Jay Ross wrote:Hello
The antichrist has the face of a man in appearance but is not a man. The Antichrist is a wicked fallen heavenly host that will be worshiped.
Shalom
extravagantchristian wrote:Verses Jay?
My apologies Lisa for not providing the verses to back up my statement above. Sadly, I did not have the time to spend that would have allowed me to provide more details. Oppressive humidity, renovation work and family got in the way of providing a more detail response which would have been on topic. Hopefully the information below with help answer some of the raise questions.
Paul wrote in
Ephesian 6:12: - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
The question that has to be asked is who are "
the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places," and are they spoken about elsewhere in the scriptures?
The answer to that is yes. In Daniel 7:2 Daniel confirms for us that the four beasts of Daniel 7:3-12 are four spiritual entities that come from heaven when the word "wind" is a way of identifying a spiritual being, i.e. a heavenly host, an angel.
Daniel 7:2: - Daniel spoke, saying, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold,
the four winds of heaven were
stirring up the Great Sea.
Each of the winds of heaven have a specific characteristic, namely,
The first heavenly host's dominion/characteristic is: -
Daniel 7:4: - The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and
it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
The second host's dominion/characteristic is: -
Daniel 7:5: - "And suddenly another beast,
a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it:
'Arise, devour much flesh!' The third host's dominion/characteristic is: -
Daniel 7:6: - "After this I looked, and there was another,
{a third beast}, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird.
The beast also had four heads, and
dominion was given to it.
The fourth host's dominion/characteristic is: -
Daniel 7:7: - "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold,
a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong.
It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and
it had ten horns.These are the four heavenly hosts that are stirring up the sea of humanity, such that the seas rise up and manifests these four beasts so that their influence over the people of the sea can be seen.
Now there is also a
fifth heavenly host/beast, but it is not stirring up the sea as the first four beasts did to manifest themselves, instead this beast is exerting its dominion over the first four heavenly hosts and its characteristic is: -
Daniel 7:8: - I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there,
in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.
When the influence of the fifth heavenly host/beast of Daniel 7 is manifested in the fourth beast, the time of judgement of all the beasts occurs in heaven after the setting up of the thrones and the books were opened with the following outcome occurring: -
Daniel 7:11-12: - 11 "I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking;
I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given
{over for} the burning flame.
12 As for
the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
Now the confirmation of the above judgement is in heaven of the heavenly hosts/spirits/beasts can be found in: -
Isaiah 24:21-22: - 21 It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth the kings of the earth.
22 They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.
Also confirmation is found in
Revelation 12::7-9: - 7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him.
The pit mentioned in Isaiah 24:21-22 is also confirmed in: -
Revelation 17:8a: - The beast that you saw was, and is not, and
is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition;
And also in: -
Revelation 11:7: - When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.
Now the question of which beast was slain in Daniel 7: 11, can in part be also answered in: -
Revelation 13:3-6: - 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.
6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
Of the four beasts of Daniel 7:1-12, only the fourth beast was associated with the speaking of great things out against God in cahoots with the Little Horn. It is the healing of the wound to the head of the fourth beast that causes people to worship the beast described in Revelation 13, which rises up as a single entity, a confederation of the four beasts of Daniel 7:2-7, with them acting with a single purpose to oppose God.
Now, if the beasts are heavenly hosts that manifest themselves in the seas of humanity, then the anti-christ in my humble opinion is also a heavenly host and as such we should not be focusing on who, humanly speaking will be the heavenly host as this is part of Satan's deception over us. In effect we have already been deceived into believing something that is not true.
In my original post above I wrote, "The antichrist has the face of a man in appearance but is not a man." Sadly, I did not have any time available to write and elaborate on my post, nor to provide scriptural support. I have spent some considerable time this morning, my time, searching my memory and scriptures to find where I had previously found the verse which suggests that the heavenly host that is the antichrist, has the face that gives the appearance of a man.
Since this post is now too long, I will stop writing and continue searching off line.
Shalom
Jay Ross
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:49 am
It definitely brought to mind the scripture 
