The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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THE UNHOLY TRINITY
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. Worldwide publicity of Antichrist as
a genius-thinker, a new leader and a saviour of all peoples will flash
throughout all nations in the shortest period of time. 1
The result of this deceit will be that, from mankind, there "will arise
a demand for an invitation to Antichrist. A voice of appeal will issue
forth in human society, expressing the urgent need for a ‘genius of
geniuses', who would elevate material development and progress to
a higher plane and bring about prosperity on earth." 1
If indeed, he comes at a time of a world-wide recession, and
miraculously turns things around, filling every pocket with money,
then people will want to make him king. When the Lord Jesus fed
the multitudes with the two loaves and two fishes, the multitudes
wanted to seize Him by force and make Him a king! (John 6:15-16)
The Book of Daniel gives us some insight into other ways this
imposter will use to convince people to make him ruler in a short
time. “And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they
shall not give the honour of the kingdom, but he shall come in
peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.” (Dan 11:21) “And
such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by
flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong,
and do exploits.” (Dan 11:32) “Now when they shall fall, they shall
be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with
flatteries.” (Dan 11:34) The preceding passages from Daniel 11 tell
us that Antichrist will use flatteries to deceive or corrupt people.
Flattery is a very potent weapon, for it plays on people’s desire to be
1 The Reign of Antichrist II: in Parousia, December 1992