34. The Antichrist will be a Jew.
Many pastors embrace and teach Satan's lie that the Antichrist will be a Gentile, or that there will be no literal man indwelt by Satan identified as the Antichrist.
Speaking of the coming Antichrist in Daniel 11:37, God says, "He will show no regard for the God of his fathers [the Jewish Patriarchs]."The Young's Literal Translation, the NKJV, and others, and the margin in the NASB render the passage "God" not "gods" as some translations do. The coming Antichrist will be a Jew.
The Jews would NEVER receive a Gentile as their Messiah, just as they did not receive the true, Jewish Messiah. It is ludicrous to think that the Antichrist will be a Gentile raised up from the so-called revived Roman empire.
"He [Jesus] came unto His own [the Jews], and His own received Him not" (Jn. 1:11).
Jesus, a Jew warned, "I [a Jew] have come in My Father's name, and you [Jews] do not receive Me; if another [Jew] comes in his own name, you will receive him" (John 5:43).
Jesus also warned, "Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the [Antichrist], for the number is that of a man; and his number is 666" (Rev. 13:18).
"Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist---he denies the Father and the Son" (1 Jn. 2:22). All Jews who are not born again deny that Jesus is the Christ, therefore, they are antichrists. (Of course, this is also true of Gentiles who deny that Jesus is the Christ.)
All Jews who are not born again do not honor Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him" (Jn. 5:23).
All Jews who are not born again are not worshipping God the Father, no matter how "religious" they are. Born-again Christians are the only ones on the entire planet who worship and honor the one and only true God. All others worship a figment of their imagination. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth" (Jn. 4:24).
Satan entered Judas, a Jew, before he betrayed Jesus (Lk. 22:3). Judas was a liar, deceiver, lover of money, hypocrite, and a type of Antichrist.
Satan will enter the Antichrist at or near the beginning of the Great Tribulation, giving him all his power (Rev. 13:2). Jerusalem will become spiritually like Sodom in the last days (Rev. 11:8).
The Jewish Prayer-book says, "At the end of days he will send our anointed, to deliver those who wait for the final deliverance." He will be a Jew because the Jews would not accept a Gentile as their Messiah. This man, instead of being anointed by God, will be empowered by the father of lies, Satan.