After taking a respite for some very short posts, mostly about the Golden Age of Hollywood, I return to the more serious. Sorry, this is a long post. I don’t like long posts any more than anyone else, but to quote Margot Channing in All About Eve:
I have been “awake” since 1978 when I read Gary Allen’s None Dare Call It Conspiracy. And I resolved to fight against the “the New World Order,” “the Establishment,” “the Illuminati,” and, as we often call them today, “the Deep State.” I did this primarily through my writing, which I saw as my best asset. My career as an alt-media journalist began in 1986. Naturally, my understanding of what was going on expanded over time, especially with the Internet’s arrival.
Also, I became a Christian in 1983, Orthodox Christian in 2017.
In the 1980s, Boston had a Christian radio station, WEZE, which featured a talk show hosted by Jennine Graf. I remember a young man called in and claimed Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist. Jennine, somewhat stunned, asked why. “Ronald Wilson Reagan,” said the caller. “Count the letters in each name. That’s 6-6-6.”
For over two decades, I heard numerous interpretations of the Book of Revelation, some of them bizarre like that. Many people seemed eager to decipher the book’s symbolism, such as 666, the mark of the Beast, and the identity of the Antichrist. I observed, but didn’t fixate on, any of the diverse theories.
However, even without interpretations of the specific meaning of 666 and the Antichrist’s identity, there are indications that his reign is very near. As Jesus said:
Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. (Matthew 24:32–33)
(Note: In this article, I’m mostly using the NIV translation of the Bible. I’m aware of the NIV’s many deficits, but I think the King James Version’s language often has less clarity today, especially for younger readers. Also, before going further, I should acknowledge that a number of Christians, who call themselves full preterists, believe that all of Jesus’ prophetic statements in Matthew 24. and the Book of Revelation, were already fulfilled, especially in 70 AD with Jerusalem’s destruction. I agree partly, not fully, with this position. I’ll address it at the end of this post.)
Since the Antichrist is forecast in the Bible, any discussion of him is unlikely to register with atheists. I’m sure most of my followers believe in God. For those who don’t, I suggest watching my 38-minute video on Rumble. It’s basically a debunking of Darwinism, making the case that the world and its living things could not have come about by chance, but only through an Intelligent Designer.
Likewise, any commentary on the New World Order is enhanced if one believes in Satan’s existence. Look at the evils around us:
• contrived wars
• genocide in Gaza
• depopulation schemes
• destruction of national identities through massive illegal immigration
• geoengineered weather disasters camouflaged as “climate change”
• bioweapons in the guise of “vaccines”
• Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs)
• “chemtrails”
• genetically modified foods (GMOs)
• cellular damage from electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs), at a new height with 5G towers
• abortion
• homosexual marriage and transgenderism
• restrictions on freedoms, be it from the Patriot Act, COVID lockdowns, or limitations on energy use based on “carbon footprints”
• human trafficking, especially of children
• destruction of economies by central banks generating inflation, unpayable debt, and digital currencies
• the rising surveillance state coupled to digital ID
• censorship to prevent discussion of any of the foregoing
And, of course, that’s not a complete list.
I think anyone with firm moral grounding would agree that these things are evil. And given that they are mostly occurring on a global scale, it’s reasonable to say that most national governments are parties to this evil. But it isn’t just a generic, random evil. Just as life itself was created by design, these evils are growing progressively and in tandem with each other, indicating an agenda; a plan; a designer.
In Christian theology, this designer is understood to be Satan—an actual being, who sometimes materializes on Earth in person. In reading the 4,000 pages of The Lives of the Saints, translated from the Greek, and based on thousands of manuscripts from dozens of countries over nearly two millennia, it became clear to me that Satan had often appeared in person, almost inevitably to try disrupting a Saint’s work.
And of course, we read in the Bible, in Job 1:7, God asked Satan where he had been, and the latter replied, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” The Apostle Peter said, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8). In Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1–13, Satan appeared physically to Jesus in the wilderness, trying to tempt him. In Matthew 4:9 we read:
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
Jesus, of course, refused. But others, I gather, accepted, which would explain the satanic character of so many governments. St. Paul called Satan “the god of this world.” (2 Corinthians 4:4)
I’m sure that some of my readers will recall the shocking revelations of leading European banker Ronald Bernard, who was taken by colleagues to the Church of Satan; when he was eventually asked to take part in the ritual murder of children, it turned his stomach and he went public. His first of several interviews is here.
Linking the Antichrist to World Affairs
Why do I believe the Antichrist is near?
My first book, The Shadows of Power, was a history and analysis of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose members dominated Presidential cabinets for decades—Republican and Democrat alike. There was no Internet then, so I sat in the Boston Public Library and went through every back issue of the Council’s journal Foreign Affairs.
An article in the inaugural issue of Foreign Affairs (September 1922) condemned what it called “the dubious doctrines expressed in the phrases ‘safety first’ and ‘America first.’”1
An article in the second issue (December 1922) declared:
Obviously there is going to be no peace or prosperity for mankind so long as it remains divided into fifty or sixty independent states. . . . Equally obviously there is going to be no steady progress in civilization or self-government among the more backward peoples until some kind of international system is created which will put an end to the diplomatic struggles incident to the attempt of every nation to make itself secure. . . . The real problem today is that of world government.2
It continued on like that for decades. The Council itself had, in fact, been founded as a direct reaction to the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Versailles Treaty, which would have joined America to the League of Nations, an incipient attempt at world government.
After the UN replaced the League, the original globalist plan had been to empower it from “the top down,” gradually. The artificially contrived Korean War was an attempt to establish the UN as the world’s peacekeeper. However, when it became clear that approach wasn’t working, Richard N. Gardner, in his 1974 Foreign Affairs article “The Hard Road to World Order,” outlined a new strategy:
We are witnessing an outbreak of shortsighted nationalism that seems oblivious to the economic, political and moral implications of interdependence. . . . The ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down . . . . an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.3
Instead of constructing global government in one stroke, it would be built by sections: regional alliances like the EU; the World Health Organization; environmental agreements like the Kyoto Protocol; global policy-making institutions like Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum; and globalist trade alliances like NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.
How does this relate to the Bible? Several generations after the Flood, Genesis 11:1-9 tells the story of the Tower of Babel. The people had one language, and resisted God’s command to disperse all over the Earth. Seeing that the people were plotting evil, God confused their language into many tongues and scattered them across the world. Thus the diverse nations arose.
The globalist plan for a world government, ultimately erasing national boundaries, is antagonistic to God’s original intent. So is the massive illegal immigration which destroys countries’ ethnic identities.
But even more pertinent to our discussion is Revelation 13:5-8:
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
So the Antichrist will temporarily rule the world—but to govern the world requires a world government. This explains the globalist strategy that has been unfolding for decades; it’s the interface between Biblical prophecy and the internationalist policies adhered to by the (mostly) satanic governments of the world.
The Mark of the Beast
Revelation 13:16-17 says:
It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
While “the mark of the beast” isn’t here yet, there are many signs it’s around the corner. What is perhaps most germane is the phrase “they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark.” During COVID, more than 40 countries, and a number of U.S. states, required vaccine passports for various activities, such as (depending on location) travel, jobs, college attendance, dining out, shopping, use of gyms, etc.
On the heels of vaccine passports, we now see digital ID mandated worldwide. Despite being the most populous country on Earth, China requires digital ID for all citizens—there it’s called “Cyberspace ID,” and people can’t work without it. Likewise, Keir Starmer is pushing for mandatory digital ID in the UK; under the proposed plan, no one could keep their jobs unless they submitted to digital ID. In India’s Aadhaar ID system, no one outside it can do banking or have a SIM card (needed to connect a mobile device to cellular networks).
I recently posted a 3-minute video on how Amazon’s publishing platform, KDP, locked me out of my 12-year account with them, demanding that I (and all other KDP authors) digitally submit proof of identity—otherwise, our accounts would be terminated. California has passed a new law, Senate Bill 976, which will require people to submit digital ID in order to access social media. Starting in January 2026, Texas will require proof of ID just to access the Internet.
According to Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot:
As of 2025, over 100 countries have implemented or are actively developing national digital ID systems, and at least 50 have mandated their use for accessing government services, travel, or financial systems. 186 out of 198 countries now have foundational ID systems where identity records are stored in digital format.
I am not suggesting that digital ID is the “mark of the beast.” The beast would need to make his appearance first. But it’s definitely a step in that direction.
Revelation further says the mark will be on one’s hand or forehead. So it appears that digital ID will transition to a bodily implant. It could be something like a rice-sized RFID microchip, as several thousand people in Sweden already use for transactions. Here’s a woman buying groceries at Whole Foods with her hand:
The following quote was taken from the website for the Rice Department of Bioengineering (link now broken), and appeared in my 2020 book COVID-19 and the Agendas to Come, Red Pilled:
Kevin McHugh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice since this summer, and a team at his previous institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, report in a cover story in Science Translational Medicine on their development of quantum-dot tags that fluoresce with information after they’re injected as part of a vaccination.
The tags are incorporated in only some of the array of sugar-based microneedles on a patch. When the needles dissolve in about two minutes, they deliver the vaccine and leave the pattern of tags just under the skin, where they become something like a bar-code tattoo.
Instead of ink, this highly specific medical record consists of copper-based quantum dots embedded in biocompatible, micron-scale capsules. Their near-infrared dye is invisible, but the pattern they set can be read and interpreted by a customized smartphone. . . .
“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came to us and said, ‘Hey, we have a real problem—knowing who’s vaccinated,’” said McHugh, who was recruited to join Rice with funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Bill Gates, of course, is obsessed with both depopulation and injecting things into people. Clearly, there’s more than one way to implant readable information into someone. If the digital IDs, now being increasingly enforced worldwide, become injectable, then the mark of the beast, without which no one can “buy or sell,” could not be far off.
Christ-Antichrist Parallels
The title of this section may sound blasphemous at first, but what it means is: When the Antichrist appears, he will attempt to mimic Christ, even to pass himself off as Christ. 2 Thessalonians 2:9 says: “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders.” Revelation 13:13–14 says: “And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.”
The Didache, one of the oldest known Christian documents (first or second centuries AD) said:
For in the last days false prophets and corrupters will be plenty, and the sheep will be turned into wolves, and love will be turned into hate. When lawlessness increases, they will hate and persecute and betray one another, and then the world-deceiver will appear claiming to be the Son of God, and he will do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will do iniquitous things that have not been seen since the beginning of the world. Then humankind will enter into the fire of trial, and many will be made to stumble and many will perish; but those who endure in their faith will be saved from under the curse itself. (Didache 16:3-5)
I think it is reasonable to say the Antichrist will not begin his reign as an oppressor; otherwise no one would want to worship him.
• Jesus, of course, stopped a storm on the Sea of Galilee. The Antichrist could simulate this by simply turning off HAARP and others means of geoengineering weather disasters.
• The Bible makes many references to “fire from heaven”: 1 Kings 18:36–38, 2 Kings 1:10–12, Leviticus 9:24, 2 Chronicles 7:1. In Luke 9:54, the Apostles John and James asked Jesus if He wanted them to call down fire from heaven.
And again, Revelation 13:13 says “And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people.” But God wouldn’t send fire on behalf of the Antichrist. I would speculate that this might be Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs), which, evidently, have already been tested in the Santa Rosa, California fires of 2017, the Paradise, California fires of 2018, Maui in 2023, the 2024 Chile “wild”fires, and probably the 2025 Pacific Palisades fires in Los Angeles. So far, as has yet been observed, these fires usually did not burn surrounding trees (“forest”), but completely disintegrated housing structures, a phenomenon ignored by mainstream media. This was proof that at least most of the fires weren’t natural. The picture below is from the Paradise fire.
• Jesus is referred to as the “Prince of Peace.” Since the Zionist Deep State has caused war after war (see my public PowerPoint “War and Deception”), it would be easy for the Antichrist, who sits atop the pyramid of power, to stop wars—to call off his dogs, so speak.
• God is “omniscient” (all-knowing). In John 4, Jesus spoke to the Samaritan “woman at the well.” He knew all about her. In verses 28 and 29 we read, “Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,‘Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?’”
Recently, AI has taken on a pseudo-appearance of omniscience. Within a couple of seconds, it can answer just about any question on any subject (although when it comes to politics, history, and vaccines, it usually only spouts mainstream propaganda, which it’s programmed to do). In a surveillance state, you can be sure government agents can ask AI questions about any person who uses a computer or smartphone. It’s like George Orwell’s 1984—the Thought Police were able to break down the hero, Winston Smith, in Room 101, because they knew his greatest fear (rats). They knew it because Winston lived in a total surveillance state.
With the assistance of AI, the Antichrist could impersonate Jesus’ omniscience, knowing instant answers on any subject, and able to tell people—as Jesus did with the Samaritan woman—all about their backgrounds.
Timing Counterparts
There are also seem to be time parallels been Christ and Antichrist.
How long will the Antichrist rule? Revelation 13:5 says it will be 42 months. Revelation 11:2-3 says the Gentiles will trample on the holy city for 42 months and the “two witnesses” will prophesy for 1,260 days. Revelation 12 also speaks of the Dragon seeking to destroy a woman (whose exact symbolism I will not attempt to interpret). The point is, verse 6 says “The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.” Verse 14 says, “The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.” All these verses point to the reign of the Antichrist being 3 and ½ years, with “time” meaning one year and “times” two years.
The Prophet Daniel also forecast this span, saying “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.” (Daniel 7:25). He also predicted that “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.” (Daniel 12:7)
It’s noteworthy that many theologians estimate that Jesus’ ministry (which began when He was baptized by John the Baptist) lasted for approximately 3 and ½ years. I rather get the impression that God has told Satan, “I will give you the same amount of time that I gave my Son.” In this way, Satan cannot protest to God: “You never get gave me a chance.”
In the Orthodox Church, it is generally believed (but not insisted upon dogmatically) that Christ’s crucifixion and Resurrection occurred in 33 AD. I have heard it said that 33 is the highest degree in Freemasonry because the satanic element, within Freemasonry’s highest levels, falsely claim the crucifixion was Lucifer’s victory over Christ.
If, in fact, Christ was crucified in 33 AD, and His ministry lasted 3 and ½ years, it might be that the ministry began in 30 AD. I bring this up because of satanists’ fixation on 2030 AD. The UN has its “Agenda 2030.” And as Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum keep reminding us:
Of course, Schwab doesn’t mean that he and other Deep State big shots (Gates, Bezos, Soros, Larry Fink, etc.) will own nothing—he means the “unwashed masses.” Let’s recall how Marx defined communism:
Schwab and the World Economic Forum, in saying “You’ll own nothing and have no privacy,” are thus envisioning a global communist surveillance state by 2030. And if 2030 is indeed the 2000th anniversary of the beginning of Christ’s ministry, wouldn’t it be a logical year for the Antichrist to begin his campaign of persecution—the “Tribulation”?
And since the Bible says the Antichrist will rule for 3 and ½ years, that could mean his destruction will occur in 2033—which, if the estimates are correct, would be the 2000th anniversary of the crucifixion and Resurrection. Of course, I am mindful of Jesus’ warning about his Second Coming: “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” (Matthew 24:36)
The Millennium
In the evangelical (Christian Zionist) churches I formerly attended, we were taught that when Jesus returns, he will reign over the Earth from a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem for 1,000 years, “the Millennium.” We were even taught that He would reinstate Jewish ritual animal sacrifices—a blatant contradiction of Hebrews 10:
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. . . . It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. . . . Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest [Jesus] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. . . . And where these [sins] have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. (Hebrews 10: 1, 4, 11-14, 18).
What about the claim that when Jesus returns, he will reign from a temple in Jerusalem for 1,000 years? Only Revelation 20 refers to a 1,000-year reign of Christ:
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.
Based on this passage, the Christian Zionist churches I attended taught that, after Christ returns for his Second Coming, he will reign for 1,000 years from a rebuilt temple. Satan will be bound all that time, then released to deceive the nations, then finally be destroyed. In other words, Satan’s not going to “get his” until sometime after the year 3000 AD.
First, there is no reference in the Bible to a millennial reign of Christ except in this passage.
Furthermore, there are no New Testament references whatsoever to Jesus reigning from a temple. Therefore, those who teach this doctrine are forced to selectively interpret ambiguous passages in the Old Testament.
Jesus rejected the idea of being an earthly king. He told Pontius Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world.” (John 18:36) After the miracle of the loaves and fishes, we read in John 6:15: “Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.”
Jesus further said:
At that time if anyone says to you, “Look, here is the Messiah!” or, “There he is!” do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you, “There he is, out in the wilderness,” do not go out; or, “Here he is, in the inner rooms,” do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:24-28)
Looking for Jesus in a rebuilt Temple would be seeking Him “in the inner rooms.”
The Bible’s most vivid description of the Day of Judgement is Matthew 25:31-46, which begins:
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
Jesus rewards the sheep with eternal life, while the goats face damnation “into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” There is absolutely no mention of Jesus, or the devil, physically hanging around for another 1,000+ years.
The Apostle Peter said:
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. (2 Peter 3:10)
The Apostle Paul said:
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people. (2 Thess 1:7-10)
Again, no mention of Jesus in a temple or a thousand-year reign.
Who will rule from a temple in Jerusalem? The Antichrist. Jesus warned the End Times would occur “when you see standing in the holy temple the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel.” (Matt 24:15). The Apostle Paul, speaking of the End Times, wrote:
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him . . . . Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thess 2:1-4)
To be sure, there are already plans to rebuild “the Third Temple” in Jerusalem. This has always been the ultimate purpose of Zionism. But it won’t be Jesus who will rule from there. It will be the Antichrist claiming to be Christ—“I’ve come for my 1,000-year reign,” a deception many Christian Zionists will believe, especially with high-tech “miracles” and holographic angels, perhaps as described by the late Serge Monast in his 1994 talk about “Operation Blue Beam.”
A Different Interpretation of the Millennium
For a long time I have believed that the millennium was the first thousand years after the Resurrection of Christ. (I discussed it in my 2013 book Truth Is a Lonely Warrior.) During those years, despite an occasional heresy or schism, there was one united Christian church. Disputes were resolved by Ecumenical Councils, of which seven were convened over the centuries, the last occurring in 787 AD.
But in 1054 AD the church was torn asunder, when the Western Church in Rome (the Vatican) and the Eastern Church in Constantinople, severed ties with each other. Five centuries later, Martin Luther split with Rome, launching Protestantism, and thereupon began the splintering of Western Christianity into thousands of denominations. This is Satan’s “divide and conquer” strategy. Perhaps it’s not total coincidence that 1054 was the 1000th anniversary of the enthronement of Nero, primordial persecutor of Christians.
Let’s go back to Revelation 20 for a moment:
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. . . . When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle.
Isn’t the “deceiving of the nations” going on right now, and hasn’t it been for centuries?
In His own time, Jesus described Himself as binding Satan:
But if I drive out demons by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? (Matthew 12:28)
The Apostle Paul, also in his own time, described Satan as being bound. Here is the full passage where Paul described the Antichrist:
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. (2 Thess 2:3-8) (emphasis added)
I have always considered William Guy Carr’s 1954 book Pawns in the Game the seminal book on the New World Order. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he shared my view of the millennium:
While we don’t wish to labour this matter there is evidence which indicates that with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Satan was cast back into Hell and there bound, as far as his being Prince of this World is concerned, for a thousand years. We believe according to the Apostles’ Creed that Christ descended into Hell immediately after the death of his mortal body. Couldn’t it have been to see that Satan was secured as well as to release the souls of the Just who had been detained in that part of Hell called Limbo until Christ had redeemed them?
Then, again, the Luciferian conspiracy seems to have had very poor direction on this earth from the time Christ left us until about A.D. 1000. Christianity had flourished. It was progressing, church and state were trying to get along together. The Church was advising rulers in regard to God’s plan for the rule of the universe, and the rulers were seemingly trying to put that plan into effect. Paganism was dying a natural death under the glare of the Light of Holy Scriptures. But as the thousand years ended Satanism broke out again in all its diabolical force and fury, and Satan again became Prince of this World.4
Earlier I suggested a parallel between the 3 and ½ year ministry of Christ and the 3 and ½ year reign of Antichrist. I think we may have another parallel here—Satan bound for a thousand years while Christianity thrived (33 AD to 1033 AD), then Satan released and allowed to do his worst for a thousand years (1033-2033), but no longer than that.
Perhaps the foremost objection that can be raised against this interpretation of the millennium is this passage from Revelation 20:
They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
This passage suggests a thousand-year reign of Christ occurring after the Antichrist. However, there are passages in the New Testament that describe reigning with Christ as already occurring. For example, the Apostle Paul said:
God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. (Eph 2:5-6)
On balance, I believe a future explanation of the millennium poses far more problems than a past one.
Daniel’s Insight
Before bringing this post up to present time, I should mention that the prophet Daniel had an insight into the Antichrist’s reign not found elsewhere:
He will confirm a covenant with many for one “seven.” In the middle of the “seven” he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” (Daniel 9:27)
Theologians widely understand the “seven” here to mean seven years. In the middle of the seven years, he will “will set up an abomination that causes desolation.” Half of seven, of course, is 3 and ½. We could take this to mean that the Antichrist will have, in total, a seven-year reign. During the first 3 and ½, he will work to gain people’s trust and worship. Then he will turn his wrath against the world—“the Great Tribulation.”
One Orthodox scholar I know believes that “he will put an end to sacrifice and offering” means the Antichrist will forbid Christians to receive the Eucharist (Holy Communion).
I acknowledge that the timelines I have personally described—the Tribulation to begin in 2030, and Antichrist’s downfall in 2033, in 2,000-year correspondence with Christ’s ministry and crucifixion—may be totally wrong. Again, the Orthodox Church does not insist dogmatically that the crucifixion and Resurrection occurred in 33 AD. Perhaps it was 34 or another close year.
However, if it is correct, the “friendly” reign of the Antichrist might begin sometime in 2026. Well, that seems too soon, doesn’t it? But with the world teetering on the edge, it’s not implausible. It would presumably require some sort of cataclysm that he would rescue us from. Having started the cataclysm himself, it will be easy for him to stop it in the guise of “supernatural intervention.” What this disaster will be, none of us know, but some possibilities might be: limited nuclear war; chaotic civil war; cyber-attack (which Klaus Schwab has warned about); global financial collapse; a “pandemic” worse than COVID; geoengineered weather events; or even a fake alien invasion.
When Christians and Satanists Agree
Normally, Christians and satanists would disagree on any topic. But there is one matter they do agree on: that the Antichrist is coming. Albert Pike, satanist and Grand Commander of North American Masonry in the late 19th century, is reputed to have predicted three world wars, the last ending with the reign of Lucifer. Controversy has long swirled over a letter allegedly written by Pike on August 15, 1871, to Giuseppi Mazzini, revolutionary, satanist, and head of Italian Freemasonry, in which he said:
We shall unchain the Nihilist and Atheist revolutionaries, and we shall provoke a formidable cataclysm which will show clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of the absolute heresy, mother of savagery, and of the most bloody disorder. Then citizens everywhere, obliged to defend themselves against an enraged minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude—disillusioned with Christianity whose deistic spirit will be from that moment without direction and anxious for an ideal—without knowing where to put their worship, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, finally made public; a manifestation which will raise a general movement of reaction, which will follow the destruction of Atheism and of Christianity, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.5
This letter, said to be in the British Museum, was cited by such authors as William Guy Carr in Pawns in the Game, and the cardinal of Chile, Jose Maria Cardenal Caro y Rodriguez, in his 1928 book The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled. Mainstream historians claim that, since upon inquiry, the letter couldn’t be found in the British Museum, it was just a hoax. But how easy it would have been to simply remove the letter after exposure. In reading the works of Carr and the cardinal, both struck me as men of integrity—not hoaxsters.
Another highly controversial book is The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion. It too is widely dismissed as a hoax, but usually by people who have never read it. I thought it was hoax until I read it and was astonished by its predictive accuracy.
Concerning the coming Antichrist, it says:
We appear on the scene as alleged saviors of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces—Socialists, Anarchists, Communists . . . . By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way. When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of all the world to be crowned, it is these same hands which will sweep away everything that might be a hindrance thereto. (Protocols 3:7-9)
And again on the Antichrist:
We have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that king-despot of the blood of Zion, whom we are preparing for the world. (Protocol 3:15)
And yet again, with shades of Orwell’s “Big Brother”:
Our government will have the appearance of a patriarchal paternal guardianship on the part of our ruler. Our own nation and our subjects will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every act, their every inter-relation as subjects with one another, as well as their relations to their ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, that they will acknowledge the autocracy of our ruler with a devotion bordering on “apotheosis” [glorification as a god] . . . . (Protocol 15:20)
If the above citations are too controversial, there is no shortage of well-established satanists who praise the Antichrist. Aleister Crowley, in his 1904 The Book of the Law, even called himself “the Beast 666.”
Can We Defeat the New World Order?
Ever since I began my media career in 1986 with The New American magazine, it has been my great hope, and that of other alt-media journalists, that we could wake enough people up to overthrow the Deep State and halt the New World Order.
However, I no longer consider this possible, any more than I think we’ll be able to vote the Antichrist out of office.
Let’s take China, for example. Every person has a digital ID and is constantly monitored (there aren’t enough police to do this, so AI helps manage it). You can’t make an inappropriate comment on social media, let alone tell your friends, “Let’s organize a revolt.” Such a remark would land you in prison immediately. A hundred years ago, you could have organized a rebellion without detection. No longer. And China has deployed more than 700 million facial recognition cameras that can automatically link a person’s face to their digital ID. The cameras are in public places, residential areas, schools, transportation systems, and even restrooms. You can’t go anywhere without the government knowing it. Straight out of Orwell’s 1984.
As we have seen, digital ID is now being progressively rolled out on a worldwide basis.
The Deep State controls governments, intelligence services, militaries, banks, multinational corporations, the mainstream news media, and major social media platforms. This control has been progressively consolidated.
One reason why the Deep State has been so successful is that, being satanic, it has behind it a hierarchy of Satan, fallen angels, and demons that exist on tiers above the highest level of the human power structure. Fallen angels, of whom Satan is the highest-ranking, have a degree of supernatural intelligence and knowledge that surpasses that of humans, which is why they usually stay a step ahead of us. (I’m not saying that they cannot be defeated, in a given situation, by a forthright Christian—they have been.) I discussed this in my 2015 post “Making Sense of the Supernatural,” which cited not only the Bible, but the books of Enoch, Jubilees and Jasher (books referenced by the Bible, though not included in the canon of scriptures). These books made it clear that, when pre-Flood fallen angels came to Earth, they brought high technologies with them—a major factor in why humans welcomed them.
There is another reason I believe the coming of the Antichrist (i.e., New World Order) is inevitable: The Bible prophecies it. It appears that we are now undergoing the final runup to that event.
I had once hoped that America might be like the city of Nineveh in the book of Jonah. God had prophesied its doom, but when the city repented, He withdrew the ordained destruction. However, I believe information in America is too rigidly controlled to emulate Nineveh’s repentance on a significant scale.
Does this mean I’m giving up? NO! I’ll elaborate in a moment, but first I’ll comment that in the Third Reich in 1945, Germans who saw the writing on the wall were labeled “defeatists.” That didn’t keep Germany from losing the war. We’re like Richmond in 1865. Even Robert E. Lee recognized the reality. We’re also like the Alamo in 1836. When the Santa Anna’s soldiers began pouring over the walls, the citadel’s defenders knew any hope of victory was gone.
Now I elaborate on why we keep fighting. First of all, God’s will is to be “done on Earth as it is in Heaven”—and opposing evil is God’s will, even when the enemy has a decisively strong upper hand.
Secondly, the evil climax of the New World Order—the Antichrist’s rule—is only temporary: 3 and ½ years. God is letting Satan and his minions play their last hand. Then comes the return of Christ and the Day of Judgement.
The final victory of Christ and His people is just as inevitable as the Antichrist’s brief reign.
The Symbolism of Revelation
In all this, I have not attempted to decipher the meaning of 666, make a precise interpretation of “the Mark of the Beast,” or speculate on the identity of the Antichrist. I think it enough to know these things are on the way.
As we have noted, global digital ID is clearing the path for “the Mark of the Beast,” whatever final form that might take.
As to the Antichrist’s identity, I have continued to see speculation in alternative media, with some saying (for example) that it will be Prince Charles or Donald Trump. These gents seem too old for the part. I suspect it will likely be someone the public doesn’t know yet, probably around 30 years old, in order to best mimic Christ. (It would be quite a kick in the pants if he was born on September 11, 2001.)
Preparing for the Antichrist
I don’t feel very qualified to write this section, but I think it’s safe to say there are two parts that come under “preparation,” one physical, one spiritual.
The physical is hard to be entirely specific about, since we don’t know what particular cataclysm(s) might signal the coming of the Antichrist. Basically—and I’m sure many of my readers know more about this than I do—the physical involves “prepper” actions, such as:
• Keeping water, and food with long shelf life, on hand;
• A backup power supply. Some with the ability to do so try to arrange for the capacity to live “off grid”;
• Means of self-defense;
• Hard assets, such as silver coins or items for barter, to circumvent a cashless society;
• Some with the ability to do so seek to move from urban areas, or at least have a backup rural residence, as cities are likely to be the most violent places in case of societal breakdown.
The spiritual dimension is more challenging because, while prepper methods are pretty much universal, my readers hale from diverse religious (and even non-religious) backgrounds. I paused before writing what is next, because I know I’m not worthy to be a spiritual counselor—but others are. At the risk sounding frivolous, I’m a bit like the starting a pitcher of a baseball game. In the ninth inning, the manager (God) comes out and tells me, “Hand me the ball, kid. We’re bringing in the closer from the bullpen.”
Before I turn the game over to the reliever—an Orthodox theologian—there are a few things I feel confident in saying:
• The coming of Christ is as certain as the coming of the Antichrist. Just make sure you don’t mistake the fake savior for the real one.
• Because the Day of Judgement—the most important day in anyone’s life—is also a certainty, no one can go wrong by getting themselves right with God. For Catholic and Orthodox believers, that would include going to confession.
• No one can go wrong by practicing the Ten Commandments, and observing the virtues Christ commended—truth, repentance, obedience, faith, good works (which validate faith), forgiveness, charity, humility, and love.
When I embarked on writing this post, I had no plans whatsoever to refer readers to another author’s article. But when I reached this section, I felt God wanted it that way. This has already been a long post, so you may want to just bookmark the second article. It’s “The Antichrist: an Orthodox Perspective from the Church Fathers” by Fr. Andrew J. Anderson. Drawing on both Scripture and the Orthodox Church’s Saints throughout the centuries, it presents the collective Orthodox view on the Antichrist, as well as spiritual counsels. It has had almost zero impact on what I have written up to this point—I didn’t go looking for such a resource until I reached this section. I can confirm that the article universally rules out Christ reigning from a temple, and affirms that only the Antichrist will do that. One significant thing I learned from it: apparently the Antichrist himself will build the Third Temple, during the initial 3 and 1/2 years of his “good guy” ruse. The article does not corroborate my “time parallels”; but then again, the ancient Church fathers couldn’t have known about the modern Deep State’s fixation on 2030.
That concludes my post—except to comment on full preterism, for those who might be interested.
Full Preterism
In Matthew 24 (the Olivet Discourse), Jesus said to his disciples about the then-standing Temple in Jerusalem: “See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” The disciples then asked him, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
Full preterists believe that Jesus’ answer in Matthew 24, as well as the Book of Revelation, were all fulfilled by 70 AD with the destruction of Jerusalem. They believe Nero was the Antichrist. And while the Book of Revelation has traditionally been dated to about 95 AD, full preterists say it was completed before 70 AD. They believe that Jesus’ Second Coming occurred in 70 AD, and that He’s not returning again.
I certainly agree that most of Matthew 24 is about the destruction of Jerusalem. However, this doesn’t appear to be the case for some verses, such as 31-32:
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats,
Surely “all nations” were not gathered before Jesus in 70 AD.
One of the earliest Christian documents, the Didache, started that the Antichrist and Jesus’ Second Coming were future events. How did the book’s Christian author(s) not know that these events had already occurred?
Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 AD, and in 325 AD the Council of Nicaea was convened—this was the first of the seven Ecumenical Councils. 318 bishops attended, often accompanied by priests. They came from all over Christendom—Asia Minor, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Armenia, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, France, North Africa, Cyprus, and more.
At Nicaea, the assembled clergy adopted the Nicene Creed, which saw the Second Coming as a future event. It was expanded by the Council of Constantinople in 381, and is still recited in Orthodox and Catholic services. It states of Christ:
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate,
and suffered and was buried;
and on the third day He rose again,
according to the Scriptures;
and ascended into heaven,
and sits at the right hand of the Father;
and He shall come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead;
Many of the bishops came from churches directly planted by Christ’s Apostles. How is it they believed the Day of Judgement was a future event? How did they not know it had already happened in 70 AD? There was no controversy whatsoever about this at the Council of Nicaea.
I acknowledge that some wonders in the sky were recorded at about the time of Jerusalem’s fall. But there are verses in Revelation that were obviously not fulfilled, nor pertain only to Jerusalem, such as Revelation 8:7-9:
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
The early church believed that the book of Revelation was written during the Emperor Domitian’s reign. Like Nero, he was a persecutor of Christians. However, while Nero concentrated on bloody persecutions in Rome, Domitian had a policy more focused on exiling Christians to remote islands. John described himself as being in exile on the island of Patmos in Revelation 1:9.
In reference to the Antichrist, Revelation refers to “1260 days,” “42 months,” and “times, times, and half a time.” But this cannot equate to the siege of Jerusalem, which lasted five months, nor to the reign of Nero, which lasted 14 years. Nor did Nero cause a mark to be put on everyone’s forehead or hand, nor did he reign from a temple in Jerusalem. I certainly agree that Nero was a precursor of the Antichrist, but not the Antichrist himself.
Finally, if everything the Bible has already come to pass, we are left in limbo, with no clues about the future. But with the growth of global governance and digital ID, as well the increasingly satanic nature of the world around us, it is apparent that the Antichrist has yet to make his appearance—and it should be relatively soon.
NOTES
1. Charles W. Eliot, “The Next American Contribution to Civilization,” Foreign Affairs, September 15, 1922, 59.
2. Philip Kerr, “From Empire to Commonwealth,” Foreign Affairs, December 1922, 97-98.
3. Richard N. Gardner, “The Hard Road to World Order,” Foreign Affairs, April 1974, 558.
4. William Guy Carr, Satan: Prince of this World, (Palmdale, Calif.: Omni Publications, 1997), 71-72.
5. Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez, The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled (1928, reprint; Palmdale, Calif.: Christian Book Club of America, 2006), 84-85.
