Where is it referred in the Bible the anti-christ will be from the east?

Answer 1

In the article "An Alternate Ending: Part 2 Antichrist from the Middle East?"

Dr Chuck Missler says:- ...that while we understand that the coming world leader, whom we commonly call "the Antichrist," is predicted to come from the Roman Empire,1 we tend to be myopic regarding the extent of this designation: we tend to equate the Roman Empire with Western Europe, ignoring the eastern leg of this empire, which outlasted the western leg by a thousand years! If we carefully examine the many references in the Old Testament, we discover a surprising number of allusions to this dominant personage as "the Assyrian."2 This would seem to focus on the region that we know today as Syria and Iraq.[Note 1:-Daniel 9:26.]

[Note 2:-Isaiah 10:5, 24; 14:25; 30:31; Ezekiel 31:3f., Micah 5:5, 6.]

Verses mentioned in Note 2 (ie Isaiah 10:5, 24; 14:25; 30:31; Ezekiel 31:3f., Micah 5:5, 6):-

Isa 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Isa 10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

Isa 14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

Isa 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

Eze 31:3 [to end of chapter] Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Mic 5:5-6 (v.5) And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. (v.6) And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Without any point of reference, it doesn't matter whether the anti-Christ will come from the East or West, or North or South for that matter. Any place can be East, West, North, South of other places except in the North and South Pole. So to identify the place where the anti-Christ will be coming from, we must first agree on a reference point. In the Bible all geographical references are always made in relation to Jerusalem, but because the Anti-Christ is presently unknown his lineage and country of origin are as yet also unknown, and will remain unknown until after the event.