Yeah, lot's of confusion with this. Here is a little clip from a site I frequent on and off:
"But, John referred to the coming 'man' as “antichrist” only once in his letters in 90 AD. [1John 2:18]. 5 years later in 95 AD's vision John was given a closer look at this 1-man, naming him as a 'False Prophet' in Revelation numerous times.
In fact, John never uses the term 'antichrist' even once throughout the book of Revelation,
having recognized the coming evil man's more crystallized profile to be a 'false prophet'."
heisnear.com
Hal Lindsay's Late Great Planet Earth introduced this 2 man idea. I remember reading that book as a teen. And have always believed in the "two man" teaching. But it was not taught like that beforehand. And we have the Tim LaHayes's of the world also teaching this erroneous doctrine and just about every Christian I know believes it.
God bless.
Greetings in Christ JESUS
We must IDENTIFY Satan mainly in his two kinds of more satanic manifestations:
(1) As the father of lie:
Example: The Jews, lying to JESUS, said: " We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God"-John 8:v.41.
JESUS anwered unto them: " Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John 8:v.44
(2) As an ANGEL of light - what light? Well, the Word of GOD
2 Corinthians 11:v.13 to 15 NIV and Ezekiel 28:v.2-3KJV
12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
13 For
such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
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4 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants
(his ministers-his angels) also masquerade as servants(as Ministers-his angels) of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
Satan is wiser than Daniel - Ezekiel 28:v.2-3 and 7-8
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
2 ...Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas
(seas mean peoples, and nations, and multitudes of all tongues); yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
(2 Thessalonians 2:v.3-4)
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations
(the true believers of Gentile nations): and they shall draw their Swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They
(the true believers of Gentile nations) shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou
(you whom? 2 Thes.2:v.4) shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Afterall Satan is still free going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up (in heaven) and down in it (in the earth). We know that in this moment he is in whole world simultaneouly, even among the GOD's people in churches, forums, and elsewhere, for sowing his tares and deceive multitudes of all tongues, in his own devilish world;
he is in all nations of the world 24hs-day, in all places, as being an omnipresent spirit. Terrible. Terrible. THINK ABOUT IT.
We must cast Satan out from heaven where we are still living in Christ JESUS in this current time-
Ephesians 1:v.3. Satan cannot stay here where we are living by Christ JESUS and for Him.
This is what our Sovereign Lord says. Do not be afraid: Revelation 2:v.24- to 29:
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira,
as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
26 And he that overcometh,
and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: - Revelation 11:v.15 and Matthew 5:v.5
27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star.
29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
In Christ JESUS, KING of kings (kings made by Him) and LORD of the lords
P.S.
One of the sevens heads of the Beast of sea will be wounded to death.
Matt.5:v.5 - Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.