Introduction: The Construct and the Question
Among the more theatrical doctrines inherited by the churches is the expectation of a singular, personified “Antichrist”: one final villain, one world ruler, one supreme deceiver into whom the horn of Daniel, the man of lawlessness, the beast of Revelation, the false prophet, Babylon, and John’s antichrists are commonly compressed. The figure is vivid, convenient, and fearsome. But the question before the faithful is not whether a doctrine is vivid. The question is whether it is Scriptural.
When the Scriptures are searched, the construction begins to tremble. The apostle John, who gives us the named Antichrist evidence, does not train the faithful to await one distant tyrant. He writes:
Young children, it is the last hour; and as you heard that the opponent of the Anointed One is coming, even now many opponents of the Anointed One have arisen. By this we know that it is the last hour.
— I John 2:18, SRT
The popular imagination moves from many to one, from present to future, from doctrine to spectacle. John moves in the opposite direction. He acknowledges what the faithful had heard—“Antichrist would come”—but immediately applies the warning to the present plural reality: “already many antichrists have come.”
That apostolic sentence must govern the inquiry. It does not permit us to make the named Antichrist doctrine chiefly about one remote individual while neglecting the many present antichrists John himself identifies. If Scripture is our authority, then John’s emphasis must become our emphasis: present deception, doctrinal testing, denial of the Son, and the already-operative spirit of error.
I. John’s Named Evidence: Present, Plural, and Doctrinal
The first governing fact is simple: in the biblical text used here, the direct “Antichrist” language is concentrated in John. John’s letters also use the language of “the antagonist of Christ.” This matters because the one apostolic writer who names the danger does not leave the faithful with a dramatic profile of one future ruler. He gives them a doctrinal test.
John asks:
Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Anointed One? This one is the opponent of the Anointed One, who denies the Father and the Son.
— I John 2:22, SRT
Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
— I John 2:23, SRT
The Antichrist test is therefore not first a political test, nor an economic test, nor a chronological puzzle hidden in the events of the last days. It is a Christological test. It concerns the true confession of the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not possess the Father. Whoever confesses the Son possesses the Father also.
John’s remedy is equally plain:
As for you, let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
— I John 2:24, SRT
The faithful are not first commanded to speculate, but to continue. They are not summoned to decode a future tyrant before they can obey, but to remain in the teaching received from the beginning. In John’s writings, the danger of Antichrist is met by fidelity to the apostolic confession of the Father and the Son.
This becomes still clearer when John commands the faithful to test the spirits:
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
— I John 4:1, SRT
The command is not merely to test rulers, kings, wars, currencies, imperial arrangements, or world events. The command is to “test the teachings.” The reason is that “many false teachers have gone out into the world.” Again, the shape is plural, doctrinal, and immediate.
John then gives the test:
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus the Anointed One has come in the flesh is of God,
and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus the Anointed One has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the opponent of the Anointed One, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
— I John 4:2–3, SRT
Here again John acknowledges that the churches had heard of the antagonist of Christ coming; but again he refuses to leave the matter in the realm of future spectacle. “Now he is already in the world.” The spirit of opposition to Christ is already operative where false teaching denies the true Christ.
The result is discernment between two spiritual orders:
We are of God. The one who knows God hears us; the one who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
— I John 4:6, SRT
John’s Antichrist doctrine is thus more searching than the popular construct. A single future Antichrist can be imagined safely at a distance. The spirit of Error must be tested now.
II John tightens the rule further:
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus the Anointed One coming in the flesh. This one is the deceiver and the opponent of the Anointed One.
— II John 1:7, SRT
Everyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of the Anointed One does not have God; the one who remains in the teaching of the Anointed One has both the Father and the Son.
— II John 1:9, SRT
The danger is not merely outside the church. It may arise in those who “assume the lead.” A man may appear religious, learned, authoritative, even advanced; yet if he does not continue in the teaching of the Messiah, he “possesses not God.” The true test is not institutional prestige, prophetic excitement, office, inherited tradition, or religious reputation. The test is fidelity to the teaching of Messiah.
From the named Antichrist texts alone, the popular singular construct is already placed under severe strain. The only apostolic writer who explicitly names Antichrist gives us not one future person as the controlling doctrine, but many antichrists, many false teachers, many misleaders, a present spirit of error, and a doctrinal test centered upon the Son. Any doctrine that turns John’s warning primarily into a far-off hunt for one final tyrant risks suppressing the very warnings John actually gives.
II. Christ’s Warning: Many False Messiahs and False Prophets
This does not mean Scripture is silent concerning hostile powers. Far from it. Christ warns of false messiahs and false prophets. Paul warns of sham apostles and of the man of lawlessness. Daniel sees beastly empires and a horn that speaks against the Highest, persecutes the saints, and determines to change the times and the laws. Revelation unveils the dragon, the beast, the false prophet, Babylon, image, brand, coerced worship, and demonic signs. But Scripture does not simply flatten these witnesses into one figure named “the Antichrist.” They are a field of opposition: personal, doctrinal, imperial, religious, economic, and demonic.
The Lord Himself gives the broader warning. When His disciples asked concerning the end, His first answer was not an invitation to prophetic curiosity, but a command against deception:
And Jesus answered and said to them, “See that no one leads you astray.
For many will come in My Name, saying, ‘I am the Anointed One,’ and they will lead many astray.
— Matthew 24:4–5, SRT
The danger is plural. “Many will come.” Their claim is religious. They come in His Name. Their deception is effective. They “will lead many astray.”
Again He says:
And many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray;
And because lawlessness increases, the love of many will grow cold.
— Matthew 24:11–12, SRT
Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Anointed One!’ or, ‘Here!’ do not believe it.
For false anointed ones and false prophets will arise, and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.
— Matthew 24:23–24, SRT
For false anointed ones and false prophets will arise and give signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.
— Mark 13:22, SRT
The Lord’s language is unmistakable: false messiahs, false prophets, great omens, signs and wonders, multitudes misled, even the elect targeted. This harmonizes with John. The danger is not merely one man. It is a repeated and widespread field of deception. False Christs and false prophets do not become less dangerous because men have been trained to reserve their fear for one future “Antichrist.” On the contrary, such training may make the faithful less vigilant against the very deceivers Christ warned them to expect.
III. The Apostolic Witness: Counterfeit Authority from Within
The apostolic witness confirms that the danger often arises from within the religious field. Paul warned the Ephesian elders:
For I know that after my departure savage wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock.
And from among your own selves men will rise, speaking perverse things, to draw the disciples away after them.
— Acts 20:29–30, SRT
This is a sober warning. The wolves do not merely attack from outside. Men arise “from among your own selves.” Their speech is “perverting.” Their aim is to draw followers after themselves.
Peter gives the same pattern:
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive factions, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
— II Peter 2:1, SRT
Jude likewise warns:
For certain men crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this judgment—ungodly men who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Anointed One.
— Jude 1:4, SRT
Paul’s warning in II Corinthians is still more searching:
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of the Anointed One.
And no wonder—for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
— II Corinthians 11:13–15, SRT
The danger may appear apostolic. It may appear righteous. It may appear luminous. It may come clothed as service to Christ. But it is counterfeit.
This witness is devastating to the shallow imagination of Antichrist as merely an obvious enemy of the church. The enemy may appear as apostleship, prophetic insight, moral authority, spiritual power, ecclesiastical leadership, and righteousness. The faithful are not permitted to judge by appearance. They must test the teaching, confess the Son, continue in the doctrine of Messiah, and refuse the traditions that set aside the command of God.
IV. The Man of Lawlessness: The Strongest Singular Text
The strongest passage commonly advanced for a singular hostile figure is II Thessalonians 2. This text must be treated honestly. Paul writes:
Let no one deceive you in any way; for that Day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the son of destruction—
Who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
— II Thessalonians 2:3–4, SRT
This is real evidence for a concentrated manifestation of lawless opposition. It would be careless to dismiss it. Paul speaks of “the man of lawlessness,” “the son of destruction,” and later “the outlaw.” The language is grave, personal, and apocalyptic. The outlaw withstands, exalts himself, intrudes into the sanctuary of God, and proclaims himself to be God. The faithful must not evade this text in order to win an argument.
But the passage must also be allowed to govern its own interpretation. Paul does not call this figure “Antichrist.” He speaks instead of “the apostasy,” “the man of lawlessness,” “the son of destruction,” “the mystery of that lawlessness,” and “the outlaw.” The figure is not isolated from a broader rebellion:
For the secret of lawlessness is already at work; only the one who now restrains will do so until he is out of the way,
— II Thessalonians 2:7, SRT
Even where Paul gives the strongest singular language, he also speaks of a mystery already at work. Then Paul describes the outlaw’s manifestation:
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming,
— II Thessalonians 2:8, SRT
His arrival is counterfeit and satanic:
Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
And with every unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved,
— II Thessalonians 2:9–10, SRT
And because of this God will send them a working of delusion, so that they may believe the lie,
That all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.
— II Thessalonians 2:11–12, SRT
Here again the issue is truth versus falsehood. The signs are not self-validating. The powers are not necessarily divine because they are impressive. The central moral issue is that men did not accept “the love of the truth.” The outlaw is destroyed by the Lord, but the people perish because they approve falsehood.
Therefore II Thessalonians 2 may support a singular or concentrated manifestation of lawlessness. It does not, however, authorize the whole popular Antichrist construct. Paul does not identify the man of lawlessness as John’s “Antichrist.” He does not collapse Daniel’s horn, Revelation’s beast, the false prophet, Babylon, and John’s antichrists into one individual. He describes a lawless manifestation within a wider apostasy and a mystery already operating. The careful conclusion is not that Scripture contains no concentrated manifestation of evil. The careful conclusion is that Scripture does not permit the entire anti-Christian witness to be reduced to one final figure called “the Antichrist.”
V. Daniel: Beastly Empire and the Changing of Times and Laws
Daniel supplies another major witness, especially in the vision of the beasts. But Daniel’s own interpretation must govern us:
‘These great beasts, which are four, are four kings who shall arise from the earth.
— Daniel 7:17, SRT
Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms; it shall devour all the earth, tread it down, and break it in pieces.
— Daniel 7:23, SRT
The beasts are not first identified as isolated men. They are empires. The horns are likewise explained within an imperial framework:
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings who shall arise; and another shall arise after them. He shall be different from the former ones, and shall bring low three kings.
— Daniel 7:24, SRT
Then comes the crucial description:
He shall speak words against the Most High, wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and intend to change appointed times and law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time, times, and half a time.
— Daniel 7:25, SRT
This is one of the most important texts for the present inquiry. The horn-power does not merely persecute. It speaks against the Highest. It persecutes the saints. It determines to change the Times and the Laws. That is anti-divine substitution. It is a claim of authority over what God has ordered. It is a lawless religious-political arrogance that seeks to alter the temporal and legal structures given by God.
This phrase—“change the Times, and the Laws”—belongs at the heart of any serious investigation into doctrines of men and demons. The enemy of God does not only deny God by atheism. He may deny God by substitution. He may replace divine command with human regulation. He may alter sacred times, redefine obedience, impose traditions, and call his own order holy. Daniel therefore provides enormous evidence for anti-Christian power. But it does not, by itself, give us the popular doctrine of one man called “the Antichrist.” It gives us empires, kingdoms, horn-powers, blasphemy, persecution, and attempted alteration of God’s order.
VI. Revelation: Dragon, Beast, False Prophet, and Babylon
Revelation is often treated as the great sourcebook for the singular Antichrist construct, yet the word “Antichrist” does not appear there. Revelation instead reveals a complex of satanically energized powers. The dragon is identified plainly:
And the great dragon was cast down—the ancient serpent, who is called “Devil” and “Satan,” who leads the whole world astray. He was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
— Revelation 12:9, SRT
The dragon is the deceiver of the habitable world. His target is also described:
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.
— Revelation 12:17, SRT
This verse is central. The faithful are known by two marks: they observe the commands of God and cling to the evidence of Jesus. This stands directly against any religious system that claims Christ while setting aside God’s commands, or claims God while diminishing the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 13 then presents the beast:
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like those of a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
— Revelation 13:2, SRT
And a mouth speaking great things and slanders was given to it; and authority was given to it to act for forty-two months.
— Revelation 13:5, SRT
And it opened its mouth in slander against God, to slander His Name, and His dwelling place, and those who dwell in Heaven.
— Revelation 13:6, SRT
And it was given to it to make war with the holy ones and to overcome them; and authority was given to it over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.
— Revelation 13:7, SRT
Here is beastly power: blasphemy, slander, war against the holy, conquest, and authority over peoples and nations. Yet Revelation does not call this beast “Antichrist.” It reveals a beast empowered by the dragon.
Then John sees another beast:
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and it had two horns like a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon.
— Revelation 13:11, SRT
This line deserves the closest attention. The second beast is lamb-like in appearance, but dragon-like in speech. The danger is therefore religious counterfeit. It has the form of innocence, even the outward echo of the Lamb, but its speech belongs to the dragon.
This second beast deceives by wonders:
And it does great signs, so that it even makes fire come down from Heaven to the earth before men.
And it leads astray those who dwell on the earth because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the wound of the sword and lived.
— Revelation 13:13–14, SRT
The wonders serve deception. Signs do not prove truth when the doctrine and worship are false. Later Revelation identifies the wonder-working deceiver as the false prophet:
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. The two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
— Revelation 19:20, SRT
Babylon appears as another part of this enemy complex. Upon the woman is written:
And on her forehead was a name written: “MYSTERY: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
— Revelation 17:5, SRT
And the woman that you saw is the great city that reigns over the kings of the earth.”
— Revelation 17:18, SRT
Babylon is not merely an individual. She is harlot, city, mystery, corruption, and domination over kings. She is political and religious seduction. She is an order of adulterous power.
Revelation therefore does not simplify the enemy into one man. It unveils a dragon-beast-false prophet-Babylon system: satanic, political, religious, economic, prophetic, coercive, and blasphemous. It includes persons, powers, authorities, cities, images, brands, worship, commerce, persecution, and deception. It is not less dangerous than the popular Antichrist; it is more comprehensive. It cannot be escaped merely by identifying a villain. It must be resisted by keeping the commands of God and clinging to the evidence of Jesus.
VII. Doctrines of Demons and Commands of Men
This is where the present inquiry joins the broader prosecution of doctrines of men and demons. The singular Antichrist construct becomes most dangerous when it distracts the faithful from present anti-Christian operations. Paul writes:
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons,
Through the hypocrisy of liars, whose own conscience is seared,
Forbidding marriage and commanding abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and acknowledge the truth,
— I Timothy 4:1–3, SRT
This warning is not about open paganism only. It is about religious corruption. It is doctrine. It is practice. It is counterfeit holiness. It forbids what God permits. It commands abstinence where God created food to be received with thanksgiving. It imposes religious regulation under the influence of seducing spirits. Here, the anti-Christian danger is not merely a tyrant on a throne. It is false teaching in the name of piety.
Paul gives a related warning in Colossians:
See that no one carries you away as spoil through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to the Anointed One.
— Colossians 2:8, SRT
If, then, you died with the Anointed One from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances—
“Do not touch, nor taste, nor handle”—
all of which are for destruction with use, according to the commands and teachings of men?
— Colossians 2:20–22, SRT
Human commands and teaching can take religious form. They can prescribe, forbid, regulate, and appear holy. But if they are not according to Christ, they mislead.
The Lord Himself gives the governing indictment. When challenged by the Pharisees and scribes concerning tradition, He answered:
And He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
— Matthew 15:3, SRT
then he need not honor his father or his mother.’ Thus you set aside the word of God because of your tradition.
— Matthew 15:6, SRT
and in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
— Matthew 15:9, SRT
For leaving the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men—the immersions of pots and cups—and many other such things you do.”
— Mark 7:8, SRT
And He said to them, “Well do you set aside the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
— Mark 7:9, SRT
This is anti-Christian religion in its most subtle form: homage to God while His command is abandoned; doctrine taught in His name while the content is merely the command of men.
Here the singular Antichrist construct may itself become part of the fog. If believers are trained to fear only a future world ruler, they may fail to discern the present overthrow of God’s commands by human tradition. They may fail to test teachings. They may fail to see that a lamb-like form can speak with a dragon’s voice. They may fail to recognize the spirit of Error because they are waiting for a theatrical monster rather than testing the doctrine already before them.
VIII. Objections and Necessary Restraints
The proper question is therefore not only, “Will a final enemy arise?” Scripture allows, and in II Thessalonians 2 strongly suggests, a concentrated manifestation of lawlessness. The proper question is whether Scripture gives the faithful a doctrine of one all-explaining person called “the Antichrist,” into whom all hostile texts must be fused. The answer is no.
Several objections must be answered plainly.
First, some will say, “But John says Antichrist would come.” Yes, he does. But the verse cannot be honestly used if its second half is suppressed. John writes that Antichrist would come, and then immediately says that “already many antichrists have come.” His inspired emphasis is not postponed speculation, but present discernment.
Second, some will say, “But Paul speaks of the man of lawlessness.” Yes, and the passage must be received with full seriousness. But Paul does not call him Antichrist, and Paul does not detach him from the apostasy and the already-operative mystery of lawlessness. II Thessalonians 2 supports a grave manifestation of lawlessness. It does not authorize the popular fusion of every hostile biblical symbol into one figure named “the Antichrist.”
Third, some will say, “But Revelation speaks of the beast.” Yes, but Revelation does not call the beast Antichrist. Revelation gives us dragon, beast, second beast, false prophet, image, brand, Babylon, kings, worship, commerce, persecution, and deception. That is a system of anti-Christian power, not merely a single man.
Fourth, some will say, “But Daniel’s horn sounds personal.” Yes, the horn speaks, acts, persecutes, and changes times and laws. But Daniel interprets the beasts as empires and the horns as kingdoms and kings within imperial symbolism. The passage proves anti-God power, persecution, and lawless alteration. It does not by itself construct the popular one-man Antichrist doctrine.
IX. Verdict: The Construct That Scripture Does Not Build
John gives the named evidence, and John says “many antichrists have come.” Christ warns of many false messiahs and many false prophets. Paul warns of wolves from within, sham apostles, seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, and a mystery of lawlessness already operating. Peter and Jude warn of false teachers who creep in among the faithful. Daniel reveals empires, kingdoms, horn-powers, persecution, blasphemy, and the attempted changing of times and laws. Revelation reveals the dragon, beast, second beast, false prophet, Babylon, image, brand, wonders, coerced worship, and persecution of those who keep the commands of God and the evidence of Jesus.
The popular singular Antichrist construct is therefore pseudo-Scriptural when it becomes the controlling doctrine. It is not false because Scripture denies all personal manifestations of evil. It is false because it gathers distinct biblical witnesses, compresses them into one sensational figure, and then causes the faithful to miss the present and plural warnings Scripture actually gives.
The pastoral danger is severe. A man who is looking only for one future Antichrist may tolerate many present antichrists. A church trained only to fear a final tyrant may submit to false teachers already among them. A people awaiting one blasphemous ruler may accept doctrines of demons as reverent practice. A congregation watching for the beast may fail to notice that God’s commands have already been displaced by the commands of men. A generation searching for the mark may fail to discern the spirit of Error in its own teaching.
The remedy is not speculation, but fidelity. John says to continue in what was learned from the beginning. He says to test the teachings. He says that whoever confesses the Son possesses the Father also. Christ says not to be deceived. Paul says to love the truth. Revelation identifies the faithful as those who observe the commands of God and cling to the evidence of Jesus.
Thus the faithful are not left defenseless. They are given clear tests. Does the teaching confess Jesus Christ truly? Does it preserve the Father and the Son? Does it continue in the teaching of Messiah? Does it accord with Christ? Does it uphold the commands of God rather than the commands of men? Does it lead to truth, holiness, endurance, and fidelity? Or does it produce false worship, altered law, counterfeit signs, human regulation, denial of the Son, and submission to beastly power?
Conclusion: The Warning and the Defense
The Scriptures do not command the faithful to build a monster from fragments and call him “the Antichrist.” They command the faithful to discern the spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error. They command vigilance against many deceivers. They command resistance to false messiahs, false prophets, false teachers, sham apostles, seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, lawlessness, Babylonian corruption, and beastly coercion. They command the saints to keep the commands of God and the evidence of Jesus.
“Many antichrists have come.” That is not a minor qualification to the doctrine. It is the apostolic warning itself. The Antichrist construct, as commonly taught, has often turned the eyes of the faithful toward a future spectacle while the present spirit of Error works in doctrine, tradition, worship, lawlessness, and counterfeit authority. The Word gives a better warning and a surer defense: confess the Son, continue in the teaching of Messiah, test the teachings, reject the commands of men, love the truth, and cling to the evidence of Jesus.
The final enemy of Christ will be destroyed by Christ. The Lord will destroy the outlaw “by the spirit of His mouth” and extinguish him “by the manifestation of His presence.” The beast and the false prophet will be overpowered. Babylon will fall. The dragon will not prevail. But until that day, the saints are not called to sleep beneath a doctrine of postponement. They are called to overcome by faithfulness now.
For the danger is already in the world. The false teachers have already gone out. The mystery of lawlessness already operates. The traditions of men already set aside the command of God. The beastly impulse already seeks worship. The dragon already wars against those who keep God’s commands and cling to Jesus’ evidence.
Therefore let the faithful cease from fascination with a singular Antichrist that Scripture does not build. Let them hear John: many antichrists have come. Let them hear Christ: take care that none deceive you. Let them hear Paul: love the truth. Let them hear Revelation: keep the commands of God and cling to the evidence of Jesus.
This is the Scriptural case. This is the warning. This is the defense.
Many antichrists have come.