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Does Mark 13:22 Suggest that there is More than One Antichrist?

Eli Kittim

Mark 13:22:

“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”

Is Mark referring specifically to the end-times when mentioning “false messiahs and false prophets [who] will appear and perform signs and wonders”? Or is he referring to succeeding generations of false messiahs and sorcerers who will appear throughout the ages claiming to be the Christ?

First John 2:18—-a verse which is thematically similar to Mark 13:22—-seems to suggest the latter view by making a distinction between the Antichrist to come and the “many antichrists [that] have [already] appeared”:

“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.”

Second John 1:7 also suggests that Mark 13:22 is a reference to a multitude of antichrists that will appear throughout history rather than to a single Antichrist who will be revealed in the last days:

“For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.”

What is more, 1 John 4:3 only talks about the “spirit of the Antichrist,” not the Antichrist per se:

“and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.”

Some say that the Book of Revelation doesn’t mention the Antichrist. But this is a bogus argument because the Antichrist is called by many names (e.g. little horn Dan. 7:8, 11; king of fierce countenance Dan. 8:23; master of deception Dan. 8:25; man of lawlessness, man of sin, son of perdition 2 Thess. 2:3; the prince who is to come Dan. 9:26-27; Apollyon Rev. 9:11; the beast Rev. 11:7; 13:1-8, 18; etc.), just as Jesus is called by many names as well, such as prince of peace (Isa. 9:6) Angel of the Lord (Jud. 1:5; Jn 8:58), Michael the great prince (Dan. 12:1), archangel (1 Thess. 4:16), son of man, Son of God, Christ, Messiah the Prince, the Anointed one, Immanuel, I AM, the Alpha and the Omega (Rev. 1:8), the offspring of David, the bright and morning star (Rev. 22:16), the Root of Jesse (Rom. 15:12), the seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:16), and so on.

I’m asking this question because according to all the Biblical books——i.e. Dan. 7:8, 11, 24-25; 8:9-12, 23-25; 9:26-27; Ezek. 38:2-3, 8-9, 17; 2 Thess. 2:3-4, 6, 8-9; Rev. 9:11; 11:7; 13:1-8, 12, 18—-there seems to be only one Antichrist!

So the question is: When we read the entirety of scripture in canonical context, is there one Antichrist or many?

Revelation 16:13 specifically mentions an Unholy Trinity which is made up of an incorporeal Dragon, a human Beast (or Antichrist), and a False Prophet, who forces all people to worship the Beast (Rev. 13:12). What is more, Hippolytus of Rome, one of the most important second–third centuries Christian theologians, wrote in his book “On Christ and Antichrist” that just like God came as a man, so the Antichrist will come as a man in the last days. And there is considerable support for this conclusion in the Biblical passages that have already been cited, particularly in Rev. 12:9 which uses the language of “incarnation” to suggest that Satan will become human:

“the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth.”

Therefore, although many false Christs and false messiahs have already come, using sorcery and magic, there is only one Antichrist who will receive a death blow, but then come back to life (Rev. 13:3, 14) and who will wage war and subjugate all nations to his one-world government. Revelation 13:16-18 describes this New World Order as follows (italics mine):

“And he [the false prophet] causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.”

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This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world; 1 John 4:2-3 #coptorthodox #bibleverse #bible #dailybibleverse #bibleversedaily #dailyverse #coptic #orthodox #churchteaching #falseteachers #falseteaching #donotbedeceived @coptorthodox #1john #1john4 #1john4v2to3 #spiritofantichrist #spiritofgod #howyoucanrecognizethespiritofgod https://www.instagram.com/p/CC-iyDxp-ky/?igshid=1qurgxmtwl27i

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Winter of the Heart

Winter of the Heart

Matthew 24:12 “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Unprecedented. Appalling. Abhorrent. We could pen many words as to the degradation of the world today. We see the rise in murder, abuses of all kinds, drug use, sex slavery, political corruption, and churches dying in droves.  One could swiftly become despondent over all the negative that is portrayed in the world…

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