Upcoming Academy Class -- "The Man of Lawlessness: Nero? The Pope? Or Someone Else?"

Our next Academy lecture will deal with Paul's mysterious "man of lawlessness" in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.  Preterists see this as already fuflilled.  Historicists identify this figure with the papacy.  Dispensationalists see this as a future antichrist betraying Israel in a rebuilt temple.  Reformed amillennarians tend to see this image as an ever-present threat, culminating in a final Antichrist.

If you live in the Southern California area, we invite you to join us this coming Friday (October 5,) for this, the second in a four part series of lectures entitled "Eschatology and the Antichrist."

As always, the lecture is free of charge, begins @ 7:30 p.m. and is followed by a time for Q & A.

Come out and join us!  It would be great to meet you.

For more information or access to MP3 and Real Audio files of past lectures, Click here: Christ Reformed Info - Schedule of Academy Classes and Author's Forums.

Comments

[Stephen]

Let us not forget that the real Antichrist will, when he comes on to the world scene will be very popular. He will be very charismatic. So the point is when we look for the “Antichrist” we shouldn’t be looking for a villain. We shouldn’t be looking for a bad guy, for that is not how he is going to appear, not to most people, at least not at first.

In fact he is going to appear as an hero. He is going to appear as an humanitarian. He is going to appear as a savior. He is actually going to be responsible or seem to be responsible in solving some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Perhaps he is going to be responsible for curing some disease, or develop ways to make things grow on barren land.

This is why I am guessing that he will be an industrialist because only an industrialist could have the infrastructures to develop such technology. Obviously what pushes this guy into the world stage would be the continuing success of his company.

And from there his success and charisma is going to pull him into politics. I say pull but it was his plan all along, though like the best of politicians he will make it look like he only begrudgingly entered the political sphere.

I believe he will become the head of the European Union, an entity that right now isn’t that strong, but since I see see this as happening from 30-50 years from now I see that by then the organization will have grown in strength

I still believe we have a generation or two before he arises, but in the term of human history a generation or two isn’t that long from now.