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Mark Hitchcock, in his 2009 text, ''The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days''<ref>{{cite web| title=The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days| url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781601421401| author=Mark Hitchcock| publisher=Multnomah Books, Colorado Springs, CO, 2009, pp.  17-21, ISBN 978-1-60142-140-1}}</ref> rejects the eschatologists who suggest that America is ''Mystery, Babylon the Great'' (Revelation 17:5) and claims, instead, that modern-day [[Iraq]] is the literal Babylon the Great of the latter days (pp. 17-21).  Scores of authors now flood the American apocalyptic marketplace with America’s role in Bible prophecy and most tie in the final Antichrist as the leader of that proposition.<ref>{{cite web| title=America in Prophecy - Contemporary American authors address America in Bible Prophecy| url=http://www.armageddonbooks.com/america.html}}</ref> Those Evangelicals who dispute America’s role as the Babylon of the Last Days, and as the seat of Antichrist, have been resisted by the likes of John Walvoord<ref>{{cite web| title=Walvoord| url=http://www.walvoordhistory.com/John%20F.%20Walvoord.html| author=Scott Anthony Walvoord}}</ref> of Dallas Theological Seminary<ref>{{cite web| title=Dallas Theological Seminary (Home Page)| url=http://www.dts.edu/}}</ref> and R. L. Hymers, Jr. of the Los Angeles Baptist Tabernacle.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Fall of America in Bible Prophecy| url=http://www.rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2008/102608PM_AmericaInProphecy.html| author=R. L. Hymers of the Los Angeles Baptist Tabernacle}}</ref>

Mark Hitchcock, in his 2009 text, ''The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days''<ref>{{cite web| title=The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days| url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781601421401| author=Mark Hitchcock| publisher=Multnomah Books, Colorado Springs, CO, 2009, pp.  17-21, ISBN 978-1-60142-140-1}}</ref> rejects the eschatologists who suggest that America is ''Mystery, Babylon the Great'' (Revelation 17:5) and claims, instead, that modern-day [[Iraq]] is the literal Babylon the Great of the latter days (pp. 17-21).  Scores of authors now flood the American apocalyptic marketplace with America’s role in Bible prophecy and most tie in the final Antichrist as the leader of that proposition.<ref>{{cite web| title=America in Prophecy - Contemporary American authors address America in Bible Prophecy| url=http://www.armageddonbooks.com/america.html}}</ref> Those Evangelicals who dispute America’s role as the Babylon of the Last Days, and as the seat of Antichrist, have been resisted by the likes of John Walvoord<ref>{{cite web| title=Walvoord| url=http://www.walvoordhistory.com/John%20F.%20Walvoord.html| author=Scott Anthony Walvoord}}</ref> of Dallas Theological Seminary<ref>{{cite web| title=Dallas Theological Seminary (Home Page)| url=http://www.dts.edu/}}</ref> and R. L. Hymers, Jr. of the Los Angeles Baptist Tabernacle.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Fall of America in Bible Prophecy| url=http://www.rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2008/102608PM_AmericaInProphecy.html| author=R. L. Hymers of the Los Angeles Baptist Tabernacle}}</ref>

In his e-book ''Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator''<ref>{{cite web| title=Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator| url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm| author=Doug Krieger| publisher=The Tribulation Network}}</ref> Doug Krieger asserts that The Antichrist is not a Jew, the Pope, Islam nor a New-Age figure. Antichrist will be (according to Krieger) the leader of the West and the "protector of the Jews in a regathered Israel" - it is this figure who will make a "defense pact" to defend Israel's majority for seven years but, like other Biblical Futurists, will break his covenant with Israel and declare himself as "God, in the temple of God" (II Thessalonians 2:4).  Also, Antichrist receives the Biblical entitlement of the Beast in the middle of Daniel's final 70th Week.  This is accomplished when Antichrist receives "a wound in his head" - his body will then be entered into by Satan himself; thereafter, he is entitled the Beast.  Therefore, not only desecrating a rebuilt [[Third Temple]] but desecrating the Antichrist's body (i.e., the "temple of man") and, as "Satan entered into Judas" to betray Jesus, he will enter into Antichrist - both Judas and Antichrist are entitled "The Son of Perdition" (John 17:12; II Thessalonians 2:3).

In his e-book ''Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator''<ref>{{cite web| title=Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator| url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm| author=Doug Krieger| publisher=The Tribulation Network}}</ref> Doug Krieger asserts that The Antichrist is not a Jew, the Pope, Islam nor a New-Age figure. Antichrist will be (according to Krieger) the leader of the West and the "protector of the Jews in a regathered Israel" - it is this figure who will make a "defense pact" to defend Israel's majority for seven years but, like other Biblical Futurists, will break his covenant with Israel and declare himself as "God, in the temple of God" (II Thessalonians 2:4).  Also, Antichrist receives the Biblical entitlement of ''the Beast'' in the middle of Daniel's final 70th Week.  This is accomplished when Antichrist receives "a wound in his head" - his body will then be entered into by Satan himself who will parody the resurrection of Jesus; thereafter, he is entitled ''the Beast''.  Therefore, [[Satan]] will not only desecrate a rebuilt [[Third Temple]] by declaring himself as God in the Temple of God but he will desecrate the Antichrist's body (i.e., the "temple of man") and, as "Satan entered into [[Judas]]" to betray Jesus, he will enter into Antichrist - both Judas and Antichrist are entitled ''The Son of Perdition'' (John 17:12; II Thessalonians 2:3).

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