'Left Behind' Bible Study: Week 3, The Antichrist, 'Nicolae'

(Bible study by John Myers)

Review from previous week, Daniel 9:26, "the prince who is to come" is the Anti-Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Who is the Antichrist?

1 John 2:18-22

   ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
   ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
   ²⁰ But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
   ²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
   ²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:1-5

   ¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
   ² By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
   ³ and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
   ⁴ You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
   ⁵ They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
   ⁶ We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Beware of Antichrist Deceivers

2 John 7-11

   ⁷ For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
   ⁸ Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
   ⁹ Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
   ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;
   ¹¹ for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

Appearance of the Antichrist: First Seal Judgment on Earth

Revelation 6:1-2

¹ Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, "Come and see."
² And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

Additional Scriptures on the Antichrist

Daniel 7:7-8

Daniel 7:19-28

Daniel 8:23-25

Go to Left Behind Bible Study Week 4, Soul Harvest

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(John Myers has been a Christian speaker, Sunday School teacher and Bible study author since 1977.)