee, man is wanting to
believe something that isn't so, and is rejecting something that
is so, and upon this reciprocal action God is giving him what
he wants--A LIE!!

      It is time to choose up sides and throw mud balls. On one side
of the fence, we find a group of people who believe what God said, the
way He said it, as He said it. And they accept a Bible which has the
number of books in it that all Bible-believers have accepted. They are
those Bible-believers who accepted the Bible as the final
authority! On the other side of the fence, we have an army of
"truth-seekers" who have already discarded the Bible as the
standard by which truths are to be judged. This army is composed of
scientists, philosophers, educators, priests, bishops, popes,
cardinals, drunken bums, dictators, seducers, card-sharps, deacons and
elders, monks, communists, nuns, atheists, pragmatists,
existentialists, naturalists, realists, idealists, humanitarians,
dope-addicts, and-so-forth-and-so-on. This motley array, in different
uniforms, would not resemble an army were it not for the fact that
they all swore allegiance to the same commander. They all hold an
opinion, tradition, interpretation, or church authority ABOVE THE
AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD. In a show-down (and if you ever had
to draw and shoot, it will be in 2Thessalonians 2:2-12), they will
always accept the anti-scriptural authority. They are not as
heterogeneous as they appear.

      While they profess to be "truth-seekers," the truths they are
seeking are only a-moral, objective truths in a physical realm,
and the Bible deals primarily with moral, absolute truths in a
religious realm. The problem is how to be "religious," and profess
to have a "faith," while at the same time rejecting the standard by
which a religion or faith is to be judged in the eyes of God. This
rejection was thoroughly discussed in the first chapter of this book.
Rome led the way, and the army followed (see Rev. 6:2-9).

      Now what exactly does 2Thesslonians 2:10-12 mean, if it says
what it means, and means what it says? For variety, let us assume that
here God wrote what He intended to write, the way it was supposed to
have been written, and that His purpose in doing this (as in Eph.
6:10-15) was to reveal to us the method or operations involved in
obtaining truth or in losing it. Lay it out where you can let it "grab
you."

      1. God allow certain things that He does not approve of.
"Thou shalt not steal," but it goes on all the time (Luke 17:1).
"Thou shalt not bear false witness," but it goes on all the time
(2Tim. 3:3).

      2. In many cases God allows powers and authorities to
control people and countries although He does not approve of them.
Saul and Caesar in the Bible; Nero and Hitler outside the Bible.

      3. Because He permits them, or allows them to have power or
authority, does not mean that God has chosen them of His own directive
will, nor is it any indication that God will bless them or even
convert them. (See Jer. 51:20-25 for the judgment that God brings on a
nation whom He has previously allowed to destroy another
nation.)

      This "delegated" authority is the bone of contention. The
intellectual, trying to feel his way around in the haze of Jesuit
casuistry or Thomistic sophistry, will revert immediately to "Oh yeah?
Well if God is all-powerful and could have stopped it, then why did He
let sin enter the world, huh? If he knew there was going to be a
devil, why didn't He...?" But the answer is so simple that no Jesuit,
or Dominican, or Franciscan, or Knight of Columbus could ever hope to
find it. Plato never found it. Aristotle never found it. Job found it;
the book of Job deals with the subject in full force. It tackles that
ancient problem: "If God could have stopped it, why didn't He?"
Job has the answer, and in the Book of Job we see the highest
created being in the universe, outside of the Lord Jesus, in full
operation exercising his permissive power and delegated authority
to ruin an upright man.

      4. If God will allow a power to control things, when this power
is evil and malicious, then why would the passage in 2Thessalonians
2:10-12 cause any wonderment at all? The passage merely states that
God gives what a man demands and asks for. If he wants a lie, he gets
it. If he will not take light (John 11:10), then light becomes
lightning (Matt. 24:27). If he will not accept the truth of
God, then he is exposed to a power that God has permitted to exist
for the purpose of putting across a lie (John 8:44). Nothing
could be plainer. The executioner is appointed (Rom. 13:1-5); he is
the "minister of God," a revenger to execute wrath, etc. You
don't believe it? How could you read a morning newspaper and not
believe it?

      Why do you sit there and drivel, "God is love," when all around
you on every hand you have visible examples which prove "Our
God is a consuming fire" (Heb. 12:29). Here is a dead baby in a
garbage can; the mother didn't want it. Why is it there? You say,
"Well, if the mother had the proper training she...." But hold the
phone; there is the baby. You say, "Well, things like that happen and
we don't understand them, but we just must have faith to believe
that...." Wait a minute--There the baby is. "But accidents
happen, and we must not lose our faith in man simply because one or
two...." Stop your foolishness! It is not ONE OR TWO. Here are
broken homes, broken hearts, broken lives, broken bones, broken
nations, death, poverty, disease, starvation, killing, shelling, and
bombing, as usual, with no let-up whatsoever. You say,
"The trouble is that we need to get together and we are working on it,
but you `prophets of doom' have lost your faith in mankind, and you
oppose our work so that...." Are you dead sure the cause of the
trouble is not that you have lost your faith in the word of God, and
upon rejecting His truth, have believed a lie in order that you might
be damned? (2Thes. 2:10-13). Are you absolutely certain? Then until
you are, go easy in saying that God does not permit Satanic forces to
rule, lead, guide, and direct men where they desire to overlook God's
word.

      The word reveals the operation of Satan in the moral realm.

      Job discloses that this operation is the direct cause of
disease, loss of property, war and death (Heb. 2:14). Once this
revelation is rejected, there is no solution to the problems of
life except to unite in one huge political-religious organization
under the slogan, "United we stand, divided we fall"; and as the
slogan is hoisted, throw the Bible out the window. For as it
stands, the Bible clearly condemns the united movement (Gen.
11:1-3, Rev. 17,18), which is the coming substitute for believing the
word of God.

      Man, then, fails to properly analyze the source and cause of his
miseries. Unwilling to accept the revelation given by God, which deals
with operations and methods in the moral realm (which leads to
results in the physical realm) men have abandoned all hope of an
absolute moral authority in line with the Bible. Their only hope
now is to turn to an authority that denies or perverts the
Bible, and get their standards from this authority. Desiring this,
according to His word (2Thes. 2), God is about to grant them their
desire (Jer. 21:14).

      The people cried, "Give us Saul." God answers, "I'd rather
have you wait until my selection, David; but if you insist...."
They insisted. They got what they asked for--a king like unto
the nations about them (1Sam. 8:5,7,20,22). The people cried,
"Give us Caesar!" God answered, "My Son is your king; but if
you insist...." They insisted (Matt. 27:23). They got what they
asked for--ROMAN DOMINATION. The unregenerate seeker of truth cries,
"Give me the truth." God says, "This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased; hear ye him" (Matt. 17:5). The "seeker"
shouts, "Yeah, but what about all these other religions? Do you mean
to tell me that you think that you're the only one that is right, and
the rest are wrong?" God says softly, "Yea, let God be true, but
EVERY MAN a liar" (Rom. 3:3,4). To which the "seeker" replies,
"Well, I think there is truth in EVERY religion, and I resent you
preaching against other folks' religion; and brother, if that's
Christianity, you can have it!!" And the Lord replies, "All
right, if you insist, I'll send you somebody that will talk
differently than My Son, and you can believe on him!!" (John 5:43).
And here he comes! (2Thes. 2:1-12).

      Enter "the Anti-Christ," the people's choice by popular
vote!

      This man, prepared of God before the foundation of the world for
the purpose of taking the reins of government in his hands, is the
perfection of man in his present state (going up according to Darwin,
going down according to Gen. 2,3).

      There is more information on him in the Bible than information
on the lives of Moses, David, and Paul combined. One may truthfully
say that apart from the person and work of Jesus the Messiah, the main
theme of the word of God is the person and work of the Devil's Christ,
who bears the titles, "the Man of Sin," "the Son of Perdition,"
"the Beast," and "the Anti-Christ." Far from being presented as
some out-and-out Simon Legree of religious literature, the man is
presented as a military and political genius, a master politician and
lover, a prodigy of learning, and above all, a religious leader who
commands and obtains the respect and adoration of the world. He is
truly a "CHRIST." He is just the wrong one.

      It must always be remembered that "Christ" is not a name but a
title. The Holy Spirit is careful to preserve this truth in
Philippians 2 where you are told "That at the NAME of Jesus every
knee should bow...." "Jesus" is a NAME; "Christ" is a TITLE. This
is well illustrated by the trinitarian formula of Jesus' full title,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Notice first of all the article; Jesus is "THE"
Lord, not "A" Lord (1Cor 12:3). Consequently, Judas never calls Him
"Lord," but only "Master" (Matt. 26:22,25,49, John 13:13,26). He is
"THE LORD," indicating that He is the Lord and Creator of the universe
(see Col. 1:15-19). (Exit, the liberal!) He is the LORD JESUS. The
name "Jesus" is literally "Jehovah saves," and it is the equivalent of
"God with us," Immanuel (Matt. 1:23). The Lord Jesus CHRIST. Here, at
last, is the title--He is the "ANOINTED MESSIAH" of God. Thus,
"Christ" means "anointed" and does not necessarily have any connection
with salvation or regeneration (Titus 3:5). As it has been
pointed out before, Satan is a "CHRIST," but he is not a "Jesus
Christ," for Jesus means "Jehovah saves"!

      This distinction can be observed if one follows the religious
movements of the day. For example, a certain Bible-believing
denomination about 20 years ago put signs out in the front of their
churches in the spring-time (during revival meetings). They read,
"Jesus Christ is the answer." About 5 years later, they changed
the signs, and all across the nation thousands of the same churches
had on their lawns at revival time, "Christ is the answer." In
the last ten years they sponsored a TV program and called it, of all
things (!) "THIS is the answer."

      Here we find real evolution; you go from a Saviour to an
Anointed one, to a neuter "THING." There is room here for a
strong delusion if anyone is interested in pulling it off.

      Have you ever noticed in personal work how easy it is to say,
"Have you made your decision for Christ?" or, "Have you received
Christ?" or, "Do you believe in Christ?" and how difficult it is
to say, "Have you received the Lord Jesus?" and, "Do you love the Lord
Jesus?" You see, that "name that is above every name" causes you to
blush. It is a powerful name. It is a beautiful name. It is the Lord's
earthly name. Hence, the Holy Spirit distinguishes between the
LORD'S CHRIST (Luke 2:26, Acts 4:26) and the ANTI-CHRIST (1John
2:18;4:3). The word anti in Greek is not only used for "against"
or "opposing something," but is also used in the sense of "something
over against something just like it" (Rev. 6:2). This identifies
the "christ" of Satan. He is a perfect imitation of the real thing.

      Taking up his attributes in detail is a study that must wait
until the exact time of his appearing can be placed. All this Bible
study is tremendously confusing to the average reader anyway, for in
the first place, he may have been brought up on the standard anti-
christian teaching of Rome or the Reformation that teaches that there
will be no future period of seven years in which an anti-christ will
take over for 42 months (Rev. 13:1-6).

      Thus the issue before men is further obscured. Not only has Rome
succeeded in nullifying Revelation 17 and 18 by adding books to the
Old Testament, by challenging the date and authorship of Revelation,
by forbidding their people to interpret it, and by insisting that it
is "figurative," but they also have gone a step further and convinced
Protestants that the pre-millennial system of interpretation is
only one theoretical "possibility." Thus the last chance of
recovering the meaning and application of the passages in Revelation 6
and 13 is lost. Fortunately for the Bible-believer, the meaning can be
easily picked up by reading carefully and believing what is read.

      1. It is certain that Christ is coming again. That much is
certain, and even the Reformed and Catholic will buy it if they
believe anything at all. One out of ten verses in the New Testament
refer to this event. (See, for example, 1Cor. 11:26, Matt. 24, Mark
13, Luke 17, 1Thes. 4, 2Thes. 1, John 14:1-4, etc.) It is true that
much of this material is relegated backwards to past fulfillment
at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., but this entirely
overlooks the fact that Revelation 11:1-4 speaks of a future
destruction. (By placing Revelation's writing under Nero's reign, Rome
effectually squelches the voice of the Holy Spirit in the passage.)

      2. At some time before Christ's literal coming to earth
(Rev. 1:7, Matt. 25:30-40) to sit on the throne of David (Luke 1:30-
33, Acts 2:30; 15:15,16), Paul says, "I show you a mystery," and
what follows (1Cor. 15:49-55, 1Thes. 4:13-18) is the Lord's coming
FOR his saints in the AIR. This coming is clearly distinguishable
from His coming WITH His saints (Jude 14,15) to the GROUND
(Zech. 14:1-10).

      We are told to study that we may rightly divide these two
aspects (2Tim. 2:15), and without proper study and proper
discernment, the task of locating the anti-christ in TIME is an
impossibility.

      3. There is nothing remarkable about the Second Coming occurring
in two installments if one remembers the circumstances of His first
coming. It has truly been said, "The one thing men learn from
history is that men never learn from history." The same diplomatic
and political tricks, which lead to totalitarianism, war, or
revolution, are made in every generation in exactly the same way they
were made in previous generations.

      Now when the Lord Jesus first came, five things happened which
any normal observe could have seen:

      a. John the Baptist was a herald of His coming (Luke 3).
      b. Rome was in political power at the time of His coming (Luke
      c. Israel was unconverted, but in their homeland (Luke 1).
      d. Christ appeared first to believers only, at night (Luke
      e. He appeared later publicly to His enemies at John's
         baptism (Luke 3, Matt. 3).

      Comparing this with what will occur, we can easily "zero in" on
the target:

      a. Elijah will herald his coming (Rev. 11:3-7).
      b. Rome will be in the driver's seat politically (Rev. 17,18).
      c. Israel will be unconverted, but in the homeland (Rev.
         11:1-3).
      d. Christ will appear to believers only before the last
         period of Daniel's 70th week starts (Dan. 9:25-27, Rev. 11:1-5; 13:4-
         9).
      e. He will appear openly to His enemies at the end of the
        seven years (Joel 2, Rev. 19, Isa. 63:1-4, Matt. 24:30).

      This interval between His coming FOR His saints "in the air,"
and His coming WITH His saints "on the Mount of Olives," is called
"The Great Tribulation" or the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" (Jer. 30:7).
There are over 500 verses in the Old Testament that refer to this
time, which is also called "THE DAY OF THE LORD."

      With this system, the Old Testament becomes a living book
with direct application to the future. With the amillennial and
postmillennial systems (Eusebius, Augustine, Jerome, Calvin, Pope
Johnny, etc.), the Old Testament is successfully silenced so
that when the Anti-Christ shows up, no one will be prepared to detect
him for what he is.

      Now if the person and work of God's Christ can ever be properly
placed, the "Mystery of Iniquity" no longer remains a "mystery"; but
if the amillennial (no thousand-year reign of Christ) and the
postmillennial (man brings in a thousand years of peace before Christ
comes) systems are adhered to, then the Mystery of Iniquity is free to
work unhindered and unchecked, for neither of these systems make any
allowance for the literal fulfillment of the promises in the Old
Testament which God gave to Israel. Both systems deny the honsty
and the integrity of God and spiritualize the promises, thus
pilfering them for the "church." The old woman with her leaven (Matt.
13:33) has now had 1900 years to set her house in order and finish
ruining the Bread of Life. She has done an excellent job. Her job has
been so thoroughly done, that even to this date, 90% of Christians do
not even know what the terms amillennial, postmillennial, and
premillennial represent; and what is worse, they couldn't care less
about it.

      Lining up the scriptures as they stand, where they stand,
written as they are, to say what they mean, you will find the Lord
Jesus has three offices--Prophet, Priest, and King. These three
may be matched to the Trinity. These three are found only in David
in the Old Testament. The correct placing of these three offices
will locate for us the time and place of the Anti-Christ.

      Moses was a king (Deut. 33:5), and a prophet (Deut. 18:18), but
not a priest. Aaron was the priest.

      Samuel was a priest (1Sam. 7:9,10), and a prophet (1Sam. 3:20),
but not a king.

      Saul was a king (1Sam. 10:24), and a prophet (1Sam. 10:13), but
not a priest.

      David, the shepherd, born in Bethlehem and anointed in the
midst of his brethren (notice all three similarities to Jesus), was a
king (Matt. 1:6), and a prophet (Acts 2:28-30), and a
priest (2Sam. 6:18; 24:25).

      Jesus Christ exercised His office as Prophet on this earth
(Matt. 21:12). He came to His own, but before His own could crown Him
as King (Matt. 21:5), they crowned Him with thorns and elected Caesar.
Caesar took the crown but let the inscription stand: "This is
Jesus, the King of the Jews." Nowhere in the Bible is He ever
spoken of as King over the Christian, or King over the church, or King
over the present Gentile-Catholic world system. In His present risen
and glorified state, He is said to be exercising the office of
Priest at the right hand of the throne (Heb. 3:1; 8:1; 10:10-14;
12:2). At His second coming, He obviously comes, as already noted,
"KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS" (Rev. 19).

      If we can find who is usurping the priesthood in this
dispensation (before Daniel's seventieth week) we can find out where
the false "king" will come from, and who will seize the throne just
before the Advent of Jesus Christ (see Dan. 8:23-25).

      The usurper is not difficult to find. The first step he took was
to add seven books to the Bible that are not there. His next step was
to violate the teaching of Christ in Matthew 23:9 on religious titles.
His third step was to put himself up as the supreme religious
authority on matters of faith and practice and teach "tradition" as
doctrine (Mark 7:1-13). His fourth step was to put a curse on anyone
who accepted the canon of the Bible that Jesus and Paul accepted; and
then, in one move after another, he built a city on seven mountains,
which reigns over the kings of the earth, whose colors are purple and
scarlet, whose symbol is a golden cup, who has persecuted saints and
martyrs, and who has carried on 1500 years of warfare against the
Textus Receptus of the King James Bible. GUESS WHO?

      The phony Christ that will show up is connected lock-stock-and-
barrel to the original enemy of Bible-believing Christianity. The
Bible is his only real threat of being detected, and the decline of
Biblical Christianity is his surety of protection. The Bible reveals
his life, person, work, religion, history, race, shape, size,
background, motives, intentions, and purpose in appearing. No real
Bible-believer could fail to spot him. No professing Bible-believer
who desired to alter the A.V. could even find him. (Not even Scofield,
who reached the impasse in Dan. 7:8; 8:9-12, and Gen. 6:1-3.)

      In the light of scripture, therefore, let us analyze this fake
"Christ" who will show up after the mystery that Paul spoke of--
the catching away of the body of believers before Daniel's 70th week.

      I. Cain. In type, the "seed of the serpent," born "of
that wicked one" (1John 3:12), who had a MARK which signified a
murderer.

      II. Nimrod. His name means "the rebel," the 13th from Adam
and a builder of an integrated United Nations to glorify man. He is a
Hamite, whose seed had a divine curse on it, as Cain. "Nimrod" also
has a root derivation of "LEOPARD" (Gen. 10,11).

      III. Pharaoh. The one who persecuted Israel (cf. Rev.
12:1-17), and is called a "DRAGON" (Eze. 29:3), as Revelation 12:1-4.
Plagues come on him, as Revelation 11:4-7; and his catechism is, "I
know not the Lord, neither will I let the children of Israel go."

      IV. Balak. The man who tries to eliminate Israel, winds up
corrupting Israel with BAAL worship (Num. 22-25). His prophet is
BALAAM, thus making a trinity: Father-Baal, Son-Balak, Unclean Spirit-
Balaam (see Rev. 16:13). Baal is our word "bull," or "OX." Did you
ever study words that end in "X"? Lax? Paradox?

      Balak is a king, as the anti-christ. He is a half-breed of
Moabite extraction, the Moabites coming from the mulattoes of Lot's
Hamitic wife (see Gen. 10:6,19; 13:12; 19:15,30-38).

      V. Sisera. A Gentile King who is defeated at Megiddo
(Rev. 16:16), which is the Armageddon of Revelation. "The stars in
their courses" fight from Heaven against him (Jud. 5:19,20, Rev.
19), and the man who fights him is said to be a type of Jesus Christ
(see. Jud. 5:12, Eph. 4:4-10). (The way the Liberal knocks out Judges
5 is by calling it "poetry," and then insisting that all poetry is
figurative! "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is not figurative.
Some people never do learn how to read 6th-grade English!)

      Sisera is killed by a blow on the head (Gen. 3:15, Jud.
5:26).

      VI. Abimelech. The man is a rebel (Jud. 9) who is killed
by a blow on the head (Rom. 16:20, Hab. 3:13).

      VII. Absalom. This "father of peace" obtains the kingdom
peaceably, by flatteries (see 2Sam. 15:2-6, Dan. 8:25; 11:24).
He rebels against David, a type of Christ. He is perfect in
beauty (2Sam. 14:25,26, Eze. 28:15), and is hairy (cf. Esau),
and hangs (Gal. 3:13, Matt. 27:5), and has a memorial built to
himself (2Sam. 18:18, Rev. 13:14,15).

      Are you learning anything? Don't you see what the book of
Revelation does to the Old Testament if you take it at face value? It
opens 39 books that otherwise are dead and gone. It unmasks the
coming "Christ," who will pose as the Lord's Christ immediately
preceding the Second Advent.

      VIII. Saul. He is demon-possessed, a rebel against God, a
usurper of the priest's office, a popular idol, a hater of David (type
of Christ), and a tall man (2Thes. 2:2-6, Rev. 13:3-6).

      IX. Goliath. A tall man. He is killed by a wound in the
head. Goliath comes from Hamitic background, exactly as
Nimrod, Balak, and Pharaoh (note Gen. 10:6,14). He has SIX pieces of
armour (1Sam. 17:4-7), and he is killed by David (a type of Christ).

      X. Ahab. He is a wicked prince of Israel (Eze. 21:25-27),
and marries a Phoenician Baal-worshipper (1Ki. 16:31). He is opposed
by the herald of the Second Advent, Elijah! Ahab has priests who
wear vestments and come from the apostate tribe of Dan, who called the
priest, "Father"!! (See Jud. 17:1-3,5,7-13; 18:1,6,14-25,28-31,
2Ki. 10:22.) These priests hold serves at 11-12 on the day of the
sun-god, "Sunday," and worship Baal by penitential acts of self-
mutilation (1 Ki. 18:17,27,28). Hello, Rome, how did YOU get in
here?? Further, they honour the "Queen of Heaven" with wafers
(Jer. 44:14,19,25), and as Phoenicians, they come from HAM (see
Gen. 10:19--Sidon, Zidon in 1Ki. 16).

      XI. Jeroboam. He is a wicked prince of Israel (Eze. 21:25-
27), who worships Baal with the golden calves which men are to KISS!
(1 Ki. 12:25-33, Hos 13:2, 1 Ki. 19:18). Do you not sign "love and
kisses" with XXXXX? Have you ever studied words that end in "X"?
Jeroboam, as the anti-christ, had a bad arm (Zech. 11:16,17--
note the "IDOL"; 1 Ki. 13:4), and Kaiser Bill, Hitler, and Napoleon
seemed to have picked up the thing accidentally.

      XII. Nabal. He is an enemy of David who, as was Herod, is
killed by God (1Sam. 25:36-38). His answer is identical to Pharaoh's
except the word "David" is inserted for "God" (see 1Sam. 25:10, Ex.
5:2).

      XIII. Sennacherib. An enemy of Israel who is struck by the
angel of the Lord, as was Herod (see Acts 12:22,23, 2Ki. 19:16,35). He
attacks Jerusalem, goes away and returns, exactly as Titus in 70 A.D.,
exactly as Saul chased David in 1Samuel 24, 26, and as the Anti-Christ
will do in Matthew 24, thus giving those in Judea opportunity to "flee
to the mountains" (Matt. 24:16, Ps. 11:1).

      XIV. Nebuchadnezzar. He builds an image (Rev. 13, Dan. 3).
The image is 60 by 6 by 6 (Dan. 3:1, Rev. 13:18). He persecutes the
Jewish remnant (Dan. 3:16-18) using SEVEN as the ratio (Dan. 3:19).
There are six instruments of music involved in idol worship, and it
says six times that "he set it up" (Dan. 3:1,2,3,4,5,7). He is king of
Babylon, and this is the last form of government on the earth at the
second coming--Revelation 17, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT."
Nebuchadnezzar, as Pharaoh, is called a "dragon" (Jer. 51:34, Rev.
12:1-4).

      XV. Haman. He is called an "adversary," which is the
meaning of the word "Satan" (Est. 7:6). He persecutes the Jew, as
Pharaoh and the Anti-Christ (Rev. 12:17), and hangs, as Judas and
Absalom (Est. 7:10, Deut. 21:23, Gal. 3:13).

      XVI. Solomon. His number is 666 (2Chr. 9:13), and six
lions are on six steps on one side, and six on the other (2Chr.
9:18,19). He is a king over Israel, and a type of Christ up to the
paragraph mark in 2Chronicles 9:13; but from here on, he changes
exactly as the Anti-Christ changes in the middle of the tribulation to
the "Son of Perdition," and breaks his covenant with the Jews
(Dan. 9:27).

      XVII. Herod. He usurps God's voice ("VOX" in Latin), and
is slain for not giving God the glory (Acts 12:22,23, Rev. 19:20).

      XVIII. Judas. He hangs, as Haman and Absalom. He is
against the Lord Jesus. He is a devil (John 6:70,71). He goes to his
own place, as Absalom (2Sam. 18:18, Acts 1:25). He comes in the
name of Christ, as a Bible-believer, and follows in Christ's steps, as
Mr. Sheldon, for 42 months. His name means "Judah-A man of
Kerioth." Kerioth is in Moab (Jer. 48:2,10,15,24,41). Judas is a half-
breed, Hamitic Jew (Nimrod, Balak) from the Moabite line! (See
comments under Balak, No. IV.)

      The evidence mounts. What we are looking for is a man who is a
murderer at heart, but who passes off as a Christian. This man has
trouble with one arm and an eye. He is, by extraction, a half-breed,
Syrian Jew. His number is 666, and he is associated with number 13.
(Hence, Friday, the 6th day of the week, the 13th, etc.) This man is
connected with the Phoenician religion of Sun-worship, which uses OXEN
and long-robed priests for its propagation. This man is a "christ" who
is a devil incarnate, completely demon-possessed, and he desires to be
worshipped.  He is an idolator. He is begotten of Satan. He has an
affinity for African (Hamitic) ideas. The words "vestments," "queen of
heaven," and "Sunday" are an essential part of his religion. He will
utilize the universal language (music) to assemble his devotees. He is
a Jew-baiter and hater, and he makes it a life-long practice to be
Christ-like.

      He enters as a peaceful king. His letter is undoubtedly "X," and
his numerology will be multiples of 13. He will demand worship. He
will make covenants and break them. He dies a death where his HEAD is
affected (Rev. 13:3-5), and he is undoubtedly a giant in physical
stature. He is a rebel who will later be symbolized by a black
cat--a panther. His long-robed priests wear black ("STYX" in Latin.
Did you ever study words that end in "X"?), and they believe in doing
penance for sin and addressing each other as "father."

      Ah, the unsearchable riches of the Authorized 1611 Version!

      How unsearchable is its composition and is plain English past
finding out!!

      We have found our man. Let us now define his NUMBER, NAME,
SIGN, and MARK.