There are only four scriptures that speak of the antichrist, all writen by Saint John. 
It is incorrect to equate the “Man of Lawless: (2 Thes 2:1-12) with the Antichrist. At the time Paul wrote this, that Man of Lawless was restrained: “And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time” (2 Thes 2:6).
But the antichrist John wrote about was already present.
(I’ll post in the future on the Man of Lawless )
Here are the only four Scriptures on the Antichrist:
- Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 ESV
- Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 1 John 2:22 ESV
- and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 1 John 4:3 ESV
- For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 John 1:7 ESV
All four a the citations match the Jews both then and now.
1) It was the last hour even two thousand years ago. Christ’s apostle, John, lived and wrote when it was the “last hour.” Anyone claiming we live in the last days is correct, anyone saying the Last Days began in May 1948 is wrong. The “Return to the Land” begain the “Last Days,” per the prophets, and that all started upon the Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. At the time the Sons of Israel began returning to the Land, which is Jesus Christ (Isaiah 66:7-8).
2) We know it is the last hour because many antichrists have come — that was truly then and it is true today. Who was around then and now? People calling themselves Jews.
3) The Antichrist is “he who denies the Father and the son.” This applies to many people and groups of people, but according to 1 John and 2 John, it must be those that were antichrist both then and now. Back then, there were no Moslems. If we are searching for John’s Antichrist, it has to match both then and today.
4) Liars are those who deny that Jesus is the Christ. John writes quite explicitly that “those that call themselves Jews” are liars in Rev 3:9 and Rev 2:9. In John’s Gospel account, it is explicitly the “Jews” who were actively antichrist, seeking to kill Jesus Christ. Not the “Pharisees,” as Matthew, Mark and Luke point, out, but the “Jews.” It is also true that all Pharisees where Jews and the Pharisees of them are the antecedents of today’s Rabbis
5) The antichrist also has a spirit — obviously from the devil. What spirit inhabit’s Satan’s synagogue? The Spirit of the Antichrist, of course. What is the synagogue of Satan? It is those who call themselves Jews. (Rev 3:9, Rev 2:9)
6) That antichrist spirit was already present when John was writing 2000 years ago.
7) When John was writing, the “Roman Catholic” church the Reformers were familiar with did not exist. The “Church” existed, but the Reformers specifically referred to the office of the Papacy as antichrist. Peter may have founded the “Roman Catholic Church,” but he would not have recognized that he did. Certainly John would not have considered the RCC as the antichrist.
8) Jews were antichrist back at the time of John’s writing, and they are today. Neither Moslems nor the Roman Catholic Church existed then, so they are ruled out a the subject of John’s antichrist.
9) Jews were liars then, and today. So that’s a match.
10) If Christ’s bride is the Church, and and the Jews are Satan’s synagogue, and the the followers of Christ are Christians, then the followers of Satan (the Jews) are Anti-Christians, or Antichrist.
11) It’s worth nothing that Bolshevism, Marxism, and communism, are peculiarly Jewish and utterly antichrist. Just a Herod the Great (a Jew) murdered the babies around Bethlehem, Jews have abetted the invasion of Europe by Moslems, ran the Gulags of the Soviet Union, and are the handmaidens of the continued invasion of Christian lands by non-Christians.
12) Today, very few self-declared “Jews” are the biological descendants of Jacob. Rather, they are descendants of Europeans (the Khazars) and of Esau. Edomite Jews included Herod the Great, who ordered the murder of the male children around Bethlehem.
13) Scripture teaches that after the Southern Kingdoms went into exile, many non-Hebrews converted to Judaism. See Esther 8:17. This practice (of converting non-Israelites to Judaism) continued in the time of Christ. See Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. Matt 23:15 ESV”
14) Contemporarily, many people convert to become “Jews,” it no long has anything to do with being a descendant of Jacob. A current famous example of one of Trump’s daughters (Ivanka), but also include Sammy Davis Jr, a black man, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. A quick google search is enlightening. “Evangelicals” have a deeply flawed misunderstanding about Jews.
15) Most biological descendants of Israel would never have heard of the name “Jew” because the “Lost Tribes of Israel” never referred to themselves as Jews. The term “Jew” only comes into use during that last period of the apostasy of the Southern Kingdom; the Northern Kingdom never called itself “Jew,” or Jews or Jewish. Those Northern Ten tribes migrated to Assyria before the term “Jew” even existed in the Bible.
16) Moses, Abraham, Noah, Levi, Judah, David, and Solomon would never have heard the term “Jew.” People began calling themselves Jews during the final stage of the Southern Kingdom, centuries after the Ten Tribes left the Land of Canaan.
17) Just because modern Jews claim that Abraham was a Jew does not make it true. We have to look to Scripture.
18) Only centuries after the southern kingdom went into exile in Babylon did the “Jews” began to claim the Patriarchs as Jews. Scripture does not support that at all.
19) The Patriarchs were called Hebrews, but never Jews. Not even Abraham could be called an Israelite (let alone a Jew) because he was Israel’s (Jacob’s) grandfather.
20) “Jew,” “Israel,” and “Hebrew” are are conflated only to perpetuate the deception that all the Patriarchs and Prophets were Jews — this is just not true based upon Holy Scripture.
21) “Jew,” at its core, is entirely anti-Christ. The first people to call themselves “Jews” were in wholesale rebellion against the God of the Patriarchs; that is why they were sent into exile. The term Jew was anti-Christ from the time it was first used. The “Jews” in the book of Jeremiah tried to murder Christ’s prophet, Jeremiah.
22) Returning to “the Antichrist,” those who call themselves Jews are uniquely antichrist, both at the time of John’s writing and today.
23) It could be said that the worshippers of Artemis (Acts 19:28) were antichrist, but they are not a power today, nor are worshippers of Zeus, Venus, Odin or Thor. They are many “gods,” but the Jews are unique in the global power, wealth and influence and their antichrist words and deeds.
24) It is a fallacy to demand that the antichrist be a singular person — there are many antichrists — there are many Jews.
25) Finally, Evangelicals are captured with the idea that “Jews” are God’s people — this idea has become a heresy unto itself. No self-respecting Jew would ever agree that they believe that Jesus is the Christ in the flesh.
Fritz Berggren
Colorado
17 April 2026 A.D.
PS: The Jews have many identities in the Bible. They are antichrist. They are the children of the devil. They are the synagogue of Satan. They are not the “Lawless One.” They are not the “Beast,” but they ride the Beast as the Whore of Babylon.
The Antichrist is Here. Now.