1. The man of sin, the anti-Christ, and the beast are all one in the same.
2. The false prophet appears to be different, and only serves the anti-Christ

We know the two things above to be true, because of the direct connection between Daniel 7, Revelation 13, and 2 Thessalonians 2. I parallelled them in my original post. But, we must look at the details of each chapter to make the connection, because it may be that I was not detailed enough. Here’s some examples…

Ten Horns/Kings – Revelation 13:1 – Daniel 7:7,24
Blasphemy – Revelation 13:1,Revelation 13:5-6 – Daniel 7:20,25,Daniel 11:36 and 2 Thessalonians 2:4
War with Saints – Revelation 13:7 – Daniel 7:21

Interesting point about not knowing the hour or the day. I’ll have to think about it, and pray about it.

Did I mix up anti-Christ with the false prophet and the beast? I’ll have to read my entry again. It’s possible that I mis-connected a scripture here or there. WOW this is a long entry. hehe.

Also take into account the scriptures Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Jeremiah 10:2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Daniel6:27He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

The descriptions of the woman in travail and the serpent and the seven stars in the book of Revelations are all depictions of the heavens and their perspective alignments at the times of tribulation and Christ’s birth and his death and his resurrection and his eventual return…All of the feasts are shadows of all these things, the signs and wonders that the disciples were talking about were these, because to the ancient Hebrews all of their feasts are dependant upon the phases of the moons, and the position of the stars. All of the signs of the zodiac were depictions of the twelve tribes of Israel, and all were meant to be time tables by which we are to judge the sign of the times…the zodiac was high jacked by Nimrod and his followers and eventually other false religions, who also knew of the signs of the times and they feared them because that would be an end to the reign of the devil or their “gods”. Therefore false “religions” were built upon the celestial charts in order to deceive mankind from the glory of the knowledge of God’s “signs of the times”. thus the spirit of anti-christ, one who emanates God who desires to be in his place.

When the verse that talks of “of the day or hour no man knoweth, but the father in heaven” was an expression used by the Hebrews when referring to the feasts that fell during the new moon, because the Sabbaths start at sunset, and because from earths point of view, it is nearly impossible to tell exactly the moment that the moon slips into the “new moon” phase and the sliver is completely disappeared, can’t tell the exact moment…or hour, only the Father knows, because they are the works of his hands…

Matthew16:2-4 explains signs

then in Matthew 24: 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man (notice it doesn’t say the son of man, it says the sign of the Son of man) in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,(why will all mourn? if he is returning and going to rapture us wouldn’t they be glad? they mourn because he comes to judge the earth and they were caught unawares) and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (the elect are gathered from the four winds in heaven not the earth)

then 24 goes into the parable about knowing the signs of the times, another words knowing what the feasts represent in correlation to Christ’s return, the harvest time the verses refer to (the feast of tabernacles,harvest), and days of Noah, where no one paid attention to signs because the feasts were not given, they had no knowledge of them…he then blesses the servant that observed the times and was found DOING what was expected of him according to the mandates of God, and he was made ruler over all the goods, but the evil one, who doesn’t pay attention to the signs of the time says the Lord is delaying and the lord of that servant will cut him asunder because he came when they were not prepared.

Read matt.26 where it refers to the fact that the disciples knew that Christ was to be taken 2 days after Passover. All the signs follow after the feasts of God, and all feasts are set by the heavens and sign of the heavens through the sun, moon and the stars. Christ’s birth was foretold by the star that came two years before he was born, they knew the time, but not the day or the hour, that is why Herod sent all the babies to death that were two years and below, the same thing happened with Moses, Pharaoh, slayed all the infants 2 years and below, because they knew the sign of the times but not the hour or the exact day because they were the signs in the heavens… hope this enlightens you a bit and gives you more to ponder in the great scheme of things, remember Christ came to fulfill ALL the prophecies, and the feasts of are that, as well as Sabbaths, and Christ said that he is the Lord of the Sabbaths. Read Leviticus 23 and see that all prophecies of Christ are shadowed in this chapter

I have also posted under the tribulation blog about the antichrist, again I agree with your assertions but I think we must not confuse antichrist with the beast and false prophet, they are not one and the same, and the antichrist is the spirit of Satan/the devil. If you look close enough at the scriptures I think you will understand better what I am explaining.

Sometimes we want and search for truths but still keep them in a doctrinal “box” if you will and interpret them with the notion that we are in truth but in actuality are still confining ourselves within religious doctrine. And the use of antichrist as an acceptable interchange for beast and false prophet and son of perdition is not scripturally sound. The Aramaic, Greek, Hebraic roots of the words are not interchanged, they are only in some instances. Such as the translations of the word hell, grave, and death, they are often used to refer to the same root word, but translated differently, and vice versa. In that we error. Too often we interchange terminology and it distorts the whole picture because we liberally use the wrong translations, and in many instances where it has been done, it flaws our view.

I hope this helps a bit, I am not a scholar or an expert, not everything I say is to be held to as perfect, but judge what I am saying by the scripture alone. I too have error, but, I am like you hoping to get a better and more acurate view of the truth of the scriptures and what they mean, with out the doctrinal blindness that has flawed the word of God from the beginning of man’s religious pious workings.