“From the beginning, Scripture makes it unmistakably clear that the final deceiver rises not through open violence, but through the illusion of safety, stability, and peace.

Paul says that the Day of the Lord will fall upon a world that is already intoxicated by a false calm, a deceptive lull that precedes sudden destruction. “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

This is not the peace of Christ, but a manufactured illusion engineered by the man of lawlessness, as his opening act.

Daniel saw this in terrifying detail. The final ruler does not conquer by brute force at the beginning, but through diplomacy, flattery, and deceptive deals. Daniel 8:25 says he “shall by peace destroy many,” meaning that peace itself becomes the weapon.

He creates agreements, treaties, and covenants that appear stabilizing, even miraculous, especially in the Middle East. Daniel 11:21 says he rises “peaceably,” obtaining the kingdom by flatteries, not war. He steals the throne through charm, spectacle, and the promise that he alone can fix the insoluble problems of nations.

Only later does the world realize that the very peace he crafted was a snare. This is why Daniel 9:27 becomes one of the centerpieces of end-time prophecy.

The seventy-weeks prophecy climaxes with a ruler who “confirms a covenant with many” for seven years. This covenant is not simply a political treaty; it is the prophetic hinge that begins the final week. It is the moment Israel, weary from instability and yearning for security, accepts a man who offers them protection, recognition, and peace.

Jesus Himself warned of this when He said, “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; but if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive” (John 5:43). Israel rejects the Prince of Peace, Jesus – Yeshua, and later embraces the counterfeit peacemaker. More significantly DJT has been calling himself ”King of Peace.”

Revelation shows that the Antichrist initially appears as a lamb, (gentle, peaceful, messianic), but speaks like the dragon (Revelation 13:11). He masquerades as a savior, a unifier, a stabilizer of world turmoil.

He presents himself as the one man who can broker impossible deals. This is why the world marvels after the beast and says, “Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:4).

They marvel because he seems to have ended war. He seems to bring order out of chaos. He seems to give the nations what they crave: certainty, security, prosperity, peace.

This is also why Jesus warned that the final days would be marked by unprecedented deception, so persuasive that if it were possible, even the elect would be deceived (Matthew 24:24). The deception is not terror – it is hope. It is relief. It is the promise that the turmoil of the nations is ending because a singular, charismatic, triumphant figure has accomplished what no one else could.

And this is where the parallel becomes inescapable in the modern age. For the first time in history, a political leader was publicly hailed by rabbis in Israel as a type of Cyrus, a messianic deliverer, because he claimed to bring peace to the Middle East.

For the first time in centuries, a man boasted openly that he alone could bring peace between Israel and the Arab world.

Pre$!dent D0na|d T®ump did this before, during, and after the Abraham Accords; and he is doing it again promising the world and Israel that only he can stop wars, only he can fix the Middle East, only he can restore global peace within 24 hours.

This is not random rhetoric; it is the very script outlined in Daniel, Jesus, and Revelation.

The Antichrist must present himself as the world’s greatest peacemaker, because deception has to look like salvation. Counterfeit peace has to mimic true peace. A false messiah must imitate the real Messiah’s works.

The true Christ calmed storms; the false christ calms nations. The true Christ reconciles God and man; the false christ reconciles nations in a fragile, lying peace that serves as the doorway to global control.

In the end, Scripture shows that the Antichrist’s peace is the bait that pulls the world into the final trap. It is the quiet before the storm of judgment. It is the handshake before the betrayal. It is the covenant before the abomination.

The world embraces him because he claims what only God can give – peace. Israel honors him because he answers their political longings. And the nations follow him because they are weary of war, chaos, and instability.

Peace becomes the stage upon which the greatest deception unfolds. This is why a modern leader claiming, promising, and boasting that he alone can bring world peace, especially peace for Israel is not merely political rhetoric.

It is the prophetic signature described by Daniel, Paul, and Jesus.

The Antichrist begins with peace, not war. He rises with diplomacy, not destruction. He is welcomed because he solves problems, not because he creates them. And he is embraced because the world believes his peace is real.”

By Renee Bonder. 

Facebook Comment:

“This is the subtle, deceptive drawing in of nations into what is becoming the Daniel 9:27 covenant which after 3.5 years, leads into the 2nd part of (the 7 year) Great Tribulation. Astounding, amazing things we are watching in real-time. We are literally watching the groundwork of Daniel 9:27 unfold before our eyes, and most people don’t even realize the prophetic magnitude of what’s happening, ” Richard Allinson.

SEE ALSO:

Why I Preach On the Antichrist and Why You Should Too by Cindy DeGrie.

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