192 DATE WITH THE GODS
where people can worship him. He will choose to set up
his throne in the Temple of Jerusalem, which will be
beautifully rebuilt. He's going to go there and say, 'Hey,
I'm God Almighty, therefore you have to worship me.'
The Jews will put up with the antichrist until he uses
their temple. They will have been very thankful for the
handling of their political situation and will render
allegiance to him.
They won't object to his actions until he enters their
temple and says he is the Messiah. Then it will be
difficult for them to accept him. Because when the
antichrist enters the temple, he'll do it in a reckless way.
By then, he'll have control of the whole world. And, like
all tyrants before him, he'll begin to resent the Jews and
their private worship. Remember the story of Daniel?
There's something about the Jews and their form of
religion that has always disturbed kings, pharaohs,
dictators and the like.
When the antichrist has his throne placed in the
sanctuary of the Temple of Jerusalem, that's it for the
Jews. They won't put up with that. They'll fight him.
He'll regard this as his royal chance to finish them off,
just as Hitler, the pharaohs, and the Babylonian kings.
Extermination and slavery is the 'final solution' for the
'Jew problem.'
We're already aware that the antichrist will gather
together a tremendous army, such as the world has
never imagined before. We're told about the mobiliza
tion of a huge army, a world army, in Revelation 16:13-
- The antichrist may realize he is engaging in a
dangerous project, making a holy war against the Jews,
and he'll then summit with all the leaders of the world in
a place called Armageddon. Among the personalities
that are going to attend that meeting is going to be Jesus
Christ. But not a meek, mild, good-natured Jesus Christ,
as he is so often portrayed. This time He will come with