Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 20:36:20 GMT
The antichrist is recent Evangelical mumbo-jumbo cooked up from nothing. Antichristos in the Bible meant simply that; Jews who doubted Jesus was the messiah. They were critics, not supernatural demons.
Revelations was not meant as eschatological prophecy. It was a coded missive to other early Christian sects (in what is now Turkey) to keep an upstart religion, then deemed as seditious and scapegoated by Rome, from falling apart or going astray. That's why the "mark of the beast" is gematria-- a Jewish cipher-- for Nero. It was coded so what they were saying would not be understood if intercepted or caught, to protect them from execution.
Revelations was not meant as eschatological prophecy. It was a coded missive to other early Christian sects (in what is now Turkey) to keep an upstart religion, then deemed as seditious and scapegoated by Rome, from falling apart or going astray. That's why the "mark of the beast" is gematria-- a Jewish cipher-- for Nero. It was coded so what they were saying would not be understood if intercepted or caught, to protect them from execution.