No, you don’t have to meet someone to make an assessment about their character, but discernment should be used. Neither you or I have ever met Kushner. The President has, and the President trusts him. That should count for something.
Sure, reading scripture gives you a peak into the mind of God, but to suggest it gives you infallible judgement on someone’s soul, is hubris. I know many good Bible reading Christians who disagree passionately about end times prophesy. We are all free to make our best estimate on anti-Christ, etc. but ultimately God is the only one who knows the exact identity.
We can disagee cordially on this.
Here’s my stance and why:
Trump is systematically defying God’s Law with this ‘peace deal’. Kushner, a Jew, should be ashamed of himself for pushing it as well.
“And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:7–8)
Jerusalem is the burdensome stone that will cut it’s enemies to pieces in the End Times.
(Zechariah 12:3)
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
They (and we by extension) can ignore those words and that command at our peril.
I believe I stated upthread that I don’t really care for playing pin-the-tail on the Anti-Christ and furthermore that I didn’t believe Kushner is the guy. Having said, that his ‘deal-making’ and his ancestry does bring about some interesting parallels, not to mention his family’s fortune, how they got it, and his rather interesting address of ‘666’ Park Avenue. Poetic I’d say...
If you read enough of God’s Word and see how He’s fooled Satan time after time after time in history (ad infinitum), you would think the dude would wave the white flag by now. But he won’t. His goal is the souls of humanity - misery loves company, and he needs to gather as many as possible by the billions.
God knows the identity, but I’ll wager a hefty bet if I was a betting man that even Satan doesn’t know his identity. Satan might have a top 5 list that he keeps handy but it probably won’t even be any of those, because God ultimately decides what happens.
I’ll further say that I also have a major suspicion that A/C is a human/demon hybrid of some sort. I’m not joking either.