Someone got to Gospel-Driven Church today using the Google search phrase antichrist divorced.
Is there actually a belief of some church or tradition out there that talks about the antichrist being a divorcee? Or some Scripture reference I'm forgetting that says divorce is of the antichrist or something?
Of course, I am very delighted to know my blog turned up #1 in the search results, thanks to this post: The Antichrist Gets Divorced
(The surfer might have actually been looking for the very info I was highlighting in that post. It just seemed weird to see it as a search phrase.)
- G.K. Chesterton
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Thanks. I also believe the "nor regard any god", could mean that the antichrist comes from an atheistic/agnostic/purley secular background.
That seems to make sense to me since I believe secularisim is the greatest current threat to Christianity. (As opposed to Islam etc.)
That seems to make sense to me since I believe secularism is the greatest current threat to Christianity. (As opposed to Islam etc.)
Depends on what you are looking at with that one. The Islamic America 2010 movement (or some name like that) obviously isn't going as fast as they planned, but I doubt the tens of thousands of Muslim missionaries that moved to the U.S. as part of that movement are going to go home on January 1, 2010. At one time I read that over 50% of all foreign-owned gas stations, hotels, etc, were owned by Muslim missionaries. That was apparently the reason they weren't so clean - the owners wanted to pass out tracts more than keep up the store. If you've ever read any of those tracts they give out, you can see why they aren't making progress :) I've talked to several of these missionaries, so that's where I got all this information from.
I also know that the Saudi Arabian government (according to a missionary living there) puts several billion dollars yearly into the hands of people tasked with "destroying Christianity at all costs." Some of that is terrorism, but it's mostly in other efforts. In fact, some of the secularist attacks on Christianity in America are actually funded by Saudis. Sounds crazy and all conspiracy-theory like, but apparently they don't try to hide it that much and you can find the paper trail if you just look a little bit. I've heard this kind of stuff in books, seminars, etc by people that I trust to have done this research, but haven't looked that much myself.
Personally, I would label secularism and Islam as about equal threats. Just really depends on what front you are looking at.
given the nature of internet searches, their search meaning may have actually been closer to "i am divorced from the antichrist" or "how to best become divorced from someone i'm calling the antichrist".
Those of us who are divorced are often made to feel like the antichrist, does that help any?
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Interesting stuff. I actually do have an Islamic evangelistic tract. It is pretty bad.
The bulk of the tract covered an American scientist claiming science supports the Koran.
I wasn't impressed. I think the "average Joe" Christian would easily resist Islam.
I have never seen a specific reference that indicates the antichrist may be divorced but the idea may come from Daniel 11:37. Of course, interpretations vary but these verses are typically believed to be speaking of the last-days antichrist.
The translations treat this passage differently - here it is in the NKJ
I have read some commentators suggest the antichrist may be homosexual because of the "nor the desire of women" passage. I can see how the divorced idea could come from this passage.
The ESV translates the passage as, "or to the one beloved by women".
The NIV reads, "or for the one desired by women".
I beleive this may be a reference to Jesus Christ...since (although I could not confirm this) Jewish women were said to desire to be the mother of the Messiah.