Biblical Concept: Antichrist
NAS 1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you
heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from
this we know that it is the last hour.
(Last hour antichrist relationship.) (Antichrist is a feature of the
Church Age.) (“We know”: Be attuned for antichrist activities.) (“many
antichrists have arisen”)
22 Who is the liar but
the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one
who denies the Father and the Son. (Liar, Christ denial, relationship.) (Denial
and Triunity relationship.)
NAS 1 John 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is
not from God; and this is the spirit of
the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is
already in the world. (Spirit of antichrist, a factor in the world.)
NAS 2 John 1:7 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. (Many
deceivers, a feature of the world.) (Deceiver incarnation relationship.)
(Deceiver antichrist relationship.) (Antichrist deceiver is a feature of the
Church Age.)
Antichrist deceiver is a feature of the Church Age—quotes:
Jehovah’s Witnesses:
“Jesus, the Christ, a created individual, is the second
greatest personage of the Universe.
Jehovah God and Jesus together constitute the superior authorities” (Make
Sure of All Things, p. 207).
... “He was a god, but not the Almighty God, who is Jehovah” (Let
God Be True, p. 33).
“The truth of the matter is that the word is Jesus Christ, who
did have a beginning” (Let God Be True, p.
88).
Mormons:
God himself
was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder
heavens! . . . I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined
and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and
take away the veil, so that you may see. . . . He was
once a man like us; yea that God himself, the Father dwelt on an earth, the
same as Jesus Christ himself did. . . . ”(Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 321).
"[A]
plurality of gods exist . . . there is an infinite
number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed on
to exaltation and are thus gods." (Mormon theologian and apostle Bruce
McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 576-577.)