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Originally Posted by Truth Files
"Why do you good brethren confuse ANTICHRIST with BEAST? Antichrist is a SPIRIT that denies Jesus is come in flesh. Antichrist possesses those who once knew truth but left it. How is that the beast in rev 13?"
>This matter is a part of the OP and a very significant one
>Good question
>You can discover who the beast of Revelation is by reading the following scriptures [ 2Thessalonians 2:2-12; Revelation 9:11; 11:7; 13:1-4; 17:8-14]
You can also know that this beast is not human .... but his manifestation will be in the human little horn of Daniel's visions [ Daniel 7:7-25; 8:9-12; 8:23-25; 9:26-27; 11:36-45; 12:7]
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You repeatedly say OP. What is OP?
Also there is no connection between the son of perdition in
2 Thess 2 and the beast of
Rev 13,. That is assumed.
2 Thess 1 said the events would take place as vengeance against those who directly persecuted the Thessalonians IN THEIR DAY 2000 years ago. How can that apply to today as vengeance for THEM?
2 Thess 1:4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
This coming is the MATT 21:40 COMING as is Matt 24, which was addressed as being experienced by the people who stood there listening to Jesus.
So, again, why use the term ANTICHRIST from 1 John and 2 John when it what John said about antichrist has no bearing on the Beast or son of perdition?
What is it about these words of JOHN that apply to the beast of
Rev 13?
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come (ref.
1 John 4:3 -- a SPIRIT), even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come (Ref:
1 John 2:18); and even now already is it in the world.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
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