The name Antichrist in the Bible

[bbyrd009]

The name Antichrist in the Bible

Antichrist is not a personal name, nor does it refer to one specific person. Like the word Christ, it denotes a modus operandi; a doing, a way of operating. If anointing inaugurates someone into a highest earthly rank, "disanointing" places a person below someone else.

The word αντιχριστος (antichristos), literally meaning disanointed, occurs only in the epistles of John (SEE FULL CONCORDANCE):

John writes that God is light and we can not walk in the darkness and simultaneously have fellowship with Him (1 John 1:5-6) or other humans (1:7), and explains: "Kids, it's getting dark. You have heard that the disanointer would come, and now many have become disanointed; that's how we know it's getting dark" (2:18). These disanointed all engaged some kind of system in which they forfeited their direct link to God, and subsequently their ability to obey whatever God was telling them, or to go wherever God was trying to steer them.

John's "kids", however, had an anointing from the Holy One, and therefore had no earthly superior (1 John 2:20). The disanointer is the one who denies the Father and the Son (2:22), namely by stating that between the Father and the Son (or the kids) there has to be someone who's had special training or has a special permit from the government; someone who keeps the kids scared of and disconnected from the Lord and tied up in a grid. What a horrendous crime! It's the same person who uses words like brotherhood and fatherland and honor and glory, and rouses up men into armies and sends them off to fight for profit while believing that only they are serving some holy and invisible God...

The amazing name Antichrist: meaning and etymology

 

[1stCenturyLady]

The name Antichrist in the Bible

Antichrist is not a personal name, nor does it refer to one specific person. Like the word Christ, it denotes a modus operandi; a doing, a way of operating. If anointing inaugurates someone into a highest earthly rank, "disanointing" places a person below someone else.

The word αντιχριστος (antichristos), literally meaning disanointed, occurs only in the epistles of John (SEE FULL CONCORDANCE):

John writes that God is light and we can not walk in the darkness and simultaneously have fellowship with Him (1 John 1:5-6) or other humans (1:7), and explains: "Kids, it's getting dark. You have heard that the disanointer would come, and now many have become disanointed; that's how we know it's getting dark" (2:18). These disanointed all engaged some kind of system in which they forfeited their direct link to God, and subsequently their ability to obey whatever God was telling them, or to go wherever God was trying to steer them.

John's "kids", however, had an anointing from the Holy One, and therefore had no earthly superior (1 John 2:20). The disanointer is the one who denies the Father and the Son (2:22), namely by stating that between the Father and the Son (or the kids) there has to be someone who's had special training or has a special permit from the government; someone who keeps the kids scared of and disconnected from the Lord and tied up in a grid. What a horrendous crime! It's the same person who uses words like brotherhood and fatherland and honor and glory, and rouses up men into armies and sends them off to fight for profit while believing that only they are serving some holy and invisible God...

The amazing name Antichrist: meaning and etymology

I disagree. I think John is clear that there is "the" Antichrist, but anyone with that same spirit is antichrist. Also Paul.

1 John 2: Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Also 2 Thessalonian 2: 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

 

[bbyrd009]

I disagree. I think John is clear that there is "the" Antichrist, but anyone with that same spirit is antichrist. Also Paul.

1 John 2: Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Also 2 Thessalonian 2: 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

well, I certainly understand the perspective, and all I would say is that we have a penchant for personifying spirits that mostly strikes me as a convenient way to avoid responsibility.

So right now "man of sin" I am reading literally, see, whereas most "literalists" choose to spiritualize it?

 

[1stCenturyLady]

well, I certainly understand the perspective, and all I would say is that we have a penchant for personifying spirits that mostly strikes me as a convenient way to avoid responsibility.

So right now "man of sin" I am reading literally, see, whereas most "literalists" choose to spiritualize it?

Yes, I too am reading "man of sin" literally. I also see him as the Antichrist of the last days, though there have been many like him in the past, such as Nero and Antiochus Epiphanes IV, and maybe Hitler.

 

[CoreIssue]

There are many ac but only one AC.

 

[farouk]

I disagree. I think John is clear that there is "the" Antichrist, but anyone with that same spirit is antichrist. Also Paul.

1 John 2: Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Also 2 Thessalonian 2: 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Interesting there that John refers to the presence of 'many antichrists' in the world.

 

[CoreIssue]

Interesting there that John refers to the presence of 'many antichrists' in the world.

The world is full of false religions, cults and false teachers. They are all ac.

 

[1stCenturyLady]

Interesting there that John refers to the presence of 'many antichrists' in the world.

Yes, it is a spirit of antichrist that can affect many. As I said, there have been many past leaders against God's people.

 

[bbyrd009]

"
...Furthermore, John states that every spirit that confesses that Jesus the Anointed has come in the flesh is from God, whereas every spirit that does not confess Jesus is the spirit of the disanointer (1 John 4:3 and 2 John 1:7). This reflects what John the Evangelist says in John 1:1-18, which roughly states that since the coming of Jesus of Nazareth, the elusive Law of God — via which the universe was created and via which the universe and everything in it, including life, still operates today — is fully known by every human being. But much to the possible disappointment of many, there is nothing intrinsically holy about the name Jesus; in fact, it was a common back then as the name Bobbie is today.

Nazareth, from which Jesus ostensibly hailed, was a proverbial hickville and Jesus' male parent was a craftsman (more likely a mason and probably not a carpenter, which would also explain Jesus' many masonic metaphors). To us the name Jesus of Nazareth may evoke due reverence, but in the first century AD, the name Jesus of Nazareth was obviously specifically designed to reflect commonness and lack of formal education.

The Christ was not the son of a famous statesman or educated by a famous rabbi in an important town. Before He became itinerant, the Christ had spent His life doing manual labor, and it was a miracle that He could even read! Jesus of Nazareth means Bobbie from the Block: that is your Christ; the quintessential ordinary guy, John Doe. The Ordinary Guy is the Lord's anointed; anyone who denies the Ordinary Guy the right to obey the voice of the Lord is antichrist..." ibid

 

[amadeus]

"
...Furthermore, John states that every spirit that confesses that Jesus the Anointed has come in the flesh is from God, whereas every spirit that does not confess Jesus is the spirit of the disanointer (1 John 4:3 and 2 John 1:7). This reflects what John the Evangelist says in John 1:1-18, which roughly states that since the coming of Jesus of Nazareth, the elusive Law of God — via which the universe was created and via which the universe and everything in it, including life, still operates today — is fully known by every human being. But much to the possible disappointment of many, there is nothing intrinsically holy about the name Jesus; in fact, it was a common back then as the name Bobbie is today.

Nazareth, from which Jesus ostensibly hailed, was a proverbial hickville and Jesus' male parent was a craftsman (more likely a mason and probably not a carpenter, which would also explain Jesus' many masonic metaphors). To us the name Jesus of Nazareth may evoke due reverence, but in the first century AD, the name Jesus of Nazareth was obviously specifically designed to reflect commonness and lack of formal education.

The Christ was not the son of a famous statesman or educated by a famous rabbi in an important town. Before He became itinerant, the Christ had spent His life doing manual labor, and it was a miracle that He could even read! Jesus of Nazareth means Bobbie from the Block: that is your Christ; the quintessential ordinary guy, John Doe. The Ordinary Guy is the Lord's anointed; anyone who denies the Ordinary Guy the right to obey the voice of the Lord is antichrist..." ibid

"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Isaiah 53:2-3