Throughout Christian history, people have tried to identify who is the Antichrist.

And through the years, I made a habit of looking up the list and see who is in and who's out.

And if you read the list, it's very amazing, really, because it included former Roman emperors

and some corrupt popes and Bonaparte and Hitler, FDR, Henry Kissinger, Lewis Farrakhan,

and even Sam Donaldson of ABC.

And I suppose these folks are now off the hook.

But today what I want to do is prayfully and thoughtfully try to clarify what the scripture

says about the Antichrist and if there's some confusion hopefully that I'll by the end

of the message

that I'll bring some clarity.

The Bible speaks definitively about a person, and it's called the Antichrist.

He first is identified in the book of Daniels, chapter 7.

That's the first time you hear or you read in the

scripture about this character. And then he was reaffirmed by the Lord himself in Matthew 2415,

when he said that when you see the desolation that's spoken of by Daniel. And then of course, the Apostle Paul himself, writing to the Thessalonians

and explaining that this character is going to rise at a time prior to the return of Christ.

But it is chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation that probably gives us more of the details about this person.

But there is something that is of uttermost importance I don't want you to miss.

It is very important.

The same John, who had been privileged to go into the very portals of heaven and see the future as present.

The very apostle John writes in 1 John chapter 2, verse 18, the following.

That same John said there are many Antichrists who have appeared.

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