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 might or might 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 be 3 different figures on the other side at this time of the end: "the beast", "the false prophet", "the king of Babylon". All 3 are "antichrist", but the one that will lead them all will be the beast, also known as the Assyrian.
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, possessed by Lucifer, 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
The next thing to notice is that this prophecy about Lucifer in Isaiah 14 matches the one in 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 will this other son of perdition be possessed when he becomes the prophesied 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 who would walk into the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. I assumed "signs" and "lying wonders" would be things that the false prophet would do through the power of Satan.
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
By the way, the words "Even him" are 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 rather than 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 had thought that this wicked man, whose coming is after the working of Satan, has 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 very last moment, which caused many Americans to see Trump as someone chosen and protected by God, it occurs to me that this event was in fact the very "sign" and "lying wonder" from Satan that enabled the coming on the world's stage of the prophesied king of Babylon. You see, a lot of people regard what happened to be a miracle from God. It has not occurred to them that this was 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 did not want in office.
If you are wondering how demons can do stuff like this, let me say that, during WW2, there were 42 attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and every one of them failed, the most famous of all was Operation Valkyrie, where the bag with the bomb was moved at the very last moment.
Likewise, the beast, also known as the Assyrian, should be untouchable during his 3.5 year reign of the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns, 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, as scripture foretells.
… he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 8:25
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. Because with hindsight that "lying wonder", a supernatural false flag stunt, did ultimately give Trump his second term, thereby making him the prophesied 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 2 different persons. At the time of the very end, the false prophet will be with the beast at Armageddon in Israel, but 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, the following 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 other thing 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
Furthermore, 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. Again, this means, on the day of the LORD, the king of Babylon will not be at Armageddon in Israel but rather he will be in a nuclear war bunker 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
Further still to the point that the king of Babylon and the false prophet are 2 different men, 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.
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. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.... 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 14:4-19
Clearly, the fate of one is different from the other. Therefore, the 2 cannot be one and the same.
Now, in Isaiah 14:16 it is a bit confusing, where the KJV reads "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble...", translating "ish" as "man", but referring to the angel Lucifer. In Hebrew, a word for man, a male human, is "adam". So, the word ish here, I think, would be better translated as "person" or else "one", as in "Is this the person that made the earth to tremble..."
We also know from Satanists themselves, such as the Freemason Albert Pike, that "Lucifer" has in fact become a name of the angel Satan. So, Satan and Lucifer have to be one and the same, even though the Latin expression "lucifer" means "bearer of light" or something like that. This is the angel that started the rebellion in heaven and was cast out of heaven, probably in the year 2014.
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!
Isaiah 14:12
And furthermore, this is the angel that will attempt to place his throne above the stars of God. That is to say, in time to come, he will seek to turn a number of saints away from God and towards the cause of evil.
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Isaiah 14:13
All of that to say the false prophet of Revelation and the king of Babylon are 2 different men. The king of Babylon is Donald Trump. And the false prophet will be another American, someone that will do supernatural wonders, because of demons.
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 of his subscribers is noteworthy.
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 and a "false prophet", 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 a "sorcerer", with Arabic wisdom or learning, and with a "son of Jesus". In regard to the latter, the angel Lucifer is described as a "son of the morning" (ref. Isaiah 14:12), 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 of God and in the case of Christians 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 the name "Jesus".
Now, in light of Acts 13:6, you might be tempted to think that the number 666 should apply to "the false prophet", rather than to "the Assyrian", also known as the beast. But here's the thing about that. Revelation 13:11-18 says, "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 beast, because once again the second is trying to get the world to worship the first.
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.
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.
When the fourth seal is opened, this man should stand up and become a public figure once more.
If I am correct about Qardash and ISIS, 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 a 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. On that day, he presented himself to the world 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 up the idea of a "false prophet".
A prophet of Islam would be a "false" prophet from the standpoint of the truth, 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. Islam is not a new religion, separate from Judeo-Christianity. Rather, it is a heresy. Islamists believe that their Quran abrogates the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. 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 canon.
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 never said anything that is not already in the Bible (ref. Isaiah 49:2). 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 (ref. 2 Thessalonians 2:3), pushing every conceivable idea except the truth. Even "the gospel of the kingdom of God" (ref. Mark 1:14) has been forgotten, and replaced.
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 from Bible prophecy that the Assyrian 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
Quite likely, 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 all these things, from the point of view of the truth, he will essentially be a "false prophet".
But he should not be confused with "the false prophet" of Revelation, the one with 2 horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon. The false prophet will try to convince the world to worship the Assyrian, as opposed to himself.
Besides telling lies about God, Jesus Christ and the Jews, the Assyrian will use magick. Daniel prophesies that the Assyrian will understand "dark sentences". This means, he will be a sorcerer, just like the false prophet, someone that can wield the power of demons. It will appear like magic because demons are invisible to the human eye.
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Daniel 8:23-24
So, to recap, Acts 13:6-11 brings up the idea that 666 is associated with a false prophet, with a sorcerer, with an Arab, 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 Satan, a man with seemingly God-like power except his power will come from demons, and even an actual false prophet from the standpoint of Christianity.
Now going back to the king of Babylon, whom I say is Donald John Trump, and whom a number of Jews including many in Israel regard as a messianic figure, 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 the "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, someone that was actually "anointed" by God. Not for nothing, that coin connects Trump to the temple of God, which to my mind points to Isaiah 14 and the prophecy of the abomination of desolation.