The Nature Of The
Antichrist (Five Dark Signs
To Recognize His Nature)
”THE
MARK OF THE ANTICHRIST HAS
MORE TO DO WITH HIS “NATURE”
THAN THE TATTOO HE WILL
DEMAND ON YOUR FOREHEAD OR
RIGHT HAND! The Bible
clearly identifies five
aspects of the Antichrist
that will deceive the world
and cause an incredible
multitude to be eternally
damned. Many are concerned
about his
“MARK 666” but never
give a thought to his
nature. Notice how the Bible
clearly warns us of this
truth. As John watches he
sees
“… the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship
the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand…
And the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for
ever and ever: and they have
no rest day nor night, who
worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever
receiveth the mark of his
name.” (Revelation 14:9,11)
In both verses, we are
warned that men will follow
him in worship and receive
his mark. There is no
question but that our world
is experiencing a deluge of
the nature of this future
beast. This article has one
goal of helping you identify
his nature. When the Rapture
occurs, the world left
behind will have already
been prepared for his
“MARK”.
HIS NATURE IS THE PRELUDE TO
HIS MARK OR TATTOO.
We call his nature that is
gripping our world,
“THE SPIRIT OF THE
ANTICHRIST”. The
Scripture says,
“… this is that spirit of
Antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come;
and even now already is it
in the world.” (I John 4:3)
We must recognize the spirit
of this beast that is
preparing our world for his
mark. There are millions
that have so surrendered to
the nature that it will make
no difference when they take
the mark. The mark cannot be
received until the Man of
Sin, the beast himself, is
revealed, but the nature and
his worship can be
experienced already. Let’s
try to identify his nature
to the best of our
understanding of truth.
1. The FIRST expression of
his nature is to dilute the
Bible so that truth becomes
relative instead of
authoritative. Almost
the entire church world has
bought into the new Bible
versions that shatter the
infallible source of His
glorious truth. This is
clearly Satan’s design. The
devil does not want to
destroy the Bible, that
would cause a revolution; he
wants to create a spirit of
denial of numerous parts of
the Scripture. The
Antichrist does not need for
you to reject the whole
Bible, just a small part of
it. You will be just as
eternally lost by turning
away from some Scripture
that you call cultural,
outdated, or some other
adjective as if you rejected
the whole. This nature of
the beast is on a binge to
get you questioning God’s
absolute Truth.
2.
SECOND, the beast nature is
to destroy the beautiful
sense of our sacred temple
of the human body. The body
or the temple of every
living person is a sacred
creation intended to be the
temple of His Holy Spirit.
“If any man defile the
temple of God, him shall God
destroy; for the temple of
God is holy, which temple ye
are.” (I Corinthians 3:17)
The appearance, the dress,
the morality, the language
and the treatment of your
body as a holy temple is a
Biblical requirement; and
you cannot serve God if you
treat this truth lightly.
“Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath
righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with
darkness? And what concord
hath Christ with Belial? or
what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols?
for ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath
said, I will dwell in them,
and walk in them; and I will
be their God, and they shall
be my people. Wherefore come
out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive
you.” (I Corinthians 6:4-17)
“Meats for the belly, and
the belly for meats: but God
shall destroy both it and
them. Now the body is not
for fornication, but for the
Lord; and the Lord for the
body.” “What? know ye not
that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost which is
in you, which ye have of
God, and ye are not your
own?” (I Corinthians
6:13,19) The church
world has rejected the
beauty of a Godly life lived
so tenderly that the
temple/body is filled with
His glory and power and
looks like a light from His
transforming grace. The
world cannot see inside the
temple, they can only see
the outside reflection.
3. THIRD,
the Antichrist nature is to
deny all of the laws of God,
and His commandments. The
new religious philosophy
says,
“free as a breeze to do as
you please.” It is
from the enemy of truth, the
beast. I call this
“religious philosophy”
because it surely is not
“religious theology.”
It’s the nature of the
beast. The Bible says,“And
hereby we do know that we
know him, if we keep his
commandments. He that saith,
I know him, and keepeth not
his commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in
him.” (I John 2:3-4)
Those words are utterly
rejected by most of the
church world because of the
spirit of the Antichrist.
This Antichrist spirit wants
everyone free of any
restrictions because
restrictions are how we
discern right from wrong,
good from bad and darkness
from light.
4. FOURTH, his nature is to
promote Biblical knowledge
without a Biblical
experience. Our World
is full of religious people
that know a lot about the
Bible but have no experience
with the person of Jesus
Christ. Religious colleges
and universities are
abounding. Religious books
line the walls of religious
bookstores and all types of
communication methods are
flooded with religious
teachings. All of this is
empty until the soul has a
transforming experience of
being born again – a radical
change – and surrenders to a
cross-bearing life with
Jesus Christ. Satan and his
beast love religion, but
they are terrified by the
Holy Spirit’s transformed
relationship with the Lord
of the church. Satan and his
angels have never ceased to
be religious. The Beast that
gives life to the image has
a nature of false religion.
“And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spake as a
dragon.” (Revelation 13:11)
“Horns on a lamb” is the
exact opposite of the Lamb
of God.
5. The
FIFTH nature of the new
beast and his new religion
is righteousness without
Godliness. Righteousness is
imputed; it is the work of
grace; and no amount of good
works can earn
righteousness. The saving
grace is His gift and we
come to Him without trusting
anything of ourselves. But,
the new theology flooding
the church is to deny the
effect of that righteousness
and to leave the religious
man free of the radical
change demanded by
Scripture. Christ’s
righteousness is not a head
matter, it’s a heart matter;
and it will totally alter
your life.
“For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received
the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins.”
(Hebrews 10:26) “Follow
peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no
man shall see the Lord.”
(Hebrews 12:14) Our
churches are full of
religion but very few are
living examples of Jesus
Christ. This is the design
of the Antichrist. Can you
hear it in John’s
description of the Beast:
“Horns like a lamb but
sounding like a dragon?”
The nature of the beast is
to promote programs without
power and emotions without
the supernatural works of
His Holy Spirit. The
life of the church is the
resurrection life of Jesus
Christ and that life is
supernatural. The church
must be alive with His
presence or it becomes a
tool of the new religion
that the coming beast loves.
It’s amazing to watch how
quickly the church begins to
welcome the strange fire of
psychology, psychiatry, and
even false spirits of
witchcraft. Every action of
Satan is only slightly
removed from its original
beauty in the Creator.
Hypnotism is a counterfeit
of the gifts of discernment,
the strange fires of the
Charismatic world are only
slightly removed from the
pure gifts of the Holy
Spirit. Satan is a deceiver
and can imitate the real
very cleverly. The Word of
God must always be the basis
of discernment.
Conclusion! We are
living on the edge of His
coming and deception is
everywhere. A pure Bible and
a faithful church to that
Word is our guide and hope.
Be a radical Christian and
cling to truth with all your
life. The coming of our Lord
can be expected at any
moment. John saw this dark
Antichrist spirit and a
wide-awake Christian can
certainly see the “Lurking”
presence now spreading his
venom