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Yes, but if your link proves true, that means the Antichrist has been here now for some 1700 years. Give or take. However, I am in agreement that the Catholic organization is definitely a part of the last days prophecies. And not in a good way.
There have been antichristS, in which the spirit of Antichrist dwells, and there's the final, ultimate Antichrist. In the OT, every major hero was a type of Christ, you know, Abel, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Daniel. They manifested some characteristics of Christ, but they were not THE Christ. Satan was doing the same thing, he had been making types of Antichrist, from Nero to Schwab, all these bloody dictators were foreshadowing the final Antichrist, Hitler was probably the closest, they were given power to reign over a certain region as an antichrist. Eventually you'll have the final one reigning over the whole earth.
Yes, and I'm pretty sure that's the one we're talking about.
No, they have just been people, just like you and I living their lives. Some choosing to honor God in their lives and some choosing not to. Of course, the Scriptures, which tell us all about the lives and history of a specific group of people upon the earth, that were raised up to do God's bidding, is pretty naturally going to have some accounts of both.
Typology is a legit interpretation based on the principle of interpretting the bible with itself. These heroes were no ordinary men, their biographies all point to Christ in one way or another. Only can you truly understand their stories in the OT when you read Christ in them.
That's not just my word. Don't you know that Jesus was called the Last Adam? He was a type of Christ who is to come, Rom. 5:14. The profile and character of Christ didn't come out of nowhere, the clues are scattered all over the OT.
Yes, but that would mean that Jesus was somehow like Adam... not that Adam was somehow like Jesus. I believe the reference to Jesus being the second or last Adam has to do with the process that brought them to life. That seems to be what Paul writes to us:
Adam was the first "son of God", literally, see the genealogy in Luke 3. Jesus is both God and man, his humanity came from the first Adam, the prototype of Christ.
If you compare God's order about the tree of knowledge and Eve's description - which was most likely received from Adam, you can see that it was already modified, "the day you eat of it" was removed, "in the center of the Garden" was added. Whether that counts as a sin or not, that's up to you, but this happened BEFORE they ate the forbidden fruit, that's pretty telling. Maybe Adam did it out of good intention, but the serpent took advantage of it and it paved the way to hell.
What happens to mark the first day of the 3 1/2 year period ?
Let me explain what this mark of the beast is all about.
I think you misunderstood my use of the word "mark"
I'm sorry I misunderstood you. All we can know of such a time is to watch for the false Christ (son of perdition/last antichrist) to take his literal seat in Jerusalem which will begin this 3 1/2 year reign of the beast out of the sea who gives power to this beast out of the earth that we read about in Rev 13.
When the final antichrist is revealed. There would be no remnant church, because all faithful, genuine believers would be dead at that point, hence “spared from the hour of trial.” You may compare Rev. 2:22 and 3:10, the corrupt church will go through the great tribulation, the faithful church will be spared.
The seven-year tribulation narrative is obviously questionable - why putting a 2000 plus year gap between the 69th week and the final one? When angel Gabriel decreed these 70 weeks, it was 70 continuous weeks (of years), 490 continuous years, there's no such a gap, which is the entire church age. No such gap mentioned. This period of 490 years already ended at the crucifixion of Jesus, the strong covenant in 9:27 was the new covenant Jesus made with his disciples at the last supper, not the Antichrist made with modern state of Israel.
So how far into the 3-1/2 years does the antichrist turn on the jews ?
Real Jews, or fake ones from the synagogue of Satan?