From what kingdom will the Antichrist come according to the Bible? A financial crisis will precede his arrival..that's because of Covid-19?

The beast you saw was but is no longer, it will rise from the Abyss, but to go into perdition. And the inhabitants of the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world, will be amazed to see that the beast was and is no longer, but will reappear. Here it takes a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman is seated (Babylon); and they are also seven kings. The first five have fallen, one is still alive, the other has not yet come and when he comes, he will have to stay for a while. As for the beast that was and is no longer, he is at the same time the eighth king and one of the seven, but he goes to perdition. The ten horns you have seen are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive royal power, for an hour only together with the beast. These have one purpose: to deliver their strength and power to the beast. Revelation 17: 8-13

To understand where the beast that was but is no longer and must come to go to perdition comes from we must carefully study its description in the book of Revelation and in the book of Daniel. The Beast, that is, the devil and the ancient serpent ruled the world through world empires that have followed one another in the times. In fact the beast that rises from the abyss in Revelation 13: 1 "And I saw a beast that had ten horns and seven heads come up from the sea".

 The seven heads which are also seven mountains on which the woman is seated (Babylon the prostitute is a "spirit of evil" as prophesied in Zechariah 5: 5), the seven mountains are seven kings, more properly seven kingdoms (seven world empires) and the first ones five have fallen and one is still alive, the other has not yet come but when it comes it must not last long.

To understand why the seven mountains are seven kingdoms we have to go to take the book of Daniel and more properly Daniel in chapter 7:17, and from 2: 31-45 here we see the prophet Daniel giving King Nebukadnetsar the interpretation of the dream that this he had done in which he saw precisely a large statue that represented the kingdoms of the nations that would succeed each other from the Babylonian one of Nebukadnetsar which was the golden head of the statue and this kingdom will be succeeded by the Medo-Persian one, represented by the chest and arms of the statue in silver. The third is the kingdom was the Greek-Macedonian kingdom of Alexander the Great represented by the bronze belly and thighs. The fourth the Roman Empire is represented by iron, from this kingdom we then see another kingdom made of iron develop and clay are the materials that make up the feet.

 The last form of world domination of pagan nations is seen represented by the ten toes.Unlike the metals that represent the world monarchies, the clay of which the statue's feet are composed is an element that represents the earth element that represents a democratic regime, these fingers are also the representation of ten kings so they were interpreted by Daniele when he wrote: "In the time of these kings ...".

We see similarly in Daniel 7 these four world empires towards 4 the first beast a lion with broken wings represents the Babylonian kingdom where the kingdom was taken away from the king Nebukadnetsar and I become crazy enough to dwell naked with the beasts for seven years. The second beast is the Medo-Persian empire in fact it is represented by a bear that stands on one side to which it has been said eats a lot of meat in fact it has in its mouth three ribs that is the three previous world empires (Egypt, Assyria and Babylon) . The third beast is precisely a leopard and it is precisely the Greek-Macedonian one in fact in less than ten years Alexander quickly conquered many kingdoms, has four heads, when Alexander the Great died his four heads were left to his four generals. The fourth beast is the most frightening the Roman Empire which had ten heads as for the third beast whose heads arose from the Greek-Macedonian empire the ten kingdoms arose from the Roman Empire.

Returning to verse 10 of Revelation 17, to understand what the "five fallen kingdoms" are, we must understand that in 90-100 AD. when the Book of Revelation was written the Roman Empire had not yet fallen because this happened in 400 AD so the empire was as it is written .. and therefore could not be part of one of the five. The form of government represented by the ten toes could not have been part of the five, in fact it would have arisen from the Roman Empire and therefore it was the kingdom that was yet to come ...

If we go backwards we discover the extent of the five fallen world empires indicated at the time of the writing of the book of Revelation and the book of Daniel: 1) Egyptian Empire, 2) Assyrian Empire and 3) Babylonian (these three are represented in the form of three ribs that had one of the beasts seen by the Prophet Daniel in his mouth), the other empires are that 4) Medo-Persian and that 5) Greek-Macedonian.

The beast that was and is no longer and must come and is at the same time the eighth king and one of the seven makes a clear reference to the Antichrist who will arise precisely from the ashes of the Roman Empire which as prophesied would return in the form of the ten fingers of the feet, ten kingdoms from which an eleventh horn would appear, in front of which the first three horns would have been torn (Daniel 7: 8,24). This eleventh horn with manlike eyes and a mouth that spoke great things ..

If we also examine chapters no. In the Book of Ezekiel 38-39 we can better identify the geographical area from which the antichrist will come, in fact the great day of the Eternal and the return of the Lord Jesus as prophesied will be anticipated by an invasion in Israel as we can also find written in (Daniel 11:45; Zechariah 14: 1-2; Luke 21: 20-24, Joel 3: 13-16).

Zechariah 12: 2-3 is written «Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of stunning for all the surrounding peoples; this will also concern Judah when Jerusalem is besieged. On that day it will happen that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all peoples; all those who take it upon themselves will be badly injured and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it.

In Zechariah 14 before and in Luke 21:20 it is written that when we see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then we will know that its desolation is near. Today we see that Israel is in fact completely surrounded.

In Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39 a mass invasion of Israel by six armed forces is prophesied. Five of these six nations are identified in verses 5 and 6 of chapter 38 with their names used in the time of Ezekiel.

The first of these is modern "Persia" 1) IRAN, which has openly declared its will to annihilate the Jewish state of Israel. The second nation, "Ethiopia", at the time was not located in the same territory as modern Ethiopia. In fact, it occupied the area that today is called with the name of 2) SUDAN. This state too is dominated by an Islamic fundamentalist government, which uses brutal methods such as the crucifixion of Christians.

The third nation is "Put", that is, 3) LIBYA which is located in the west of Egypt and this is also a decidedly anti-Israeli Islamic nation. The population of the fourth; "Gomer" was known at the time with the name Cimmeri. an ancient population of Indo-European origin in the Caucasus, also mentioned in Greek mythology, Herodotus describes them as a group of tribes that were driven out by the Shiites from the northern Black Sea.

Some of these ancient populations migrated to the central part of the European continent, according to the Talmud Gomer it gave rise to what is modern 4) GERMANY which, in ancient times was also called "Land of Gomer" and then settled throughout Central Europe and in northern Italy, Crimea takes its name from the Cimmeri, once known as Cimmeria (annexed to the Russian Federation in March 2014). Only in the third century BC one of these tribes settled in the area which is currently located in central Turkey. In the Book of Ezekiel 'Gomer' he is mentioned with all his hosts, therefore with a large army following him.

The fifth nation, "Togarma", was identified by the historical writer Giuseppe Flavio with the population of the Phrygians (Antiquities: I. 6, 1 [126]), who resided in Cappadocia, that is, the current east of the 5) TURKEY.

As for the sixth reason, who will be the leader of the other five according to what Ezekiel prophesied the Antichrist  will be Gog of the land of Magog, (Ezekiel 38: 2) who will wage war against Israel with many allies and it is from here that the Antichrist will come (Daniel 11:45, Revelation 16:14). As for Magog, the historian Giuseppe Flavio (Antiquity I. 6, 1 [123]), together with other Greek writers, associated the name with that of the Scythians. According to the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, these people were located near the Black Sea and the Caspian north of the Caucasus Mountains, that is, in the territory south of the current 6) RUSSIA. Gog is located at the northern end (38:15; 39: 2), in verse 38:15 it speaks of the attack of the six nations led by Gog coming from the north means that its origin had to be necessarily north of Russia is the nation located at the northern end directly north of Israel In Ezekiel 38: 8-16, God declares that the invasion of Israel will occur at the end of the days. This will happen after the people of Israel return to their land and feel so sure that he did not need to defend himself (vv. 8, 11-12, 14.) The return to the State of Israel happened in 1948, but even since then these people have never been able to feel so secure that they have no more defenses.

The nation of Israel will feel secure only in the first half of the seven year covenant, in fact according to Daniel 9:27 at the beginning of the seven years of Tribulation, the antichrist will establish a peace and security pact with many nations including Israel. The result is that through this covenant the antichrist will guarantee Israel's peace and security above all, and will allow it to rebuild its Temple, a holy place for the Jews. In order to fulfill what prophesied in Daniel 9:27 and reported in Matthew 24:15 it is necessary to rebuild the Temple where the continuous sacrifice takes place and where the antichrist will place "the abomination of desolation". However, this feeling of security will not last long. In the middle of the seven-year covenant, that is, after 3 and a half years or 1260 days (see Daniel 11:31), the antichrist will bring the abomination of desolation to Israel; and then there will be a Great Tribulation (Matthew 24: 15-21) as there never was in that period the antichrist will persecute the Church composed of believers who bear the testimony of Jesus Christ with the intent to exterminate it (Revelation 12:17, Daniel 7:25, Daniel 12: 10 11: 33-35), all of this will last 1260 days / 42 months (Daniel 12: 7, Revelation 12: 7 Revelation 11: 2,3).

We know that immediately after the Tribulation of those days the sun will darken, the moon will no longer shine and the powers of heaven will be shaken, then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky and then all the tribes will mourn and see the Son of man come to the clouds of heaven with great power and glory; at the ringing of the seventh and last trumpet, the Church will be raptured on the clouds to reach the Lord on the clouds (Matthew 24: 29-31, Mark 13, Luke 21: 25-27). This trumpet will also signal the beginning of the kingdom of God and His Wrath (Revelation 11:18). So before the 1335 days (Daniel 12) come, in the midst of the wrath of God, after the sixth angel pours out his cup on the great Euphrates river draining it (Revelation 16:12), so that the way for the kings is prepared. they come from the East, three unclean spirits will come out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet and they will go to the kings of all the earth to gather them for the battle of the great day of the Almighty God.

At this time, the invasion by Russia of the Antichrist (Magog) will take place; and his allies for the Battle of Armageddon. In those days God will push the invaders to Israel (38: 4, 16; 39: 2).

But when they attack then God will rise against them with fury, jealousy and anger (38: 18-19) and will be destroyed. The destruction of the invading armies will be so extensive that the mountains, the fields of Israel and the valley next to the Dead Sea will be covered with corpses. God will send birds and other animals to eat their bodies.

It should be noted that many of the nations mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and in the book of Revelation and in the book of Daniel have already begun to unite militarily we are talking about the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" to which the following countries are now members: Russia, China, India and Pakistan officially Turkey, Iran, and Egypt among the observer countries and dialogue partners. Recall that India and Pakistan were part of the Middle Persian Empire. (When the stone, or Our Lord Jesus at His coming will hit the feet of the statue Daniel 2: 31-45 or the form of government from which the eleventh horn, the Antichrist will emerge, will also crush together the kingdoms previously arisen therefore not it is to be excluded that they are part of the 10 nations).

Note that the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic broke out in one of these countries, China ....and remember that according to Revelation 17: 13,16-18 the ten nations that will give power to the beast will have a single mind and will hate the harlot Babylon (who as we saw in the previous post at the moment it is the United States) and they will leave it desolate and naked and eat its meat and burn it with fire, all this makes us think especially for the news of two days ago a titanic collapse of 32.9 % almost a third of the US gross domestic product, would occur with a new pandemic in the autumn it is not difficult to hypothesize a financial collapse that would impact the whole world.

From the prophecies contained in the Book of Daniel before the manifestation of the Antichrist there will be a financial collapse, we see him specifically in Daniel 11:21 «Then, in his place, a despicable man will arise, who did not have the royal dignity; he will come noiselessly and take over the kingdom by intrigue. In previus verse 20 we see what precedes the coming of the antichrist. "In his place a king will rise who will send a debt collector (in Hebrew nagash means oppressor tyrant) across the country ... but in a few days that king will be taken out of the way, not in the fury of a revolt, nor in a battle." Never as in this historical moment do we find ourselves being governed by an oppressive "pulling the strings" banking system we see how almost all governments and its inhabitants are indebted trapped in financial slavery as it is written in Proverbs 22: 7 The rich man dominates poor and those who borrow are slaves of those who lend. We see that this sort of financial dictation will be taken out of the way without a battle and therefore very likely that it will be taken out of the way by means of a FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.

Get ready and watch! God bless you brothers and sisters!

Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord!