For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. He then continues in the next verse and says, “They,” the antichrists, “went out from us, but they were not of us. Therefore, we know that it is the last hour.” So right there, he says there’s not just one there’s many. As you have heard the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. In First John chapter two, John is writing and he says, “Children, it is the last hour. And there’s only five verses that mention the antichrist. But if you want to know what the Bible has to say about the antichrist, you got to look in First and Second John. Now, there are some figures in books like Revelation and Daniel that maybe are linked to the antichrist. The only two books in which the term antichrist is mentioned are First John and Second John. People might think, “Oh, it’s going to be in Revelation.” Or, “Oh, maybe it’s in Daniel.” No. Now, it’s interesting, the term antichrist only appears in two books of the Bible and they’re not the ones you might think. That’s one of the things that we learn when we read scripture. I just want to start with the obvious question. There’s a topic that’ll get you out of bed. Thank you for being with us to talk about the antichrist and antichrists. Jimmy Akin, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers and proprietor of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. So we put it to Jimmy Akin, tell us what the Bible tells us about the antichrist. Who among these might be the antichrist? It’s perfectly natural for us to ask that question when we live in this mass society, and many of us are kind of alert for the antichrist, given all of the moral decline of our society, and in fact, the de-Christianization of much of the world. And you can become a worldwide figure just by how you put your makeup on, on Instagram. There’s figures like Hitler and Stalin and now the great political leaders who are also very disturbing personalities, but also all kinds of celebrities. Kind of continuing our end times theme from our last episode with Jimmy Akin, where we talked about the mark of the beast, in the modern world, we also have these figures who arise. What does the Bible really say about the antichrist? Jimmy Akin next. Without doubt many will be surprised by just how little the anti-Christ is mentioned in the Bible, and that it is probably more accurate to talk about “anti-Christs.” We couldn’t get him to name any names, but we did get Jimmy Akin to explain what the Bible has to say about the nature of the anti-Christ.
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