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CHAPTER 12: GRAND DESIGN

The word “Antichrist” is used four times by the Apostle John in the first and second Epistle of John as more of

a type of person, one who denies the Father and Son. This would be today’s atheist. The true Antichrist is the
ultimate deceiver of this world. He is a liar and denies the Deity of Christ as well as God, the Father.

2 John 7 “For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ
as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.”
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1 John 2:22 “Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the
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one who denies the Father and the Son.”
Paul refers to the Antichrist as the man of lawlessness. Most commentators state that the man of lawlessness is
the Antichrist who causes the desolation of the Holy Temple in the middle of the Tribulation.

2 Thessalonians 2:7–8 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains
will do so until he is taken out of the way.
8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and
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bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;”

We see that Christ will slay the Antichrist and the nations with His mouth during His Second Coming to this
earth. This is also confirmed in Revelation by the Apostle John stating from Christ’s “mouth comes a sharp sword.”
The “sword” represents a weapon and it is through His spoken word that He will do destruction.

Revelation 19:15 “From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations,
and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the
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Almighty.”
The Antichrist

We know the Antichrist is revealed to mankind after Christ’s Bride has been removed from this earth. It first
states that there is a mystery of lawlessness already at work. The word lawlessness appears in the New Testament
in a number of places. Paul is clear that lawlessness is associated with darkness, the invisible evil in this world.

2 Corinthians 6:14 “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness
and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
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What is the mystery that is already at work in the world? If one goes back to the description of the world
conditions prior to Noah’s Flood; the world was described as “lawlessness increasing” over the earth. We need to
turn back to Genesis as well as the “Little Book of Genesis”, Jubilees, to understand this mystery.

Jubilees 5:1-6 “And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth
and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee,

191 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (2 Jn 7). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

192 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (1 Jn 2:22). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

193 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (2 Th 2:7–8). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

194 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 19:15). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

195 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (2 Co 6:14). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.