The Antichrists Identified

Many people throughout Christian history have been fascinated by the identity of the antichrist. The Apostle John is actually the only biblical write to use the term antichrist! He uses it 5 times in his first two letters.  Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 1 John 2:18

John must have been remembering the words Jesus had spoken recorded by Matthew (24),Mark (13), and Luke (21).“Be careful that no one leads you astray.  For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. Matthew 24:4

John's concern is the theological identity of the antichrist.  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,  and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.  1 John 4:2-3

 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 John 7

Thus the spirit of antichrist is found in all those who deny the reality of the incarnation, the coming of the Word, the eternal Son, into human flesh through the virgin birth by Mary of Jesus of Nazareth.  Jesus became a true human without ceasing to be true deity in his one person for the salvation of sinners. An early Christian confess states,  Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:16 WEB

It is this truth of who Jesus the Christ (Messiah) is that makes him the one mediator. There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom... 1 Timothy 2:5

Thus, John concludes,  Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.  No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:22-23

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