BE ALERT FOR THE ANTICHRIST

If we are going to withstand the spiritual pressures of the last days, we have got to be mentally alert. The promise of the Lord’s return motivates us to holiness, intensity, and hope. So, the nearer we come to that event the more we can anticipate Satan’s aggressive opposition to it. In this message, let’s see three ways that Satan is working against the return of Christ.

I. Satan promotes

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A. Prophecy was given, not to

us or to make us APATHETIC, but to keep us

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.

B. There are several

of Christ’s return that should keep us alert today.

1. Upheavals in

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2. An increase of

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3. The spread of the

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   through modern media.

4. The

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   of the
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   in Israel.

C. With all of these prophecies being fulfilled, Christians should sense that we are living in the

of the Lord’s return.

II. Satan exalts

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as

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.

A. Satan sets himself up as a

messiah.

B. Scripture indicates that Satan is going to manifest himself as a diabolical

.

C. The antichrist is going to come establishing a new

.

D. Right now the antichrist is

from taking power.

E. Christians are going to be

out of the world.

F. The removal of the believers out of the world will leave a tremendous

and

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vacuum.

G. The reign of the antichrist is going to be

.

III. Satan

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the

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A. Our salvation is not dependent on what we believe about the

, but by what we believe about

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.

B. We believe that Jesus is the

of truth.

C. Having dismissed the truth, people don’t believe

, they believe

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D. There are two basic reasons that people disbelieve the simple truth:

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E. We are to resist the

of Satan and we are to love the

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and be saved by it.