[Elsie]

Who do you think it is that sets himself up in the temple?

It doesn't matter what I think.

What matters is what the Book says; and it does NOT link the two together.

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These are the only places that antichrist is mentioned.

 

 

 

1 John 2:18
  Dear 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.
 
1 John 2:22
Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist —denying the Father and the Son.
 
1 John 4:3
but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist , which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
 
2 John 1:7
I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist .
 

[Elsie]

Dear 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.

[Grateful2God]

"It doesn't matter what I think."

So the big spaces, use of blinding color, persistent capitalization (shouting), repetitive keywords, distracting graphics, butting in to questions intended for others, sidebars, answering questions with other questions, and giant capitals are in the posts because...?

[CynicalBear]

>>It doesn't matter what I think.<<

The Greek word translated anti Christ is antíxristos and it means opposite to Christ; someone acting in place of (against) Christ. Matthew references that.

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

It's the antíxristos that sets himself up in the temple "in the place of Christ".