The Mesias of the anticristo and Christmas Of The Finish Times
The arrival of Mesias which we observe at The holiday season means a lot of things to a lot of men and women. It can mean the babe in the manger with all the stuff that Xmas carols talk about. It could of course mean a party of present-giving and all the trimmings from the world point of view. It may also mean a remembrance of some thing even bigger.
Aside from the real meaning of Xmas which is the arrival of the Savior who came to wipe away the sins of the world through His death and resurrection, in addition, it means the start of a 2 - fold Redemptive plan. One of the entire world, one individual at a time, and one of the world, one nation at a time.
The first fold was the birth of the conventional Christmas celebration where God sent His only begotten Son that whosoever shall believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life - because He loved the world so much. He came in person to win the hearts of men whom He had created.
The second fold is the second coming of the Son of God who will return in power and may at the end of this age to end the misery that man's rebellious nature has created. This Son of God is God Himself, actually, taking up human form to be together With His created children. (See John chapter 1, verses 1-5 and 10 to
14). Many folks at Christmas think of "the little Jesus" in a manger. I think about the great and mighty God that will be returning. But I also think about what will take place before He returns. And, although it is perhaps not all nice, it has a triumphal victory in the end for all the states:
"... if so be that we have problems with him, that we might be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will probably be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the indication of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption in to the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, looking forward to the adoption, to wit, the redemption of your body." (Romans 8:17-23) (All scriptures are from the Old King James version).
One of the sufferings of these present end times of increased calamities and violence is the coming of the prophesied anticristo. Although there is always been anticristos through the duration of history, there is a political leader who will emerge on the world scene just before the return of the actual Mesias (Jesus christ) - the Main One who's birth we celebrate at Xmas.