Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?🤔
What's your opinion?🧐
Here's the answer I offered a friend just yesterday...😇
Brother, that's an easy one...😃 Hang with me through some step by step logic so you'll understand my considered opinion:
"Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour."
- 1 John 2:1:8
On this, and many other topics, most Christians have been confused by bad English translations of the Bible. In fact, many Bible words are not even *translated*; they are Greek words with English spellings.
"Christ" is a Greek word that means "Annointed One." In Scripture, the annointed were Prophets, Priests, and Kings, and Jesus is all three.
In English, the prefix "anti" primarily means "against," but not so in Greek. "Anti" in Greek means "in place of" or "substitute."
In the beginning (Genesis 1) God gave man dominion over all the creatures, NOT over his fellow man. When the elders demanded of Samuel (1 Samuel 8) “Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations,” God told Samuel "They have rejected Me from being king over them."
There is ONE and ONLY ONE human with an inherent right to rule other humans, and his name is Jesus. He has that right because he CREATED us. Paul says Jesus is "the blessed and ONLY Sovereign" (1 Timothy 1:15).
Put it all together, and the conclusion I come to is that ANYONE but Jesus who claims a right to rule me is quite literally "anti-christ," or a "substitute king." Thus, Donald Trump clearly qualifies as one of the many antichrists John spoke of, along with every other self-styled ruler.
When the first Christians proclaimed "Jesus is Lord," they were making the very political statement that "Caesar is NOT." Christians today need yo return to the same strongly held conviction.
What do you think?🤔🧐😁❔
I've written extensively on these and related topics here:
https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf
Discussion
People been saying this for a long time about many historical figures. Only the LORD knows.
I think Scripture tells us plainly.😃
Please read my complete answer in the thread I posted, and let me know what you think?🤔
So anyone who calls themselves a King would be an antichrist?
Absolutely.
Fair enough. I guess I originally misinterpreted what you meant. I see a lot people circulating this theory that Trump is the anti-Christ that will bring on the second coming of Christ or some other half baked ideas.
Yes; I know there is a 'YUGE population of sheeple following "dispensational theology" who have been misled to expect a singular "Antichrist" as harbinger of the end times...
I've come to recognize this theological branch as a novel, seriously flawed error, though I grew up in a congregation where it was taught.
Many such cases.
He could be, a lot of it adds up. As a bayesian I'd put it at 23%approx
I like your thesis that it’s anyone who tries to rule over us.
If I had to narrow it down to one person though, Elon bears more of the characteristics than Trump IMO. Claiming AI could replace God and leaders, brain chips that alter how we think, the everything app that will control your money, promotes mRNA vaccines after everything we’ve seen with injuries (and he even acknowledges), yet he still promotes the tech.
Negative. Refer to my other comment.