Well, most Bible scholars would agree the “man of sin” also called “man of lawlessnes” in 2 Thessalonians 2, is in fact the Anti Christ. Anti Christ is any power that seeks to place itself in place of Christ, rather than opposed to him, althought he effect is the same.
We read about counterfeit in Daniel’s prophecies, we are even given dates of this power’s rule. A religious power....1260 years, day for year principle in prophecy. 42 months, 3 and a half years..all are stated in prophecy, all add up to 1260 years.
Pagan Rome to Papal Rome starts in 538 AD and ends in 1798 AD. Exactly 1260 years! The pope was taken captive in 1798. Her fatal wound. But like Jesus who suffered a fatal wound after 3.5 years of his ministry, her wound heals.
There is even a man in the Bible who is symbolic of Anti Christ and what Anti Christ does. in 3 John we read about a man IN THE CHURCH who’s name is Diotrephes.
This man exihibits all the characteristics of Anti Christ and the papacy.
He loves to be first, he does not welcome the pure church, He spreads malicious nonsense about us, the true believers, and he persecutes people in the church, “putting them out”.
So John is also writing about this man who wants to be first and persecutes the church. The Papacy did that for 1260 years and she is going to do it again, as her fatal wound has also healed.
3 John verse 9 and 10. (Remember the Papacy hates the Sabbath because she is Satan’s vicegerant on earth, her agency and this religious system will have her day of reckoning for her sins.read Foxes book of martyrs..if you have the stomach for it)
Quote from 3 John:
9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. 10 So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
Well, in doing so, they have to ignore a lot of what I posted:
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.