The next figure like Jesus to come is actually the Anti-Christ, which will have a setting in this world exactly as you are advocating, as he will try to make himself even bigger then Jesus and will try to sit on his throne.
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Ppm, the Scriptures reveal that the antichrist has been present for the last 1900 years.
(1 John 2:18) Young children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, from which fact we know that it is the last hour.
Once John the last remaining apostle died it reached full bloom as religion and politics amalgamated to proclaim themselves Christian. It was at this point Christendom was born only to fragment into orthodox and protestant factions.
(2 John 7) For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those not acknowledging Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
From the above verse it can be seen the antichrist includes all those that deny Jesus is the Christ and that he is the Son of God who came in the flesh. They claim instead that Jesus came as a god-man or God incarnate. It also includes those that leave the Christian faith and speak against it as shown in the following verse.
(1 John 2:19) They went out from us, but they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us. But they went out so that it might be shown that not all are of our sort.
Waffle is right in stating that Jesus' work is not yet finished.
(Matthew 13:41-43) The Son of man will send his angels, and they will collect out from his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and people who practice lawlessness, and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be. At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Let the one who has ears listen.
But, Waffle is wrong in saying it will be a new religion. Jesus will simply eradicate the weeds along with any wheat that turns rotten. Soon the political element of Satan's world will tire of its romance with religion and all false religion will be pitched into the ''fiery furnace'' from which there will be no return.
