Who do you think / guess the AntiChrist would be / is?
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Thank you very much. If you're more comfortable, you can put some of the letters of the name such as Don _ _ _ Trum_ or Prince Ch _ _ _ _s.
Can't really make guesses because the bible lays out several things regarding Antichrist's background in Daniel:
1. He begins as a little horn, IE a leader of little importance, but becomes great over time especially after 3 of the 10 horns are plucked out by him (Daniel 7)
2. He comes out of one of the 4 splinter factions of the Empire which is represented by the He-goat (Daniel 8) who destroys Persia, yes people think this refers to Alexander and Antiochus, which may have been a shadow fulfillment of this but Gabriel stresses that this vision is of the end times, not ancient history multiple times. So something like Alexander's conquest will happen again, is how I take it. In the original text it's not Greece, it's Javan, one of the descendants of Japheth, son of Noah, so identifying a people group that settled near Istanbul, so western Turkey, or Greece... or the Islamic Caliphate, which the Ottoman Caliphate's capital was Istanbul, be watchful of that, Erdogan wants to reestablish the Ottoman Empire.
3. His people destroyed the temple (Daniel 9), most people assume Western Roman Empire, but Rome split into 2 empires, there was an Eastern Roman Empire as well, with its capital in..... what is now known as Istanbul, coincidentally enough.
4. He does not have the right to rule, he is not a legitimate ruler by normal rules of succession but he takes the throne by flatteries (Daniel 11), in Revelation 17, it's said that the 10 kings put him in power.
So.. you have basically a nobody, who rises to power, and is appointed by 10 leaders, and then he turns around and destroys 3 of the 10, and he comes from somewhere that is one of the territories from something like Alexander the Great's swift conquest, and is either in Europe.. or possibly Turkey or otherwise the Northern Middle East.
He is sometimes referred to as the Assyrian afterall (Micah 5)
If you're looking at a current world leader, you're probably off, especially if they have legitimate claim to their power (IE King Charles, I know some people believe he's antichrist, but he doesn't fit the criteria laid out in the bible)