A Great Worldwide Tragedy is looming. When Jesus Christ returns to the earth soon to establish God’s kingdom on earth, countless millions of goodhearted people will mistake him for antichrist and they will be persuaded to resist him. It will be a fatal case of mistaken identity.
Antichrist defined
The only places in the Bible where antichrist is defined and described are in John’s letters. Many people are noted as saying, “I wonder who antichrist will be?” Jerry Falwell, the noted TV evangelist, recently had to apologize when he said that antichrist is a Jew who is presently living in Israel.
The Bible says that antichrist is many people and that they have existed from the first century. There is no need to wonder who antichrist will be. II John 7 says, “Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” To deny the absolute mortality of Jesus in his first century ministry is antichrist and there have been countless millions of people who have done so since the first century. These people and this doctrinal error is antichrist.
Mistaken teaching
But Christian churches everywhere are teaching, contrary to John’s letter, that antichrist is one person who, in the future, is going to proclaim himself king of the world and he must be resisted. Now we know that Jesus will soon return to earth and proclaim himself king in Jerusalem and call on all the world to submit to his rule. Since antichrist has been operative since the first century, the only person who will have the power in the future to call on the world to obey him is Jesus Christ.
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