Is Trump the Antichrist?

                 When I started this blog on August 5 of this year, I wasn’t exactly sure what direction I wanted it to go in. However, what I’ve realized after almost two months of writing blog posts is that I now believe that I have accomplished what I had in mind when I began posting: To make a clear-cut and extensively researched case for why I believe it’s entirely likely that Donald Trump is in fact the end times Antichrist.                 This post, then, will mark what I see as a coda for that effort. I think that now is the right time for me to put this blog on a (perhaps permanent) hiatus. Let me explain a bit further why I think this is the right next step.                 My goal here has not been to do what many online creators and influencers do. Most accounts that you see on ...

        Reminder : If you're new to my blog, I recommend starting here with my initial post listing the many links between Donald Trump and the scriptural figure known as the Antichrist.                   One of the most important sources for end times prophecy is what’s called Jesus’s Olivet Discourse (discourse on the Mount of Olives). In this post, I am going to carefully review what Jesus tells us in three chapters of the synoptic gospels – Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 – and analyze how they might relate to what we know about Donald Trump and the beast government system he appears to be steadily implementing day by day.                 Bible scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was a source for the other two synoptic gospels, Matthew and Luke. The Olivet Discourse is reflected in similar language in each of the three chapte...