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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] The term Antichrist (including one plural form) [2] is found four times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John. [2]
Jerome (c. 347–420) warned that those substituting false interpretations for the actual meaning of Scripture belonged to the “synagogue of the Antichrist”. [40] “ He that is not of Christ is of Antichrist,” he wrote to Pope Damasus I . [ 41 ]
"Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of Antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons." [36] John Wesley, speaking of the identity given in the Bible of the Antichrist, wrote: "In many respects, the Pope has an indisputable claim to those titles.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10, the "man of sin" is described as one who will be revealed before the Day of the Lord comes. The Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus have the reading "man of lawlessness" and Bruce M. Metzger argues that this is the original reading even though 94% of manuscripts have "man of sin".
In fact, the uses of the term "antichrist" or "antichrists" in the Johannine epistles (1 John 2:18; 4:2–3; 2 John 1:17; 2:22) do not clearly present a single latter-day individual Antichrist. The articles "the deceiver" or "the antichrist" are usually seen as marking out a certain category of persons, rather than an individual. [1]
The author of Second Thessalonians then adds that the revelation of the Antichrist is conditional upon the removal of "something/someone that restrains him" and prevents him being fully manifested. Verse 6 uses the neuter gender , τὸ κατέχον; and verse 7 the masculine, ὁ κατέχων.
The bulk of traditional sources date the book to the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (AD 81–96), which evidence tends to confirm. [5] [b] The book spans three literary genres: the epistolary, the apocalyptic, and the prophetic. [7] It begins with John, on the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea, addressing letters to the "Seven Churches of ...
(2) The beast of the sea (commonly interpreted as the Antichrist) [2] [3] and (3) The beast of the earth (later revealed in the text to be the False Prophet). [4] However, many people have different beliefs about the meaning of these beasts. In Revelation 13:1–10, the beast of the sea rises "out of the sea" and is given authority and power by ...