Will the helpers of the Beast—the Antichrist—be forgiven
Will the Helpers of the Antichrist Be Forgiven?
The Question That Would Not Let Go
The Old Man held the rail, as though time itself slept in his knuckles.
Then he spoke.
“They ask me—quite often these days—this question:
‘Old Man… will the helpers of the Beast—the Antichrist—be forgiven?’
And by helpers, they mean those who collaborated with it.
Those who aided its rise.”
He paused.
“Perhaps the most difficult question I have ever been asked.”
The Old Man’s First Answer
“I usually begin,” he said, “with a familiar, almost platitudinal response.
I tell them:
‘Mercy is still standing at the door.
But not everyone still knows how to knock.’”
Sometimes, he said, that answer satisfies them.
“But it does not satisfy me.
I had never truly thought it through before.”
Mercy Has a History
Paul hunted Christians.
He found forgiveness.
Nebuchadnezzar crowned himself a god.
He found mercy.
Peter denied Christ.
He found restoration.
Heaven does not run out of mercy.
It is the seat of mercy.
And yet…
Will the helpers of the Beast—the Antichrist—be forgiven?
“Who will teach me,” the Old Man asked quietly,
“wretched ignoramus that I am?”
Timotheus Speaks
Timotheus rose to his feet.
“Far be it from me to teach you, beloved sir.
But forgiveness is always available—before the final spiritual sealing.
For Scripture says:
‘If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.’
— 1 John 1:9”
“Interesting,” the Old Man interjected.
“Justice is powerless in the face of a broken and contrite heart.”
“Yes, sir,” Timotheus replied.
“And it has only one recourse—to forgive.”
The Nature of Forgivable Sin
Timotheus continued:
“No sin is automatically unforgivable—
not betrayal,
not complicity,
not religious deception,
not even persecution of the Church.
Paul assisted in persecuting Christians—and he was forgiven.
In principle, therefore, a collaborator can be forgiven
if repentance occurs before final spiritual sealing.”
The Old Man nodded.
(Timotheus bowed deeply at the gesture.)
Revelation’s New Category: Irreversible Allegiance
“But Revelation introduces a new category,” Timotheus continued.
“Irreversible allegiance.”
These are those who:
knowingly worship the Beast,
receive his mark,
and pass beyond ordinary sin.
Revelation 14:9–11 declares that such ones:
‘will drink of the wine of the wrath of God…
and the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever.’
‘Forever and ever?’ the Old Professor asked.
“Yes,” Timotheus replied.
“Not because God suddenly becomes unwilling to forgive—
but because they have crossed a line of irreversible spiritual loyalty.”
The Line That Changes Everything
There is a difference between falling into sin
and kneeling to it.
A difference between being deceived
and swearing allegiance to the lie.
The deceived can still weep.
Still cry out for mercy.
But the other sits comfortably—
sealed beneath the false mountain Zion.
Revelation does not say God refused them.
It says they worshipped the Beast.
And no one worships what they still intend to repent from.
God does not shut the door first.
The soul that swears allegiance to evil does.
The tragedy of the last days is not that mercy expires—
but that repentance disappears.
The Molue Reacts
The Molue lurched violently as it climbed out of a massive pothole.
Some passengers crossed themselves.
Some laughed nervously.
“Thank you,” the Old Man said to Timotheus.
And we clapped.
His humility was striking—perhaps deliberate.
He wanted us to wrestle with the truth ourselves,
so that any insight gained would truly become our own.
Yet he was not done.
Why Repentance Becomes Impossible
“Why does repentance become impossible after that point?”
the Old Man asked.
“The best answer I have, sir,” Timotheus replied,
“is Romans 1:28: God gave them over to a reprobate mind.”
The Old Man nodded.
“At a certain stage,” Timotheus continued,
“the soul becomes fully hardened,
fully deceived,
fully self-justifying,
and fully incapable of repentance.”
“That,” the Old Man interjected,
“is why Satan himself cannot repent.”
“Yes, sir,” Timotheus said.
“Not because forgiveness is unavailable—
but because repentance is no longer psychologically or spiritually possible.”
Final Summary
“To summarize:
Is helping the Antichrist forgivable?
Yes—until it becomes worship, allegiance, and final spiritual sealing.
After that point, the tragedy is not that God cannot forgive—
but that the soul will not, and cannot, ask.”
“Thank you, Timotheus,” the Old Man said.
“Thank you, Baba,” he replied.
He walked slowly—almost embarrassedly—back to his seat,
buried his face into the backrest in front of him. I watched as he wept gently...
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