by Arthur Jason

Created on: August 26, 2009   Last Updated: August 28, 2009

Because of the many misconceptions among Christians about the identity of the Antichrist,I've decided to shed more light on the identity of the Antichrist in order to present a clearer picture of what the Antichrist represents.

1st of all Let us take a close look at the meaning of the word:"Anti Christ"
Anti:Against Christ:The Messiah.

From the above we can deduce that the Antichrist is simply someone or something that is against Christ and what he represents.

The word Antichrist can only be found in the 1st and 2nd books of John.Let us examine some of the verses that the word is found to have a clearer picture of John meant when he wrote of the Antichrist.

-1 John 2:18-19:"Little Children it is the last time and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,even now there are many antichrists;whereby You know it is the last time.They(The antichrists)went out from us but they were not of us,for if they had been of us,they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not of us.

In the above verse,John stated that "an antichrist"was to come at the last time and that at the time he was writing there were:"many antichrists"and that the fact that there were many antichrists proved it was the last time.We can deduce from this that the Antichrist and the antichrists are synonymous because John specifically stated the fact that an antichrist was to come at the last time and that the fact that there were antichrists in his time was evidence that it was the last time .Also, John states that the antichrists went out from them(the true Christians)and that if they were true Christians they would have continued with them but they went out in order for their true state to be manifest to all.That they were never Christians.So who does the anti christ and these antichrists represent?

For the answer to that question,I would want us to explore more Bible verses:
The Anti Christs
1 John 2:22:"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?He is antichrist that denieth the father and the son.

From the verse above we can see that any one who denies God and Jesus is an antichrist.Now the question is how do we deny God and Jesus?We deny God when we do not adhere to his teachings.We deny Jesus when we reject his Cross and emphasize on works(Phil 3:18-19 Gal 2:21).There are millions of nominal Christians around the world today who are anything but Christian.They reject the cross of Christ and instead emphasize works(Romans

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