"Wait, if the anti christ manages to solve world poverty and brings peace to earth, isn't he just a great guy?"
I think this will be a factor in the anti-christ coming into power myself. If you think about it, he can't just walk in and say I am the epitomy of all evil, so you should let me rule. That's not how it's going to happen. The bible itself even says that the devil will appear as an angel of light. I think he will come into power as a peacemaker. What are our current wars being fought over. Now I know some of you are thinking oil, and I agree to some extent(that the control of essentials will be a vice of the anti-christ), but that's not why the majority of them are being fought. They are religious wars. So the anti-Christ will outlaw religion all together to end all wars. Now I'm not saying that this is going to happen overnight. It will be a result of years if not decades of horrible death due to religious wars. No religious beliefs, no reason to fight. Slavery guised as Utopia. And the anti-christ achieves his goal of killing faith by bringing peace to the world. Sadly I believe that this process has already begun, you see in order for the whole world to be sick of all wars, death and suffering, you must have much of it. So evil will start these wars and tyrany just so it came come along and be a (false) messiah to end it. So just as Jesus had John the Baptist paving the way for him, the anti christ will have people paving the way for him/or her. John the Baptist brought a message of hope, the counterpart will bring a message of death, much like our current leaders today. I'll just call him George the Sadist. The worst part of all this is that if you are a Bible believing Christian, there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening. The bible even says it will happen, but there's hope in the afterlife and down the road for those who have to suffer through the anti christ's reign. Always look on the bright side of life
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