#5 ANTI-CHRIST...a precursor in history

We're looking at this 'anti-Christ' guy, soon to hit the world stage, and we find he has a precursor in history...  

10.  THE MADMAN

The Syrian dictator Antiochus IV Epiphanes (‘God Manifest’) was foretold to Daniel very accurately in chapter 11:21-35. (vv36-45 has not been fulfilled yet)                                                   

It was he who tried to obliterate Jewish faith by interfering with the priesthood, peacefully entering Jerusalem on the 15th of Kislev, 168 BC to stop temple worship, sacrifice a pig on the altar, erect a statue of Zeus/Jupiter Olympus in the temple (‘abomination that maketh desolate’, v31), pouring pig broth on the Scriptures, looting the temple, banning circumcision, killing and enslaving thousands.

What was he like?     

...vile, cruel, ambitious, deceitful, flattering, profane, murderous…and from historic records we learn he was depraved, dancing naked with entertainers. His coinage proves he was religious, claiming to be ‘Antiochus God Manifest’.  

No wonder they called him ‘Epimanes’: madman! 

Yes...a murderous, religious usurper who desecrated the Jewish temple with his 'abomination of desolation'...a clear indication of what the anti-Christ will be like....so let's read on...


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    http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/anti-christsnake-in-grass.html