NOV 6

Daniel 9:27
Memorise Revelation 13:1-18
“he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week”

The Great Tribulation will last for seven years. The seven years are divided into two equal halves of 3½ years each. The first half is a time of peace howbeit a temporary and man-made one. It will begin when the Antichrist makes a peace treaty with Israel which will end the wars that plague Palestine till this day. This covenant between the Antichrist and Israel is predicted in Daniel 9:27a, “And he (i.e. the Antichrist) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (i.e. 7 years)”. Israel will be allowed to sacrifice and worship in peace for 3½ years. After 3½ years, the Antichrist will break the peace treaty and persecute Israel: “and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:27b).

The Antichrist will stop all worship of Jehovah and order the whole world to worship only him. He will set himself up as God. The whole world will be mesmerised by this because he received a fatal wound and yet became alive again, “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Revelation 13:3). The Antichrist deceives the world by imitating the resurrection of Christ. The world will be so amazed by the power of the Antichrist that they will worship him as God, “And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:5). The Antichrist filled with Satanic pride will blaspheme against the living and true God, and this he will do for the next 3½ years, until the seven years are up (Revelation 13:5-6).

There is another man—the False Prophet—who will assist the Antichrist to commit evil. He is described as one who is like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon (Revelation 13:11). In other words, he looks religious and pious outwardly, but inwardly he is full of lies, evil and wickedness—a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The false prophet will make the world worship the Antichrist, and will deceive the world with his miracles, even making fire to come down from heaven [an imitation Elijah] (Revelation 13:12-14).

Thought: Beware the prophet today who says he can perform miracles.
Prayer: Lord, let me not be deceived by false miracle-workers.