Warning: the following information is not in trendy "end-times" literature and movies, but it is in your Bible!

1. He is the 8th in a series of world-class emperors/kings. (Revelation 17:9-11)

2. Though he is the eighth, he is also one of those seven. (Revelation 17:9-11)

3. Therefore, unless he is the seventh one, and I believe facts point otherwise, he has already lived on the planet.

4. As a resurrected emperor, he will not be born and raised all over again! All attempts to locate him on the planet now or at any time are therefore futile. Especially because,

5. (Revelation 17:8) "...he will ascend out of the bottomless pit..." This gels perfectly with Paul's words in II Thessalonians 2:9-10. Here Paul tells us that the coming of antichrist will be Satan-powered, deceptive, miraculous. Perhaps he will try to mimic the coming of Christ, and deceive many.

6. So that there is no mistake in his identity, Daniel goes into great detail in his book (ch. 11) to pinpoint the man who is transformed into antichrist. He originally lived in the Middle East, and he has some unfinished business with the Jews. I'll let you dig for the rest of his i.d.

7. He will commit the ultimate "abomination of desolation" (Matthew 24:15). We know that that phrase has been thought to refer to the defiling of the Temple by idols and pigs. Those events were only previews of the real thing coming.Paul says in II Thessalonians 2 that this man will himself enter the (newly constructed third) Temple and declare that He is God. A living abomination that will be the signal for chaos on the planet.