SuperKal

i cannot begin to describe how happy i am to hear this news.

Well, a few things need to be said here. First, quoting from the early church is not eisegesis. Eisegesis is going in scriptures with a preconceived thought or idea, and that's not what I was doing. I was simply sharing with you and others that when it concerns this particular teaching, the earliest church believed and taught that The Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan. Whether he is right or wrong is debatable, but I'm not saying that he has ultimate truth over the scriptures.

It does help, though, to read from the early church, because they have a lot of insight and knowledge about how Christianity spread in the Post apostolic Church age. In the second century, there was a man named Irenaeus. Irenaeus was the student of Polycarp, who was the student of the apostle John. When Irenaeus was alive, there were two copies of the book of Revelation that were circulating. One version had 666, and the other version had 616. Irenaeus had the authority to say that the manuscript with 666 was correct because of the teachings that he had received from Polycarp.

Second, the reason I quote from Daniel 11 is because when it concerns those particular verses, the first time we see these particular verses used to describe attributes of the Antichrist was Hippolytus, who was the student of Irenaeus. A lot of the reasons that some pre-millennials take this viewpoint is because of how early this particular interpretation is.

I'm very much well aware of all the different interpretations when it concerns the book of Revelation. I used to be a dispensationalist, but I am not anymore. I am an historical premillennialist, or a chillast.

And I agree that we all should be on our guard, to be sober-minded and awake, because look at the world around us... Everything is exactly like Jesus foretold it would be like. And even though that may sound frightening to some, we should also keep in mind, He says "look up for your redemption draws near". Our hope comes from Jesus Christ, not JD Vance, not Trump, not conservatives, and not the Republican party. Our hope, our blessed hope, is Jesus Christ.

No, it doesn't, and there are other reasons why DJT is not the Antichrist. The Old Testament describes the Antichrist as being an Assyrian. DJT Does not come from that area. Daniel 11:37 says that the Antichrist will either "not follow after the gods of women", or "not desire after women", that particular verse and its translation is in question, because it could go either way, But whatever which way it's supposed to be translated, Trump does not qualify under this, because he has been married multiple times .

The early church also surmised that the Antichrist could possibly come from the tribe of Dan, because the tribe of Dan was looked upon as back biters and rebels, not to mention that the northern part of Israel was overrun by the Assyrians, and the first tribe that was captured and mixed with was the tribe of Dan.

Furthermore, DJT, his name does not add up to 666 in either Hebrew Gematria or Greek Gematria, neither does Elon Musk, or Prince Charles, or Jeff Bezos, or Jared Kushner, who, for the longest time, I thought was a very good candidate to be the Antichrist.

There is only one current world leader that adds up to 666, and that is Mohammed bin Salman. Having said that, though, the early church also advises us to not try to count the number of the name before the creation of the ten nation kingdom, where three leaders would give their power in one hour to the Antichrist. When we can correctly figure out those ten kingdoms, then we have a better chance of finding out who the Antichrist truly is.