That assumption comes from total ignorance of the Holy Scriptures. The Anti-Christ is indeed addressed in the Holy Scriptures, but its spoken of only by one Apostle of Christ (John). The term is not based upon any single nation, any single person or some imagined evil taking place thousands of years after the scriptures were presented by eyewitness testimony in the 1st century. Such evidence is called prima facie evidence and stands as truth until it can be refuted by Objective Facts in Evidence.That's the problem with the fake religion the bible is based on.
Their is so much garbage you could just pick any random thoughts and find verses that will fit it.
I will pray for you.
As far as predicting the end of time............not even Jesus Christ is privy to that information, not angels in heaven.......only the Father knows when that day will come. (Matthew 24:36). Yet time and time again.........the loonies come from the shadows into the light and declare they know more that Jesus Christ who is both Lord and Savior........they know when the end will be.
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Facts as derived from simply reading the text of the scriptures while staying within contextual integrity of the Chapter you are reading. The term anti-christ is a Greek term meaning "against Christ" or "false Christ"
The term is used but few times.......and not once in the book of Revelation. All uses are by the same author in explaining exactly what anti christ means. (1 John 2:18 demonstrates anti-christ is not one single person but a classification of many different individuals.......its a false ideology/doctrine, not a person. The same passage proves that the anti-christ existed at the time this book was being recorded by John in the 1st century....its has nothing to do with some distant future event, anti-christs have been around since the 1st century.
Any religion/doctrine or person that does not accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah and the Only Begotten of the Father and the equal of the Father is considered an anti-christ doctrine (example....the majority of the Jews in the 1st century were anti-christs. (1 John 2:22-23) Today you have many anti-christ doctrines from the Jews, to Muslims, to the Jehovah's Witnesses...etc., as they refuse to acknowledge Jesus Christ as both Lord and Savior
1. Private interpretation of scripture is forbidden (2 Peter 1:20).......the scriptures self-interpret as does any book of history, (such is the content of the Holy Scriptures......its a running history of the Judeo/Christian philosophy from the origins in Genesis to the last book drafted by John of things to shorty take place ..........the Book of Revelation, that is recorded in relation to the infant Christian church known as the kingdom of God or the kingdom of the Son. Revelation explains this last book as being symbolized and not be taken literally and it deals with the infant church's tribulation with the Roman Empire who was attempting to destroy this new religion called Christianity during the 1st 2 centuries of the church.
Many cults falsely declare that the book of Revelations is where the anti-christ is predicted for the end of the age. Again, the term is never mentioned anywhere else in scripture (especially in the book of Revelation in either literal or symbolized text) other that by John a few times in 1 John and once in 2 John
(Rev.1:1) explains this with no ambiguity whatsoever.......it sets the stage to bring hope to the struggling infant church, its directed at 7 different Christian churches in Asia (which is symbolic, not to be taken literally as its directed at everyone in the kingdom of the Son that can understand signified language and it includes all congregations of Christianity......the number 7 throughout the scriptures is presented to indicate a PERFECT/COMPLETE NUMBER."
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