AntiChrist He may not be who you think! One of the dominant topics among prophecy buffs is the identity of the coming leader, whom we call "the Antichrist. " We know from Daniel 9 that he will emerge out of the Roman Empire, which we often presume is Western Europe. However, we may have been subject to myopia by overlooking an important fact. The Roman Empire had an eastern leg that, in fact, survived the western leg by a thousand years!