Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

It’s only a matter of time until, as the Bible declares, the entire world, persisting in its rejection of God, of Christ, and of His Word, will be united both politically and religiously under Antichrist. Multinational corporations have put the entire international structure for Antichrist in place. The remarkable prophecy in Revelation 13 of one evil man controlling mankind with a number could not have come true without today’s technology. To past generations, it didn’t make sense. There is no question that we are moving in the direction of a cashless society, and there are many sound reasons why personal business will be transacted through a computer chip just under the skin in the forehead or in the hand, as the Scripture implies (Revelation:13:15-18 [15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. [16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
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Christ foretold today’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when He declared, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved…” (Matthew:24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
See All...). There was no danger of all flesh being wiped out with bows, arrows, swords, and spears during the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 – nor even with the most powerful conventional weapons at any time prior to the 1940s. This prophecy could refer only to current WMDs, which proves false the claim of some that Nero was the Antichrist and that everything Christ spoke of in Matthew 24 was fulfilled at that time.

Those who teach this Preterist/Reconstructionist view even dare to say that Christ returned in AD 70 in the person of the Roman armies to destroy Israel. Therefore, His promise to the church, “I will come again,” has already been fulfilled. Such a theory defies both logic and Scripture.

Christ had clearly said, “I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John:14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
See All...). The coming of the Roman armies was a judgment upon Israel, but it certainly did not fulfill Christ’s promise of coming for those who believe in Him to take them to His Father’s “house [of] many mansions” in heaven (John:14:2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
See All...). That promise can only still be future – the promise of the Rapture.