Recognizing a Modern Antichrist
All Bible verses are NKJV taken from biblegateway.com. This is a 3/2026 update and edit of an earlier post. Setting the parameters of discussion 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 Old Testament prophecy and history as well as in New Testament theology. The fact that the title of Christ is in the word Antichrist does not prevent us from searching out similar historical themes in the Hebrew Bible where spiritual and cultural forces are horrifically anti-God. The OT/HB deity established a theocracy in Israel, so the prophets were very political. Jesus unmoored His kingdom from earthly politics by declaring that the kingdom of God is within you and His kingdom is not of this world (Luke 17:21; John 18:36). Nevertheless, the Antichrist, if there is one individual called that, will be both religious and political, and that is part of the blasphemy of the antichristal system, the mar...