Is the Man of Sin In II Thessalonians 2: 3 the Anti-Christ? - 6:44 PM, 10/27/2008 |
Is The Man of Sin In II Thessalonians 2: 3 the Anti-Christ? Bernard Pyron Is the man of sin who Paul also calls the son of perdition the antichrist of I John 2: 18, I John 2: 22, I John 4: 3,and II John 7? There is no clear statement in I John that there is to be one man who is the antichrist, rather than that a spirit of antichrist has been in the world a long time and will apparently get worse in the end times, that is, right before and during the Tribulation. I John 2: 18 says "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." I John 2: 22 says "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." Then I John 4: 3 says "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." "Spirit" is not in the Textus Receptus, but was added by the King James translators. The Textus Receptus says that any spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is not of God but is that of the antichrist." The King James translators seemed to have thought that antichrist here refers to a spirit of antichrist rather than to one individual who is to be a kind of super antichrist. The one individual as super antichrist of the dispensationalists is he that goes into the rebuilt Jewish temple in Jerusalem with a pig to sacrifice in order to desecrate that place. But look at what the Geneva Study Bible says about II Thessalonians 2: 3: "He foretells that the antichrist (that is, whoever he is that will occupy that seat that falls away from God) will not reign outside of the Church, but in the very bosom of the Church." Geneva Study Bible What the Study Bible calls "The Church" is going to go completely bad and whatever the construct called antichrist is will reign within organized Christianity. Some individuals will carry out the work of causing "The Church" to go off into apostasy. And one figure who is in the Book of Revelation, while "the antichrist" is not, is the second beast of Revelation 13: 11-18, often called the False Prophet, who leads and represents false doctrines. Bernard __._,_.___ |
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