LESSON OUTLINE
1. THE PROPHETIC DECLARATION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTICHRIST
• *2.God’s Word teaches that everything has its origin in its seed form. Even the kingdom of God itself (Jesus taught in Mark 4:26-29 that it) operates on a seed-plant-harvest principle. Likewise, the first thing we learn about the origin of the antichrist is that he was prophetically declared to be the seed of the serpent.
• When Eve yielded to the temptation to eat of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden that marked the time sin entered into the human will and heart.
• God spoke words of judgment, and yet held forth a hope and promise for the redemption of mankind in the person of Jesus Christ Who was prophetically
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However, with that crucified heel the Lord crushed Satan’s power and authority or rather bruised the Serpent’s head as it were.
“And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it” (Colossians 2:15).
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Therefore the same spirit that operated in the life of Judas Iscariot is the same spirit that will take possession of the antichrist during the great tribulation!
• The Apostle John confirmed this in Revelations 17:8 when he declared, “The beast that thou sawest was [or once existed] and is not [at the time Revelations was written]; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition”.
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*1,2,3.Sourced from B.R.Hick’s book, The Antichrist; Christ Gospel Press; Jeffersonville,Indiana; 1978
• Just because the prophetic word of Genesis 3:15 - of the seed of the Serpent bruising the heel of the seed of the woman - was fulfilled in the person of Judas Iscariot and; that the Apostle John was told “the beast that thou sawest was and is currently not present, but shall ascend out of the bottomless pit”, this has led to other Bible Prophecy students concluding that Judas Iscariot is the beast that the book of Revelations is talking