A few days ago, after having examined the expression “the king of Babylon” in Isaiah 14:4, and the concept of “the abomination of desolation” in Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14, Daniel 12:11, Daniel 11:31 and Daniel 9:27, I said that “the man of sin” and “the son of perdition” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 must be the king of Babylon. I also said that the king of Babylon may or may not be the same man as “the false prophet”, the one with “two horns like a lamb” in Revelation 13:11. Since then, new discoveries have led me to the conclusion that there will likely be three different figures on the other side at this time of the end: “the beast”, “the false prophet”, “the king of Babylon”. Of course, time will tell whether it is two or three, but now I am almost sure it will be three. Because of the new discoveries, I thought I would do this new post.
To begin with, in Isaiah 14, the angel Lucifer will sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north, and tell himself that he is like the most High. This is after Isaiah 14 mentions the king of Babylon, which suggests that it will be the king of Babylon that will walk into the temple of God on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Today, conceivably, the state of Israel would allow an American president access to the Temple Mount, and even access to a temple or a tabernacle of God when one has been set up there.
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers… How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 14:4-14
It cannot be a coincidence that this prophecy about Lucifer in Isaiah 14 matches 2 Thessalonians 2, where the man of sin and the son of perdition sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Just as Judas was possessed when he betrayed Jesus Christ, so too I suppose will be this other son of perdition when he becomes the abomination of desolation.
… that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God… And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-6
Originally, because of the way 2 Thessalonians 2 is expressed, particularly 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9, I had thought that it had to be the false prophet possessed by Lucifer that would walk into the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:8-9
I thought this because I had assumed “signs” and “lying wonders” would be things that the false prophet would do. I thought, Satan would be involved but also the false prophet.
Incidentally, I should remind that, the expression “Even him” is in italic in the KJV, so the translators of the KJV added these two words for style and sense. Furthermore, the word “even” here is Jacobean English as opposed to modern English, which means the man in verse 9, the him whose coming is after the working of Satan, is the same man in verse 8, where he is described as “that Wicked”.
Anyway, I assumed this man whose coming is after the working of Satan had to be the false prophet.
But now, in light of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, where a bullet scrapped his ear because he happened to turn his head at the last moment, which caused many Americans see Trump as someone chosen and protected by God, it occurs to me that this event was in fact a “sign” and a “lying wonder” from Satan concerning the arrival on the world’s stage of the prophesied king of Babylon. A lot of people regard what happened to be a miracle from God. It has not occurred to them that this might have been a false flag – the entire thing orchestrated by demons – to give Trump sympathy and the necessary votes to secure the presidency. Even Russian president Vladimir Putin has apparently started to wonder whether Trump might be a good guy after all, someone that the proverbial deep state of America did not want in office.
Keep in mind, during WW2, there were 42 attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and every one of them failed, the most famous of all was Operation Valkyrie.
Likewise, the beast, also known as the Assyrian, should be untouchable during his 3.5 year reign, meaning demons will be around him at all times to protect him, and so he will be undone only at the end and only by Jesus Christ himself.
… he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 8:25
Due to the sheer number of demons on the planet right now, I suppose, all three figures on the side of Satan – the beast, the false prophet, and the king of Babylon – will be protected supernaturally in these last days.
So what I am saying is, the assassination attempt against Trump involving the bullet that grazed his ear actually fulfilled the prophecy of 2 Thessalonians 2:9, if you read it carefully, because with hindsight that “lying wonder”, a supernatural false flag stunt, did in the end make Trump the king of Babylon.
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:9
Now, here is another reason why the false prophet and the king of Babylon must be two different persons. At the time of the very end, the false prophet will be with the beast at Armageddon in Israel, whereas the king of Babylon will be in Babylon, probably at a place such as Cheyenne Mountain NORAD, a bunker where an American president can go to in the event of a nuclear war.
You see, at the place called Armageddon, this happens:
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:19-20
But, on that same day, at a mountain bunker somewhere in Babylon, this happens:
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation 6:15-17
Notice also, Jeremiah 50:41-43 expressly mentions “the king of Babylon” in anguish and his hands waxed feeble, due to the day and hour of Babylon’s nuclear annihilation. Once again, this means, on the day of the LORD, the king of Babylon will not be at Armageddon but rather he will be in Babylon.
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 50:41-43
To add to that, when the beast is defeated, the false prophet will be immediately cast into the lake of fire, along with the beast. Both of them “cast alive” into the lake of fire. In other words, neither of them will be sent to hell.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet… These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:20
However, the king of Babylon will be killed and his soul will be taken to the prison of hell, along with the angel Lucifer, also known as Satan.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch…
Isaiah 14:16-19
So, the fate of one is quite different from the other, which again makes the point that the two are not one and the same.
Another conclusion is that, at the time of the very end, of the three the one possessed by Lucifer will be the king of Babylon. This explains why Isaiah 14 reads the way it does.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! … For thou hast said in thine heart… I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:12-15
Now to something else interesting and new.
I came across this gem on the YouTube channel “Truth is Christ’, which is very pro-KJV sometimes to the extent of Ruckmanism. Nevertheless, this find from one or more of his subscribers is a good one.
Apparently, the 666th mention of the name “jesus” in the Bible, which was discovered through some sort of search software, occurs in Acts 13:6. This particular verse speaks of a sorcerer, a “false prophet”, and a Jew, at the time of the apostles after the Pentecost. This man was someone named “barjesus”, and he was also known as “Elymas”.
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Acts 13:6-11
It is said, “Elymas” is derived from Arabic, meaning “learned” or “wise”. And “barjesus” or “bar-jesus” is Hebrew for “son of Jesus”, not unlike “bar Kokhba”, as in son of a star.
So, here, the number 666 is associated with a “false prophet”, with Arabic wisdom or learning, and with a “son of Jesus”. In regard to the latter, think Lucifer, “son of the morning” (ref. Isaiah 14:12). The angel Lucifer is described as a son of the morning, because he was created by Jesus Christ, the bright and “morning” star (ref. Revelation 22:16). As a matter of fact, in Genesis, all the angels are described as “sons of God” because they were all created by Jesus Christ. Technically, saints and even Christians are also sons or children of God because in due time saints and Christians will be “born again”, given a new celestial body by Jesus Christ.
Unlike the Youtuber, I wouldn’t say that this 666 thing is something special about the KJV, because it should also be there in the Greek of the Textus Receptus. For this information to have been lost in translation, the KJV translators would have had to add or subtract another occurrence of “jesus” or “Jesus”.
Now, in light of Acts 13:6, you might be tempted to argue that the number 666 should apply to “the false prophet”, rather than to “the Assyrian”, commonly known as the Antichrist. But here’s the thing about that. In Revelation 13:11-18, the Bible is clear that “the number of the beast”, 666, is the number of the name of the first beast, the one from the sea, whom the second beast, the one from the earth, which is the false prophet, will try to convince the whole world to worship.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles…
Revelation 13:11-14
This is because the false prophet will roll out the mark of the beast. The mark must point to the first beast as opposed to the second, because once again the second beast is trying to get the world to worship the first beast.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
So, the number 666 has to be the gematria of the full birth name of the first beast, even though Revelation 13:18 does not specify which beast.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Revelation 13:18
My position continues to be that the beast is one Abdullah Qardash, the second leader of ISIS. I discovered in 2019 that when Qardash is spelt with a K instead of a Q, the result is exactly 666.
Until and unless Abdullah Qardash resurfaces, I could be wrong about this, and the Assyrian might turn out to be someone else.
The Bible prophesies that the beast will stand up and become a public figure when the fourth seal is opened, for he is the rider of the pale horse of the apocalypse.
Suppose for now that I am correct about Qardash and ISIS, then it is very interesting that this man is an Arab from Nineveh Iraq (ref. Nahum 1:11). He is a Turkmen but also an Arab. The Assyrian must have some Arabic lineage in order to qualify as caliph. More to it, Islam requires a caliph to be a descendant of the original tribe of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Now, a caliph is a political leader like an emperor of an empire, and he is also a military commander because he leads the armies of Islam, and he is even a religious figure, the supreme authority in Islam as far as a caliphate is concerned, someone not unlike an Iranian Ayatollah. Remember, when Baghdadi started ISIS in 2014, he did so at a mosque in Mosul Iraq, and he presented himself as a pious Islamist. If a caliph is essentially a successor to Muhammad, then logically it follows that a caliph would be a kind of prophet just like Muhammad. This brings me to the idea of a “false prophet”.
A prophet of Islam would be a “false” prophet, because Islam regards itself as another testament that came from a new prophet of God after the days of the Son of man Jesus Christ. Islamists believe their Quran abrogates the Old and New Testaments of Christianity. The Bible, however, says that the era of new prophets of God had finished by the time of the Son of man Jesus Christ, and so the New Testament of Christianity completes the Bible.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:1-3
Notice I myself have not said anything that is not in the Bible (ref. Isaiah 49:2). The servant called Israel in Isaiah 49, the idea of an army of 144000 saints, the predestination and reaping of the saints on the day of the LORD, Gog of Magog over a thousand years from now, etc, are all actually in the Bible. Of course, there is also the kingdom of God and premillennialism, for this is the actual gospel of Jesus Christ. The reason why the things I say seem different from what is being preached in pulpits is that Christendom has long been led astray. Today, the church generally is in apostasy, pushing every conceivable idea except the truth.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:6-9
We know that the Assyrian, aka the beast, will blaspheme and speak against God.
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Daniel 11:36-37
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Revelation 13:6
I suppose, he will try to convince the world that Christianity has been wrong all along, and that there will be no kingdom of God in the promised land populated by Jews. He will likely insist that the Islam of ISIS is the true and correct faith. He will do these things because he will be guided by Satan and the other angels that have rebelled against God. When he says and does these things, from the point of view of the truth, he will be a false prophet.
To recap, Acts 13:6-11 brings up the idea that 666 is associated with a false prophet, with someone Arabic, and with a son of Jesus. Rather than point to “the” false prophet of Revelation, in my opinion all of this alludes to the Assyrian, who is an Arab, technically a slave (Abdullah) of Lucifer, and even a type of false prophet.
Now consider this: the beast will be an Islamist; the false prophet mentioned in Revelation will be a Satanist pretending to be a Christian; and the king of Babylon will be exalted to some extent and for a while by Jews. So, in the mix are Islam, apostate Christianity, and Judaism.
About “the king of Babylon”, whom I say is Donald John Trump, and whom a number of Jews including many in Israel are excited about, did you know that the name “Donald Trump” without his middle name sums in gematria to 424, and this gematria is the same as that of “Messiah, son of David”?
דונלד טראמפ = 424 = משיח בן דוד
The absence of his middle name means this is a kind of hack. In my opinion, gematria should always apply to a person’s full birth name. Though the argument that Donald Trump is a “Messiah son of David” is fallacious, there is no denying that Trump is exalted in the eyes of certain Jews.
To honour Trump, a group in Israel, the Mikdash Educational Center, has even minted a coin with his face on it, next to Cyrus of Isaiah 45. Not for nothing, that coin connects Trump to the temple of God.