The Fatal Wound of the Sword
Part 12 in the Harlot of Babylon Series
Nimrod, the antichrist, receives a fatal wound and is killed and goes into the abyss. This took place thousands of years ago. He has been in the abyss ever since, waiting for the time of his release. He remains there until the last days when his fatal wound is healed. Then he comes up out of the abyss and the whole earth is amazed and follows him.
Rev 13:3 I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast.
How is he killed? The Bible says he has a fatal wound of the sword.
Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.
The antichrist is killed by a sword. John says, he who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. If Nimrod is the antichrist, then he had to have died from the sword. The Bible doesn’t tell us how Nimrod died but the book of Jasher does.
Jasher chapter 27 gives us the story of Esau, Jacob’s brother, and Esau’s arch enemy, Nimrod. This story takes place when Nimrod was 215 years old. He had reigned for 185 years. Esau and Nimrod hated each other.
4 And on a certain day Esau went in the field to hunt, and he found Nimrod walking in the wilderness with his two men.
5 And all his mighty men and his people were with him in the wilderness, but they removed at a distance from him, and they went from him in different directions to hunt, and Esau concealed himself from Nimrod, and he lurked for him in the wilderness.
7 And Nimrod and two of his men that were with him came to the place where they were, when Esau started suddenly from his lurking place, and drew his sword, and hastened and ran to Nimrod and cut off his head.
8 And Esau fought a desperate fight with the two men that were with Nimrod, and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and smote them to death with his sword.
9 And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go to the wilderness, heard the cry at a distance, and they knew the voices of those two men, and they ran to know the cause of it, when they found their king and the two men that were with him lying dead in the wilderness.
Nimrod was killed by Esau’s sword. We know that the antichrist receives a fatal wound and is killed by the sword. Now we know who killed him and how. Esau took his sword and cut the antichrist’s head off!
Nimrod was the first antichrist, and he will be the last antichrist. Nimrod was not a foreshadow of the antichrist, he was, and still is, the antichrist. He is in the abyss right now. He is waiting for his master, Satan, to heal his wound and bring him up out of the abyss. I believe this will take place when Satan is cast out of heaven to the earth by Michael the archangel which begins the three-and-a-half-year tribulation. This is in Revelation chapter twelve. The whole earth, all those whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, will follow after the beast, who once was, and now is not, and will come.
I want to finish the story from Jasher 27 before we move on. This picks up after Esau kills Nimrod and his two men.
11 And Esau ran into the city on account of Nimrod’s men, and he came unto his father’s house wearied and exhausted from fight, and he was ready to die when he approached his brother Jacob and sat before him.
12 And he said unto his brother Jacob, Behold I shall die this day, and wherefore then do I want the birthright? And Jacob acted wisely with Esau in this matter, and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, for it was so brought about by the Lord.
We have all read about Esau selling his birthright to Jacob, but we never knew why he was so desperate for some stew. Now we know. He had killed the antichrist and his two bodyguards and then fled all of Nimrod’s army. He was so exhausted and wearied that he was near death. That is why he didn’t care about the birthright. Genesis 25 tells the story.
Gen 25:29 When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished.
And now we know the rest of the story.