ארמלגוס – Armi-what?  2. Who, what, where and when is Armilus / Armilgus?  3. Does anyone know?  The Armilus is virtually unknown to the vast majority of people, even those who are Jewish and consider themselves religious!  A handful of Bible scholars have looked up the word in various encyclopedias and then take the person for which it stands about as seriously as do the encyclopedias.  If you do not believe this, just ask a rabbi, or any person who professes to have a knowledge or interest in the Jewish religion, about Armilus ("the Jewish Anti-Messiah" or "the last evil king against Israel and the Messiah").  I am willing to bet that they either look completely bewildered, or look at you like you should be put in an asylum! 

Many believe the Anti-Messiah or anti-Christ is a Christian concept, having nothing to do with Judaism.  This is not true!  The ancient rabbis wrote about him under the name of Armilus.  In this chapter we will quote rabbinical commentaries (such as certain Midrashim, Targums and selected writings of Bar Yohai) to illustrate this point.

In The Jewish Encyclopedia, it is admitted that a "Jewish Antichrist," called Armilus in ancient Jewish legend/tradition, will come to wreak havoc on the Jews of Jerusalem just prior to the Messiah coming to destroy him and save them.  The Jewish Encyclopedia says:  "ARMILUS:  In later Jewish eschatology and legend, a king who will arise at the end of time against the Messiah, and will be conquered by him after having brought much distress upon Israel.

The origin of this Jewish Anti-Messiah (as he can well be styled in view of his relation to the Messiah) is as much involved in doubt as the different phases of his development, and his relation to the Christian legend….[Rabbi] Saadia (born 892; died 942)…speaks of Armilus.  He mentions the following as a tradition of the ancients….If the Jews do not prove themselves worthy of Messianic salvation, God will force them to repentance by terrible persecutions.  In consequence of these persecutions, a scion of the tribe of Joseph [known as Messiah ben Joseph] will arise and wrest Jerusalem from the hands of the Edomites….Thereupon the king, Armilus, will conquer and sack the Holy City….then begin a general campaign against the Jews, forcing them to flee into the desert [Petra], where they will suffer untold misery.  When they have been purified by sorrow and pain (Zechariah 12:10), the Messiah will appear, wrest Jerusalem from Armilus, slay him, and thereby bring the true salvation….This creature, Armilus by name—the Gentiles called him Antichrist, says the ‘Otot’—will set himself up as Messiah, even as God Himself, being recognized as such by the sons of Esau….Armilus, inflamed against the Jews, will march against the Messiah.  But now God Himself will war against Armilus and his army and destroy them;  or the Messiah, as one version has it, will slay Armilus by the breath of his mouth."

Incredibly enough, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia admits, in so many words, that Armilus is the Anti-Messiah.  In this encyclopedia, under another heading near Antichrist and Armilus, there is a section called "Anti- christ."  This encyclopediareads:  "ANTI-MESSIAH, legendary opponent of the Messiah and leader of the heathen forces in the battle against the latter which will take place at the end of time.  Such a figure, under the name of Armilus, becomes a definite part of Jewish eschatology….[who] will overcome and destroy the Messiah of the house of Joseph and rule over the entire world, but will ultimately be defeated and slain by the Messiah of the line of David.  In Pesikta Rabbathi (edit. Friedmann, p. 161b) the Anti-Messiah is apparently identified with Satan and the Angel of Death…. According to Bousset and Moritz Friedlaender, the idea of an Anti-Messiah goes back to…Ezekiel’s prophecy of Gog, the prince of Magog, who was to attack Israel and to be miraculously overcome (Ezek. 38 and 39).  The pseudepigraphic writings describe him as a powerful tyrant, with the characteristic traits of Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod the Great, Caligula or Nero, or else as a false prophet, who established his power by means of deceptive signs and miracles (Ascension of Moses 8;  IV Esdras 13:33 et seq.;  Sibylline Oracles 3:46-92)."

The greatest of Satan’s deceptive miracles, which he will use to fool the world into receiving the Anti-Messiah as the Messiah, will be a counterfeit of the resurrection of our beloved Rabbi, Maran Yeshua!  Hitgalut / Revelation 13:3 speaks of this world leader receiving a fatal wound to his head, which is supernaturally healed.  This is the way Satan will catapult himself onto the world’s stage as the Messiah and Savior, and as the answer to the world’s quest for peace, including the solution to the Middle East Crisis.  He will accomplish this through a false miracle that will appear to be so great, all the world’s people will sit up and take notice—a man resurrected from the dead. 

The Mahdi, is the anti-Messiah too, who is the one and the same as the Armilus, to whom Islam sees as the saviour of the world, but in contrast to their anti-Messiah (for Islam), the mahdi hates Israel, and its goal is to bring Islam to the whole world. To us, Bible believers, this is the anti-Messiah, Armilus, the incarnation of pure evil. (Important Note: It is worth noting, that several visits from Mahmoud Aminajad to Bashar Al-ASAD, Mr. Mahmoud came back saying that he met the Mahdi.)

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders…." (II Thes. 2:9).

View this videos, it will be enlighten. This man explains the idea conveyed in this article quite good. Although, be warned, he uses the assume holy Name of HaShem. The video lenght in its total is about 2 hours or more.

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