Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt | thebereancall.org

Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

We don’t know how many true Christians there are on earth. There may be more than 100 million. For even half that many individuals to suddenly vanish would terrify those left behind far beyond anything we could imagine. The fearsome questions on everyone’s mind would be “Where did they go? Who took them? Why didn’t they take me? Are they coming back to get me, too?”…

The United Nations and governments of every nation would be meeting in emergency session. No one will believe that this event was the Rapture. Those who “refused to receive the love of the truth” will be given “a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth…(2 Thessalonians:2:10-12). In the midst of this chaos, a man steps forward who claims to know where the missing have been taken and promises to recover them….Whatever explanation Antichrist offers, the entire world realizes that it is facing a common enemy  capable of snatching people at will from earth. Driven by desperation, the world unites behind the one man who seems to hold the only hope for survival. Furthermore, he comes with “the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish…”(Ibid.). The world is convinced of Satan’s lie, having rejected God’s truth.

We are told that “the dragon [Satan] gave him his power, and his seat [as world ruler], and great authority.” The world will not know this fact, but it wouldn’t matter if they did. They will be ready at that time to follow Satan himself. Indeed, the whole word will worship “the dragon which gave power unto the beast [Antichrist]” (Revelation:13:4).