John declares that MANY antichrists have risen. There is no ONE specific person who is the antichrist.
1 John 2:18-22
18Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.d 21I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son
John’s references to “antichrist” reveals that the term is a general designation employed to suggest a spirit of unbelief that can be manifested in a variety of ways, both in the past and present.
So, as far as the reference in Revelation, PLEASE keep in mind that the beast in this book was not of literal meaning. It was symbolic. Revelation is taken way too literal. That book was written for Christians of that time as a sign of hope and goodness prevailing. When John had his vision Christians were being persecuted. Reveltion showed early Christians that it would end.
1 John 2:18-22
18Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.d 21I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son
John’s references to “antichrist” reveals that the term is a general designation employed to suggest a spirit of unbelief that can be manifested in a variety of ways, both in the past and present.
So, as far as the reference in Revelation, PLEASE keep in mind that the beast in this book was not of literal meaning. It was symbolic. Revelation is taken way too literal. That book was written for Christians of that time as a sign of hope and goodness prevailing. When John had his vision Christians were being persecuted. Reveltion showed early Christians that it would end.
And should we take everything else in the Bible as symbolic, or not to literal?
How will we discern what is to be taken literal, Daniel also had visions?
You have then just said that Yahshua the Messiah will not return?
Because this Revelation is the end.
And the Messiah said he would come at the end.