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Jun 28, 2020 · The Antichrist will aggressively live up to his terrible name. He will persecute, torture, and kill the people of God as he leads the armies of the world into the Battle of Armageddon. He will be the most powerful dictator the world has ever seen, making Caesar, Hitler, Mao, and Saddam seem tame by comparison.
- He Is The Son of Satan
- He Is An Earthly Tyrant and Trickster
- Past Popes Have Been Accused
- He Is One and Many
- He Dies in The End
The Antichrist was the perfectly evil human being because he was completely opposite to the perfectly good human being, Jesus Christ. Just as Christians came to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, so they thought that the Antichrist was the Son of Satan. Jesus was born of a virgin. So the Antichrist would be born of a woman who was appare...
By the year 1000, the main outlines of the first of two narratives about the Antichrist was in place thanks to a noble-born Benedictine monk and abbot named Adso of Montier-en-Der(c. 920-92) who wrote a treatise on the subject. According to him, the Antichrist would be a Jew from the tribe of Dan and born in Babylon. He would be brought up in all f...
By the year 1400, another narrative of the Antichrist had arisen. Now he was no longer the tyrant outside of the Church but the deceiver within it. In short, he was the Pope or even the institution of the papacy and the Church themselves. As the English religious radical John Wycliffe(c. 1329-84) put it, This was the position on the Antichrist adop...
Within conservative Christianity over the last century, Antichrists have multiplied. “The Antichrist” has become a general category available for application to an array of individuals, collectives, and objects as the demonic “other”. Generally, predictions of a tyrant outside the church now dominate the idea of a deceiver within it. American presi...
According to the Christian tradition, the Antichrist will finally be defeated by the armies of God under the leadership of Christ with the Kingdom of God (on earth or in heaven) to follow. So, in spite of current appearances, Christianity holds firmly to the hope that evil will be finally overcome and that goodness will ultimately prevail. The core...
- Philip C. Almond
Unbelievably, many who graduate from seminary deny that Jesus was fully God and fully man. These, by definition, are anti-Christ’s. Atheists could be said to be anti-Christ because they do not believe in God and thus Jesus Christ as God and so they stand condemned ( John 3:18 ).
- Antichrist. The name "Antichrist" is only found in 1 John 2:18, 2:22, 4:3, and 2 John 7. The Apostle John was the only Bible writer to use the name Antichrist.
- Man of Sin. In 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, the Antichrist is described as the "man of sin," or "son of perdition." Here the Apostle Paul, like John, warned believers about the Antichrist's ability to deceive
- The Beast. In Revelation 13:5-8, the Antichrist is referred to as "the beast:" "Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.
- A Little Horn. In Daniel's prophetic vision of end days, we see "a little horn" described in chapters 7, 8 and 11. In the interpretation of the dream, this little horn is a ruler or king and speaks of the Antichrist.
Antichrist, the polar opposite and ultimate enemy of Christ. According to Christian tradition, he will reign terribly in the period prior to the Last Judgment. The term Antichrist first appeared in the Letters of John (1 John 2:18, 2:22, and 4:3; 2 John 1:7), and the fully developed story of Antichrist’s life and reign is found in medieval texts.
- Robert E. Lerner
In Christian eschatology, Antichrist refers to a kind of person prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and falsely substitute themselves as a savior in Christ's place before the Second Coming. [1] .
Apr 25, 2018 · What does the antichrist do? He deceives and he persecutes. He’s here already. His spirit sounds bizarre, but his influence extends right now into the present. It began in the first century and extends right now through a group of false teachers who are infiltrating the church. Either they have infiltrated churches or they are knocking on the ...
