The coming world ruler/antichrist identification

The coming world ruler/antichrist identification

Zechariah 11:16-17 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

“Woe to my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!”

The description of the antichrist for those who are willing and those whose eyes are open is given in the passage above in the book of Zechariah.

We know according to Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of its heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

In the same chapter of Revelation we are told that the beast will cause men to have a mark placed on their foreheads or upon their right arm. Could it be an attempt at identifying with the beast?

Revelation 13:16 And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,

Revelation also clearly talks about mortal wound that the beast receives from a sword.

Rev 13:12-14 and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed, and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven

to the earth before men, and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,

Therefore if we were to identify the coming world ruler, or the antichrist then we must look for the character who receives a mortal wound on his head, possibly through the eye and recovered from the same (miraculously!). Also his hand will be withered and he will not see through one eye because according to Zechariah that eye will be totally blinded.

Of course being a puppet for the devil who is the father of lies, we expect him to try and hide these things through a prosthetic eye and even a prosthetic arm. But it is good to be forewarned about this.

God bless you as you consider these things.