(OPINION) Christian Headlines – Pastor and author John MacArthur told his congregation on Sunday that today’s world – with a virus spreading through every country and governments ordering citizens to stay home – seems “perfectly suited for the Antichrist to come.’
MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., and a popular author and radio pastor made the comments during a Sunday evening service in which he discussed COVID-19, government restrictions, and Scripture. The world’s governments, MacArthur said, “have done something that’s never been done in human history.”
That is, they have made the issue and the response “global,” he asserted. “Now we are a global world. And that is a setup that we’ve been waiting for through redemptive history since the Lord promised that there would come, in the future, an Antichrist who would have a global government,” he noted.
“This is the first time in my lifetime that we literally have such power over people globally that we can shut them down so they can’t function,” he said of lockdowns. “… This suits the world of Antichrist. As you look at the book of Revelation, there’s the mark of the beast, the number, and if you don’t have that, you don’t buy, you don’t sell, you don’t exist.
Everything about you, they know – the people who have access to all your data. They know all of it. You can go out of existence virtually any moment [and] somebody decides that. This is the kind of world that appears to be perfectly suited for the Antichrist to come, bring a certain amount of peace, [and] the world falls at his feet. READ MORE
