Who Is The Antichrist? A Biblical Prespective.

[CTK]

The scriptures below clearly show that the antichrist is not just a person

There are only four verses in the entire bible that uses the word antichrist

1 John 2:18
18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22
22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3
3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

2 John 1:7
I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Is the anti-Christ a literal person or is this speaking about the “spirit” of the anti-Christ? Thanks.

 

[ewq1938]

Rev 13:11
(11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

It has two horns like a lamb SIGNIFYING that he comes with the POWER (horns) of the church of Christ. But God tells us that it speaks as a dragon,

If a religious organization speaks like a dragon, then it will not be thought of as a Christian organization. Also, horns like a lamb is not the same as horns of a lamb. In the Greek it is lambkin, signifying young, small horns which are not dangerous like animal horns normally represent. The FP will seem non-dangerous at first. It doesn't necessarily mean it has anything to do with Jesus or Christianity and his having two little horns is a direct nod to Daniel's little horn.

"SIGNIFYIING" that its witness is NOT the Words of Christ, but the Words of Satan, the Dragon. Thus we understand this "REPRESENTS" the false prophets of the Christian Church TODAY who prophesy rebellion and disobedience to the laws of God. The false prophets and christs cause the unfaithful churches of the Earth to worship the Kingdom of Satan, which is "REPRESENTED" by the First Beast.

The false prophet is one person, written in the singular. If the FP represented more, it would be in the plural as Christ used in teh gospels. This is not speaking of many prophets but only one in particular.

No one can identify the FP if they have been conditioned through bad theology to believe he is actually many. This is what satan would want people to do though.

By preaching the lies of their father, the Devil, the false witnesses cause the wound that Christ put on that first beast to be HEALED. For example, it is back to the same old disobedience, rejection of Christ's truth in worshipping the nation Israel rather than Christ, the Israel of God. God's people in rebellions against laws, truth, etc. etc. The wound being healed REPRESENTS Satan's kingdom once again receive full power (no longer restrained in bottomless pit) to bring God's people into apostasy "THROUGH" false prophets and christs. IN other words, the second beast follows the very same playbook as the first, worshipping genealogies, rejecting the Word of Truth, forsaking the established doctrines of the Saints. For example, look at churches today, the rise doctrines of Dispensationalism is yesterday's Judaism that Christ condemned. Because nothing really ever changes. As saith the preacher, there is nothing new under the sun.

But this includes this bad interpretation making a singular man into multiple men, and setting this rise and rule of the beast into the distant past despite scripture giving the beast a very limited amount of time. This bad interpretation is equally as bad as the examples you give.

Selah!



Wrong. The second beast is not "one person".

No, you are wrong. The context and descriptions of the FP are of one person, called a false prophet. Jesus was a true prophet and was one man, and the FP is a false prophet and is also one man.

 

[ewq1938]

Thats what a description is an animal is referenced to it. I didn't say that the false prophet was a lamb I said described as a lamb

Horns like a lambkin is not saying the beast is described as a lamb. The other beast has many different animal parts. Just because it has something like a lion doesn't mean the beast is a lion, or a bear because the feet is like a bear's feet. IOW one small animal description does not make the whole animal.

 

[TribulationSigns]

So to review, do the following claims of the papacy identify the papacy as an antichrist, where "anti" means substitute?

1. “All the names which in the Scripture are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope.” Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, De Conciliorum Auctoriatate (On the Authority of the Councils) Bk 2, chap. 17
2. “The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God. He is the divine monarch and supreme emperor, and king of kings. Hence the pope is crowned with a triple crown, as King of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions.” Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, vol.6, art. “Papa II”
3. “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” Pope Leo XIII, in an encyclical letter dated June 20, 1894, The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII, p. 304.

Means nothing.

Anyone with spirit of satan can be the man of sin sit (rule) in the temple (church). Only AFTER Satan/beast comes out of bottomless pit - AFTER the testimony of two witnesses is finished. These didnt happen during PAPACY! LOL. Like i said. The TRUE church marched on.

 

[Marty fox]

Horns like a lambkin is not saying the beast is described as a lamb. The other beast has many different animal parts. Just because it has something like a lion doesn't mean the beast is a lion, or a bear because the feet is like a bear's feet. IOW one small animal description does not make the whole animal.

Once again I stated that I didn't say it was a lamb just that it was described like a lamb.

Jesus tied sheep to apostate Israel too

Matthew 7
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves

 

[Marty fox]

Is the anti-Christ a literal person or is this speaking about the “spirit” of the anti-Christ? Thanks.

It's a deceiving spirit inside of people.

If you read these verses written by John and then the gospel of John you will see the perfect description of apostate Isael in Johns time.

How John describes the antichrist is the exact description that Jesus gives the pharisees in the gospel of John.

 

[covenantee]

Means nothing.

Anyone with spirit of satan can be the man of sin sit (rule) in the temple (church). Only AFTER Satan/beast comes out of bottomless pit - AFTER the testimony of two witnesses is finished. These didnt happen during PAPACY! LOL. Like i said. The TRUE church marched on.

I've said nothing about a spirit of satan or the man of sin or a temple or a beast or a bottomless pit or two witnesses.

Those are exclusively your hallucinations. Did you take your meds today?

 

[CTK]

It's a deceiving spirit inside of people.

If you read these verses written by John and then the gospel of John you will see the perfect description of apostate Isael in Johns time.

How John describes the antichrist is the exact description that Jesus gives the pharisees in the gospel of John.

So if you are telling me the term “anti-Christ” is anyone who is against the teachings of Christ, then we are in agreement.

But, there is no specific anti-Christ individual that will come upon the earth at the end time or by any time.

That person, is a literal human being and is identified by God in Daniel 7 as the little horn.

He is the one that came out of pagan Rome BEFORE pagan Rome was slain and its body was destroyed (7:11). And, he will continue until he is destroyed without human hands at His second coming.

 

[CTK]

It's a deceiving spirit inside of people.

If you read these verses written by John and then the gospel of John you will see the perfect description of apostate Isael in Johns time.

How John describes the antichrist is the exact description that Jesus gives the pharisees in the gospel of John.

Forgot to mention… Israel is certainly not the little horn and ANYONE … ANYONE who goes against Jesus has the “anti-Christ” spirit in them. This means ANYONE …

 

[CTK]

The antichrist is a person. As a matter of fact according to Scripture , he is the seed of Satan.

You must remember that Satan is a great counterfeiter. Just as God is a trinity, Satan sets up a counterfeit trinity as declared in Revelation.

The dragon (Satan)who gives all His authority to the beast (antichrist His son in imitation of the real Father giving the real son all authority),

Thenthe counterfeit holy spirit in the person of the false prophet who marks all the followers of the antichrist.

Teh bible clearly defines the antichrist as a man.

Who is this person? What verse is this / he revealed?

 

[ewq1938]

Once again I stated that I didn't say it was a lamb just that it was described like a lamb.

Not as a lamb, but just one small part of a lamb, it's horns and it's a lambkin in the Greek so he had small non-threatening horns of a young lamb, but he is not described as looking like a lamb in any other sense.

Jesus tied sheep to apostate Israel too

Matthew 7
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves

That's the enemy invading the church/his followers. It's not apostate Israel. All of Israel was apostate and had been a long time.

 

[Marty fox]

So if you are telling me the term “anti-Christ” is anyone who is against the teachings of Christ, then we are in agreement.

But, there is no specific anti-Christ individual that will come upon the earth at the end time or by any time.

That person, is a literal human being and is identified by God in Daniel 7 as the little horn.

He is the one that came out of pagan Rome BEFORE pagan Rome was slain and its body was destroyed (7:11). And, he will continue until he is destroyed without human hands at His second coming.

Yes agree and also differ as I see the little horn as Antiochus Epiphanies

 

[covenantee]

Yes agree and also differ as I see the little horn as Antiochus Epiphanies

The little horn was Roman. Antiochus Epiphanes wasn't.

 

[TribulationSigns]

I've said nothing about a spirit of satan or the man of sin or a temple or a beast or a bottomless pit or two witnesses.

Those are exclusively your hallucinations. Did you take your meds today?

No, I mentioned all of these to disprove your belief yet you claimed you didn't say it - exactly my point.

It's you who need truth med today.

 

[covenantee]

No, I mentioned all of these to disprove your belief yet you claimed you didn't say it - exactly my point.

It's you who need truth med today.

Just leave what you don't understand for those who do.

 

[TribulationSigns]

The little horn was Roman. Antiochus Epiphanes wasn't.

Even the Reformed Theologians got it wrong today. They cover a large group, and so they contend a lot of "diverse" things", not all of them biblical. Little horn this, Little horn that depending on their preferred preterism interpretations or teachers.

The Scripture shows that the little horn wasn't Roman. The little horn wasn't Antiochus Epiphanes. The little horn won't be one particular man anytime in history. This evil power to rule a short period near the end is spoken of as the "little horn" of Daniel. It is symbolic of this king ruling in power a "little season" or "short time." Little=short, and horn=power. Thsu, the symbol of a "little" horn signifies this short time this king rules. This is why Satan must be loosed a "little season" in Revelation chapter 20. It is all speaking about the SAME event, the SAME kingdom, the SAME horns or power, and SAME rule this little season. They come up against the great whore Babylon and they desolate her. Not buying it, go ahead and have fun playing pin the tail on the donkey party game - guess who will the "one man" be qualified as little horn. Waste of time!

 

[covenantee]

Even the Reformed Theologians got it wrong today. They cover a large group, and so they contend a lot of "diverse" things", not all of them biblical. Little horn this, Little horn that depending on their preferred preterism interpretations or teachers.

The Scripture shows that the little horn wasn't Roman. The little horn wasn't Antiochus Epiphanes. The little horn won't be one particular man anytime in history. This evil power to rule a short period near the end is spoken of as the "little horn" of Daniel. It is symbolic of this king ruling in power a "little season" or "short time." Little=short, and horn=power. Thsu, the symbol of a "little" horn signifies this short time this king rules. This is why Satan must be loosed a "little season" in Revelation chapter 20. It is all speaking about the SAME event, the SAME kingdom, the SAME horns or power, and SAME rule this little season. They come up against the great whore Babylon and they desolate her. Not buying it, go ahead and have fun playing pin the tail on the donkey party game - guess who will the "one man" be qualified as little horn. Waste of time!

Complete cultic nonsense.

Thanks for confirming your confusion.

 

[TribulationSigns]

Just leave what you don't understand for those who do.

The Lord judges and I am comfortable with it.

 

[CTK]

Yes agree and also differ as I see the little horn as Antiochus Epiphanies

Please take a look at chapter 7 where the little horn comes AFTER the 10 horns come out of the 4th kingdom of pagan Rome. Both of them come out BEFORE the 4th kingdom beast (pagan Rome) is slain in 7;11. Also, AE is not found in the book of Daniel - only in our history books.

 

[Jay Ross]

The Little Horn is a wicked fallen heavenly angel/spirit and over the 2,300 years of the prophecy concerning him being given armies, over this long period of time, many have perceived that the leaders of the armies, the Little Horn was given, was the Little Horn rather than they being manifestations of the Little Horn as his fall guy so to speak.

Until we can correctly identify the true entities of the beasts in Daniel 7, which also includes the Little Horn, then we will not see Satan, the four beasts and the Little Horn causing strife among us.

The Popes since the 1400s have not been the antichrist although the RCC and the Protestants churches since the 1400s have played their part in trampling God's sanctuary and His earthly hosts.

The tradition that has persisted from the time of the reformation that people groups became the beasts and the Antichrists, needs to be abandoned in favour of the beasts and the antichrists are in fact wicked fallen heavenly hosts.