Millennialists projected the Antichrist’s apparatus onto the League of Nations in the 1920s

Evidence

While some millenarians concentrated on the Antichrist’s personal characteristics, the better to identify him, others began to speculate about his apparatus of control—for if, indeed, the second half of the Tribulation was to be dominated by a world dictatorship, then surely that would require a formidable governmental and administrative structure. Because his rule was to constitute a resuscitated Roman empire, there had to be an organizational as well as a personal component. This train of thought was evident as early as the 1920s, when some American millennialists regarded the new League of Nations as the institution awaiting the Antichrist’s controlling hand. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 251

Categorization

• XREF: Pattern of reading real international institutions as Antichrist vehicles anticipates later NWO readings of the UN and EU — core thread of this book. — connects to: Technology threads turned the Antichrist into a system-of-control concept — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 261; Conspiracy and millennialism function complementarily by dividing labor over the problem of evil — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 107; Lutheran Reformers mapped Islam onto Antichrist prophecy to delegitimize it — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1562
• STORYSTEM: Strong fiction seed: a world-governing body secretly engineered to be the Antichrist’s administrative scaffold, revealed through arcane organizational charts and prophecy codes.

Broader Connections

• Lutheran Reformers mapped Islam onto Antichrist prophecy to delegitimize it #exemplifies (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1562
• Conspiracy and millennialism function complementarily by dividing labor over the problem of evil #expands (0.75) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 107
• Technology threads turned the Antichrist into a system-of-control concept #expands (0.72) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 261