I recently watched some sort of documentary on the History Channel about the Antichrist. Most people find the end of times very interesting, especially with all of the "Doomsday 2012" that had become well known.
Since most of the prophecies that come to mind about the end of the world come from the New Testament (specifically Revelation), I would have never thought that warnings of the Antichrist had existed as much as it does. It seemed to me that it wouldn't be necessary for them to teach about it because they would have more important things to worry about in their time. While the information needed to be passed down, it might have given the people the belief that the Antichrist was the person (or people) who ruled over them. Like we were talking about today, many of the leaders brought in their own religions and punished those who followed God. The documentary called them antichrists, not the one Antichrist, which could explain the warnings.
What I'm really trying to say is that most of us have a specific view of the Bible from how we grew up in it or without it. When we look deeper into specific topics or reasoning, it gives us a better perspective on what the book means.
Allyson,
ReplyDeleteThere have been discussions of the Antichrist since the late first century. Every "Christian" culture since then, has used the term to describe some horrific social/political/religious figure. It's not new at all, and there will always be new "versions."