Can you produce one (1) just one Bible verse in 2 Thess 2 or Revelation that makes a connection to John’s antichrists (little a, plural) ?
The answer is no.
Why not?
Because there isn’t one.
So?
So then why do you believe there is one?
When you cannot produce one?
You have been fed wild far fetched speculations
and you believed it.
Its not in your best interest to believe notions that you
can NOT support with clear Bible verses.
Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry makes a very good argument that Paul’s “man of lawlessness” and John’s “beast” in Revelation was the evil-insane first century Nero Caesar. Its in his He Shall Have Dominion. Amazon has it.
Best Regards.
JAG
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“Can you produce one (1) just one Bible verse in 2 Thess 2 or Revelation that makes a connection to John’s antichrists (little a, plural) ?”
No, because “antichrists” plural doesn’t refer to the same thing as what Christians refer to as “the Antichrist”. Don’t blame others for you confusing the issue. Certainly we can see that 2 Thess 2 speaks of a figure that can clearly be called “antichrist”, as they fit the definition given by John, and a figure that is distinct and worthy of note beyond all the “little a” antichrists that are referred to in general, since he is important enough to be prophesied as a sign of the end times.
First we have in verse 1 of 2 Thess 2:1-2, the setting of the scene:
“1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”
We see here that this was written specifically to answer questions about the second coming of Jesus Christ, and how we can know whether it is at hand or not, so we are clear about the time frame that will be discussed.
“3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
Now we see that there is something that must happen before the second coming, a sign if you will, and this sign is the appearance of a man, called the “man of sin” and the “son of perdition”. His identifying trait is also given here, that he will exalt himself above all, even God, and he will usurp the rightful place of God.
We learn much more about this figure in Revelation, and I think whether you call them “Antichrist”, “Man of Sin”, “Son of Perdition”, “the Beast”, etc, matters very little, since they clearly are all the same figure.
“Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry makes a very good argument that Paul’s “man of lawlessness” and John’s “beast” in Revelation was the evil-insane first century Nero Caesar.”
It can’t be a “very good argument” because 2 Thess 2 links this figure directly to the time of the second coming of Christ, which the gospels and Revelation associate with a whole plethora of things that have never yet happened on planet earth.