RE: 50 Days to Understanding the End-Times More Accurately - Day 12 - The Revealing of the Antichrist
If I may make things slightly more complicated. As we know from Daniel 9:26-27, it is “the prince of the people who shall come” that confirms a covenant for 1 week (7 years). “The prince” in Hebrew is “nagiyd”. I believe this could be the “False Prophet”.
Elsewhere in the book of Daniel, the Anti-Christ figure is referred to as “king” which in Hebrew is “melek” such as in this verse;
Daniel 11:36 “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done”.
So I’d suggest Daniel could have used 2 different titles to differentiate between these 2 different figures that seem to function as a tag team of sorts from what we see in Revelation 13.
In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul states that the "son or perdition" AKA "man of sin" commits an act that appears to be the Abomination of Desolation. This is the same even that Matthew and Mark record Jesus as pointing to, and Jesus points to Daniel. It is therefore, in my mind, speaking of the same one who causes the temple sacrifices to cease and exalts himself. Though " the Anti-Christ" is not actually in the Bible, the one to whom it is referring is the one that Paul calls the "son or perdition", and it that individual which is revealed at the Abomination of Desolation, thus making the person synonymous with the one referred to in Daniel 9. The "willful King" is one whom I believe to be the same as well, though you are correct that there will be a "two man show" of the beast and the false prophet who will work together. I think there all of those titles in Daniel and 2 Thessalonians apply to the same individual, though I could be wrong. Does my reasoning here seem to be accurate to you? Thank you for your reply, @logos1.
It is difficult to know for sure but we know from Rev 19:20 both of them are around until the Second Coming and I imagine both of them will be very busy while they have the chance.
Rev 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
These scriptures seem to indicate to me that the beast who kills the 2 witnesses can't be around at the start of the 70th week to confirm a conevant as he only seems to show up just before the Mid-Point events when the bottomless pit is opened at the 5th trumpet/1st woe, taking the book of revelation chronologically.
Maybe it's possible this means a new level possession of the Anti-Christ figure takes place at this point as part of this revealing but it seems to be more literal than that to me?
Interesting thought to consider. I will look into that a bit more. Thank you, @logos1.