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the Antichrist know he is the Antichrist?
The most expedient answer would be,
"I don't know, and, neither does anyone else,
for sure." With that frame of reference, we can
offer some conjecture on the matter, based upon what
God's Word tells us.
None of God's creatures is more intelligent
than Lucifer, the fallen one, now called “that
old serpent,” “Satan,” and “the
Devil.” Still, Satan is not omniscient, as is
God. That is, he doesn't know everything, and cannot
precisely know what will happen in the future.
He can know in generalities what will
happen, but not exactly when it will happen. God's
children who study the Bible, and, particularly the
prophetic portions of the Word, can know roughly the
same things as Satan with regard to what will happen
in the future, so far as the Bible tells us. About
God's omniscience (all-knowing), the Bible says:
"He hath made every [thing] beautiful
in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart,
so that no man can find out the work that God maketh
from the beginning to the end" (Ecclesiastes
3:11).
So, most likely, God alone knows who
the "Man of Sin," the Antichrist, will be
in advance of "the Beast's" coming onto
the world scene to sign the covenant of Daniel 9:26-27.
It is interesting that some prophecy scholars have
proposed that Satan has had a man prepared in every
generation of mankind's history for the purpose of
fulfilling the role of Antichrist. Some of these men
might have included Antiochus Epiphanes, Nero, Napoleon,
Hitler, and others.
Although Satan doesn't know precisely
who the Antichrist will be, he knows that according
to Scripture--God's Truth--there will come forth the
rider on the white horse of Revelation 6:2. Satan
knows that this will be a man who sells out totally
to Satan's plan to prevent Christ from ruling on Earth.
It stands to reason that if Satan doesn't
know for sure who the Antichrist will be, until that
man's appointed time, the man who will be Earth's
most terrible tyrant can't know that he is the Antichrist,
until the time appointed.
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