MARK HITCHCOCK
On March 29th, President Biden signed a White House proclamation observing March 31st as "Transgender Visibility Day." This year, that day coincided with Easter Sunday, the holiest day on the Christian calendar--and the most important day in human history.
This has been a major topic in the news, and I'm sure you've all heard about it. It was especially disturbing to Christians as we were celebrating the resurrection of our Savior.
Now, we always want to be fair, even to people with whom we disagree. To be fair to President Biden, "Transgender Visibility Day" has actually been on the calendar for March 31st since 2009. Therefore, he was recognizing something that was already in place. Having said that, he did go out of his way to highlight and draw undue attention to it--going as far as to sign this proclamation.
Putting these two celebrations on equal footing is an outrage and blasphemy. This represents a larger agenda of the government's years-long erosion and assault on morality and the Christian faith. In some cases, laws today are even being weaponized against Christians.
Let me provide a little bit of context. In chapter seven, Daniel sees a vision of four great beasts coming up out of the sea, which parallels the "great image" made up of four different metals seen by Nebuchadnezzar in chapter two.
In Daniel Two, you have a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Daniel chapter seven, the same thing is pictured by these wild beasts. The first beast is a lion, representing Babylon. The second beast is a bear, representing middle Persia. The third beast is a leopard, representing the Greek Empire. The fourth beast represents what we might call Imperial Rome--the historical Roman Empire--however, it is depicted as having ten horns which describe a form of the Roman Empire that has not yet existed.
The Roman Empire, sometime in the future, is going to be represented by ten rulers or ten kings. What we see in the European Union today could be an embryonic form of that. Among those ten horns comes an eleventh horn described as a "little horn." This little horn is the first clear mention of the coming Antichrist in Scripture. He rises from obscurity and anonymity, then begins to calm, and ultimately, takes control of the world.
Daniel 7:25 in the NIV, speaking into this little horn, says, "He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time."
The "set times" refer to religious holidays. The "laws" refer to laws that support God's will and His character. The NLT says, "He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws." The NASB says, "he will intend to make alterations in times and in law."
I believe what this is saying is that the anti-Christ will revise the calendar to get rid of God. He will try to create a totally secular calendar.
He will create a world without God. He will erase from planet earth every vestige of Christian thought. He will create what we like to call a new world order, a one-world system of economics, politics and religion that exclude God and His point of view, and His perspective on life.
2nd Thessalonians 2 refers to the coming Antichrist as "the man of lawlessness." That is an apt description of what he will do. He will bring in lawlessness, set aside all these religious holidays, laws, and times that honor God, and either get rid of them or replace them.
Now, there are interesting historical examples of this. Darius, in Daniel chapter six, said that no one could pray to any other god or worship any other God but himself for a period of 30 days. He changed the laws and the Times.
I am in no way saying or inferring that what we're seeing is the fulfillment of Daniel 7:25. We aren't in the tribulation period yet. I am also not implying that President Biden is the Antichrist--in fact, I'm certain he's not. But what we are witnessing today is a faint foreshadowing of what's coming.
We are seeing a landslide of new anti-God days and times while, at the same time, the reduction and even elimination of religious holidays on our calendar. All of this points toward the coming of the Antichrist. We see this in our country, and we see it happening globally. It is the fulfillment of what the Bible tells us is the "spirit of the Antichrist" already at work in our world. And it is just another indication that the coming of Jesus Christ is drawing near.
2 comments:
So, maybe it is the individual that is obscure and pulling the puppet strings and it preparing for his moment. He knows himself whom he is and is preparing for when he feels to be the right time to reveal himself. He knows timing is everything. Too soon or too late is not an option.
"politics and religion that exclude God and His point of view, and His perspective on life" - an excellent description of another tyrant communist cult figure Chairman Mao, his little red book and the Red Guards enforcing his will.
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