The only Bible writer to use the word “antichrist” is the apostle John.
“Young children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, from which fact we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of our sort . . . Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.”—1 John 2:18, 19, 22.
The many antichrists can be traced back to the "last hour" of the apostles that served as a restraint on the foretold apostasy. - 2 Thess 2:3,6
People or organizations making up the antichrist spread lies, deny that Jesus is the Christ, or the Messiah, and try to distort the relationship between God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Those who make up the antichrist claim to be his representatives, but since “they went out from us,” they deviated from true Bible teachings.
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