When Peace in the Middle East Was a Sign of the End Times
How modern prophecy flipped the script on who the Antichrist is supposed to be.
In popular American evangelical teaching, a key “sign” of the Antichrist is a leader who seems to deliver peace in the Middle East — often framed as a covenant with Israel drawn from Daniel 9:27 and repeated in prophecy media and novels.
That idea was systematized in modern dispensational theology and then popularized by Hal Lindsey and the Left Behind f…
