The scriptures state that in the last days, an evil leader will arise who will seek to rule the world.

What does the Bible say about the identity of this prophetic figure known as the Antichrist?

Dr. David K. Bernard explains next.

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the Bible teaches and how those teachings apply to everyday life. Most Christians and even quite a few unbelievers are familiar with a biblical figure that has come to be known as the Antichrist.

The Bible offers descriptions of this person in several different passages.

Paul, for example, calls them the lawless one who will perform signs and lying wonders through the power of Satan.

Most Christians, or I should say many, would classify the antichrist as evil leader who's going to arise in the end times and take over the world and persecute God's people.

What does the Bible actually say about this person that we call the Antichrist?

Well, as you mentioned, there are references in the book of Revelation in 2nd Thessalonians.

There are also some references in Daniel.

When you put them all together, it seems there is an evil ruler who will exalt himself,

who will claim to be God and or the Messiah, who will set himself up as a false Messiah.

Jesus prophesied about this in the Olivet discourse.

And so you find in Second Thessonians, he's called the man of sin, the son of perdition, the

lawless one.

In the book of Revelation, he's called the beast.

He's never called the Antichrist in those passages, but First John talks about a spirit of Antichrist,

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