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If you read the texts of scripture below, you will come to the correct conclusion that the 'antichrist' is not a person, but rather a "anti-Jesus" way of thinking or of religion...such as the gnostics referred to in Scripture...not by the Name of "gnostic" but by their beliefs. The Antichrist is a SPIRIT...and nowhere in scripture does is say that it will embody a human being.
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 2:18[/FONT]
[FONT="]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. [Jesus was speaking to a specific group of people about a specific time. He was telling them that there ALREADY SEVERAL antichrist (spirits) on hand and in effect.]
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 2:22[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ[there were MANY that denied that Jesus was the Christ AT THE TIME of His speaking this.]This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 4:3[/FONT]
[FONT="]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 [ALREADY in the world...already, at the time of His speaking, in the world...2000 years ago!]
2 John 1:7
[FONT="]For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This [the spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus in the flesh]is the deceiver and the antichrist. [All that would not acknowledge Jesus as coming in the flesh were of the antichrist spirit...anti-Jesus. and there were Many people that were of that SPIRIT.][/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 2:18[/FONT]
[FONT="]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. [Jesus was speaking to a specific group of people about a specific time. He was telling them that there ALREADY SEVERAL antichrist (spirits) on hand and in effect.]
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 2:22[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ[there were MANY that denied that Jesus was the Christ AT THE TIME of His speaking this.]This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 John 4:3[/FONT]
[FONT="]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 [ALREADY in the world...already, at the time of His speaking, in the world...2000 years ago!]
2 John 1:7
[FONT="]For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This [the spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus in the flesh]is the deceiver and the antichrist. [All that would not acknowledge Jesus as coming in the flesh were of the antichrist spirit...anti-Jesus. and there were Many people that were of that SPIRIT.][/FONT]
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