Many Antichrists

"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." (I John 2: 18 nkjv)

If there were many antichrists in the day of the apostle John, there certainly are many now. As the prefix "anti" may mean opposite or opposed to, it may also mean alike but different, we can see how there are not only many anti Christs (who openly reject and speak evil of the Lord Jesus Christ), but many who are more akin to Christ, yet different, as in those who claim to be Messiahs or incarnations of deity, as in Krishna. We have a proliferation of both kinds of antichrists today. There are antichrists among the lawless, openly immoral, elements of society. There are also antichrists among the respectable, and even some who are members of professing Christian assemblies. I don't care for either one of them. They are enemies of the Lord Jesus Christ and his people. Wolves they are. They are enemies of the cross. 

“Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things." (Phil. 3: 18-19)

These antichrists are our enemies and they want to kill us. They are of the whore of Babylon, with the blood of the saints in her drinking cup. In America today we see the unleashing of the antichrists, and they are attacking Christian churches and prophesying their destruction. Surely they are to be found among those bombing pregnancy help centers and rejoicing in the slaying of infants in the womb.

Soon, the one true final Antichrist will appear and woe be to all, especially believers, when that happens! Let us watch and be sober.