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Duduman Says Antichrist Is Ready

by Tom Stewart
12-11-2000
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December 2000

The last prophecy of Dumitru Duduman was released three years after his home going to the LORD. "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:23). Since Duduman was sent by the LORD from Romania to America, his words should have greater significance to American Christians to prepare themselves for the Coming of the LORD. "And it shall come to pass in the Last Days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). Dumitru was given three prophecies -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Prophets/Revealed.In.Time.html -- just weeks before his departure, and was given instructions when his family should release them. Accordingly, we now ponder an excerpt from Duduman's last prophecy. The LORD warns us,

"Dark days are soon coming upon the earth. Days of mourning and great sadness. I tarry for those who seek me with a pure heart. I give strength to those who seek me continually. The lawless one has been prepared, and he is ready to reveal himself. He awaits his release. He will come with a lying tongue and deceiving words."

"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation 2:7).

Of course, all Christians are enjoined to "occupy" (Luke 19:13) for the LORD until He comes; and, Duduman's last prophecy should only intensify our fervency to keep our "hand to the plough" (9:62) and not look back. "Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when He cometh shall find so doing" (12:43). Dumitru Duduman's burden as a modern prophet was similar to that of the LORD Jesus, i.e., how to benefit people, when you know today what will happen tomorrow. "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with Power: Who went about doing good" (Acts 10:38). In particular, Duduman's ministry was to warn Americans to repent before "America Will Burn" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Prophets/Prophecy.Duduman.America.html#America --. "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen" (Revelation 18:2). It is difficult for our finite minds to comprehend very much of the Infinite Mind of the Sovereign God, particularly when it appears that some event does not take place as "prophetically scheduled". We are prone to blame the prophet. "8 For My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My Ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My Ways higher than your ways, and My Thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). However, God has the Sovereign Right and Ability to change His mind, and to discontinue or forestall an event, especially if He deems it wise to gather more souls who will repent. "7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8 if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if it do evil in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them" (Jeremiah 18:7-10).

Antichrist is that most infamous deceiver who, Duduman's prophecy declares,

"will come with a lying tongue and deceiving words,"

appearing prior to "that great and notable day of the LORD" (Acts 2:20). "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition" (2Thessalonians 2:3). Antichrist the man works with his evil cohort the Devil, devising and scheming to bring about Satan's own version of the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ, complete with Israel back in the Land of Promise along with its Temple; but, unbeknownst to this insidious cabal is that the Almighty ordains to use them "to do whatsoever [His] hand and [His] Counsel determined before to be done" (Acts 4:28). "Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain" (Psalm 76:10). The LORD prophesies through Duduman,

"Dark days are soon coming upon the earth. Days of mourning and great sadness."

We, who hope for a Pre-Tribulational Rapture, believe that the LORD refers to the Tribulation Week, before which Daniel prophesied that the Antichrist should "confirm the covenant" (Daniel 9:27). "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).

Duduman's prophecy continues,

"The lawless one has been prepared, and he is ready to reveal himself."

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7). It is a certainty that the Thrice Holy God is never the originator or author of sin, "for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man" (James 1:13); but, the Sovereign God does so thoroughly manage, control, and judge wicked man, that He represents Himself as the One Who creates evil. "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6). In just this sense, Duduman has given us the certainty that the Antichrist, who is the "lawless one" because he is the ultimate affront to the Almighty's Law of Love, has been prepared by his "father the Devil" (John 8:44) and his human predecessors-- "even now are there many antichrists" (1John 2:18)-- but, Antichrist has been prepared by God--

"He awaits his release"--

as the culminating evil instrument "to do whatsoever [God's] hand and [God's] Counsel determined before to be done" (Acts 4:28), performing the darkest deeds of man's history during the Seventieth Week of Daniel -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Timeline/Seventy.Weeks.of.Daniel.html --, i.e., "so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2Thessalonians 2:4).

Antichrist "is ready to reveal himself,"

reports Duduman. This statement-- if taken to mean the Antichrist and not simply an antichrist-- means that God's prophet, Dumitru Duduman, has given us to understand that the Antichrist of the Apocalypse is presently alive and

"awaits his release".

"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth [literally, restrains] will let [literally, will restrain], until He [the Holy Spirit] be taken out of the way [at the Pre-Tribulational Rapture]" (2Thessalonians 2:7). [See our article, "Must There Be a Pre-Tribulational Rapture?" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Prophecy/Must.Pre.Trib.Rapture.html --, for an exposition of 2Thessalonians 2, "Taking Away the Restraining Influence" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Prophecy/Must.Pre.Trib.Rapture.html#Restrain --.] Only the Restraining Influence of the Holy Spirit-- which indwells all True Believers, unless we extinguish His Influence and Presence through sin, i.e., "Quench [Greek, sbennumi, meaning to extinguish] not the Spirit" (1Thessalonians 5:19)-- keeps the Antichrist from prematurely revealing himself. Only when He "Who walketh upon the wings of the wind" (Psalm 104:3) sovereignly determines that it is the Appointed Time, will the Antichrist be allowed to reveal himself-- which could be any time now-- but, not before the LORD Jesus removes His Watching and Waiting Saints through a Pre-Tribulational Rapture. "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not" (Luke 12:40).

Maranatha!

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