We have been swayed by history. A similar event has happened many times since. People see a rising candidate for “Babylon” or “antichrist” and they begin to rework Scripture to make it all fit. And of course it never does, though there are always compelling reasons to believe the new theory. Hitler, Nero, Franco, Caesar, the Pope, Rome in general, and tons more have been lifted up as possibilities by persons who failed to read the text as it is written.

What if the Spirit was forever giving clues which true searchers would find as they attempted to solve the mysteries of the ages? What if the pictures painted in Scripture were obvious for the one pursuing Light? What if the Bible is enough after all and the only reason we “need” extra-Biblical facts is for confirmation? Some day there may be many apologies to Jesus for having overlooked the facts He so laboriously presented through at least four men, one of them Himself!

Let us agree here that our method will be to go to the Word first, not history, news, or personality. What saith the Word? That is all that matters! And it is the Word for which we will be held accountable! May God protect us from sharing or receiving anything that is not directly deducible from one of the sixty-six books of the Bible.

Actually this task will be much easier than combing through all of the Bible’s books. We’ll be able to find the entire truth of this antichrist matter in only four of the sixty-six: Matthew, Daniel, Revelation, and II Thessalonians. Better still, of these four books, seven chapters carry the entire message. Fifty plus verses will tell it all! We’ll meander around in a few other places, but the drama unfolds in these few places. The trick will be to keep our eyes open and travel very slowly through this turf.

A little over fifty verses, taken as they are, un-edited, with no desire to please any man, church, or dogmatic system, and no worry about a publisher’s financial concerns… oh my! There is power! There is truth!

Here is the plan. Let’s go to Jesus first, in Matthew (with Luke as a back-up) and listen in on his response to the question posited above by the disciples: When is the end? When will You come? Now, we are to be faithful and productive whatever the answer is to their question, but it is still a fair question, and Jesus gives a very precise answer. In the process, He answers the question posed on the cover of this book.

Jesus leads His hearers to Daniel. Following this lead we will study in detail the definitions of the sign Jesus gives in Matthew 24. By the time we have drunk in Daniel’s visions in chapters 8-12, our mind will be reeling. With Daniel we will be overwhelmed with the truth before us.

This truth will then be corroborated for us by similar visions given to the apostle John in his Revelation, specifically chapters 13 and 17. We will see that we are not dealing with some “Old Testament truth,” but that the same Spirit spoke to both men a complementary message. Daniel and John are one in their proclamation of end-time truth.

Our final expert will be none other than the apostle Paul, obviously a student of Daniel, but also a man who by the Holy Ghost surpassed Daniel and added to the revelation as only a Spirit-filled apostle is allowed to do. We don’t often think of Paul as a “prophet” but we forget that he was caught up to Heaven (II Corinthians 12) and offered an incredible array of revelations, most of which he was not permitted to share with us. He has very important information to add to the antichrist doctrine. He warned his first-century flock about the coming man of sin. How much more should we be heeding the warning?