All of the 404 verses in the Book of Revelation are incredibly tied to what God began in Genesis and is in the process of finishing.
God has given pieces of information about the events in the last days tucked away in the words of the Prophets.
Each of these is a powerful lesson about His character and His plan and teaches us more about how to worship and serve God in every season of our lives.
As we open to Daniel 7, we are continuing to listen to God describe the worst human who will ever live.
1. We first met him as the Beast, and the false peacemaking Rider on the White Horse in Revelation 6 & 13.
2. Then we saw him as the One Standing in the Holy Place Jesus says that brings the abomination that causes desolation, in Matthew 24.
3. Then we saw Paul’s long description of him as the Man of Sin and the Lawless One in 2 Thessalonians 2.
4. We went on to 1 John’s description of him as the Antichrist.
But now, in the book of the prophet Daniel, we see the longest and most varied description of all, starting in chapter 7. Turn there with me as we prepare to read, hear, and see the real context that believers need to have of because:
The Antichrist Will Be the Worst Human Ever
Now, using the expository method of study, let me show you the immense weight of all that God has preciously told us in the rest of the Bible, about the coming false messiah called the antichrist. We began to meet this worst human who will ever live, as we stepped into Revelation 6. But as we did we found a person about whom there are:
27 Chapters of the Bible & Counting
This morning we need to pause and think about how many different chapters of the Bible are used by God to describe this evil servant of Satan. Here’s the tally so far:
• Jesus talks about him in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 (that is 3 chapters);
• Paul describes him in 2 Thessalonians 1-2 (that is 2 chapters); then
• John describes him in 1 John 2 & 4 and 2 John 1 (that is 3 chapters);
• Revelation devotes chapters 6-20 to describe his impact on humanity and his fate (that is 15 chapters); and now in
• Daniel we see him in Daniel 7,8,9 and 11 (that is 4 more chapters).
So this worst of all humans who ever lives is already the subject of 27 chapters of the Bible. That is quite an extensive coverage, and there are more we haven’t even touched.
Think about this man with so many different names in the Bible: the man of sin, the son of perdition, the beast, the lawless one, and the Antichrist.