The Antichrist

Well, this is very complicated. Many of these passages are very long so it is hard to include them all. I think we'll have to strategize about how to synthesize all this information and present it a different way, but in the meantime, I'll start with this.

Also known as…

• The man of lawlessness
  
• The abomination that causes desolation
  
• Destroyer (Abaddon in Hebrew; Apollyon in Greek)
  
• Devil or Satan
  
• Ancient Serpent
  
• Great Dragon
  
• Beast out of the Sea

Scriptures:

• Daniel 9:26-27– After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
• Daniel 11
• Matthew 24:15-21 (cf. Mark 13:14)–"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. 18Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. 19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
• 1 John 2:18-19–Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
• Revelation 9:10-11–They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

See the post "End Time Players and Places" also.