No need to apologize. Just trying to clarify for you and others so that you don't get deceived. The bible is a huge book. Not everyone has time to study it in depth (although I would encourage everyone to read it daily)
Here are a few verses on the 2nd coming:
Revelation 1:7 ESV
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 ESV
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Matthew 24:30 ESV
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
What freaked me out about revelations is when they said that the figure for the dragon would be wounded to death mortally and then somehow come back to life👈 I didn’t know who to associate that person with in this current time. I know it’s off-topic but just saying
So, revelation is a difficult book to understand in general. It has a lot of symbolic language (much of which is from the old testament). Luckily for us, the bible tells us the interpretation of it. Just bc the language is symbolic doesn't mean what it is describing isn't literal.
Satan, himself, possesses the Antichrist. One thing to note is that satan always copies what God does and twists it. So, God is a trinity (3 in 1) :God the father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Satan is going to do that too. There is satan (father figure), the antichrist (son figure) and false prophet (spirit figure). Now, if you look to the book of Daniel, you will see that when the bible refers to the beast, it gives that translation to mean kingdoms. So the Dragon with 7 heads is actually different rulers over 7 kingdoms that arise in the beast system for a time. I am honestly not sure if the "mortal head wound" the beast receives is on the antichrist himself or one of the kings/kingdoms is destroyed.I personally think it's the antichrist himself.
While I do believe that the antichrist is alive today, it is important to note that he has not been revealed yet. People can speculate on who it is, but the truth is we don't know who he is or if he is even on earth yet. Also important to note: there have been many antichrists throughout history. Satan is a created being and is not all knowing like God. Therefore, satan has to be ready to have an antichrist in place at every moment since the death/resurrection of Jesus. Even the devil does not know the day or the hour of Christ's return. He just has to be ready
Sorry
No need to apologize. Just trying to clarify for you and others so that you don't get deceived. The bible is a huge book. Not everyone has time to study it in depth (although I would encourage everyone to read it daily)
Here are a few verses on the 2nd coming:
Revelation 1:7 ESV Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 ESV For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Matthew 24:30 ESV Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
What freaked me out about revelations is when they said that the figure for the dragon would be wounded to death mortally and then somehow come back to life👈 I didn’t know who to associate that person with in this current time. I know it’s off-topic but just saying
So, revelation is a difficult book to understand in general. It has a lot of symbolic language (much of which is from the old testament). Luckily for us, the bible tells us the interpretation of it. Just bc the language is symbolic doesn't mean what it is describing isn't literal.
Satan, himself, possesses the Antichrist. One thing to note is that satan always copies what God does and twists it. So, God is a trinity (3 in 1) :God the father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Satan is going to do that too. There is satan (father figure), the antichrist (son figure) and false prophet (spirit figure). Now, if you look to the book of Daniel, you will see that when the bible refers to the beast, it gives that translation to mean kingdoms. So the Dragon with 7 heads is actually different rulers over 7 kingdoms that arise in the beast system for a time. I am honestly not sure if the "mortal head wound" the beast receives is on the antichrist himself or one of the kings/kingdoms is destroyed.I personally think it's the antichrist himself.
While I do believe that the antichrist is alive today, it is important to note that he has not been revealed yet. People can speculate on who it is, but the truth is we don't know who he is or if he is even on earth yet. Also important to note: there have been many antichrists throughout history. Satan is a created being and is not all knowing like God. Therefore, satan has to be ready to have an antichrist in place at every moment since the death/resurrection of Jesus. Even the devil does not know the day or the hour of Christ's return. He just has to be ready
I think the antichrist look look like a politician.