IS THE END OF THE KINGDOM OF THE ANTICHRIST NEAR?

The AntiChrist

Today, The Grandma has got a reflexive day. She has been thinking about her city, a place that she loves crazily, a place that it was started to be controlled by the AntiChrist four years ago.

The Grandma and her neighbours have been living an awful nightmare since that moment and nowadays, they are praying (believers and no-believers) and fighting to finish with this 4-years age of the AntiChrist.

During these horrible four years, The Grandma and her neighbours have suffered stupid policies against them but they are happy today because they have lived enough to have another chance, a new opportunity to change things and live again in this wonderful city without the AntiChrist and her non-sense decisions.

One of the secrets to survive the AntiChrist has been resilience, this capacity of resisting and no surrender and, of course, passive resistance, something that The Grandma has been perfecting.

In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or anti-Christ is someone recognized as fulfilling the Biblical prophecies about one who will oppose Christ and substitute himself in Christ's place.

The term, including one plural form, is found five times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John. The Antichrist is announced as the one who denies the Father and the Son.

The similar term pseudokhristos or false Christs is found in the Gospels. In Matthew (chapter 24) and Mark (chapter 13), Jesus alerts his disciples not to be deceived by the false prophets, which will claim themselves as being Christ, performing great signs and wonders. Two other images often associated with the Antichrist are the little horn in Daniel's final vision and the man of sin in Paul the Apostle's Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.

In Islamic eschatology, Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (المسيح الدجال) is an anti-messiah figure, similar to the Christian concept of an antichrist, which will appear to deceive humanity before the second coming of Isa, as Jesus is known by Muslims.

Martin Luther & The Pope

The concept of an antichrist is absent in traditional Judaism, although in some medieval texts the symbolic figure Armilus appears.

Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek words αντί + Χριστός (anti+Christos). In Greek, Χριστός means anointed one and the word Christ derives from it. Αντί means not only anti in the sense of against and opposite of, but also in place of. Therefore, an antichrist opposes Christ by substituting himself for Christ.

Protestant Reformers, including John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, John Thomas, John Knox, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, and John Wesley, as well as most Protestants of the 16th-18th centuries, felt that the Early Church had been led into the Great Apostasy by the Papacy and identified the Pope with the Antichrist.

Luther declared that not just a pope from time to time was Antichrist, but the Papacy was Antichrist because they were the representatives of an institution opposed to Christ.

The Centuriators of Magdeburg, a group of Lutheran scholars in Magdeburg headed by Matthias Flacius, wrote the 12-volume Magdeburg Centuries to discredit the Catholic Church and lead other Christians to recognize the Pope as the Antichrist. So, rather than expecting a single Antichrist to rule the earth during a future Tribulation period, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Protestant Reformers saw the Antichrist as a present feature in the world of their time, fulfilled in the Papacy.

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Some Franciscans had considered the Emperor Frederick II a positive Antichrist who would purify the Catholic Church from opulence, riches and clergy.

The Protestant Reformers tended to hold the belief that the Antichrist power would be revealed so that everyone would comprehend and recognize that the Pope is the real, true Antichrist and not the Vicar of Christ.

Doctrinal works of literature published by the Lutherans, the Reformed Churches, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Anabaptists, and the Methodists contain references to the Pope as the Antichrist, including the Smalcald Articles, Article 4 (1537), the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope written by Philip Melanchthon (1537), the Westminster Confession, Article 25.6 (1646), and the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, Article 26.4.

In 1754, John Wesley published his Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, which is currently an official Doctrinal Standard of the United Methodist Church. In his notes on the Book of Revelation (chapter 13), he commented: The whole succession of Popes from Gregory VII is undoubtedly Antichrists. Yet this hinders not, but that the last Pope in this succession will be more eminently the Antichrist, the Man of Sin, adding to that of his predecessors a peculiar degree of wickedness from the bottomless pit.

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 The Antichrist will be the infernal prince 
again for the third and last time...

Nostradamus