Matthew Avery Sutton

Where might he appear?

How do we know how close we are to the end times?

And they ended up launching a movement, and then by about World War I, they gave the movement a name, and that was fundamentalism.

And then they rebranded themselves in World War II as evangelicals.

And so the fundamentalists and evangelicals are the folks who really are mobilizing around this idea that the Antichrist is out there somewhere, and we better be ready for him.

There are a handful of signs.

Some of them are really hard to demonstrate.

So they talked about, you know, falling away from true Christianity.

But, of course, you could make that argument in every generation.

The classic is, you know, immorality, that the kids today just aren't following the rules like their parents.

So, you know, that also works for every generation.

But the much more interesting one was the return of Jews to Palestine and the reconstruction of Israel as a nation state, that the fundamentalists began predicting this in the 1880s, 1890s.

So as the Zionist movement takes off and then Israel is formed in the late 1940s, it becomes absolutely clear to them that everything they've been predicting is correct.

The other thing that they're expecting is the rise in wars and rumors of wars.

That was something that Jesus had told his disciples to expect in the last days.

And so World War I becomes a moment to basically to crow about how they got it right.

And then certainly World War II is another one.

And then the creation of the League of Nations and then the United Nations.

these kind of global international organizations that would create the mechanism by which the Antichrist could take power, could seize power.

So all of these things become huge, you know, blinking red lights, telling fundamentalists and evangelicals that they've got it right, that their reading of the Bible is lining up with world events.