Three things:

1. The latter has already occurred.
2. The USA will never establish a national Sunday law
3. The 8th King of Rev. 17 has already passed away.

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The US will never establish a Sunday Law?

When it does happen I hope you are able to apologize.

Well, I know it will never happen because the direct opposite has been prophesied in the Scriptures. Jesus, Paul and John spoke of the coming of THE Antichrist.

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James Peterson,

I may end up splitting this into a thread of its own, but right now I have a question.

Who do you think is/will be this "THE Anti-Christ"?

John is the only one who uses the term (four times):

1. "Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour." (1 John 2:18)

2. "Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son." (1 John 2:22)

3. "every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world." (1 John 4:3)

4. "many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist." (2 John 1:7)

It is self-evident that Christians are NOT Antichrist: whether of SDA or their long-running self-appointed nemesis, the Catholics. The Antichrist arises from the non-Christian sector of society. Christ is of no value to him. Jesus, Paul and John speak of him as a character strongly resembling Pharaoh Ramses of Egypt, best epitomized by his own words, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go." (Exodus 5:2) This is the future of Christianity, surrounded and cut down on every side by ruthless secularism. There is no national Sunday Law to come in the USA.

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Are Sunday Laws and Antichrist separate issues? I think not.

The issue presented here is a doctrine that the enemy of souls loves to get people to believe.

Satan likes people to think of him as some beastly, dumb creature with a pitch fork and hooves that is always recognized as distinctly evil.

Yes, he is distinctly evil BUT --

2 Cor. 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

In fact if you've been exposed to any "New Age" stuff you realize that one of the "masters" (which are fallen angels) calls himself "Jesus".

The religious world is looking for an evil "antichrist" and someone may present himself as such, but the whole world will fall for the real antichrist because it will manifest itself as AN ANGEL OF LIGHT or as Jesus Himself, or Christ's representative. (We'll probably see a combination of all three)

What about the whole "mary" mythology.
If Mary was Immaculate -- did she give birth to someone in true flesh?

And where is the emphases --
Jesus as God's Son?
Or Mary as the mother of God?

Well it seems you differ from what John said :
"AV 1Jn 2:18 . Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."

"us" here are believers. Scriptures talks about two types of believers (or servants) faithful beleivers and wicked believers.


Ramses was an unbeliever. He doesn't fit the description of the antichrists that John was refering to.

I would suggest to first get the Biblical definition of the word "antichrist" and work our way from there.

Indeed, and here it is: "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus (of Nazareth) is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." (1 John 2:22-23)

As I said, it is self-evident that the Antichrist arises from the non-Christian sector of society. Many Christians were, are and will continue to be drawn away by him. That is what John meant when he said, "They (many antichrists) went out from us but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out (to follow THE Antichrist) that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." (v. 19)

To suggest the the Papacy is THE Antichrist is like burying your head in the sand and shouting, "La-la-la-la-la-la!!!!!!!!" The Biblical definition lends itself rather to someone more in the vein of Josef Stalin, as in ancient times, Pharaoh Rameses: "Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not The Lord, neither will I let Israel go." (Exod. 5:2)

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