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Objection: The Only Signs and Wonders Predicted in These Last Days Are the Lying Signs and Miracles of the Antichrist

(This is basically Objection: “Divine” Healings Today are the Prophesied Lying Signs and Wonders of the Antichrist with a slightly different spin stating that no other signs are predicted.)

In THESE last days, the Antichrist can’t even reveal himself, along with his lying signs and wonders, because the Church is holding him back! (I understand that some people believe it’s the Holy Spirit who is holding him back because of Paul’s reference to “he that restrains,” but I believe that “he” must be the Church, because if the Holy Spirit were “taken out of the way,” no one could be “born of the Spirit” and thus no one could be saved once the Antichrist takes over. Yet there are obviously saints around during the Tribulation period, so people MUST still be able to get saved.)

If you believe that the Antichrist takes power after the rapture of the Church, we cannot be in the age right now where the Antichrist will do lying signs and wonders, so you don’t have to worry at all that the things going on at the local healing crusade are Satan’s attempt to deceive if possible the very elect! (Satan can do false miracles, and he is on the scene now, but this particular objection is about the Antichrist.)

If you believe that we will not be raptured first but will go through the Tribulation, which is the only time when the Antichrist appears, then if you believe that what is going on at the local healing crusade is the Antichrist’s lying signs and wonders, you must believe that the Antichrist has finally been revealed to the world. That’s great, who is he? Many Christians have been wondering about that for years, and they often have been sure that some particular world leader they don’t like is the Antichrist.

So I have just proved that REGARDLESS of your stand on whether the church gets raptured before the Tribulation or goes through the Tribulation, saying that things going on today in healing crusades are the Antichrist’s lying signs and wonders does not make any sense. It’s nothing more than an anti-healing scare tactic to keep people away from meetings where Jesus is manifesting His healing power.

And there’s another reason that argument falls apart, for you “post-trib” fans. It is the Antichrist (who has been revealed) who will do the signs and wonders, so unless the healing evangelist who is preaching the crusade is none other than the Antichrist himself, the idea that healing crusade miracles are “of the Antichrist” just doesn’t make sense for that reason either.

In case this argument hasn’t been beaten into the ground enough already, it isn’t true that no REAL signs and wonders await us in the last days. Jesus put no date restrictions on the sick recovering or on doing the works that He did in His name. (I’d include Daniel’s statement about those who know their God doing exploits if it weren’t for the fact that the word exploits is not found in the original Hebrew; the most that the Hebrew will substantiate is that they will act or do.)