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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