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Candidates for the ANTICHRIST

Is He Alive at this Time?

  There are many candidates!

 Many in the past have wanted to be the President of the Entire World.  There are many today who greatly desire to be that ominous leader.  We did an article a while back on the prospect of Emmanuel Macron becoming that leader of the world.  Could he, be it?  According to Scripture, the greatest political leader in history — the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) — will arise from Europe to seek world domination and deceive the world at the end of this Church age.

     

 Because of the convergence of so many prophecies that are given for the last days, it appears almost certain the Antichrist is on earth and waiting in the shadows for his time to appear and there is much speculation about his identity.  Among the speculation, some of the more popular Antichrist candidates include Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jared Kusner and Pope Francis and several others.

 Yet, out of all the Antichrist candidates who have come and gone, Emmanuel Macron, who became President of France on May 14, 2017, has generated more end-time buzz than any other world leader that I know!  This is because Macron seems to fit the exact characteristics of the Antichrist in so many ways.

 God’s Word tells us the Antichrist will rise suddenly from obscurity (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 8:9).  Many news sources have reported on Macron’s meteoric rise, appearing out of nowhere!  A year before the French election, Macron had no political party and no previous electoral experience.  Two years before, he was a virtual nobody.  France has been in chaos from all the terrorist attacks and the far-right Front National candidate, Marine Le Pen, seemed the only answer to the madness.  And yet, Emmanuel Macon won a landslide victory over Marine Le Pen in the French election.  At age 39, he is the youngest President France has ever had, and not since 1958 and Charles de Gaulle has a French President ever won such a powerful majority, taking 351 out of 577 seats!  His rise has been nothing short of meteoric and unprecedented!

 The number 666 related to the Antichrist and is possible to be computed (Revelation 13:18).  According to Dr. E.W. Bullinger, “when the name of the Antichrist is known its gematria will doubtless be found to be the number 666”.  There are 36 (6 x 6) total characters in Macron’s name (32 letters, 1 dash, 3 spaces).  If you give each character a value of its position and calculate the sum, you get 666 (1+2+3+…+36 = 666).  Macron won the French presidency by 66.06% of the vote and assumed office on May 14, 2017 (Israel’s 69th anniversary as a reborn nation, what a coincidence!)

 The Antichrist will claim to be God and is worshiped (2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4).  Macron has already claimed he will “Rule like the Roman god Jupiter,” in homage to the highest pagan god of all the Roman and Greek pantheons, the king of all the gods in ancient Roman religions.  In open reference to this, Macron’s own nickname in France now is “Jupiter”.  Other names given to him include: “Jesus Macron”, “Europe’s Savior” and “the new Louis XIV” (or the “Sun King” reborn).

 Macron seems to adore the attention, even (jestingly) allowing people to draw attention to the origin of his own name “Emmanuel,” which of course means in Hebrew “God is with us.”  In fact, all parts of his name call him some sort of God or Jesus. except his last name meaning: “a written or printed mark”! Considering that Macron’s parents are atheists, isn’t it a bit odd they named their child like this?

  This is his full name and its meaning:

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron

Emmanuel – God with us

Jean – gift from God

Michel – who is like God?

Frederic – peaceful ruler (“Prince of Peace” is the title for Jesus Christ – Isaiah 9:6-7)

Macron – a written or printed mark

(Revelation 13 tells us “the mark … is the name of the beast (Antichrist)”.

Coincidence?  Or an incredible play on words? 

 Coincidently, Macron’s name in the English gematria totals to 888 (“Jesus” in Greek gematria), also causing some to see him as a Jesus type figure, and he was born on 21 December 1977, which is the Winter Solstice or the shortest day of the year.  It is interesting to note that the reason December 24 and December 25 were picked for Jesus’ birthday is because those were considered to be the Winter Solstice or the shortest day of the year at the time.

 Orthodox Bible scholars all recognize that our Lord Jesus was born in the latter part of September, not December.  Technically the world religious system believes our Lord Jesus was born on what is observed as Christmas, December 25th.  With the name of “Emmanuel”, Macron could falsely claim that he is the fulfillment of the prophecy given in Isaiah 7:14:

  “Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” 

 The Bible tells us Antichrist will be a prince (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 9:26).  Unlike most European and western leaders, Macron is technically a prince.  Macron became co-prince of Andorra, a small principality located between France and Spain, at the same time he assumed office!

 The Bible tells us Antichrist will be of Roman descent, rising out of the revived Roman Empire (the European Union) (Daniel 9:26).  Macron has Roman ancestry through both sides of his family, and his country, France, is part of the Revived Roman Empire (EU).  Macron is working on uniting Europe which would be a return of this power and is currently leader of one of the two most powerful countries in the EU.

 The Antichrist will be a sexual pervert and show no regard “for the desire of women” (Daniel 11:37).  Strangely, young Emmanuel Macron (at age 15) fell in love with Brigitte Trogneux, a married teacher at his school, who at the time was 39!  Despite her initial rejection of him and the fact that she was already a married mother-of-three, Macron did as he pleased and began an affair with Trogneux as a teenage boy anyway.

 The desire of women is to have a family and children.  Macron said he doesn’t want kids of his own. There are also rumors he’s homosexual and has had affairs with a few men.  Macron openly supports gay marriage.

 Because Lucifer himself will possess his chosen leader, the Antichrist will be an extremely charismatic leader, who is seemingly friendly and charming.  Macron is young, good looking and charming, according to many articles.  Haaretz News had this to say about Macron:

 “When he takes the stage at rallies, you can feel Emmanuel Macron’s messianic dimensions — the audience’s near-sexual ecstasy, his followers’ blind faith, his speech writers’ evangelical messages.  People yearn to get a picture with him. speak with him, touch him.” 

 Macron’s friend describes how the president is a “grand seducteur,” a man who uses his prodigious gifts to get whatever he wants. Macron, he explains, is a polymath, a person who is able to acquire significant expertise in a variety of different subjects to quickly become an expert in them, and that he uses this ability to ingratiate himself with others.

 The Financial Times, quoting a source who has known Macron well for years, detailed how, “…he seduces everyone.  And then he kills.”  The FT source says Macron is always charming, especially with enemies and those hostile to him.  During the election, for example, Macron took particular pleasure in always trying to meet his opponents, even the most hostile, face to face.  He did this, so the source says, because he was and is so confident of his own charm, and in his ability to “win people over.”

 I expect the Antichrist to be a clever psychopath who is ruthless towards others behind the scenes (Daniel 8:23).  Macron’s leadership style is beginning to emerge, and it IS ruthless.  For instance, after President Francois Hollande made Macron a government minister, Macron abandoned Hollande and ultimately took his job.  Macron then purged three well-established and senior ministers in the first few days of his administration.  Macron has wasted no time in also lecturing, and greatly offending eastern and central European leaders on what he perceives as their collective failure to accept adequate amounts of refugees from the Middle East into their nations.

 Macron’s consistently scornful approach to the normal rules and boundaries of life has led leading European psychiatrist Adriano Sagatori, who has studied Macron extensively, to actually declare him as a potential psychopath.

 The Antichrist will become the ruler of the world (Revelation 13:7), beginning his rise to prominence as a person who addresses some of the world’s major problems through diplomacy.  He will appear to be the savior of the world (Revelation 6:2).  Emmanuel Macron is the darling of globalism, he is its very embodiment.  Macron is such a globalist that he has stated that “the French culture does not exist.”  One prime example of Macron addressing world problems is his role of leadership in the “Climate Change” global farce.  Interestingly, climate change, formerly known as “Global Warming”, has always been considered the vehicle by which the globalists will dominate and control the world’s economies.

 Macron has already been successful in France by representing all that is wrong in Europe:  Socialism, no borders, immigration madness, Islam exaltation, and Godlessness.  As a result, Macron has been called “Jesus Macron”, Europe’s Savior and “Sun King” reborn.  Last year, the Rothschild magazine even portrayed Macron as Christ-like walking-on-water photo with the headline “Europe’s Saviour?”

 The Antichrist will be the most arrogant person of all time (Daniel 11:36; Daniel 8:25) since he will have the audacity to claim that he is God and will demand the world to worship him (2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4).  Macron’s claim that he will “Rule like the Roman god Jupiter,” is in effect a statement that he wants to rule “above every god” (Daniel 11:36).

 Macron has been criticized for taking an arrogant approach, such as when he didn’t conduct the traditional French presidents’ Bastille Day TV interview because his thoughts are “too complex” for such a forum.  Leading European psychiatrist Adriano Sagatori states, “Like all psychopaths, he believes in his higher purpose.  Macron does not love France and will not fight for the French people.”  Sagatori continued, “Macron loves only himself … The paradox is that he appears normal, but we have a case of full-blown narcissism.”

 This impression of Macron is not isolated; it seems to be echoed by many others.  Even his wife ‘thinks he is arrogant’!

 The ultimate source of the Antichrist’s power is Satan (Revelation 13:2), and Satan has [some] supernatural abilities (John 12:31; 2nd Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2).  Thus, I expect the Antichrist to possess some unusual or unique traits.  A reporter followed Macron for a week and noticed some unique traits he displayed.  These include not breaking in sweltering heat, possessing relentless energy (which he is renowned for), being able to look at someone and convince them to trust him with his “penetrating blue eyes”, being able to recite perfect Greek, and playing both sides in a bid for a newspaper.

 The Antichrist will rule a ten-nation confederacy which will rise out of a revived Roman Empire (the European Union) (Daniel 2:31-35; 40-45; Daniel 7:7-8; 19-24; Revelation 13:1-2; Revelation 17:3; Revelation 7:12-16).  Macron’s been pushing to bring together a core 10-nation “Coalition of the Willing” EU Army to prepare European armed forces to take action together in emergencies, and to bind Britian into military cooperation as it leaves the EU.  A coalition of ten European militaries ready to defend i.e., the continent’s borders have been unveiled in Paris, just days after Emmanuel Macron called for a “real European army”.

   

 The Antichrist will have a very strong military (Revelation 13:2; Daniel 7:6).  Macron’s own country, France itself, has the first or second most powerful military in the EU given that it along with the U.K. are the only two countries in the EU that possess nuclear arsenals!  In addition, the guillotine, and perhaps main weapon that the Antichrist will use to kill the martyrs during the Great Tribulation (Revelation 20:4), was invented in France and used extensively in French history.

 I do find it interesting that Macron consistently speaks the most common language of the day — English.  A vast number of Europeans speak (or at least understand) English as a second language.  Thus, is it any surprise that Macron would abandon use of his native tongue in favor of a common language?  He also speaks German.

 The Antichrist is going to make, and sign, a seven-year peace treaty with Israel (Daniel 9:27).  Interestingly, even Macron has wanted to offer Israel “Safety and Security” as he attempts to do what no one to date has been able to do; to bring peace between Israel and the PA.  Macron is interested in being a significant factor in the attempts to renew talks between Israel and the PA, and the French are already working on their own peace plan!

 Betraying the Jewish state, the Antichrist will seek the destruction of the Jews (Daniel 11:40-41).  French Jews reacted in horror at reports President Emmanuel Macron decision to honor Marshal Philippe Petain, the disgraced Nazi collaborator who authorized the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to death camps.

 The Antichrist will be economically smart, controlling the world’s economy (Revelation 13:16-17).  Also, some think the Antichrist will be a Rothschild or one their puppets — a must for all Antichrists with their love of global financial domination.  Macron is very smart economically having worked for the Rothschilds banking corporation!  In 2012, Macron left Rothschild to become deputy secretary-general at the Elysee for two years, then was quickly promoted to Minister of Economy and Finance.  Ex-minister and senior civil servant Jean-Pierre Jouyet, told Macron at the time he took the job as economy minister: “You’re the boss now.”  Macron is indeed a financial genius.

 The Antichrist is also a politician (Revelation 17:11-12).  Macron’s now arguably the most important political leader in Europe today, aside from Angela Merkel.  After creating his own party En Marche (named with his own initials), then winning 350 out of 577 seats in the French parliament, all within one year of its creation, and now exploring creating his own party for the European Union and even his own political school — Macron’s considered a political genius!

 The Antichrist will change times and the laws (Daniel 7:25).  Ever since Macron took office, he’s been completely changing many labor laws in France, which have caused multiple violent protests, and wants to change Sunday work times.

 The Antichrist eventually forms his one-world religion (Revelation 17;18).  There is a strong case for this one-world religion being the Roman Catholic religion.  Emmanuel Macron was born to non-religious, liberal parents but decided he wanted to be baptized a Catholic, at the age of 12, despite his parents’ misgivings.  He then received a Jesuit education until his last year of high school.

 Macron visited the pope at the Vatican (headquarters of the Roman Catholic religion and was granted an unusually long meeting behind closed doors with a head of state) in which they discussed migration issues, conflict in the Middle East and the future unity of Europe.

 Macron has given another speech on a stage shaped like the Masonic unfinished pyramid, as well as a stage that was lit up in the shape of a cross.  In his debate with Marine Le Pen, Macron flashed the 666 hands signal many times, even on both hands at the same time.  On other occasions, Macron has held up the satanic horned hand symbol.

Could Macron be the Antichrist?

 The Bible makes clear that the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) will not be revealed until the Restrainer (Holy Spirit-indwelt Church) is removed (2nd Thessalonians 2:3; 7-8).  So, no one will know for sure who the Antichrist is until the Rapture occurs. It certainly looks like a possibility as Macron certainly seems to possess many of the credentials of Antichrist.

 The point of this article is not to identify who the Antichrist is, but to warn those here for tribulation.  Whether Macron is the Antichrist or not, it is a guarantee that Macron will rise to a prominent position in European leadership.

  Amir Tsarfati says of Macron:

  “I believe that in Emmanuel Macron’s case I can very clearly say that we are watching a young, West European leader who was groomed by the “one world order’ gang for this powerful position. I am not talking about grooming him to be the Antichrist, but definitely toward leadership of Europe.”

Some other possible Antichrist candidates:

 Here are some more of the key figures we are watching with great suspicion.  Basic biographical information is shown, and reasons given why any of them might fit the role of the Antichrist.

Jared Kushner

Title & Position: former Senior 

Advisor to President Trump, former

de facto Chief Negotiator for Middle

East Peace 

Age: 36 years old

Born: Livingston, NJ

  Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Denies that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (1st John 4:3; 2nd John 1:7), possibly fulfils an alternative ancestral view of who the antichrist might be as an Orthodox Jew who will fulfill the Torah and claim to be the Jewish Messiah, possible Roman ancestry as well through various European family ties, apparently supports dividing the land of Israel.

  Notes: Donald Trump’s son in law remains mostly a mystery, but he has risen in the ranks of world power very quickly.  He caught the attention of the Bible prophecy community for two reasons.  First, he was appointed by President Trump to lead the U.S. effort to make a final status agreement between Israel and Palestine.  He has since made two separate trips to the Middle East, which are largely shrouded in mystery.  His second trip occurred around the time of the Jubilee celebrations in Jerusalem and the 70th prophetic year anniversary of Israel.  Second, in 2007, Kushner purchased the tower at 666 Fifth Avenue for $600 + $600 + $600 million dollars.  Just coincidence?

 Alexis Tsipras

Title & Position: Prime Minister 

of Greece

Age: 42 years old.

Born: Greece in the area of the 

ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires.

  Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Very close match of Daniel 11:37, many anti-Israel statements and positions, born in the area of “the people of the prince who is to come”, rejects Christ, the Greek Antiochus IV Epiphanes would be a fitting foreshadowing.

 Notes: A sudden appearance, only a couple of years ago was considered a militant communist nobody but is now the wildly popular Prime Minister of Greece.  He is an atheist (no regard for any god — Daniel 11:37) and also living in a non-marital relationship with a woman (“no regard for the desire of women”).  He has two children, one named after the god Apollo, and the other after the pagan prophet Orpheus.  Young, attractive, and charismatic, he carries a messiah-appeal in Greece.  For the first time in modern history, he refused to follow the traditional Christian swearing-in ceremony.  He was essentially elected with one purpose: to roll back austerity in Greece.  If he succeeds, his popularity will skyrocket and could be set for a grand entrance into a large leadership position in the EU.

 King Abdullah II

 Title & Position: King of Jordan.

 Age: 55 years old

Born: Amman, Jordan

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Many anti-Israel statements and positions, amazingly both Roman ancestry through his mother and Assyrian ancestry through his father, rejects Christ & YHWH (Daniel 11:37), was literally a prince, his country is physically sandwiched between the potential kings of the north and south of Bible prophecy.

 Notes: He is relatively young and charismatic.  Interestingly, his command of the English world linga franca is better than his Arabic.  He is seen as peaceful, progressive and uniquely popular in both the West and the Muslim world.  He is the direct descendent and the closest living relative to Muhammad himself.  His probability went up considerably most recently with threats of invading Iraq to drive out ISIS.  Iraq is the most seat of ancient Babylon.  He also happens to be the technical custodian of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which would give him power and persuasive influence to suggest rebuilding the Jewish Temple.

 Justin Trudeau

 Title & Position: Prime Minister of Canada

 Age: 45 years old

 Born: Ottawa, Canada

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Direct Roman ancestry (Daniel 9:26), anti-Zionist, pro-global government promotes lawlessness and immorality (2nd Thessalonians 2:3), leader of the northernmost country on earth (some scholars argue the “king of the north” is the antichrist). 

 Notes: His name is quite interesting: Justin Pierre James Trudeau.  Peter (Pierre) and James were the top leaders of the early Church.  He named one of his sons Hadrien (French version of Hadrian), which is the name of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from 117 to 138.  Emperor Hadrian was considered to be one of the forerunners of antichrist because Hadrian desecrated the site of the Biblical temple by erecting a temple to the supreme pagan god Jupiter directly over its ruins. Hadrian is also responsible for renaming the land of Israel to ‘Palestina’ in 135 A.D. (Palestina is the Latin version of Philistia, the chief enemy of ancient Israel).  Spelling variations of the name “Trudeau” include Trudon and Trudel, either of which would make the number of letters in his name 6, 6, and 6: Justin (6) Pierre (6) Trudon / Trudel (6).

 Zoltan Istvan

 Title & Position: Founder of the 

Transhumanist Party and candidate

for U.S. President.

Age: 44 years old.

Born: Los Angeles, California 

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Direct Roman ancestry (Daniel 9:26), atheist (Daniel 11:37), rejects Christ (1st John 2:22), false messianic tendencies including offering his followers eternal life through “transhumanism”, anti-Zionist, pro-global government.

 Notes: His first, middle and last names each have six letters.  He effectually denounces all forms of morality, calling morality “chains” (see 2nd Thessalonians2:3).  He idolizes science and technology in possible fulfillment of Daniel 11:38 and he voluntarily had his hand implanted with an RFID chip, which uniquely connects him with a possible implementation of the Mark of the Beast.

 While the antichrist might come from this list, it is also entirely possible he might not come from this list at all, so keep your eyes wide open and your mind fervently fixed on God’s Word.  The antichrist will not be unequivocally revealed until after the Rapture (2nd Thessalonians 2:3, 7-8) or after the Abomination of Desolation.  There is also growing speculation that the antichrist might be a fallen angel or Nephilim or some sort of spiritual entity that arrives after the War in Heaven described in Revelation 12.

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