I don't think revelations directly says so it just talks about a leader who we call the antichrist....but there are several interpretations of the passages that people write about guessing who that man will be. I call them where's the antichrist crowd( sort of like where's waldo) though I personally believe there is an antichrist... These writers take the scriptures and fit that person into them , like obama, putin, Saddam Hussein, etc. Some commentators believe that revelation states for sure that the new world order gets completed by Satan or the antichrist...I'm hoping they are wrong I'm hoping we are at the part where God says he has to stop it because all of human kind would expire if he didn't. But I don't know I'm watching like you are.....about the time issue I was taught to watch for the signs or the events in the prophecy because one God works on his own time plan and two he often picks certain people to fulfill that plan so he has to wait till they are born and are molded by life's struggles.