Elon being one degree of separation to the Antichrist, or the Antichrist himself, seems so obvious, like all the pieces fit together almost too well, to the point where I have a hard time believing it. I thought it would be harder to discern.
Also it has been mentioned before, I think it was
@Cynllo who brought it up initially, that Elon is recorded in the Book of Joshua as a city in the Tribe of Dan (
Joshua 19:40-48), which just happens to be the very same tribe that the future anti-christ will hail from (the Church fathers point to
Genesis 49:16-17 as evidence for this, when Jacob says on his deathbed, "
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heel so that it's rider shall fall backward"). He is prophesied to be born of a "defiled maiden" as well, or in other words, a prostitute, so if we could argue Grimes fitting this description (as so many women do these days) then it all seems to fall into place, as you say.
Although after reading through the following article and referring to it several times in other threads, I'm skeptical that it will be this obvious for us and I think you're right to say "it would be harder to discern". It should indeed. If it were so obvious then everyone would catch onto it pretty soon, which would effectively foil the devil's plans for world domination before they even started. Do we forget that the devil is the master of cunning and trickery?
Instead of everything being a public hollywood spectacle from the beginning as we might expect it to be, the antichrist will instead mirror Christ's ministry in many ways:
preachersinstitute.com
The Antichrist will be a mockery and parody of the true Christ, the Lord Jesus. Early Church saints such as St. Irenaeus, St. Jerome, and St. Ambrose and others hold that the Antichrist will be a Jew, as Jesus was, but will be born from the wrong tribe, not from the Tribe of Judah, but from the Tribe of Dan. Both St. John of Damascus and St. Ephraim the Syrian believe that the Antichrist—“the offspring of fornication”— will be born, not of a holy virgin, but “of prostitution” from an immoral, sinful, “defiled maiden”.
Just as Jesus Christ was raised quietly, before making His public appearance to begin His ministry at the age of 30, so too the Antichrist will be raised in obscurity, until the day of his public appearance (as St. John of Damascus said—quoted above—that the Antichrist will be “nurtured in secret”.)
The child of Elon Musk does not seem to fit the bill of one "nurtured in secret", but it will distract the gullible among us who are not familiar with these prophecies and go along potentially with the view that "X" will become the prophesied antichrist.
I was listening to a talk recently, i think it was one of Abbot Tryphon's small sermons, and the subject was on the demons and our perception of them in contemporary culture. He explained how we've all been "brainwashed" to some extent by believing that demons and dark forces only manifest as horrible-looking, gnarly, disgusting and "demonic" looking creatures. When we call something "demonic", we all share this similar image of a repulsive creature or spirit that seeks to cause chaos or violence in some way.
But he went on to warn the listeners, that while this is not entirely wrong, demons can also take the form of angels of light. I've also seen it reported among the lives of saints that they have even took the form of Christ, albeit with small discrepancies in details. However it is practically impossible to discern between genuine angelic appearances and demonic manifestations due to both having a supernatural origin, and we are so fallen that we cannot trust our senses. Better to disregard all of them.
The point I wanted to make here though, is that the devil will use this ploy of appearing as something
good, deceiving the whole world, when in fact it will be the devil himself behind it all. We think he will appear with red horns, hooves and a long tail with pentagram tattoos, but instead he will resemble something like an angel to us, only that we won't be able to see behind the veil that it is not one with God, but instead the "light-bearer", or Lucifer.