Why is the second beast of Revelation called the Antichrist?
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In many denominations of modern Christianity the Antichrist is the evil world leader who forces people to take the mark of the beast. After reading through Revelation and seeing for myself that the Antichrist is not mentioned at all, I began to search where, then, in the Bible is the Antichrist mentioned.
According to 1st John 2:22, anybody who denies Christ is antichrist. Furthermore in 4:3 John tells that any spirit that denies Christ is of the spirit of antichrist. Neither of these passages make a case for the Antichrist with a capital A. To me it merely tells that there are many who oppose Christ, in the past and in the future, and they can be identified in such and such a way.
It turns out that when people talk about the Antichrist, they really refer to eg:
- The son of perdition
- The man of lawlesness
- The beast of revelation (seemingly forgetting that there are two)
Why is it that the term Antichrist is so bluntly exchanged with these other terms? I have been unable to find the origins of this way of interpreting the Bible. Who did it first and where did it start?
Asked by Simon Josef Kok
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Jan 21, 2014, 09:58 AM
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