Question: [In]The Left Behind series, every prophecy teacher that addresses Antichrist says that Antichrist will rise from the dead.... Why was the world terrified when the two witnesses rose from the dead? | thebereancall.org

Question: [In]The Left Behind series, every prophecy teacher that addresses Antichrist says that Antichrist will rise from the dead.... Why was the world terrified when the two witnesses rose from the dead?

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Question: [In]The Left Behind series, every prophecy teacher that addresses Antichrist says that Antichrist will rise from the dead. If this were true, then everyone that goes before the judgment seat of Christ because they worshiped the Beast and took his mark (666) could claim salvation because they believed God. Why was the world terrified when the two witnesses rose from the dead? Jesus said that His rising from the dead would be the "sign of the prophet Jonah," proving that He was the Christ. Satan's seed that receives the deadly wound to the head happened on the cross....The Beast deceived those on earth; and they made an image of the Beast that it lived. They are the living, breathing image of the Beast that took his mark, 666, with Satan as the head, just as Christians are the living, breathing body of Christ, with Jesus as the head....

Response: I agree that Antichrist will not be killed and rise from the dead (Revelation:13:1-3). Only one of his seven heads was "as it were wounded unto death" and "his deadly wound was healed..." [emphasis added]. This was not a resurrection but a healing that will cause all the world to "wonder" (Rv 13:3). I don't know why so many prophecy teachers claim that Antichrist will be resurrected. Physical resurrection comes only to those who belong to Christ and participate in "the power of his resurrection..." (Philippians:3:10).

Your comment that "everyone that goes before the judgment seat of Christ because they worshiped the Beast and took his mark (666) could claim salvation because they believed God" is incomprehensible, as is much of the rest of your letter. All who "worshiped the Beast and took his mark (666)..." are damned (Revelation:14:9-11). They will be cast into the "lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are" (Revelation:20:10).