"3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world” (1 John 4.3, New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition)
18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour (1 John 2.18, NRSVCE).
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist (2 John 1.7, NRSVCE).
Christ’s
"name"—signifying His mission and handiwork—is the Word of God
(Revelation 19:13). The Word became human-divine (John 1:14) to fulfill
everything written about Him in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms
(Luke 24:44). Thus, "antichrist" simply means "anti-Word."
Anyone who opposes the truth that "the Word" became human-divine is operating
under the spell of the spirit of the antichrist.
Antichrists are those who reject the Lord’s Passover. Jesus prophesied about them as the "tares" in Matthew 13. While the term can apply to any anti-Word individual, antichrist leaders cannot wield diabolical influence on Earth without systems to execute their deceptions and convert earthly rulers into their followers.
Therefore, antichrists require "towers" to manifest their "names." In prophetic language, a "name" refers to a mission or handiwork, while "towers" symbolize centers of globally agreed-upon principles. In Genesis 11, anti-Word humanity sought to unite the world under a single human agenda that directly opposed God’s revealed Word. Erecting the Tower of Babel was an attempt to centralize that global human mission.
We are living in the last hour, a time marked by widespread apostasy and falling away from the faith. Secular relativism gains favor across all walks of life as people erect modern "towers" and establish human-centered "names" to shape humanity's destiny. Regrettably, even believers ("the wheat") get drawn into building these systems. Thus, the spiritual conflict between the Woman, the Ancient Serpent, and their respective offspring will continue until the Word is fully accomplished.
This anti-Word stance manifests through human philosophies and ideologies like Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Capitalism, and ultimately the prophesied "666-ism." Through these systems, the Adversary’s emissaries propagate teachings that explicitly deny that the Word of God became human in Yeshua. Without the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit, many will fail to discern that the Adversary orchestrates these end-time global rulers.
Fixating intellectually on unmasking the supreme Antichrist—especially when driven by hatred or biased interpretations—will not lead to truth. More often than not, it leads to slandering the wrong people. While speculatively identifying candidates fascinates many, the reality is that more than half of the world's population is already anti-Word, and anti-Word leaders have existed since the earliest days of the Church.
Prophetically, Scripture presents only two symbolic Women: the former commanded to observe the Torah, and the latter commanded to abide by the two great commandments of love through the Spirit. Meanwhile, earthly kingdoms and their rulers are depicted as "beasts" governed by human laws and agendas. In Revelation 13, the number 666 represents the ultimate culmination of human mission and handiwork exalted against the name of Christ—whose name, above all, is the Word of God.
Glossary
Horn —is associated with the authority of a leader, and if the horn has a crown or a coronet, then it means the leader is a monarch/king/emperor (Dan 7: 24). If the horn is having one eye, it means an antichrist leader. The "seven eyes, seven horns and seven Spirits" is referring solely to Christ.
Reference
The Bible. New Revised
Standard Version Catholic Edition, National Council of Churches, 1989. Bible
Gateway, biblegateway.com. Accessed 8 Oct. 2015.
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