The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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his conspicuous entry into the role of universal teacher or "prophet". It
is very possible that he will begin his activity under the conditions of a
world war, or a great international financial crisis, when man will not
see any way out of his calamitous blind alley, because all the means for
the resolution of it will be in the hands of Antichrist. He will offer a
plan for the successful resolution of the world crisis, based on social and
political wisdom - the establishing of a uniform political and social
structure over the whole world. Mankind, being spiritually blind, will
not recognize this project as a cunning snare luring it into the most
merciless, continual slavery. To the contrary, man will hail Antichrist's
manifestations of great erudition, wisdom and genius.
What we are witnessing now is such a situation where a “Universal
teacher” would be welcomed by everyone. Actually influential
newspapers are advocating this “new leader” with a new plan for
rescuing the world through a new, unified global financial order!
Under the heading, “A global central bank could help,” the Globe and
Mail of September 28, 1998, wrote:
Even as emerging markets sink into depression and stocks plunge from
Montreal to Melbourne, a global economy is slowly emerging. But
governments seem paralyzed, unable to deal with both the crisis and the
opportunity. The world needs an institution that has a hand on the
economic rudder when the seas become stormy. It needs a global
central bank. The sad fact is that we cannot rely on existing institutions
or on national leaders for global economic stability. An independent
central bank with responsibility for maintaining global financial stability
is the only way out. No one else can do what is needed.
The paper ended its article by quoting what the eminent economic
historian Charles Kindleberger said in examining the causes of the
Depression: “For the world economy to be stabilized, there has to be
a stabilizer, one stabilizer.” Will the Abomination of Desolation turn
out to be that one stabilizer?
In the article “The Reign of Antichrist” referred to above and which
was published in Parousia six years ago, it was mentioned that
Antichrist will be introduced as a “universal teacher.” A few days ago,
while on the plane back from St. John’s, NF, I read this ad in the Globe
and Mail (December 12, 1998):