In the Epistles of John, one of the crucial verses describes the Antichrist not as a single person or an entity, but rather as a multitude of them, perhaps signifying that the Antichrist is a universal concept that would pertain to many persons with the same malicious intent. Here the term relates to the so-called “false prophets” who would come amongst the disciples of Christ performing many wonders and miracles to fool the good flock. However, a similar but not the same name appears in some of the Gospels, mainly of Matthew and Mark: pseudochristos ( false Christ). In the entire Bible, the term “Antichrist” is mentioned only five times, surprisingly, and all of them in the 1st and 2nd Epistles of John. “The One who denies the Father and the Son” is how the Bible describes the Antichrist. (Luca Signorelli / Public domain ) Understanding The Antichrist Concept Luca Signorelli's 1501 depiction of the face of the Antichrist at the Orvieto Cathedral, Italy. But is there more to this idea than first meets the eye? For the adherents of Christianity, this figure is prophesized to fool the devoted folk, coming in Christ’s place to do evil, until the real Christ reappears at the Second Coming. But the concept of a primordial, all-encompassing evil entity that threatens Christ and his devoted flock, and all of humanity was present for a very long time.īringer of Armageddon, herald of doom’s day, an evil without measure, a he, she, it, or something else entirely.
And indeed, the Antichrist is a seldom mentioned but very malevolent entity from the Christian Bible. It is a name that was ever connected to the negative, the malicious, and the fundamentally anti-Christian. The name itself is enough to instill dread into the hearts of all devout Christians as well as others.
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