upright=1.2|The Antichrist (the figure on the left, with the attributes of a king) by Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180), from the 12th-century Hortus deliciarum upright=1.2|The Antichristdetail from a fresco at Osogovo Monastery in the Republic of North Macedonia. The reads "All kings and nations bow before the Antichrist." In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist, or anti-Christ, refers to people prophesied by the Bible to oppose Christ and substitute themselves in Christ's place before the Second Coming. The term Antichrist (including one plural form) is found five times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John.BibleGateway.com: translations of 1 John 2:18 The Antichrist is announced as the one that " denieth that Jesus is the Christ " according to 1 John, but rather will pretend to be Christ and will deceive many to falsely believe that he is Christ instead of Jesus. Therefore Judaism, a religion which denies that Jesus is the Christ, is antichrist, according to 1 John. Accepting "the Father" but denying "the Son", is impossible according to 1 John 2:23 because "whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." Consequently, attention for an individual Antichrist figure focuses on the second chapter of 2 Thessalonians. However, the term "antichrist" is never used in this passage: A parodic anti-Messiah type figure known as Armilus, said to be the offspring of Satan and a virgin, appears in some non-legalistic, philosophical schools of Jewish eschatology, such as the 7th century CE Sefer Zerubbabel and 11th century CE Midrash Vayosha (also: "Midrash wa-Yosha"). He is described as "a monstrosity, bald-headed, with one large and one small eye, deaf in the right ear and maimed in the right arm, while the left arm is two and one-half ells long." Being Gog's successor, his inevitable destruction by a "Messiah ben Joseph" (Messiah, son of Joseph (son of Jacob)), symbolizes the ultimate victory of good over evil in the Messianic Age.Jewish Encyclopedia: Armilus: This is confronted with the medieval Christian Antichrist and Islamic Dajjal, who will conquer Jerusalem and persecute the Jews . According to Christianity as testified in 1 John, the Messiah (or "Christ") of Judaism will be the antichrist because Judaism denies that Jesus is Christ .
upright=1.2|The Antichrist (the figure on the left, with the attributes of a king) by Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180), from the 12th-century Hortus deliciarum upright=1.2|The Antichristdetail from a fresco at Osogovo Monastery in the Republic of North Macedonia. The reads "All kings and nations bow before the Antichrist." In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist, or anti-Christ, refers to people prophesied by the Bible to oppose Christ and substitute themselves in Christ's place before the Second Coming. The term Antichrist (including one plural form) is found five times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John.BibleGateway.com: translations of 1 John 2:18 The Antichrist is announced as the one " who denies the Father and the Son. " Consequently, attention for an individual Antichrist figure focuses on the second chapter of 2 Thessalonians. However, the term "antichrist" is never used in this passage: A parodic anti-Messiah type figure known as Armilus, said to be the offspring of Satan and a virgin, appears in some non-legalistic, philosophical schools of Jewish eschatology, such as the 7th century CE Sefer Zerubbabel and 11th century CE Midrash Vayosha (also: "Midrash wa-Yosha"). He is described as "a monstrosity, bald-headed, with one large and one small eye, deaf in the right ear and maimed in the right arm, while the left arm is two and one-half ells long." Being Gog's successor, his inevitable destruction by a "Messiah ben Joseph" (Messiah, son of Joseph (son of Jacob)), symbolizes the ultimate victory of good over evil in the Messianic Age.Jewish Encyclopedia: Armilus: This is confronted with the medieval Christian Antichrist and Islamic Dajjal, who will conquer Jerusalem and persecute the Jews .
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who denies the Father and the Son.
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according to 1 John, but rather will pretend to be Christ and will deceive many to falsely believe that he is Christ instead of Jesus.
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Therefore Judaism, a religion which denies that Jesus is the Christ, is antichrist, according to 1 John. Accepting "the Father" but denying "the Son", is impossible according to 1 John 2:23 because "whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."
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According to Christianity as testified in 1 John, the Messiah (or "Christ") of Judaism will be the antichrist because Judaism denies that Jesus is Christ