IDENTIFYING THE ANTICHRIST

 Herod’s pretense was that he wanted the child Jesus found to worship Him. Herod believed in Jesus! Herod even feared Jesus, but he did not worship Him at all; he only sought to kill the child to prevent Him from governing Judea — his own kingdom in which he himself would decide who ruled it. Herod decided in favor of his son, Archelaus, despite the Jewish belief that Jesus would govern Judea (Mat 2:6). Herod, remember, was only a pretend “Jew.”

So, you believe in Jesus? So do devils (Jas 2:19). Herod had a “devil” in him. Not only a devil but “The Devil.”

We learn from the Book of Job that Satan, the Devil, travels “to and fro in the earth” (Job 1:7) — not necessarily only within this planet, but from the netherworld to this world. Hence, he can only be one place at one time, and he would wisely select when and with whom he appeared, as he did with righteous Job. (“He” is used for convenience, although Satan is neither male nor female, but physically androgenous, and is whatever it needs to be for the occasion. Keep that in mind as you read.)

But who is the Christ? God in the flesh who gives life.

Who is the Antichrist? Satan in some material image (Gen 3:1) who authors death and can appear to be a serpent, or even a man or woman. (I believe that Lilith was the female appearance of Lucifer that Isaiah wrote about as the “screech owl;” 34:14)

Who is the Antichrist? “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22). Herod denied that Jesus was the rightful ruler of Judea, according to scripture (again in Mat 2:5-6). He denied the genealogy of Jesus as the son of David and the Son of God.

He denied Jesus and sought to have him put to death. Hence, Herod was “The Antichrist” at that time. Each time has its own Antichrist, for as scripture says, “Even now are there many antichrists,” as John wrote (1 John 2:18).

There are not many Antichrists at a given time because Satan is limited to one place and one space at a time.

Unlike God who is omnipresent, Satan is not. Josephus, in the Antiquities of the Jews, indicated that “Herod died in Jericho, after an excruciatingly painful, putrefying illness of uncertain cause, known to posterity as "Herod's Evil” as Wikipedia paraphrase it.

Herod’s Evil was surely Herod with Satan in him. Since Herod was the “greatest” in the Holy Land, Satan would have selected Herod to murder Jesus. Surely, Herod was The Antichrist at that time, and afterward, perhaps, the possession would be passed onto the chief priest, Caiaphas (Mat 26:57).

So, there it is. Satan himself came to tempt Jesus (Mat 4:1) but that came after Satan in Herod failed and before Satan in Caiaphas succeeded. As such, Satan was certainly greater than Herod the Great, but even Satan failed to “kill” Jesus. Caiaphas failed as well because it was God the Father who sacrificed His only Son.

How did Satan try to kill Jesus? Just like Satan tried to kill Adam and Eve — by tempting Jesus. Falling for temptation is death. The flesh lives on for a spell, but the soul dies. Nobody ever killed Jesus because His Soul never died; it experienced death but lived on.

The soul is immortal in the sense that it either experiences Paradise or Hell, but Hell is a living death.

Just as Judas did not kill Jesus but it was Satan in him, if Herod had succeeded, it would have been Satan in him as well.

Therefore, just as is written, Lucifer thought, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north” (Isa 14:13).

“North” therein is ambiguous, meaning either directional or mystical. As an Idumean, “North” would be in Judea! Perhaps Isaiah was shown what would happen at the birth of Jesus when Herod tried to depose Jesus.

Herod saying to the wise men, “Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” (Mat 2:2). Herod was king of the ethnic Jews as well as Idumean, Samaria, and so forth — all of Jewdom. Only Judea was ethnically Jewish because Samaria had a Babylonian mixture, so says Josephus, and Idumeans were only Jews in the flesh by circumcision.

Today, people pretend to be what they are not! The Samarians pretended to be Jewish by having a similar government, temple, and Holy Mountain, but inwardly they remained Babylonians.

The Edomites were Idumeans in the flesh but cut off the foreskin to playact as if they were bonified Jews. The Jews went along with their façade.

The point to this commentary is that not only did Judas have Satan enter him, but so did Herod.

“Antichrists,” whoever they are, are the chiefest of those who are against Christ at any given time in history. As such, important world leaders who do evil have Satan in them and are Antichrists. Among them, of course, was Adolph Hitler because he was both antisemitic and Fuhrer.

Who would be the Antichrist of this era? Some world-leader with Satan in him. Many seem to be him, but there remains only one person who is The Antichrist. Unknown is who she, he, or it is!

Satan is a shapeshifter, as ancient sacred literature (The Books of Adam and Eve and the Book of Jasher) reveals.

The best deception in this age of technology would be that while we are expecting a man, or even a woman, with Satan within; it just might be a super-computer with artificial intelligence like the world has never seen before, or either a man or woman with artificial DNA (Wikipedia’s synthetic DNA).

A woman? It was Lucifer that entered Eve, he  it did not enter Adam. Prepare yourselves not to be surprised who the host of Satan might be next! Keep in mind that Satan enters the most powerful and in Judea at that time, it was Herod.

Judas was the subsequent host of Satan as is written (Luke 22:3). He was not powerful but sought to be! Imagine the name that he has made for himself. He has gone down in infamy as the man who killed Jesus. The Antichrist is always the person who thinks that he, she, or it is the one with that power.

This commentary was not planned with this ending. It was merely exploring the events that led up to the massacre of the innocents. However, that it was Satan in Herod became a plausible theory; and add to that, Satan was not great but the Antichrist, if this commentary is true, and the useful fool of Satan for his conspiracy.

 (picture credit: phys.org)