CHRIST EVANGELICAL BIBLE INSTITUTE Revelation of Antichrist Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D. COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2022 by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D. This work is a revision of these earlier versions copyrighted by the United States Copyright Office: Copyright 2021 (TX-008-969-076) Copyright 2020 (TX-008-869-143) Copyright 2018 (TX-008-565-606) Copyright 2017 (TX-008-368-084) Copyright 2014 (TX-008-056-307) Copyright 2010 (TX-007-330-043) Copyright 1989 (TX-003-516-271) Copyright 1981 (TXu-000-075-639) by Joseph Adam Pearson. All rights reserved. Paper Book Identifiers: ISBN-10: 0996222480 ISBN-13: 9780996222488 Published by Christ Evangelical Bible Institute (SAN: 920-3753) Last edited on September 15, 2022 Dayton, Tennessee ii DEDICATION This work is dedicated to an untold number of persons who have already been — as well as those who are yet to be — terrorized and murdered by the workers of iniquity, chaos, and destruction for the sake of a false prophet whose name is eternally cursed (cbhnf*). *(cbhnf) = cursed be his name forever This work is also dedicated to the human beings who will be alive when the only-begotten Son of God, Christ Jesus, returns for his Millennial reign of peace on Earth. (By then, this world will have lost at least one-half of its population from warfare, lawlessness, famine, pestilence, plague, and cataclysmic disaster.) iii iv FOREWORD Dear Reader, This book was written with the prompting and guidance of God’s Holy Spirit and with the consent and encouragement of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Therefore, the God of the Holy Bible deserves all praise for this book because it is He who has blessed me with salvation, spiritual gifts, wisdom, understanding, longevity, and spiritual success as well as all opportunities for education, personal growth, and Christian ministry. I am grateful for the Lord’s decision to use me despite my considerable weaknesses, frailties, and vulnerabilities. Concerning the Book of Revelation, what I have come to understand no human being has taught me (Galatians 1:12). God’s Holy Spirit has been my only teacher. To be sure, God’s Holy Spirit is the only teacher of truth (John 14:26). Because all good things come only from the God of the Holy Bible, I cannot boast to be the originator of the truth contained within this book. Although each of us may discover truth for ourselves, we discover it only because God unveils it to us in accordance with His Will, which is always pure, and with His timing, which is always perfect. It is in the spirit of truth that I present this work to you so that many will be saved by being brought to the knowledge of salvation through understanding that the “testimony of Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10 KJV). All people need to know that they can stake their lives on the gospel truth contained within the Holy Bible and its Book of Revelation. v I pray that you take to heart the truth contained within this book and that you share this book with others. This book is not only a text of faith but also a test of faith. Much love in Christ Jesus, Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D. P.S. Because this book needs to be available in pulp print through paper media to satisfy instructional requirements, this book is also available for purchase through print-on-demand at www.amazon.com. 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Finally, no one has the right to sell copies of this book except the author, his publishing company, and retail book stores that have purchased the book at its wholesale value. vii viii NOTES As used in this book, KJV is an abbreviation for the public domain King James Version of the Holy Bible. To ensure their accuracy throughout this book, all paraphrases of the public domain King James Version of the Holy Bible were finalized only after first checking: (1) the Masoretic Hebrew text of the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible) for accuracy of passages from the KJV Old Testament and (2) the earliest Greek text extant for accuracy of passages from the KJV New Testament. Additionally, to enhance readability of the public domain KJV text, words like hath, thou, and ye have been changed to their modern equivalents. Most transliterated Hebrew and Greek words referenced within the text of this book are noted by their respective numbers [in brackets with a preceding “H” for Hebrew or “G” for Greek] from the Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible and the Dictionary of the Greek Bible found in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong (Copyright 1890), Crusade Bible Publishers, Inc., Nashville. Details for the majority of original Hebrew and Greek words indicated by numbers in brackets are provided by Table Two in Chapter Four of this book. A few additional Hebrew and Greek words are explained separately in other chapters as well as in Appendix A. Although God the Father (i.e., the Lord God Almighty) and God the Son (i.e., the Lord Jesus Christ) are consubstantially united in the Godhead along with God the Holy Spirit, in order to distinguish God the Father from God the Son, an upper case “H” is used for personal pronouns specifically referring to God the Father (He, His, and Him) and a lower case “h” is used for personal pronouns specifically referring to God the Son (he, his, and him). Whenever the word God is used in this book (i.e., with an upper case “G”), the reader should assume that the word is referring to the God of the Holy Bible — who is the Lord God Almighty or Yahweh ix (YHWH), the one true and only real Creator-God. In contrast, whenever the word god is used in this book (i.e., with a lower case “g”), the reader should assume that the word is referring to the god of the Koran (al-Qur’an) — who is not the God of the Holy Bible. (How the two are different is explained in this book.) Key words for external word search purposes include: Koran, Quran, Qur’an, al Qur’an, al-Qur’an, Antichrist, 666, Mohammed, Muhammad, Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, Dawlat al- Islamiyah f'al-Iraq wa al-Sham, Daesh, DAIISH, Da’esh, Nusra Front, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, Caliphate, Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah ...... For the sake of clarity, when the author of Revelation of Antichrist uses the phrase the present author in this book, he is referring to himself. x