10  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

The people who survive the seal and trumpet judgments and any other judgment that came from these two prophets will think that they survived the tribulation and they will throw a great party and send gifts to one another. These two prophets obviously were a torment to those that loved to live a sinful lifestyle on the earth.

Many people counted down from the great disappearance (rapture) or the end of the Ezekiel Chapter s 38 and 39 war. They will let everyone know that seven years have passed and a Christ is due. They probably will teach that the biblical Beast and False Prophet were actually the two leaders killed. Instead of Christ, they will receive a counterfeit Christ that the Bible calls the Beast Antichrist.

This term antichrist can also mean someone who comes in place of Christ rather than someone opposing him. In this instance, both are true. The world will accept the Christ from hell and his new age kingdom.

With the replacement supercession theology that will prevail in the World Church, they will not accept the truth of a literal Jewish kingdom on earth that the two prophets proclaimed. Instead, they will be looking for a Christ that will fulfill all world religious beliefs and that will nullify the claims of these two Jews that were killed.

The Christ they will accept will claim to be above anything called God. He will say the Jewish sacrifice system has been done away with and that he fulfilled the sacrifice. He will then stop the sacrifice system that had been reinstated in the temple in Jerusalem and set up an image of himself in the holy place. The image will be animated and it will speak. By going into the most holy place in the temple, he will show himself and the world that he is God.

2 Thessalonians 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that  he is God.

The whole world will love it and believe that this man actually is God and their Christ savior. Only the elect will not be deceived. The two prophets that the world hated who spoke of a kingdom under God's law and a Jewish king are now dead. The sinful will now believe this phony savior nullified the law God gave the Israel. Therefore, they will believe that there are no longer any moral absolutes and they can do whatever they think is right in their own eyes. This is nothing new; all who oppose God's eternal law have always believed this lie from Satan. Christ did not come to do away with the law He came to fulfill the curse of the law and to allow us to keep the full spirit of the law by being born of His Spirit.

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