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Minerva
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the anti-Christ is here - I dated him 4 years ago!!
seriously though speculating about this and other apocalyptic things is silly and doesn’t bring us closer to Christ, who Himself does not know when the end of time will come. Also there is 1John 4:1-6
“by this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus CHrist has come in the flesh is from God and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now it is already in the world.”
the anti-Christ is referred to as a spirit that does not confess CHrist as Lord - it is not referred to as a person such as a president or a pope. St John also says that the anti-Christ is here now, i.e. the first century. It seems to me that what St John has in mind regarding the anti-Christ is that it is a power, in the Greek “pneuma” literally “a breath.” It’s not easy to figure out what exactly the evangelist means here, but it really doesn’t sound like he’s talking about a flesh and blood person like you or me.
seriously though speculating about this and other apocalyptic things is silly and doesn’t bring us closer to Christ, who Himself does not know when the end of time will come. Also there is 1John 4:1-6
“by this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus CHrist has come in the flesh is from God and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now it is already in the world.”
the anti-Christ is referred to as a spirit that does not confess CHrist as Lord - it is not referred to as a person such as a president or a pope. St John also says that the anti-Christ is here now, i.e. the first century. It seems to me that what St John has in mind regarding the anti-Christ is that it is a power, in the Greek “pneuma” literally “a breath.” It’s not easy to figure out what exactly the evangelist means here, but it really doesn’t sound like he’s talking about a flesh and blood person like you or me.