You have written a very well-organized article. Yes, identifying the anti-Christ is of vast importance, for unless the correct identification takes place, the subsequent defeat of the anti-Christ is simply not possible.
I would like to add a few comments on the matter at hand. Please take them as you wish.
There is certainly a mystery to what is written in the Bible, in that I suspect that a correct understanding of scripture as it relates to the End Times (it has many names, please use the one you prefer) is wholly dependent on having a relationship with the Holy Spirit; being filled by the Holy Spirit. Yes, man must be born again in the Spirit, and this is no small matter, for being filled by the Holy Spirit by baptized, repentant Christians is perhaps the primary key to gaining access to information, like who the anti-Christ is. In other words, I suspect that a scholarly approach may fall short in correctly assessing the nature of the anti-Christ.
The one thing that we need to always keep in mind is that Lucifer, Satan, and the anti-Christ want to usurp God, to be God, however you wish to state this. Isaiah 14:14 is a good example of how this is a correct assessment. But I think that what people tend to underemphasize with this realization is that the evil in this world knows it has to mimic God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit in order to usurp God. What I'm trying to say is that we need to always remain cognizant that everything that the anti-Christ does must be a mimicking of an aspect of the Trinity in some manner. And I mean always, not just some of the time.
With that being said, we see that the anti-Christ has aligned itself to the number 666. What we need to ask ourselves is, 'What aspect of God is the anti-Christ mimicking by aligning itself to the number 666?’ It is my strong opinion, one that I assert has been proven, that what is being mimicked with the number 666 is the number 777. And what is significant about the number 777? What I have found is that each component of the Trinity - God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, can all be resolved down to where they each are correctly represented by the number 7.
It is my contention that we shouldn't be looking at the number 666 as representing six hundred and sixty-six. Instead, we should be looking at the number 666 as representing six-six-six, with each digit standing on its own. And with that being said, we can see that what we are being told is that the anti-Christ is not a singular event, but one that manifests in three distinct manners, just as the Trinity does. It is an unholy Trinity.
Of those three manifestations, I agree that one of them is a specific person, which I contend has been identified. The other two aspects of the anti-Christ are not a reference to specific people but to other aspects of this world that are now already in place.
The three components of the anti-Christ each mimic an aspect of God - that God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.
Well, so much more to add for your consideration, but I'll leave my comments at this for now.
Again, thanks for your article. It was very informative.
Very good research. I asked the Lord to show me who the Son of Perdition was one day. I diligently searched the scriptures and had been reading in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 in the Greek Interlinear Translation. I had a vision, and it was revealed to me that there is something of the sinful inner man, son of ruin, seed of sin, that must be separated from us through sanctification. These strong men, through trials and tribulations, are one by one merged until the very core of sinfulness emerges through the power that Satan brings him forward to conquer, but he is hidden. I would refer to him as the 8th, or the 7th, based on some writings in the NT, but what he is is an image of ourselves that is an imitation of what God created of us that has been trampled down and killed until he resurrects us and we are separated from it. This is very hard to describe and to put into words, but there are two of us. A spiritually fallen man, and a redeemed reborn child of God, who was present with the Lord before the world was created. The son of perdition, son of ruin, sinful inner man, must be taken out of the way, or slain. This is a surprise to us because we are blind to his existence. It is the part of us that an impartation was given when Eve believed the lie the devil told her that she could be like God. Satan has created something of us that he holds up in idolatry. All of our thoughts are about ourselves. We are all vying to be heard, seen, and have our own things we want to do, and everyone operates the same. That is the deception. We are sitting on our own thrones in the throne room that is reserved for Jesus. I'm not discounting the prophecies, or not looking for Christ's return in the air, but his coming could be seen to mean that like what happened on the Mt. of Transfiguration, Jesus reveals himself to us in his glory and we are set free from the captivity that has held us so long in bondage, and that is ourselves, our flesh, that has been controlled by that sinful seed of deception of Satan's imitation creation of us. I can only say that what happened to me has opened my eyes as to what we're up against, and it's not so much an outer source we should be expecting, but an inner source hidden in each one of us that opposes Godly principles and living a Godly life to do what we want instead by living for ourselves as a god. I tried to describe it in one of my podcasts. I think it was this one: https://integritynews.substack.com/p/integrity-good-news-podcast-a74
Thank you for the very well written and researched article. We need to be learning all that we can so that we can identify when he comes and not be tricked. It is unfortunate that most churches are dropping the ball on this one.
You have written a very well-organized article. Yes, identifying the anti-Christ is of vast importance, for unless the correct identification takes place, the subsequent defeat of the anti-Christ is simply not possible.
I would like to add a few comments on the matter at hand. Please take them as you wish.
There is certainly a mystery to what is written in the Bible, in that I suspect that a correct understanding of scripture as it relates to the End Times (it has many names, please use the one you prefer) is wholly dependent on having a relationship with the Holy Spirit; being filled by the Holy Spirit. Yes, man must be born again in the Spirit, and this is no small matter, for being filled by the Holy Spirit by baptized, repentant Christians is perhaps the primary key to gaining access to information, like who the anti-Christ is. In other words, I suspect that a scholarly approach may fall short in correctly assessing the nature of the anti-Christ.
The one thing that we need to always keep in mind is that Lucifer, Satan, and the anti-Christ want to usurp God, to be God, however you wish to state this. Isaiah 14:14 is a good example of how this is a correct assessment. But I think that what people tend to underemphasize with this realization is that the evil in this world knows it has to mimic God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit in order to usurp God. What I'm trying to say is that we need to always remain cognizant that everything that the anti-Christ does must be a mimicking of an aspect of the Trinity in some manner. And I mean always, not just some of the time.
With that being said, we see that the anti-Christ has aligned itself to the number 666. What we need to ask ourselves is, 'What aspect of God is the anti-Christ mimicking by aligning itself to the number 666?’ It is my strong opinion, one that I assert has been proven, that what is being mimicked with the number 666 is the number 777. And what is significant about the number 777? What I have found is that each component of the Trinity - God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, can all be resolved down to where they each are correctly represented by the number 7.
It is my contention that we shouldn't be looking at the number 666 as representing six hundred and sixty-six. Instead, we should be looking at the number 666 as representing six-six-six, with each digit standing on its own. And with that being said, we can see that what we are being told is that the anti-Christ is not a singular event, but one that manifests in three distinct manners, just as the Trinity does. It is an unholy Trinity.
Of those three manifestations, I agree that one of them is a specific person, which I contend has been identified. The other two aspects of the anti-Christ are not a reference to specific people but to other aspects of this world that are now already in place.
The three components of the anti-Christ each mimic an aspect of God - that God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.
Well, so much more to add for your consideration, but I'll leave my comments at this for now.
Again, thanks for your article. It was very informative.
Very good research. I asked the Lord to show me who the Son of Perdition was one day. I diligently searched the scriptures and had been reading in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 in the Greek Interlinear Translation. I had a vision, and it was revealed to me that there is something of the sinful inner man, son of ruin, seed of sin, that must be separated from us through sanctification. These strong men, through trials and tribulations, are one by one merged until the very core of sinfulness emerges through the power that Satan brings him forward to conquer, but he is hidden. I would refer to him as the 8th, or the 7th, based on some writings in the NT, but what he is is an image of ourselves that is an imitation of what God created of us that has been trampled down and killed until he resurrects us and we are separated from it. This is very hard to describe and to put into words, but there are two of us. A spiritually fallen man, and a redeemed reborn child of God, who was present with the Lord before the world was created. The son of perdition, son of ruin, sinful inner man, must be taken out of the way, or slain. This is a surprise to us because we are blind to his existence. It is the part of us that an impartation was given when Eve believed the lie the devil told her that she could be like God. Satan has created something of us that he holds up in idolatry. All of our thoughts are about ourselves. We are all vying to be heard, seen, and have our own things we want to do, and everyone operates the same. That is the deception. We are sitting on our own thrones in the throne room that is reserved for Jesus. I'm not discounting the prophecies, or not looking for Christ's return in the air, but his coming could be seen to mean that like what happened on the Mt. of Transfiguration, Jesus reveals himself to us in his glory and we are set free from the captivity that has held us so long in bondage, and that is ourselves, our flesh, that has been controlled by that sinful seed of deception of Satan's imitation creation of us. I can only say that what happened to me has opened my eyes as to what we're up against, and it's not so much an outer source we should be expecting, but an inner source hidden in each one of us that opposes Godly principles and living a Godly life to do what we want instead by living for ourselves as a god. I tried to describe it in one of my podcasts. I think it was this one: https://integritynews.substack.com/p/integrity-good-news-podcast-a74
Thank you for the very well written and researched article. We need to be learning all that we can so that we can identify when he comes and not be tricked. It is unfortunate that most churches are dropping the ball on this one.