God’s Wonderfully Different People

It is indeed striking, and very revealing, that the apostle John presents in the Scriptures the awesome truth that in his day there were many antichrists. We do well to bear in mind that the word "antichrist" refers to those who are against Christ. That prefix "anti" means against, even as we use it in the word antifreeze, which -plainly means that which is against freezing. And here John presents that word antichrist five times in his first and second epistles, referring to men who were...