Hello everyone. I'd like to talk about the Antichrist and why I believe, contrary to a lot of opinions here and on /pol/, that it will not be related to Judaism. Let's begin with the requirements of the Antichrist's arrival.
> The Antichrist will attempt to impersonate Jesus and much of the world will be fooled.
This can't be related to the Jews, because the jews are not much of the world and most people aside from zionist evangelicals don't care about jewish rituals. The Jews simply don't believe Jesus was the Christ, they have no need to imitate Him.
> Then who?
Islam. I hear a lot of talk about Islam being "based" or justified because "hey, they like Jesus too!" however, this can't be further from the truth. Muslims do not like Jesus. They hate our Jesus, the Son of God. What they like is Prophet Isa of the Qur'an, who was never crucified and never died for our sins, and was a mortal man.
> Isa just means Jesus though!
Wrong again. I'm a Lebanese Christian, we call Jesus Rabbu Yassou or just Yassou al-Masih. Muslims call their "jesus" Isa al-Mahdi. Yassou al-Masih and Isa al-Mahdi are two completely different people. Again, Jesus Christ tells us one will come to impersonate Him. Islam has an imitation of Jesus, and over 1.6billion people worldwide believe that this imitation Jesus is the real Mahdi. Thus when "Isa" returns, all muslims will believe it's true, thus, this is the identity of the Antichrist.
> Will imitate Jesus
Yes
> Will be followed by much of the world
Yes
> Will set up a one-world religion
Unlike Judaism, Islam is actually trying to take over all of western Europe. Their religion is by the sword, by the conquest.
This is what pisses me off. People act like we can ally with Islam, but it can never happen. Their religion isn't "just like ours" it's a sick, depraved, violent mockery of Christianity and it is our greatest threat. The jews may be scheming and deceiving, but even they do not wield the power of 1.6billion and an unstoppable Islamist political propaganda machine.
I'm not going to debate about other prophecies or the Mark of the Beast, but I simply believe that the enormous power of Islam and its disgusting mockery truly make it the Antichrist religion. This doesn't mean you have to start worshipping zionist Israel, on the contrary that land belongs to us.