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What can we look for in the future?

The philosophy and spirit of freedom of expression, of man making himself God, will spread until it holds civilized man in its chains. The spirit of religious seduction will give supernatural power to the Antichrist government. It will be "Christian" miracle-workers who validate the efforts of Antichrist as he fills the earth with the doctrine that man can attain peace and prosperity by his own efforts.

The philosophy of libertarian democracy does not have enough power to hold the allegiance of people. It must be supplemented with supernatural power.

Antichrist, we believe, will begin his (or her) career as a Christian disciple (just as Judas did). He will arise at the time that most of the earth has been converted in the latter-rain revival-that unprecedented manifestation of the Glory of God portrayed in the Book of Revelation by the two witnesses.

Antichrist will perceive the possibility of uniting all the religious people of the earth in a miracle-working Christianity, and of the suitability of libertarian democracy, and perhaps capitalism, as a form of one-world government and economics seemingly compatible with Christianity.

The truth is, there are elements in libertarian democracy and capitalism that could not be more violently opposed to the Kingdom of God.

Antichrist will involve the churches in the government and the government in the churches.

He may present "Christian" supernatural power as a means of relieving the problems of the world: hunger, disease, crime, poverty, violence, addiction. He may support the notion that all of mankind's ills can be healed by a positive-thinking, miracle-working Christianity."

Continued. Dying in the Lord~ 5