But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
The judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end
- a two-fold operation. Antichrist is to be gradually "consumed," as the Papacy has been consuming for 400 years past, and especially of late years. He is also to be "destroyed" suddenly by Christ at his coming, when he shall become the fully-developed man of sin, "the son of perdition" or "destruction," whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Thessalonians 2:3-8).
Thus he appears to be the same as the "beast" (Revelation 16:13-14; Revelation 16:16), or secular power of the Roman empire (some conjecture Louis Napoleon): aided by the false prophet, he shall make a last desperate effort to retain the world-kingdom which belongs to the Lamb; and shall be destroyed at Armageddon in Palestine (the scene of the last conflict and overthrow by the Lamb of the kings of the earth, led on by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet).