What Would an Antichrist Look Like Today?
Setting the parameters of discussion All Bible verses are NKJV taken from biblegateway.com unless otherwise noted. First, the term antichrist is a biblical construct, so only the Bible can define it. It’s actually a Judeo-Christian meme, rooted deeply in the Old Testament as well the New. The fact that the title of Christ is in the word does not prevent us from searching out similar spiritual themes in the Hebrew Bible in which spiritual and cultural forces are horrifically anti-God. In the second half of the twentieth century there were many predictions about the immanent rise of the antichrist, but it came from people who were partly or totally into channeling spirits. The situations that I know of and have blogged about are Jeane Dixon, Ruth Montgomery, Vance David, and an apparition of the Virgin Mary in Bayside, New York. The NT does encourage gifts of the Holy Spirit like prophecy and word of knowledge in which God speaks to those imbued with the gift, but the Holy Spirit d