This Blessed Hope: Living for the Return of Jesus | The Anti-Christ

Sermon Series: THIS BLESSED HOPE
Sermon: The Antichrist: THE COUNTERFEITER OF ALL COUNTERFEITS
Scripture: II THESSALONIANS 2:1-4

"Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters, not to be easily upset or troubled, either by a prophecy or by a message or by a letter supposedly from us, alleging that the day of the Lord has come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God." II Thessalonians 2:1-4

1.  The trials & tribulations you are experiencing are not the prophetic ones of the 7-year tribulation.
"Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction."  II Thessalonians 2:3

2.  The Day of the Lord will reveal the counterfeiter of all counterfeits! 

3. The enthronement of this counterfeiter!
“So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand)" Matthew 24:15

"I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Revelation 7:14

4.  The extent of his cruelty!!!
"And it was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation." Revelation 13:7

"Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished." Revelation 17:6

5. He is Satan’s superman --- The Devil’s very incarnation
"and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming." II Thessalonians 2:8

Application:

1.  All blaspheme & hostility toward God is from Satan!

2.  Satan tries to copy & counterfeit everything Jesus does!!!

     • In the end he will counterfeit the incarnation & the resurrection!

     • He even counterfeits religious experience!!!

The Bible is not tested by your experience but your experience is tested by the Bible!

3.  The antichrist does not deceive everyone!

4.  Satan does not win!!!

     • We do not go out to win the war for Jesus, 

     • We go out to announce He has already won the war!

     • We do not fight toward victory --- we fight from victory!!!