false prophet Rick Hedrick is claiming the bible is wrong for stating that the antimessiah will come from the people who destroy the second Holy Temple. He redefines this to mean 'antisemite' and claims the antimessiah may even be a chinaman.
What Rick Hedrick and most of the false prophets fail to recognize is that the roman empire was all the known world and included all of europe, assyria, iraq, and iran. It also includes the decendants of those peoples - which includes the united states, canada, etc.
It appears false prophet Rick Hedrick wants some attention so he is twisting scripture in order to gain followers.
While the antimessiah may not be from rome (roman) he will be from the roman empire (which includes the club of rome) any other interpretation of the scripture is a twisting to make it say what the false prophets want it to say.
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Rick Hedrick (21 Nov 2008)
"Antichrist cannot be Roman"
Daniel 9:26 says that "the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city......" Although it was the Romans specifically who destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD, this does not mean that the Antichrist will be Roman. "The people" could very well be referring to everyone who is anti-semitic, whom the Romans were the embodiment of in 70 AD.
The Antichrist's/Satan's "people" are everyone who is anti-semitic. The Babylonian anti-semites were replaced with the Medo-Persian anti-semites, who were replaced with the Greek anti-semites, who were replaced with the Roman anti-semites.....and now pretty much the whole world is anti-semitic. They all were and still are people of the prince/Antichrist/Satan. Anti-semitic people destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD, and they were the people of the anti-semitic prince who is to come.
So, "the people" are much more than just the Romans, and therefore the Antichrist can come from any anti-semitic peoples.
The Romans don't even exist today. Italians are not Romans. A Roman will not be the leader of the "revived Roman Empire/EU." An Italian might be the leader, but a Roman certainly will not. The Antichrist could therefore be Italian, or maybe German, or French. But anti-semites are not limited to the EU. So the Antichrist could be an Arab, a Russian, or maybe a Chinaman.
Or perhaps he could be an anti-semitic JEW!!! That makes the most sense. The Jews (in general) are going to accept him as their Messiah. And even though they are desparate for their Messiah to come and free them from their enemies, that doesn't mean that they will just whimsically accept a non-Jew as their Messiah. They understand perfectly well that their Messiah must be Jewish. Therefore, if they accept the Antichrist as their Messiah, he must be a Jew. Obama? No. Rahm Emanuel? Hmmmmmm...............................
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