“the antichrist”
“The antichrist” is the man who will oppose
Christ in the guise of Christ. He will have a “deceptive outward appearance” [a
false outward appearance], which means, he will be a religious figure, and a
man who proclaims peace—but ultimately, his peace talks will oppose Jesus
Christ, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
He will be against Christ The Messiah.
Who is such a liar as he who denies that Jesus
is The Christ –The Messiah?
The ‘antagonist of Christ’ will oppose Christ, he
will do this because he is the antichrist. He is raised by satan to habitually,
consistently deny, oppose, and refuse to acknowledge GOD THE FATHER and GOD THE
SON. He will be an anti-messiah.
We are now in “the last hour!”—‘the prophetic
last hour.’ And the rising of many false-christs [false-messiahs], and false prophets,
makes us all the more certain that the end of the world is near. Already such
persons have appeared on the ‘world-scene.’
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 2:18 NIV
The Bible informs us that “the antichrist” will
come up out of the bottomless pit, and ascend to earth to deceive many people.
The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of
the Abyss and go to his destruction.
The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book
of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the
beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
Revelation 17:8 NIV
The antichrist will subjugate the world by
conquest and by consent. He will force even the ‘world power nations’ into
submission.
In Daniel’s vision, he was prophesied to be ‘the
last world ruler.’