SID: I don’t know if any of you have been surrounded with hungry lions, but Mark, I have to ask you, how in the world did you, you were in the dark in Africa. You are walking to your transportation. And how did you know the lions were there? It’s all dark.
MARK: Oh, it was pitch black. It was about 10 o’clock at night and there were these huge bushes scattered around the parking lot of our safari jeep. Everyone else was eating at these picnic tables with no lightings other than flaming torches. And I wanted to see the stars. And as I’m headed toward the bush, a voice inside of me says, don’t go behind the bush. And I thought, well that’s crazy. So I kept walking further and the voice was stronger. Don’t go behind the bush. So I stopped and just then the driver and the leader of our group said, hey, it’s time to get back in the jeep. So I take a few steps, get back in the Jeep. We turned the headlights on and there are six female lions just 20 feet away walking behind the bushes,
SID: It pays to listen to God.
MARK: Yes it does.
SID: But you know what? Some people hear God’s voice and they dismiss it. Mark, I notice you don’t emphasize, as many Christians do, the rapture. Why?
MARK: Well for me, I feel like just like when the house is on fire, you have people running out, but you have fireman running in. And for me, I think this is the Superbowl of human history. And for me, I don’t want to leave until my mission is accomplished. I mean, I could die tomorrow. So what difference does it make? And I don’t think there’s any points for getting it right or being wrong. So I would far rather be wrong and ready than right and unprepared.
SID: So tell me about why you are so passionate about the Antichrist, the end times, that whole scenario. Why?
MARK: well, as you know, for about the last 2000 years, everyone’s been trying to figure out who the Antichrist is. And many have made these preposterous claims and they’ve all been wrong. So for me, I thought the most important thing that God revealed to me was how to really decode the Antichrist and the end times and it’s through profiling. We need to profile, instead of trying to figure out who the Antichrist is, look at his behavior, look at what, how he’s going to react, how he’s going to try to control, how he’s going to try to manipulate people, what his modus operandi is, what his agenda is. Then we won’t be deceived.
SID: But you’re so passionate about it. Why so passionate now?
MARK: Well, as a matter of fact, God had kind of revealed to me something that will be a shock to most Christians and most of the church. This was back in the seventies. I’ve been saved for about 45 years, and back in the 70s I began to realize that King Solomon is a type of Antichrist, not Christ. And I had been mulling on that for 40 years. I’ve been trying to write a book and it just wouldn’t come together until finally it’s come together and Christians need to hear that it will be so easy to be deceived if they’re looking for some King Solomon that’s wise to solve the problems in the Middle East.
SID: One of the things you do I like because very few Christians understand this. Three of the great religions in the world, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, all believe in a messiah and all believe in an anti-Messiah. Tell me briefly what the basic views of the Antichrist are for those three great religions.
MARK: Well, sure, this is what is so fascinating. In Islam, they have an Antichrist figure called the Dajal. And they believe their anti Christ is the Jewish Messiah. And then in Judaism they have in some sects of Judaism, they have an Antichrist called Armelis who they believe is the Christian Messiah. And then in Christianity many in their theology believe their Antichrist is the Islamic Messiah. And so everyone’s messiah is the other one’s anti-Messiah.
SID: So, Rabbi, how does it help us knowing these end time perspectives?
MARK: Wow, that is so important. Especially when you realize for Judaism they’re going to have, as you said, a suffering servant Messiah, a conquering King Messiah. They have an Antichrist. They have two witnesses like a Moses and Elijah, there’s like five people. And then in Islam, they have their Mahdi Messiah, they have an Antichrist, they have a Jesus. Two Jesuses appear, a fake Jesus and a real Jesus. And you know the fake Jesus because he loves the Jewish people is what they say. And that they have a beast the rides in the earth. And the Christianity has two witnesses, and they have the Messiah who comes. And there’s like 15 people running around. How are we going to know who’s who?
SID: Sounds a bit meshuga to me. He knows, that’s a little crazy.
MARK: And the way it helps us is by knowing their end time views we won’t be deceived or confused.
SID: Out of curiosity, and I imagine a lot of you question these things, why do Jewish people reject Jesus as the Messiah?
MARK: Oh, that’s a great question. I think the reason that most Jews reject Yeshua, Jesus, as their messiah is because of all the scriptures He didn’t fulfill that in their view, the Messiah would. For example, they see the Messiah as gathering all the children of Israel, rebuilding the Temple, okay and restoring all the fortunes to Israel. Jerusalem ends up becoming the capital of the world and other nations don’t even want it to be the capital of Israel.
SID: So you know what? I’ve studied this myself and what I find is there’s two sets of predictions. One, a suffering servant Messiah, and one that will usher in an age of peace, a King Messiah. But how could the king ever have peace unless there’s something done within the humans to change our hearts. Jeremiah says the heart is the most deceitful of all things. Now, everyone asks, who is the Antichrist? But for the first time in history, maybe we should be asking what is the Antichrist? Could he be a created being using artificial intelligence? Next, don’t go away.