Is the Antichrist coming, or has already come? (408)

That is an interesting subject, we should have another thread for it.

Yep dont recall the word replenish, it was, Fill the earth.

they were building a multi story Flat

Prophecies are often hard to interpret. I only intended to concentrate on a very few passages to show who the Antichrist is, how all other prophecies will be fulfilled I do not want to speculate. Those that have been already fulfilled can be clearly seen, but future stuff is a bit cloudy.

Most interpreters are guilty of reading current situation into the prophetic passages and there are far too many interpretations. Long time ago I had a lot on interest in prophecies, but over the years I dropped it because they are the most important. If you want to know about Armageddon, you can look up the interpretations of various denominations.

As I told you my opinion is that because of the corruption of Israel instead of the Kingdom exile came and Gentiles escaped judgment. The Kingdom will come sometime in the future, when, I do not know. Anyone who knows is a liar.

The Preterists argue that all related prophecies were meant to be taken spiritually and they were all fulfilled in 70AD. I am not yet familiar with their ideas, but on this thread I presented the part that the Kingdom actually came when the son of man approached the Ancient of Days, and Yeshua said, "all authority has been given to me, therefore, go an make disciples". So they say he has been ruling since, and he is fulfilling a number of Messianic prophecies - the would is filled with the knowledge of God, Israel regathered to her land, the laws of Noah in place in many countries, etc. Will there be a great final battle? Preterists don't think so, I do. But the nature of prophecies is that you know the WHAT, but not necessarily the HOW.

So if you want some kind of solid interpretation, I can tell you one of the established ones that will certainly be wrong.

Prophecies are glimpses into the future. They often give a reason for why something will happen. There are many of them, so you need to take them and like with a puzzle try to get a picture, but with many pieces missing. What often happens is interpreters come up with a framework into which they try to fit the pieces. The framework requires some assumptions to be made, and this is where they can go wrong.

Seeing into the future through prophecies is a cloudy business. You only know with certainty when they are already fulfilled.

This is the reason I don't like to get into prophecies. I have my opinion as to what to expect, but I would not declare that I know with certainty.