The Coming Leader
Part One. The Luciferian Doctrine
Part Two. The Powerful Delusion
by Jack Kelley
September 19, 2012
The Bible has a lot to say about the person we call the antichrist.
When
he first comes on the scene he'll quickly garner the world's
attention. More than just being likeable, he'll be seen as a man with a
brilliant future ahead of him, a charismatic personality who will
immediately attract and hold everyone's interest. And when he takes
center stage after the Battle of Ezekiel 38,
many will believe he has the solution to all their problems. In a
world reeling under the twin disasters of the mysterious disappearance
of millions of Christians and the outbreak of nuclear war in the Middle
East, he'll be a voice of calmness and reassurance. If it seems to
them like he has an almost supernatural ability to get control of
things and lead the way to peace, it will be because he does. He's
Satan's man, masquerading as the savior of the world.
In an early success, he'll broker a treaty in the Middle East that will astound everyone (Daniel 9:27), causing the recently defeated Muslim nations to agree to the building of a Temple in Israel. Using Ezekiel 48
as his authority, he'll show everyone involved that the new Temple
doesn't belong on the current Temple mount, but slightly more than 20
miles to the north in Shiloh. Sharing a space with the Dome of the Rock
and the al Aksa mosque will not be required. After thousands of years
of strife, it will appear that peace has finally come to that war torn
part of the world.
Not everyone will immediately be convinced to line up behind him, and for those who aren't, conquest will be the answer.
He'll justify the need for war by convincing them that a lasting peace
depends on everyone submitting to the authority of a single
government. Those who don't come willingly will have to be persuaded.
In the process there will be an assassination attempt that will leave him blinded in one eye and crippled in one arm (Rev. 13:3, Zech. 11:17).
But once again he will astonish the world. They will have thought him
to be dead, but suddenly he'll be, alive again. As a result, His power
and influence will grow exponentially. And soon, although it will have
required much bloodshed, the world will be forced to accept him as their leader and wear his mark as a sign of loyalty.
Because his goal is not to be just a world leader, but to be worshiped as their god, he will stand in the temple he helped to build and declare that he alone is God.
Using Satan's power to deceive and the supernatural assistance of an
apparition who calls herself Mary, he'll bring Islam, the Eastern
religions, New Age paganism, and what will be left of Christianity
together into one world wide religion with the sole purpose of
worshiping him.
In Rev. 12:9
the dragon was identified as the ancient serpent called the devil, or
Satan, and yet just one chapter later we learn that the people of Earth
will worship him. How could the one who has traditionally been known
as the very personification of evil suddenly become an object of
worship? The answer comes in two parts.
Lucifer
is a Latin word that means light bearer. It comes to us by way of the
Hebrew phrase, heylel ben shachar, found in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12,
where it refers to Satan. Heylel means shining one, and was translated
into Latin as Lucifer. Ben shachar means son of the dawn.
In 2 Cor. 11:14
Paul said that Satan masquerades as an angel of light. This tells us
that in appearing as Lucifer, Satan is not revealing his true nature,
but merely the counterfeit facade he uses to deceive mankind.
Experts
say the Luciferian doctrine is a radical revaluation of humanity's
ageless adversary, Satan, and have called it the ultimate inversion of
good and evil. There are many variations of this doctrine, but they all
boil down to the claim that Lucifer is actually the champion of
mankind, desperately trying to bring mankind through his final phase of
evolution, the spiritual one. This is when humans will become as gods,
like the Serpent promised Adam and Eve, and will finally be able to
live in peace and harmony in the utopian environment mankind has
dreamed of since the fall.
But
first man will have to win his freedom from the evil Adonai (Hebrew
for Lord) who has been holding him back, and that's really what the end
of the age is all about. Mankind is finally ready for an all out
effort to defeat Adonai and wipe out His followers, and under Lucifer's
direction and control, success is assured. In other words, it's not
Jesus who came to be the Savior of mankind, it's Lucifer.
This is not a new idea. As we saw, it was first presented in the Garden. It's also the motivating force behind Psalm 2:1-3, which we've looked at before.
According
to experts, the essence of the Luciferian Doctrine can be found in
every religious system except Judaism and Christianity, and that's why
both have to be destroyed. Even the anti-religions of Darwinian
evolution, secular humanism, trans-humanism and others can be linked to
the Luciferian Doctrine. This shared core belief is what will make it
possible for all the religions of the world to unite behind the
antichrist and worship Satan, while thinking they're in the right for
doing so.
When the Church leaves, the Age of Grace will end and those
who have refused to believe the truth will be deceived by the
miracles, signs, and wonders that Satan will display on Earth.
These include the many appearances of the Marian apparition with her
call to religious unity, often accompanied by supernatural healing and
signs in the heavens, and the apparent, although imperfect,
resurrection of the antichrist.
By the way 2 Thess. 2:10
is one of the Bible's strongest statements in support of our freedom
to choose whether or not to allow the Lord's death to pay for our sins.
How could Paul say unbelievers will perish because they refused to
love the truth and be saved unless they could have chosen to accept it?
God
has always allowed, and even helped mankind to take our desires to
their ultimate conclusion. This is a great blessing for those who
desire to spend eternity with Him, but a curse for those who want to be
rid of Him for good. Never will this be more obvious than in the time
of and just following the Rapture.
We
who want more than anything to dwell in His presence forever will
receive our heart's desire when in the twinkling of an eye we'll be
whisked off the planet to begin our adventure in Eternity. But God will
send those who have rejected His offer of pardon a powerful delusion
that will make them certain that they made the right choice. This
delusion will cause them to believe Satan's deceptions with such
conviction that they'll follow him to an eternity of torment in the Lake
of Fire.
Please
note that I don't believe this delusion will apply to those who won't
have made a firm decision either for or against God at the time of the
rapture. According to Rev. 7:9
untold numbers of people from all over the world will come to faith
following the seal judgments of Rev. 6 and be martyred for doing so. I
think the Rapture will have been the final sign they needed to make up
their minds and give their hearts to Jesus. They won't be part of the
Church, but they will have avoided eternal punishment and will be with
the Lord forever.
Throughout Daniel's 70th Week , even after numerous judgments that are obviously from God, most of the people of Earth will continue to reject Him. These examples tell the sad story.
They'll curse God and refuse to repent
because their belief in Luciferian Doctrine will result in the
greatest paradigm shift in the history of the world. Evil will be seen
as good. Wrong will be seen as right. Darkness will be seen as light.
One of the most telling signs of the End of the Age is the extent to
which this is already happening in the world. But what we're seeing
today is nothing compared to the way it will be when God causes His
powerful delusion to descend upon the left behind people of Earth. It
will elevate the Luciferian Doctrine to a fervently-held religious
belief, with Satan as the object of their worship.
Psychiatrists
define a delusion as a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason
or confrontation with actual fact. We can't imagine anyone thinking
they could defeat God, but this will quickly become the mindset of the
world after the Church is gone. The delusion God sends will help the
unbelieving world to take their desire to be rid of Him to its ultimate
conclusion. It will allow them to believe they're justified in uniting
against Him, and that they actually have the ability to defeat Him.
It's
strange, isn't it, how the world thinks we're the odd ones? But while
they're lining up like a bunch of lemmings ready to march off the cliff
to their doom, we'll just be getting started on our adventures in
Eternity. No longer conforming to the pattern of this world
we've been made new in the attitude of our mind and have put on the new
self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Eph. 4:24). Because we're in Christ we're a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come (2 Cor. 5:17). And where our eternal destiny is concerned, that makes all the difference.
You can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah.
(Here's the unedited version of this article.)
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