The Promise of His Return

John 14:1-3
By Harold Dinsmore, M.Div.
© 2007 Harold Dinsmore

              I like to watch the History Channel. We call it the “All Hitler All the Time” channel because they have so many shows about Hitler. It’s interesting that back in the 1930’s and 1940’s many Christians wondered if Hitler was the Antichrist. Others thought maybe it was Stalin.  In the 1970’s I remember people saying the leader of the Soviet Union was the Antichrist. Gorbechov was supposed to come out to 666 somehow by giving numerical value to each of the letters. (If I recall right --- another group figured out that Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger’s name equaled 666 somehow…)  It got really scary in the 80’s when some friends of mine got new License Plates … and the number was 666. That car gave them so much trouble they thought it might very well be the Antichrist.  In recent years some thought it was Saddam Hussein in the early 1990’s and while others think it is Osama Ben Laden or some other world figure.  Some day --- according to Scripture --- the real Antichrist will be revealed. II Thessalonians chapter 2 gives us some facts about this “lawless one.” He will exalt himself and proclaim himself to be God. He will do all kinds of evil and even perform all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders.  But the really awesome thing we as believers must remember, the antichrist will not appear until we are gone, gone gone, gone!