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Premillenialism-style futurists like Arthur Pink in his classic work ''The Antichrist'' attribute vast portions within the Old and New Testament to this future figure. Doug Krieger, in his e-books entitled ''Antichrist Reflections on the Desolator''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm|title=''Antichrist Reflections on the Desolator''}}</ref> (January 22, 2008) and ''Antichrist and the Gog-Magog War''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/antichrist/index.htm|title=''Antichrist and the Gog-Magog War''}}</ref> (March 27, 2005) identifies the future [[Antichrist]] as the product of Greco-Roman man or a future leader of [[the West]] (viz., the United States of America)--tracing the portions of {{bibleverse||Daniel|7-8|NKJV}} to the Beast of {{bibleverse||Revelation|11|NKJV}} and {{bibleverse||Revelation|13|NKJV}}, yet to ascend from the sea as a composite of a final [[Gentile]] World Power with the same animal-empire descriptions found in Daniel ("Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion" - Revelation 13:2).

Premillenialism-style futurists like Arthur Pink in his classic work ''The Antichrist'' attribute vast portions within the Old and New Testament to this future figure. Doug Krieger, in his e-books entitled ''Antichrist Reflections on the Desolator''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm|title=''Antichrist Reflections on the Desolator''}}</ref> (January 22, 2008) and ''Antichrist and the Gog-Magog War''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/antichrist/index.htm|title=''Antichrist and the Gog-Magog War''}}</ref> (March 27, 2005) identifies the future [[Antichrist]] as the product of Greco-Roman man or a future leader of [[the West]] (viz., the United States of America)--tracing the portions of {{bibleverse||Daniel|7-8|NKJV}} to the Beast of {{bibleverse||Revelation|11|NKJV}} and {{bibleverse||Revelation|13|NKJV}}, yet to ascend from the sea as a composite of a final [[Gentile]] World Power with the same animal-empire descriptions found in Daniel ("Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion" - Revelation 13:2).

Krieger claims that the title of ''Antichrist'' (found only in I John 2:22, I John 4:3 and {{bibleverse|II|John|7|NKJV}}) is given to this future figure who will parody [[Jesus Christ]] in his death and resurrection when, as the leader of the West, he will feign himself as a [[Messiah]]-like figure to both [[Jews]] and Gentiles for the first three-and-one-half years of Daniel's yet future Prophecy of Seventy Weeks{{bibleverse||Daniel|9:24-27|NKJV}}.  Paul states in {{bibleverse|II|Thessalonians|2:3-4|NKJV}}:  "...the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."  In his thesis, Krieger cites Donald Barnhouse in his commentary on Revelation (1971, Zondervan) who affirms that ''the Beast'' of Revelation is the incarnation of Satan into the body of Antichrist and that the ''Abomination of Desolation'' is this future event. This revelation of the "man of sin" is two-fold:  (1) he is assassinated in a rebuilt Jewish Temple (the so-called [[Third Temple]]) when religious Jews become outraged over his self-deification and declarations of godhood--a blatant desecration; and (2) whereupon Satan incarnates himself into Antichrist's body and feigns the resurrection (i.e., "temple" as when Jesus said:  "Destroy this '''temple''', and in three days I will raise it up...he was speaking of the temple of his body" - (John 2:19-21).  John the Apostle in Revelation 11:7; and Revelation 13:3 describes the Antichrist transformed into The Beast for the final half of Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks:  "And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed.  And all the world marveled and followed the beast."  Paul's description of the "man of sin" as the "son of perdition" in II Thessalonians 2:2-3 parallels the account when "Satan entered into Judas" {Luke 22:3; John 13:27) to commit the act of betrayal.  Jesus entitled Judas as "the son of perdition" (John 17:12); therefore, the incarnation of Satan into the body of Antichrist in the middle of Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:27) terminates the sacerdotal rites of the Third Temple (Daniel 8:11-14; Daniel 11:31-32; Daniel 12:11)- this is the Abomination of Desolation or ''Transgression of Desolation'' (Daniel 8:13; Daniel 9;27; Daniel 112:13; Daniel 12:11) - both the desecration of the literal Third Temple and the desecration of the Antichrist, whereupon he is entitled '''the Beast'''t (i.e., without divine capacity to fellowship with God - the "son of perdition" or "destruction" and "utter damnation"), are considered as the Abomination of Desolation (II Thessalonians 2:2).

Krieger claims that the title of ''Antichrist'' (found only in I John 2:22, I John 4:3 and {{bibleverse|II|John|7|NKJV}}) is given to this future figure who will parody [[Jesus Christ]] in his death and resurrection when, as the leader of the West, he will feign himself as a [[Messiah]]-like figure to both [[Jews]] and Gentiles for the first three-and-one-half years of Daniel's yet future Prophecy of Seventy Weeks{{bibleverse||Daniel|9:24-27|NKJV}}.  Paul states in {{bibleverse|II|Thessalonians|2:3-4|NKJV}}:  "...the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."  In his thesis, Krieger cites Donald Barnhouse in his commentary on Revelation (1971, Zondervan) who affirms that ''the Beast'' of Revelation is the incarnation of Satan into the body of Antichrist and that the ''Abomination of Desolation'' is this future event. This revelation of the "man of sin" is two-fold:  (1) he is assassinated in a rebuilt Jewish Temple (the so-called [[Third Temple]]) when religious Jews become outraged over his self-deification and declarations of godhood--a blatant desecration; and (2) whereupon Satan incarnates himself into Antichrist's body and feigns the resurrection (i.e., "temple" as when Jesus said:  "Destroy this '''temple''', and in three days I will raise it up...he was speaking of the temple of his body" - (John 2:19-21).  John the Apostle in Revelation 11:7; and Revelation 13:3 describes the Antichrist transformed into The Beast for the final half of Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks:  "And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed.  And all the world marveled and followed the beast."  Paul's description of the "man of sin" as the "son of perdition" in II Thessalonians 2:2-3 parallels the account when "Satan entered into Judas" {Luke 22:3; John 13:27) to commit the act of betrayal.  Jesus entitled Judas as "the son of perdition" (John 17:12); therefore, the incarnation of Satan into the body of Antichrist in the middle of Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:27) terminates the sacerdotal rites of the Third Temple (Daniel 8:11-14; Daniel 11:31-32; Daniel 12:11)- this is the Abomination of Desolation or ''Transgression of Desolation'' (Daniel 8:13; Daniel 9;27; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11) - both the desecration of the literal Third Temple and the desecration of the Antichrist, whereupon he is entitled '''the Beast''' (i.e., without divine capacity to fellowship with God - the "son of perdition" or "destruction" and "utter damnation"), are considered as the Abomination of Desolation (II Thessalonians 2:2).

The [[typology]] of the [[Holy of Holies]] or the innermost sanctuary of the Jewish Temple is, according to many Evangelicals (especially among the [[Plymouth Brethren]]) the picture of a man's being:  spirit, and soul and body (I Thessalonians 5:23) which is likened to the Jewish Temple's "outer court" (i.e., the body); the "Holy Place" (i.e., the soul) and the [[Holy of Holies]] (i.e., the spirit of a man).  Jesus taught that unless a man were "born anew" he could not see the kingdom of God.  "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6).  The desecration of the Holy of Holies would be likened to the desecration of the human spirit - this is the part of man that would be entered into by [[Satan]] as Satan in {{bibleverse||Revelation|13|NKJV}} would enter into the lifeless body of the Antichrist.  Once this act of interior desecration occurs, Antichrist takes the title of the Beast (Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 13:1-10).  A beast, affirmed by orthodox Christianity, is not made in the "image of God" - cannot fellowship or commune with God; therefore, as the entitlement of the "son of perdition" the Beast has no possibility of salvation or fellowship with the Almighty.  It is the "temple" of the body of Antichrist that is desecrated in the "spiritual realm" - as it is the future Third Temple in Jerusalem (i.e., earth) which awaits the final confrontation and desecration.  (See:  [[2300 Day Prophecy of Daniel 8]] - Sacrifice and Desecration - Futurism (Christian eschatology) and the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks)

The [[typology]] of the [[Holy of Holies]] or the innermost sanctuary of the Jewish Temple is, according to many Evangelicals (especially among the [[Plymouth Brethren]]) the picture of a man's being:  spirit, and soul and body (I Thessalonians 5:23) which is likened to the Jewish Temple's "outer court" (i.e., the body); the "Holy Place" (i.e., the soul) and the [[Holy of Holies]] (i.e., the spirit of a man).  Jesus taught that unless a man were "born anew" he could not see the kingdom of God.  "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6).  The desecration of the Holy of Holies would be likened to the desecration of the human spirit - this is the part of man that would be entered into by [[Satan]] as Satan in {{bibleverse||Revelation|13|NKJV}} would enter into the lifeless body of the Antichrist.  Once this act of interior desecration occurs, Antichrist takes the title of the Beast (Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 13:1-10).  A beast, affirmed by orthodox Christianity, is not made in the "image of God" - cannot fellowship or commune with God; therefore, as the entitlement of the "son of perdition" the Beast has no possibility of salvation or fellowship with the Almighty.  It is the "temple" of the body of Antichrist that is desecrated in the "spiritual realm" - as it is the future Third Temple in Jerusalem (i.e., earth) which awaits the final confrontation and desecration.  (See:  [[2300 Day Prophecy of Daniel 8]] - Sacrifice and Desecration - Futurism (Christian eschatology) and the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks)