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| − | The '''Antichrist''' in Premillennialism<ref>{{cite web| title=Premillennialism| url=http://www.theopedia.com/Premillennialism| publisher=Theopedia, an Encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity}}</ref> will persecute faithful Christians during the [[Tribulation]].
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| − | ==Etymology==
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| − | The word '''Antichrist''' comes from the [[Greek]] αντί-χριστος (''anti''-''khristos''), meaning ''opposite of Christ''. The Greek word ''anti'' can also mean 'instead of' or "equal to, like" so that the phrase can also be interpreted as meaning ''in place of, or like, Christ'' so while opposing Christ the antichrist will try to appear to be like Christ. Some Christians believe that the use in John refers to a single being that will appear in the [[End Times]]. This view is most commonly found among [[Premillennialism|premillennialist Christians]]. In modern useage, the term is usually used to refer to one who is pure evil.
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| − | == The Antichrist in the Bible ==
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| − | The following verses are the only verses which directly use the word Antichrist ([[KJV]])
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| − | :I John 2:18 'as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now there are many antichrists'
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| − | :I John 2:22 'Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieith the Father and the Son.'
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| − | :I John 4:3 'And every spirit that confesseth not that [[Jesus]] Christ is come in the flesh is not of [[God]]: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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| − | :2 John 7: 'For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.'
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| − | Based on the lack of direct references, some Christians argue that the Bible refers only to a ''generalized concept'' of Antichrist, applicable to anybody who is 'against Christ', not to a particular person. Moreover, such 'antichrists' were already present in the world nearly two thousand years ago. Other Christian, such as the [[Catholic Church]] and many [[Protestant]] denominations, have argued that these verses mainly prefigure the actual Antichrist and that one can see a single unifying Antichrist figure with the proper exegetical methods if one looks at the books of [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] and [[Book of Revelation|Revelations]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Antichrist| url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01559a.htm| publisher=New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia}}</ref> So while there is a spirit of antichrist, there is also one Antichrist who is to come.
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| − | The Antichrist is often associated with, and in some interpretations considered equivalent to, ''the Beast'' of Revelation or the ''Man of Sin'' referenced in II Thessalonians 2:3.
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| − | [[Islamic]] theology also teaches of an antichrist-like figure known as Dajjal<ref>{{cite web| title=Who is the evil Dajjal (the "anti-Christ")? - from ''Signs of Qiyamah''| url=http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/masdaj.html| author=Mohammed Ali Ibn Zubair Ali}}</ref>
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| − | ==America as the Seat of Antichrist==
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| − | Some Protestants have seen America as the "Seat of Antichrist" -- perhaps with the President of the United States, as the Antichrist. This theme has replaced the older version that the Catholic Church and the Pope were the Antichrist.
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| − | The idea was propounded in 1859 by Frances Rolleston in ''Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: The Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Out''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: the Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Outurl| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=IXoaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1293&lpg=PA1293&dq=Frances+Rolleston+The+Place+in+Prophecy+of+America+and+Australia+Being+Pointed+Out&source=bl&ots=ziK45_MuIm&sig=qG5DgNL7ag6fMQ4K5IHBaC4h94U&hl=en&ei=KKrFScveGZmMsQPi9dkk&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1294,M1| publisher=Rivingtons, London 1858}}</ref>
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| − | [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] expositor Uriah Smith in 1884 authored a text entitled ''The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17''<ref>{{cite web| title=The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=0dziN9QI3SgC&dq=The+United+States+in+the+Light+of+Prophecy%3B+or,+An+Exposition+of+Rev.+13:11-17&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=6-CGmRJvUX&sig=iD-5yIDPNhHfMz9trznrpc2W9AI&hl=en&ei=POHFSeOwDIKqsAPK18X9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result| author|Uriah Smith}}</ref> Smith was insistent that America was the beast of Revelation 13:11-17.
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| − | In 1968 Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon, Senior Pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, suggested that the USA was Babylon the Great.<ref>{{cite web| title=U.S. in Bible Prophecy| url=http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:tN8J-JOJDS8J:www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/specol/news/fundamentalism/+U.S.+in+Bible+Prophecy+Logsdon+Armageddon+Books&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us| author=S. Franklin Logsdon, Sr. Pastor, Moody Church, Chicago, Illinois| publisher=Zondervan, 1968, pp. 59-60, ISBN-10:0974476498}}</ref>
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| − | In 1998, R. A. Coombes, in ''America, the Babylon: America’s Destiny Foretold in Biblical Prophecy''<ref>{{cite web| title=America the Babylon| url=http://www.americathebabylon.com/| author=R. A. Coombes| publisher=Real Publishing, Liberty, 1998; especially pp. 55-58 and 182-86, ISBN 1-890622-33-8}}</ref> presents thirty-three identifying markers which he claims identify America as the Babylon of the End Times, the seat of Antichrist. He finds sixty-six reasons why New York City is the bastion of Babylon the Great.
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| − | ===Other identifications===
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| − | Mark Hitchcock, in his 2009 text, ''The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days''<ref>{{cite web| title=The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days| url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781601421401| author=Mark Hitchcock| publisher=Multnomah Books, Colorado Springs, CO, 2009, pp. 17-21, ISBN 978-1-60142-140-1}}</ref> rejects the eschatologists who suggest that America is ''Mystery, Babylon the Great'' (Revelation 17:5) and claims, instead, that modern-day [[Iraq]] is the literal Babylon the Great of the latter days (pp. 17-21).
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| − | In his e-book ''Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator''<ref>{{cite web| title=Antichrist - Reflections on the Desolator| url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm| author=Doug Krieger| publisher=The Tribulation Network}}</ref> Doug Krieger asserts that The Antichrist will be the leader of the West and the "protector of the Jews in a regathered Israel" - it is this figure who will make a "defense pact" to defend Israel's majority for seven years but, like other Biblical Futurists, will break his covenant with Israel and declare himself as God.
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| − | ==Titles of the Antichrist==
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| − | Arthur Pink<ref>{{cite web| title=Arthur Walkington Pink's Archive| url=http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/pinks_archive.htm| publisher=Providence Baptist Ministries}}</ref> (See: ''The Antichrist''<ref>{{cite web| title=the Antichrist| url=http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Antichrist/antichrist.htm| author=Arthur Pink| publisher=Providence Baptist Ministries}}</ref>) and Doug Krieger,<ref>{{cite web| title=Antichrist, Reflections on the Desolator| author=Doug Krieger| url=http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/antichrist_reflections_on_the_desolator/antichrist_intro.htm| publisher=The Tribulation Network}}</ref> as well as many, especially Premillenial<ref>{{cite web| title=What is premillennialism?| url=http://www.gotquestions.org/premillennialism.html| publisher=gotQuestions?org}}</ref> Evangelicals,<ref>{{cite web| title=What is Evangelicalism?| url=http://www.gotquestions.org/evangelicalism.html| publisher=gotQuestions?org}}</ref> extrapolate titles of the [[End Times]] Antichrist from both Testaments of the Bible; to name but a few:
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| − | 1. The Antichrist- {{bibleverse|I|John|2:22|NKJV}}
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| − | 2. The Man of Sin – {{bibleverse|II|Thess.|2:3|NKJV}}
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| − | 3. The Lawless One – {{bibleverse|II|Thess.|2:9|NKJV}}
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| − | 4. The Beast – {{bibleverse||Rev.|11:7|NKJV}}
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| − | 5. The Bloody and Deceitful Man – {{bibleverse||Psalm|5:6|NKJV}}
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| − | 6. The Wicked One – {{bibleverse|II|Thess.|2:8|NKJV}}
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| − | 7. The Man of the Earth – {{bibleverse||Psalm|10:18|NKJV}}
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| − | 8. The Mighty Man – {{bibleverse||Psalm|52:1|NKJV}}
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| − | 9. The Enemy – {{bibleverse||Psalm|55:3|NKJV}}
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| − | 10.The Adversary – {{bibleverse||Psalm|74:8-10|NKJV}}
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| − | 11.The Head Over Many Countries – {{bibleverse||Psalm|110:6|NKJV}}
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| − | 12.The Violent Man – {{bibleverse||Psalm|140:1|NKJV}}
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| − | 13.The Assyrian – {{bibleverse||Isa.|10:5-12|NKJV}}
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| − | 14.The King of Babylon – {{bibleverse||Isa.|14:4|NKJV}}
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| − | 15.The Son of the Morning – {{bibleverse||Isa.|14:12|NKJV}}
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| − | 16.The Abominable Branch – {{bibleverse||Isa.|14:19|NKJV}}
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| − | 17.The Spoiler – {{bibleverse||Isa.|16:4|NKJV}}
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| − | 18.The Nail – {{bibleverse||Isa.|22:25|NKJV}}
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| − | 19.The Branch of the Terrible Ones – {{bibleverse||Ezk.|21:25-27|NKJV}}
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| − | 20.The King of Tyre – {{bibleverse||Ezk.|28:12|NKJV}}
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| − | 21.The Little (i.e., "Younger") Horn – {{bibleverse||Daniel|7:8|NKJV}}
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| − | 22.The Head Over Many Countries- {{bibleverse||Psalm|110:6|NKJV}}
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| − | 23.The Coming Prince – {{bibleverse||Dan.|9:26|NKJV}}
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| − | 24.The Vile (or Despicable) Person – {{bibleverse||Dan.|11:21|NKJV}}
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| − | 25.The Willful King – {{bibleverse||Dan.|11:3|NKJV}} and {{bibleverse||Dan.|11:36|NKJV}}
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| − | 26.The Idol Shepherd – {{bibleverse||Zech.|11:16-17|NKJV}}
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| − | 27.The Angel of the Bottomless Pit – {{bibleverse||Rev.|9:11|NKJV}}
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| − | 28.The Son of Perdition – {{bibleverse|II|Thess.|2:3|NKJV}}
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| − | 29.The Desolator – {{bibleverse||Daniel|9:27|NKJV}}
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| − | 30.The [[Abomination of Desolation]] – {{bibleverse||Daniel|11:31|NKJV}} and {{bibleverse||Daniel|12:11|NKJV}}
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| − | 31.God of Fortresses – {{bibleverse||Daniel|11:38|NKJV}}
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | * [[2300 Day Prophecy of Daniel 8]]
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| − | * [[Abomination of Desolation]]
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| − | * [[Apocalypse]]
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| − | * [[Armageddon]]
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| − | * [[Book of Daniel]]
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| − | * [[Book of Revelation]]
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| − | * [[Eschatology]]
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| − | * [[End times]]
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| − | * [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
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| − | * [[Last Judgment]]
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| − | * [[Millenarianism]]
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| − | * [[Oracle of Damascus]]
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| − | * [[Preterism]]
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| − | * [[Postmillennialism]]
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| − | * [[Rapture|The Rapture]]
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| − | * [[Third Temple]]
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| − | * [[Two Witnesses]]
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| − | ==Resources==
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| − | * Cruden, A., ''Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments'' (Lutterworth, 1930)
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| − | * ''The Holy Bible'' (King James Version)
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| − | * ''The New English Bible'' (Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, 1970)
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| − | * ''The New Jerusalem Bible'' (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1990)
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| − | * Peake, A.S., ''Commentary on the Bible'' (Nelson, 1962)
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| − | * Young, R., ''Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible'' (Lutterworth, 1939)
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| − | ==Notes and references==
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | * [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105527 Did Jesus actually reveal name of the 'antichrist'?]
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