Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08080 Satan and Antichrist are not the same being, and confusing them is one of the commonest mistakes in popular prophecy teaching. One is a fallen angelic creature with a history stretching back before the human story. The other is a man, yet to appear, who will hold political power for a limited period….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10166. A single world government has been the dream of tyrants and idealists for as long as there have been maps, and Scripture tells us that in the end they will get one. Not the benign federation of the optimists, and not quite the conspiracy of the pamphlets either, but a genuine world government…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10106. The Bible teaches that a one world religion will exist during the Tribulation, that it will centre on the worship of the beast and be enforced by the false prophet, and that it will be destroyed before the return of Jesus. It is not a conspiracy theory bolted on to Scripture. It is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10084. The man of lawlessness is Paul’s name for the final world ruler who will dominate the Tribulation period, oppose God openly, and be destroyed by the appearing of Jesus. He is called the son of destruction in the same breath, and older translations know him as the man of sin. He is not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10046. The Antichrist is a coming world ruler who will oppose God, deceive the nations, persecute the saints, and set himself up as an object of worship during the tribulation. When people ask me who he is, they usually want a name, and that is exactly the one thing I cannot and will not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10038. The image of the beast is one of the strangest and most sinister objects in the whole book of Revelation, an idol set up in honour of the Antichrist that is given a kind of life and demands the worship of the entire world. When I speak of the image of the beast…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10037. The false prophet is the third figure in the unholy trinity of the Tribulation, alongside Satan and the Antichrist, and he is the great religious deceiver of the end times. When I speak of the false prophet I mean the second beast of Revelation 13, who rises to promote the worship of the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10035. Babylon in Revelation is one of the richest and most debated images in the whole book, a figure that appears as a gorgeously dressed prostitute in one chapter and a doomed merchant city in the next. When I speak of Babylon in Revelation I mean the great world system of rebellion against God,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10031. The abomination of desolation is a phrase that comes straight from the prophet Daniel and is picked up by Jesus Himself, and it describes a supreme act of sacrilege that marks the turning point of the Tribulation. When I speak of the abomination of desolation I mean the moment the Antichrist desecrates the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10010. The number 666 has escaped the book of Revelation and taken up residence in horror films, heavy metal albums, and internet conspiracy theories, which makes it one of the few Bible details unbelievers can quote. Behind the noise stands a serious text and a serious question: is the number 666 literal, and what…