Anti-Christ — Final God of Materialism
And how it proves that the Christian concept of Rapture is a scam.
Anti-Christ is a figure; expected to come at the end of time before Jesus, arriving back for a second coming; this Evil personality will rule the world, possess tremendous powers, and will bend nature.
It's understood that initially, it will claim to be Messiah, which is a concept in Jewish tradition that they are waiting on, but later will claim to be God.
But in essence, Anti-Christ is the biggest deception humanity has ever witnessed; since it possesses all the capabilities to control nature, and it's the reason people will fall for it.
Anti-Christ is a concept all the three Abrahamic faiths have but their understanding is different.
Jews — have it as a core belief; which they have been waiting for for eternity; and they believe it will help them establish power over the world; like they have during the lifetime of Soleman and David.
Many Jews believed that establishing the state of Israel was a step toward their Messiah arriving back; as it would set up power for this entity and a state where it would rule the world; while many Jews have historically held the belief that they should not gather in the land of Palestine till their Messiah will arrive.
Jesus was the Messiah; they were waiting on but when he arrived with all the miracles they ( possibly their religious elites) rejected him; because he did not establish the kingship they desired; so they conspired against him and did not stop till they thought they put him on the cross.
Christians
Christians also have this tradition; that it is a force that will fight against Jesus on his return; and will be very powerful and will represent Satan and its Evilness; but since they did not have the correct understanding they have been predicting Jesus and Anti Christ return within few decades after Jesus left this world ( for the first time).
During the protestant movement, Martin Luther believed the Pope was the Anti Christ; as he tried to yield power.
Christianity started on the wrong footing, Jesus was sent as a last Prophet to Jews to improve and restore wrong teachings they had been led to by their scholars; Jesus never claimed divinity; but after his resurrection; people originated this story that such a grand narrative cannot be a normal incident; and ideas like Original Sin, Trinity were invented.
So when people get their salvation; because a certain person died for their sin; how would you understand the second coming of Jesus ( which Christians called Rapture); Evil and Satan or even Anti-Christ?
Hence wrong concepts and stories were made to justify and understand these concepts.
Muslim
There are numerous Prophetic sayings about end times; Anti Christ; the return of Jesus and Gog and Magog in the end of times.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH said ( in the end time) Muslims would be numerous but would be weak and void of any good and faith.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and last enervation into your hearts. Someone asked: What is wahn (enervation). Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): He replied: Love of the world and dislike of death.
Also, Prophet Muhammad PBUH said Muslims; will make the same mistake that their predecessors did ( Jews and Christians); hence, the Quran talks a lot in detail about Jesus and Moses; and how they were given miraculous attributes; but their nations either rejected them; and changed their message into what it is not and color the monotheistic God according to their liking.
The majority of Mulsim today are perfect examples of Jews and Christians of the past; who though claim to be followers of one God; but on the contrary have associated small gods of their nations; wealth and ethnicity with the concept.
Every Prophet
has warned its people about the coming of a personality; who will possess all the powers of nature; and is the biggest deception ever to hit humans; because it will be given the power to control all the powers of nature and people will be deceived into thinking that Anti Christ is divine.
“There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed. Dajjal is blind of one eye On his forehead are the letters k. f. r. (Kafir) between the eyes of the Dajjal which every Muslim would be able to read.”
In Islamic eschatology, Anti Christ is referred to as Dajjāl (Arabic: دجّال) is the superlative form of the root word dajl meaning “lie” or “deception”.
It means “deceiver” ( “false, deceitful; spurious”). The compound al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, with the definite article al- (“the”), refers to “the deceiving Messiah”
Human Biggest Enemy
Satan wants to divide humans and keep them against each other; so they do not unite and come to common terms; it finds a way that we see each other through a racial bias; white vs non-white; x-nation vs y-nation; poor vs rich; communist vs capitalist; left vs rights; rather than as equal human created by same God with same ingredients and put on earth.
It finds clever ways of controlling humans by showing humans ways of making another human slave; pushing us on a path where we think like God; and showcasing greed and power as the attributes of desire rather than being grateful and moral.
But Satan works behind the scenes; without showing itself as a leader performing miracles; with Anti-Christ it will find its weapons to control humans with a representation in a human form.
Godless Society and Post Truth
Our world is perfectly ripe for a situation for Anti-Christ's arrival; where nothing is left to be certain about; but everything is to be questioned; a simple thing like what a human; a woman; a man; and a family are in the debates today; as if progress is to die a nihilistic life in the corner of an apartment where no one is there even to shed a tear on one's death.
Never in history, we have been so devoid of reality as Modern man is; he was able to explore the oceans, the stars, the universe, and black holes but not able to determine if there is God; it came out of nothing, lives in nothing and dies for nothing.
Modern Gods
Today humans are certain about one thing i.e. gaining more wealth and materialistic means, and following their desire and wants everything which their eye finds glittery without considering whether it would harm them.
Satan has been carving false God and setting traps for this forgetful and weak human; in the form of a tribe; race; color, ethnicity; lust for power and kingship; show of material wealth, and nation-states.
This blinded human; instead of standing firm on the moral ground; has been running after these Modern Gods; further diving themselves; and now at a stage where many have become hopeless of a God-like figure.
At this stage, Satan will bring forth all the lower desires of this materialistic man in a creature that embodies them to their fullest; do you think this unhinged human will not bow down to it?
Materialism Final God
This Godless world has all the luxuries; that even past kings and queens would not have dreamt about; through progress and science, man has exploited this world to an extreme and has found what is hidden from the surface.
Once it makes such progress; it forgets what its real self is; which is not just a compound made of atoms but a body and soul gelled together.
By considering itself as only a material body; it has moved far off from its true self; and has become imbalanced; imperfect and ugly.
Modern man can control nature and physical phenomena, through science and material progress; today humans can control climate; airwaves, bring about earthquakes; and floods, control agriculture and water flow.
Now the pathway for Anti-Christ is all set to acquire all this material power and give the impression to the masses that through its will material move.
If certain people do not believe in it, he will make their farmland stop producing harvest.
If it wants to stop water and make people suffer by stopping rain in a certain place (since they do not believe in it); it's possible.
It will control media and how certain people are projected vs other people; it can set the narrative.
Similarly, if it wants to destroy a group of people because they do not follow its command; it can with modern weaponry.
It will even be to kill a person and then stitch it together; to show off its proof of divinity.
“Don’t be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness [sin] is revealed — the one who brings destruction.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3 NLT).
His accomplishments will be so spectacular, so far-reaching and unprecedented, that many will hail him as the Messiah. But we are warned in Scripture that he is a deceiver (Daniel 8:25).
Now read the two sayings of Prophet Muhammad PBUH on Dajjal ( The Anti-Christ)
It was reported that he will have a paradise and a hell with him, but his paradise will be his hell and his hell will be his paradise. He will have rivers of water and mountains of bread. He will command the sky to send down rain, and it will rain, and he will command the earth to bring forth vegetation and it will do so. The treasures of the earth will follow him, and he will travel rapidly, like clouds driven by the wind. And he will do other extraordinary feats.
“How fast will he travel through the earth?” He said, “Like the clouds when they are driven by the wind. He will come to some people and call them, and they will believe in him and respond to him. Then he will command the sky to rain, and the earth to bring forth vegetation, and their cattle will come back to them in the evening, with their humps very high, and their udders full of milk, and their flanks stretched. Then he will come to another people and will call them, but they will reject him. So he will leave them and they will be stricken with famine, with none of their wealth in their hands. He will pass by ruins and will say, ‘Bring forth your treasure!’ — and the treasure will follow him like a swarm of bees. Then he will call a man who is brimming with youth, and will strike him with a sword and cut him in two, then (he will put the pieces apart from one another) the distance of an archer from his target. Then he will call him, and the young man will come forward smiling, with his face shining.”
Jesus will return to restore the Balance
This begs the question who will restore balance to this one-eyed God; whose only material eye functions while its spiritual eye is dead?
To Counter a material force at its full potential God will send an opposing force that is equally powerful spiritually.
After the arrival of Anti Christ; the real Jesus will descend on the wings of two Angles near Damascus.
When this Prophet of miracles looks at this entity it will start to diminish and will melt and end.
The Dajjal will appear on earth and will gain many followers, spreading his fitnah far and wide. No one will escape his fitnah except a few of the believers. At that point, ‘Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) will descend to the eastern minaret in Damascus, and the believing slaves of Allah will gather around him. He will lead them towards the Dajjal, who at the time of the descent of ‘Isa (peace be upon him) will be heading for Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem). ‘Isa will catch up with him at the gate of Ludd (Lod), a place in Palestine near Bayt al-Maqdis. When the Dajjal sees him, he will start to melt like salt melting in water, but ‘Isa (peace be upon him) will say to him, “I have some business with you, you will not get away from me.” Then he will catch up with him and will kill him with his spear.
In short, this is the reality of material; it's just an outer without meaning; it can glitter but hollow inside; it looks strong but its bases are weak.
Jesus will then rule the world and become the Messiah ( as Jews desired him to be); Like Solmen and David.
Unfortunately for those Christians who have been waiting for rapture and taken off the ground in the sky; will not happen (They might probably reject Jesus or fight with him)
Jesus will end the wrong concept associated with Christianity and bring it back to monotheism and one true God.
If you are a believer harder times are ahead, you will be tested, persecuted, challenged, and deceived into following the path toward Godlessness or resurrecting new Gods.
But you have to stay certain and strong on the right path; which goes toward a monotheistic God; who is the only true God, worthy of worship, creator of heaven and earth; everything is in its control and we all have to one day return to it and be answerable for our actions.
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