Marveling Religion by Jennifer Baldwin;Daniel White Hodge;

Author:Jennifer Baldwin;Daniel White Hodge;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781793621399
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing
Published: 2022-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

The Antichrist in Christian Scripture

Although the average person will jump to the book of Revelation when they hear the term “antichrist,” we find this concept in many places in the New Testament, both in the Gospels and the Epistles. For purposes of this study, and to give some diversity of genre, first we will look at references in Johannine epistles, then the Gospels, and finish with the book of Revelation and early Christianity. As a disclaimer, because of the nature of this piece, I am only briefly touching on a complex grouping of scripture and tradition.1

Starting with the Johannine epistles, in the book of 1 John 2:18–25, we see many references to antichrist(s).

18 Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth.22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also.24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.25 And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.2

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