What are you waiting for before you recognize the Antichrist?

The Antichrist will be the ruler of a revived Ottoman Empire

By Craig C. White

What are you waiting for before you are willing to identify the Antichrist? Are you waiting for a seven year peace treaty to be signed concerning Israel? This peace treaty marks the beginning of the seven year long Tribulation period. If the Church is rescued from the Tribulation on earth then you probably won’t be around to witness it.

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Are you waiting to see the Antichrist sitting in a rebuilt temple? As explained in Daniel 9:27; The Antichrist will defile the temple in the middle of the seven year covenant. If you are around to see this then you are already in the Tribulation and have missed the Rapture altogether.

Are you counting earthquakes? Earthquakes, famines, disease outbreaks, and widespread wars are not signs to Church age Christians alerting them of a nearing Rapture. They are signs to the nation of Israel that their three and one half years of great tribulation is near. These signs happen during the first half of the seven year long Tribulation. Many Christians are counting earthquakes but I don’t see anybody counting famines and disease outbreaks.

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

What are you waiting for before you are willing to identify the Antichrist? Are you adding up the number of a persons name? Are you looking for secret codes? None of these things are meant to be signs for Christians. None of these things will help you.

Future prophetic events are just like past prophetic events. They are broadly described and easy to recognize. What do I mean? Well the Bible describes past world empires as they rose and fell. For instance Daniel chapter 8 describes the rise of the Mede and Persian Empire and the subsequent rise and split of the Grecian Empire. Everybody agrees. It isn’t hard to see. The Bible tells us that there is one more world empire coming and it is easy to see too. The Antichrist will rule the next world empire so it is also easy to Identify him. The next world empire will be a revived Turkish ruled Ottoman Empire.

In 1918 the last Ottoman soldiers marched out of Damascus. In August 2016 Turkish soldiers marched back inside of Syria. Turkish President Erdogan is the widely recognized rightful Sultan of a revived Islamic Caliphate. Erdogan has freely shared his ambitions of reconstituting the lands of the Turkish ruled Ottoman Empire beginning with Syria.

The Bible tells us that the last past world empire would be reestablished and that it would sorely oppress Israel. We are witnessing the birth-pangs of a revived Ottoman Empire now.

Revelation 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

There were five past world empires when the Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation. Rome was the current world empire making six. The Turkish ruled Ottoman Empire was the next and only world empire to follow making seven. The eighth world empire will be a revived Ottoman Empire. That means that we should expect a Turkish ruler to be the Antichrist.

Turkish President Erdogan is reestablishing the Ottoman Empire beginning in Syria. This is the reestablished world empire that the Bible predicts. Turkey is planting their flag in northern Syria. Turkish President Erdogan is the recognized Sultan of a revived Turkish ruled Islamic Caliphate. What are you waiting for? Turkish President Erdogan is the Antichrist.