Who is Your Antichrist Pick for 2025?

Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.

 Revelation 14:12 (LEB)

As I was going through some of my mother’s religious books written from the 1970’s to 1990’s, I realized that many prophecies that were supposed to happen in those decades, according to the authors, never came close to being realized. If I have a book that was written in the 1970’s, predicting all sorts of Biblical prophecies coming true in the next decade, what value is it if none of it happened? Henry Kissinger passed away last year, never fulfilling his alleged role as Antichrist, and the so called “rapture of the church” didn’t happen in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s or the first 24 years of the 21st century. The list goes on and on. All of these books are simply fire starter now.

Jeremiah 23:21–22 (LEB): ²¹ I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. ²² But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.

I started to think about all the prophecies in the Bible that have not happened yet. These are not the popular prophecies like “pin the tail on the Antichrist”, or the war of Gog and Magog, but ones that not many talk about. Here is one that I often think about because it is not just talking to the Church, the Jews or Israel, but it is addressing the entire population of the earth.

Isaiah 24:1–6 (LEB): 24 Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants. ² And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends. ³ The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word. ⁴ The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish, ⁵ and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and few men are left.

This has not happened yet, and it says the inhabitants of the earth “have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant“. What are the laws and statutes that the people defiled the earth by breaking? What is the everlasting covenant that has been broken? This certainly leads one to believe that we shouldn’t be transgressing laws and statutes or breaking the everlasting covenant, which is actually in opposition to what Christianity is teaching today. After all, Jesus supposedly did away with these laws and statutes according to mainstream Christianity. In light of just these verses, we know that claim is not true.

Another prophecy that has not happened yet is the land of Israel becoming a permanent ruins. As far as I know, the land has always been habitable, and there have always been some people group living there. When I think of “permanent ruins”, I think of Chernobyl, where it is currently uninhabitable due to radiation from the nuclear meltdown.

Ezekiel 38:8 (LEB): ⁸ After many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as permanent ruins but from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell in safety, all of them.

In this verse in Ezekiel, he is prophesying that Magog will be mustered against the people living on the mountains of Israel in some future period. “Dwelling in safety” does not appear to describe the current state of Israel where wars, car bombings, missile barrages and other unrest have been normal every day life since it began in 1948.

The prophecies in the writings of Zechariah have also not happened. The land is transformed and people are dwelling safely; Yahweh is king all through the land. I do not see that anywhere in western Asia currently.

Zechariah 14:8–11 (LEB): ⁸ And then on that day, living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea, and the other half to the western sea; it will happen both in the summer and in the winter. ⁹ And Yahweh will be king over all the earth; on that day Yahweh will be one and his name one. ¹⁰ All the land will be transformed into a desert plateau from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But it will rise up high and it will stay in its place from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, up to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. ¹¹ And they will dwell in it, and there will be no more ban imposed, and Jerusalem will dwell in security.

Moses had many prophesies to the Israelites. He talked about a restored people turning back to doing the things that were commanded by God to do. It will happen in the latter days. This can’t be the state of Israel formed by the United Nations in 1948. Where are the twelve tribes? Ephraim? The returning to Elohim and listening to His voice? None of it is there and this has not happened yet.

Deuteronomy 4:27–31 (LEB): ²⁷ And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you. ²⁸ And you will there serve gods made by human hands, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. ²⁹ But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. ³¹ For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.

Along these lines, there are many places that speak of the gathering of those that were scattered. One has to know the history of the kingdom of Israel to understand the dynamics between Judah and Ephraim. This has not happened yet, and chapter eleven of Isaiah is speaking about when the Messiah will gather all of his people.

Isaiah 11:11–13 (LEB): ¹¹ And this shall happen on that day: The Lord will again extend his hand a second time to acquire the remnant of his people that is left, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea, ¹² and he will raise a signal for the nations. And he will gather the outcasts of Israel, and he will gather the scattered ones of Judah together from the four corners of the earth. ¹³ And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim.

Does anyone know the difference between Ephraim and Judah? “Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim.” It is the basis of the parable of the prodigal son. Jesus made it possible and he was explaining the mystery through this parable. It truly was a mystery because people who understood the scriptures did not understand how this would happen!

Luke 15:29–32 (LEB): ²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, ‘Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! ³⁰ But when this son of yours returned—who has consumed your assets with prostitutes—you killed the fattened calf for him!’ ³¹ But he said to him, ‘Child, you are always with me, and everything I have belongs to you. ³² But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!’ ”

In a few places this gathering of God’s people is described as something that will make everyone forget about the first exodus because of its magnitude. This event is still in front of us. We remember the first exodus from Egypt at every Passover. The Jews say “next year in Jerusalem” at Passover in Jerusalem because they know that they have not arrived to the promised land yet.

Jeremiah 16:14–16 (LEB):¹⁴ Therefore look, days are coming,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,” ¹⁵ but only “As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,” for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors. ¹⁶ Look, I am sending for many fishermen,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs.

We are told of a time when the people of the nations will realize they have been deceived by false prophets believing lies about false gods. This is when the Church will understand that they have been syncretizing witchcraft into their belief system by celebrating Halloween, Christmas and the spring fertility rituals along with the ancient pagans, modern Druidry, Wiccans and Satanists.

Jeremiah 16:19–21 (LEB): ¹⁹ O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them. ²⁰ Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they are not gods!” ²¹ “Therefore look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my power and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh.”

Peter tells us of a time when the earth and elements will melt from the heat of God’s wrath. He also tells us that we should be found in holy behavior and godliness because of God’s patience in holding back His wrath to give people more time to repent.

2 Peter 3:8–13 (LEB): ⁸ Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. ⁹ The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed. ¹¹ Because all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt as they are consumed by heat! ¹³ But according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness resides.

The Church teaches that the “Day of the Lord” is simply the seven year tribulation and that the Church will be transported to heaven and avoid any of these prophesies that have not taken place. That is not true and part of the deception. It is based on misunderstood words of Paul in his letter to the Thessalonians. Through dispensationalism theology the Church has twisted Paul’s words making people think they are “no longer under the law” and “lead by the Holy Spirit”. The Holy Spirit, another name for the Elohim of Israel, is not going to direct anyone to do anything contrary to His word. Part of this teaching is that the lawless Church will be whisked away in the knick of time before anything bad happens.

Most people base their eschatology on “prophecies” from 1970’s authors such as Hal Lindsey, Morris Cerillo and Tim LaHaye. I have all the books from my mother’s library. The prophecies they pushed forward were all based on dispensationalism theology and the philosophy of Zionism. As a result, we have Christians and non-Christians looking for a pre-trib rapture of the church, and an Antichrist figure to make a seven year peace treaty with the current country of Israel.

Daniel 9:27 (LEB)

²⁷ And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering and in its place a desolating abomination comes even until the determined complete destruction is poured out on the desolator.”

If one reads Daniel chapter nine without the dispensationalism theology view, then we can understand that it was the Messiah who made the strong covenant and was cut off, or crucified. There has not been any offering or sacrifice since the temple was destroyed in 70 CE, and there will not be a new temple until the Messiah comes back and establishes his kingdom in a supernatural way. If God stopped the sacrifices and offerings in 70 CE, who can bring them back? How can an Antichrist figure desolate a new temple in Israel? One cannot desecrate something that is not ordained by God and holy in the first place. It is dispensationalism theology that has the Old Testament God working with the “Jews” (as they believe) while the “Church” is raptured and with Jesus in some ethereal place. It is as if there are two gods in this scenario. This is in line with the early church’s heresy of Marcionism. It really is a form of replacement theology.

Many Torah abiding Jews understand that there cannot be a new temple and peace until the Messiah comes. However, they are not looking for Messiah Yeshua. This could be in part because Messiah Yeshua, who was a Torah observant Jew from the line of David, only saying what he heard his father say, has been morphed into Jesus Christ, a new Greco-Roman god that tolerates all manner of sin. Christianity and Judaism as they are today are two religious systems that are not compatible with the Creator of the Universe. Christianity rejects His commandments and Judaism rejects His son. Both add and take away from His instructions.

Deuteronomy 12:32 (LEB): ³² All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

Therefore, let’s guard and keep His commandments as Yeshua told us to do. There is much prophecy to unfold in front of us and the best way to be prepared according to Revelation 14:12 is to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Yeshua!

Photo by Kato Blackmore 🇺🇦 on Unsplash demonstrating an example of “permanent ruins” in Chernobyl.