Who comes first in the end times, the antichrist or the true Christ?
The antichrist comes first. The pattern throughout Scripture is first the natural, then the spiritual. A false, counterfeit, man anti-Christ, natural, precedes the true Christ. He will be followed by the second coming of the true Christ, the spiritual. Watch for it.
Les teaches that all the way through Scripture the order is first the natural and then the spiritual. Applying that to the end times, he explains that first you have the false Christ, the counterfeit Christ, the man anti-Christ, who is natural. He will be followed by the second coming of the true Christ, who is spiritual. Les also points to King Saul as an illustration: Saul came on the scene as Israel’s first king, natural and of the flesh, not of the Spirit of God. After Saul went off the scene in disrepute, King David came and took his place. The same principle holds: the false, natural one comes first, and the true, spiritual one follows.