ANTICHRIST
(See
END TIMES;
FALSE CHRISTS)
Antichrist is one who opposes and counterfeits Christ primarily through deception (2 John 7; cf. Psalms 2:1-3); Matthew 24:4-5, 23-24; John 5:43; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13). The specific term "antichrist" occurs only in John's letters, but the concept appears in both the OT and NT and also in the intertestamental literature. The personal antichrist of the end times is empowered by Satan (Revelation 13:2, 4; cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:9). He appears in the future tribulation period as a world ruler with his empire possibly centered in a restored form of the Roman Empire (1 John 2:18; Revelation 13; 17:7-18; cf. Daniel 7:23-25). The antichrist is the individual culmination of many antichrists who have already arisen (1 John 2:18; cf. 4:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 7-8).
other expressions for:
♦ the little horn:
♦ "the prince who is to come":
♦ the willful king:
♦ "the abomination of desolation":
♦ "the son of destruction":
♦ "the man of lawlessness":
♦ the beast who comes out of the sea:
description of:
♦ blasphemous:
♦ persecutes the saints:
♦ opposes God and His Son:
♦ self-deifying:
♦ granted power and authority:
♦ profane:
♦ lawless:
♦ seeks universal worship:
♦ temporarily restrained:
♦ allied with the second beast (or false prophet):
♦ has an identifying number:
♦ forms political alliances:
reign of:
♦ duration of his reign:
♦ universality of his reign:
♦ restrictions under his reign:
♦ type of (i.e., Antiochus IV Epiphanes)
♦ miraculous signs related to
expressed in:
♦ denial of the Father and the Son:
♦ denial of the Messiahship and incarnation of Jesus:
♦ followers of
♦ judgment of
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