The Holy Scriptures does not say the Anti-Messiah will be Jewish. Passages used in Genesis, Daniel, and Revelation do not support this false teaching. False teachers often say Daniel 11:37 and John 5:43 reveal the Jewish identity of the Anti-Messiah. According to Daniel 11:37, “He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all” (Daniel 11:37 NKJV). The Hebrew word for God in the Hebrew is not “ELOHIM,” but “ELOHAI,” meaning “gods,” or idols. The passage simply says the Anti-Messiah will not worship the idols his fathers worshiped, and this is likely because he makes a pretense of being the true God, the God of Israel. In John 5:43, Messiah Yeshua said, “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive” (John 5:43 NKJV). Messiah Yeshua reveals that the Anti-Messiah will come in his own name and the whole world will embrace him. However, nothing in His prophecy identifies the ethnicity of this coming world dictator.

The Holy Scriptures is clear that the Anti-Messiah will be of non-Jewish origin. The Holy Scriptures typology shows that the Anti-Messiah will be Gentile. For example, the book of Daniel portrays the Syrian Gentile Antiochus Epiphanes as a type of the Anti-Messiah, according to Daniel 8:9–14 and Daniel 11:1–35. According to secular and biblical history, the persecutors of the Jewish people have always been Gentiles, such as Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Titus, the Moslems, the Crusaders, the Inquisitors, and the modern Arabs.  The Anti-Messiah comes with a covenant for Israel to sign because he is an outsider, and Israel would probably never have to sign a covenant with one of its own.

The most powerful evidence for the Anti-Messiah being Gentile comes from the prophetic imagery decorating God’s Holy Scriptures. Whenever the biblical prophets use word “SEA” symbolically in Scripture, especially in the books of Daniel and Revelation, it is a symbol for the Gentile nations. In Daniel 7:2, the prophet wrote, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.” The four beasts that emerge from the sea in Daniel 7:2 represent the Gentiles empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.  Because the “BEAST” of Revelation 13:1–10 arises out of the sea, this indicates that the Anti-Messiah will likely be a Gentile.