Chuck Missler: Expectations of the Antichrist - Session 1

There are many views about the Coming World Leader, often called the Antichrist. In this study, Chuck Missler examines what the Bible actually says—alongside the expectations of globalists, Islam, the Vatican, Freemasonry, and others.

Key Questions Explored:

• Will the Antichrist be a Nephilim?

• Why is the Vatican openly preparing to receive an “alien” visitor?

• Could he be a resurrection of Nimrod, and is his DNA involved?

• What role might transhumanism and advanced technology play?

The Bible reveals far more than popular culture suggests, offering a perspective that will astonish many. Is a climactic cosmic deception being prepared—one so strong that, if possible, it could “deceive even the elect” (Matthew 24:24)?

Jesus warned us: “Be not deceived.” The question is, how do we prepare?

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Good evening, and welcome to our study retreat on an unusual subject. We’re going to explore the expectations for the Antichrist from a number of points of view. There are all kinds of groups that have their expectations about this strange concept of the Antichrist, and we’re going to take a look at them in parallel. We’ll probably succeed in having something to offend everyone—we’ll play no favorites—but we’ll attempt to provide a perspective that we might find useful. Perhaps an unusual perspective: the expectations of the Antichrist.

This will be the first session of a half dozen, and tonight our burden is to lay down a biblical foundation. We obviously can’t do that exhaustively in a nominal hour, but hopefully for most of you this will be either a review or at least a context-setting event.

Whenever we enter the Word of God, we want to do it with supernatural assistance. So let’s bow our hearts.

[Prayer]
Father, we thank You for who You are. We thank You for this opportunity You’ve provided. It’s our prayer that You would be pleased with the result. We pray that Your Holy Spirit would overrule our words and thoughts, that we would be effective for You, and that Your purpose would be accomplished—not only this evening but throughout these weekend studies—as we commit ourselves into Your hands. Indeed, in the name of Yeshua, our coming King, amen.

The Biblical Foundation

The story really begins, at least in one sense, in Genesis 3:15, a pivotal verse where God declares war on Satan. Notice—it’s God Himself declaring the war:

“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

This verse introduces two “seeds.” The seed of the woman, of course, becomes a primary metaphor for the Messiah. Most of you are familiar with this, so I won’t belabor it. But many overlook that this is also about the seed of the serpent.

Obviously, this refers to Satan or his agents in some way, but could it also suggest a genetically contiguous chain of some kind? Most people never think about that. What about the seed of the serpent? That’s the subject lurking behind much of what we’re going to explore.

Babel and Nimrod

This all begins geographically in Genesis 11, at the Tower of Babel. In those days, there was one language—likely Paleo-Hebrew—and a godless conspiracy led by the first world dictator, Nimrod. His name essentially means “we will rebel.”

Nimrod organized several cities on the plain of Shinar. The Tower of Babel was not just a “ladder to heaven,” as sometimes portrayed in Sunday school, but likely an astrological temple. From other evidence, we know this was when the zodiac was corrupted.

You can view the Bible, in many ways, as a drama between two cities:

• Babel/Babylon—the city of man, the city of Satan.

• Jerusalem—despite all its faults, the City of God.

This contrast climaxes in Revelation 20–22, as well as in Isaiah 65–66.

Nimrod is described in Genesis 10 as “a mighty hunter before the Lord” (vv. 9–10). He founded Babylon and Nineveh. Why is this relevant? Because many groups today expect the Antichrist to be, in some sense, a resurrection of Nimrod. That perspective may unify several otherwise diverse expectations.

Labels and Titles

The term Antichrist is actually misleading. It only appears in John’s epistles (not Revelation) and isn’t even used there to describe a single future leader. In Scripture, the figure we commonly call the Antichrist has many other titles:

• New Testament: The Beast (Revelation), the False Prophet (Revelation 13), the Lawless One (2 Thessalonians 2), the Man of Sin, the One Who Comes in His Own Name (John 5:43), the Son of Perdition, the Prince That Shall Come (Daniel 9:26), and more.

• Old Testament: The Assyrian (Isaiah, Micah), Belial, the Bloody and Deceitful Man, the Crooked Serpent, the Idle Shepherd (Zechariah 11), the Little Horn (Daniel 7–8), the Willful King (Daniel 11), and over 30 other titles.

This abundance of labels suggests we should be careful. The word Antichrist may be common in popular teaching, but biblically it’s an imprecise term.

Daniel’s Prophecies

Daniel’s visions (chapters 2, 7, 8, 11) are key to understanding the sequence of world empires and the rise of the final world leader:

• Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the image with four metals (Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome), followed by a fifth kingdom—God’s eternal Kingdom.

• Daniel 7: Four beasts (lion, bear, leopard, dreadful beast), ten horns, and then a “little horn”—the eleventh—who speaks great blasphemies. He prevails over the saints for “a time, times, and half a time” (3½ years).

• Daniel 8: The vision of the ram and goat. The notable horn (Alexander the Great) breaks into four (his generals). Out of one comes a “little horn” foreshadowing the Antichrist—fulfilled historically by Antiochus Epiphanes, but pointing ahead to something greater.

• Daniel 11: A detailed prophecy of Seleucid and Ptolemaic conflicts, then shifting in v.36 to describe a king who exalts himself above every god—language strongly suggestive of the Antichrist.

Revelation 13

In Revelation 13, John sees two beasts:

1. The First Beast rises from the sea, with seven heads and ten horns. He is empowered by the dragon (Satan). One of his heads receives a mortal wound, but is healed, astonishing the world.

2. The Second Beast rises from the earth, with two horns like a lamb but speaking like a dragon. He performs great miracles—even calling fire from heaven—and compels the world to worship the first Beast.

This leads to the infamous mark of the Beast:

“He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Revelation 13:16).

Those without the mark cannot buy or sell. This parallels Zechariah 11:17, which hints at the Beast suffering an arm and eye injury.

The Assyrian

A surprising number of Old Testament prophecies call this final leader “the Assyrian” (e.g., Micah 5:5–6; Isaiah 10; Isaiah 14; Jeremiah 4). This ties the future Antichrist back to Nimrod and the Assyrian Empire—suggesting the figure may emerge from that same region or at least be spiritually connected to it.

Babylon’s Future

Isaiah 13–14 and Jeremiah 50–51 describe the destruction of Babylon in terms never fulfilled historically. Babylon fell to Cyrus peacefully; Alexander later made it his capital. It has atrophied but never been destroyed as prophesied. Revelation 17–18 points to a future judgment of Babylon—possibly literal, possibly symbolic, but certainly climactic.

Final Thoughts

You and I are being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible says more than it does about any other period in history—including when Jesus walked the earth. That may sound preposterous, but it’s deliberate.

The Bible gives us these details so we can be ready. Our challenge is twofold:

1. Find out what the Bible actually says.

2. Discern what’s really happening in the world around us.

[Closing Prayer]
Father, we’re thrilled and excited that You care so much for us, that You’ve provided Your Word for our guidance. We pray that through Your Holy Spirit You would illuminate that Word to us, that we might better understand how You would have us respond.

We thank You for Your Word, Your Spirit, and the gift of Your Son. Help us to be sensitive to Your calling, and to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our precious Lord.

We commit ourselves into Your hands, in the name of Yeshua, our precious Lord. Amen.