20 Bible Verses About the Antichrist

  • The Greek antichristos occurs five times in the New Testament, all in 1 and 2 John.
  • John defines the antichrist as whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:22) and says many antichrists had already come, people who had left the congregation (1 John 2:18-19).
  • Paul’s man of lawlessness takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God, and the Lord Jesus kills him “with the breath of his mouth” (2 Thessalonians 2:4, 8).
  • The beast of Revelation 13 is described in words close to those used of the horn in Daniel 7:20-21, and its authority comes from the dragon, named in Revelation 12:9 as Satan.
  • Irenaeus tested several names against 666 in Revelation 13:18 and declined to name the Antichrist.

The antichrist, in the letters of John, is anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ, and many antichrists had already come when those letters were written. The word itself belongs to those letters: the Greek antichristos occurs in 1 and 2 John and nowhere else in the New Testament (1 John 2:18-22; 4:3; 2 John 7). Other passages describe figures who set themselves against God or claim Christ’s place, without using the word: Paul’s “man of lawlessness” (2 Thessalonians…

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