And that is exactly what that individual wants people to do, not look for him.
It's exactly what the papacy is doing and had done since the 1600s when 2 Jesuits invented preterism and futurism to counter the accusing fingers of the reformation in identifying the papacy as the Antichrist, the first beast. Both false hermeneutics hide papal Rome from prophecy. It creates the gap in prophecy between Antiochus and the imaginary future bogey man as if God had forgotten the church existed. Both attempt to hide the fact that the popes, one and all, have been sitting in the temple of God, the church, and collectively declared themselves authorities greater than God by
A. Claiming they power to forgive sin, and
B. Claiming the power to change God's laws.
In those 2 things they commit blasphemy, they in effect declare themselves gods, and fulfil
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:4
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Such is the practise of Catholicism. It isn't only the above. They also claim the authority to murder heretics, and have done so for over 1000 years. Also, by claiming to have the sole authority to interpret scripture, they remove the influence, or, and ministry of the holy Spirit from the lives of men. And by celebrating every day the mass, which in their minds is a continuation of the sacrifice of Christ, they deny Christ by placing themselves in his position as Redeemer. Sand finally, by taking to themselves the office of Priest, Prophet, and King, the popes, in the name of their institution, replace Christ Himself from His sole position as Mediator between God and man, which is literally Antichrist.
By claiming the prerogatives of God, they claim to be God.
