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Scripture has provided us a way to identify him in the same way that our Messiah was made known to us. As a prelude let us look at some of the early signs by which Jesus was revealed to us when He was born, let's see some of them, even before anything that he did, or should I say at the time of his birth:
He was born a virgin birth. (Isaiah 7:14)
Another is Jeremiah 31:15, Matthew 2:17-18 gives the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod the Great, as the fulfillment of a prophecy spoken of in Jeremiah. The phrase "because her children are no more" is believed to refer to the captivity of Rachel's children in Assyria. The subsequent verses describe their return to Israel.
Micah 5:2 - This verse near the end of Micah's prophecy on the Babylonian captivity has been interpreted by Christian apologists, and by Pharisees mentioned in the Gospel of John (John 7:42), as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
In the same way, scripture gave us prophecies by which to identify the antichrist at the very onset. To determine if the person is the antichrist, we must be able to affix or connect to the person if you will, these basic signs from Scripture:
He is the person who will negotiate the covenant (treaty) with Israel as written in Daniel 9:27
Having been revealed as the Man of Lawlessness comes the removal of The Restrainer that withheld his being revealed as the antichrist. (2 Thessalonians 2:5-7)
He is the one to cause the Abomination of Desolation spoken of through the prophet Daniel. (Daniel 11:31)
Apparently, as in our present time, Paul addresses the circumstance that has brought about the Thessalonians’ erroneous beliefs about the day of the Lord (Great
tribulation), wherefore in his second letter, in chapter 2 verse 3 he brought it up to correct the error. Paul labels any teaching as opposed to the eschatological message of the gospel as an effort at deception (cf. 2 Thess. 2:10; Eph. 5:6; Col. 2:8). He then reasons that the day of the Lord or great tribulation would not begin unless the above signs have come to pass or the world has seen the above, for these must precede it. Thus, for the same reason, we cannot have the antichrist known unless the great tribulation has begun first.
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