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There is a hidden lesson to be found in all of the skullduggery which went on in the court of Ahasuerus. We have here a type of the coming anti-christ. The enemy within. In the seventy three years that I have been saved we have seen many proclaimed to be the anti-christ, even books have been written attempting to prove why these individuals fit the role. Most all of them have been prominent world leaders who have died without ever becoming the anti-christ.
The Bible pattern began in the heavens with a created being who was in the immediate presence of the Lord and His throne. He is portrayed in a prophecy, given by Ezekiel to the king of Tyrus. The attributes spoken of as belonging to Tyrus, really are those of this created being. Eze. 28:12-15 The Lord imparted to him every component which pleases Him. Like Haman with Ahasuerus, he was the closest to the throne and authority that could be found in heaven. His name was Lucifer, day star or light bearer. Isa. 14:12 Consider carefully his high and exalted position when compared with the Lord Jesus whom the anti-christ will emulate when he comes. Jesus is the bright and morning star. Rev. 22:16 Jesus is also the light of the world. John 8:12 Every true type in the scriptures relating to the anti-christ gives evidence that he first of all will be a high ranking, spiritual, insider. In choosing His desciples, Jesus said; I choose you twelve and one is the devil. John 6:70
The assumptions of the past, regarding the ever so many world leaders, as being the anti-chirst, failed because they were looking to the wrong source. The anti-christ will first be an outstanding and high ranking spiritual leader of the last day church. (Lucifer, Judas and others) He will abdicate his position in exchange for the leadership of the harlot church, the last day conglomerate of all religions into one. Rev. 17:5 John plainly stated that the anti-christ will depart from the church, of whom, even in his day, there were many who typify that last day individual. John related the coming of the anti-christ to a last day event, that is the end of the age. He wrote to a division which had taken place and said; they went out from us because they were of a different spirit. Had they been of the same spirit they would have remained in unison with the rest of the true church. 1 John 2:13-14 Be wise and not proclaim every world leader as the anti-christ, whether they be good bad or indifferent. His time is close, but not yet.