[doc1019]

From what I understand, the Anti-Christ is not satan, but his representative. Many scholars believe that the rapture will happen before the true Anti-Christ is revealed.

Only time will tell.

[Shadowstrike]

no, Anti Christ is actually Satan.

Satan has many names.

[who knows what evil?]

Many scholars believe that the rapture will happen before the true Anti-Christ is revealed.

That doctrine is taught to make American Christians feel 'special', and to keep women in the pews.

[ravenwolf]

From what I understand, the Anti-Christ is not satan, but his representative. Many scholars believe that the rapture will happen before the true Anti-Christ is revealed.

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I don’t know, but John believed the anti Christ was already here.

2 John 1:7
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.

1 John 2:22
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.

1 John 4:3
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.

So are the scholars wrong or was John wrong?