In
Christian eschatology
Christian eschatology
In Christian theology, Christian eschatology is the study
of its religious beliefs concerning all future and final events , as well as the ultimate purpose of the world , of humankind, and the Church....
, the
Antichrist or anti-Christ means a person, office, or group recognized as fulfilling the Biblical prophecies about one who will oppose Christ and substitute himself in Christ's place.
'Antichrist' is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek
Greek language
Greek has a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language within the Indo-European languages family....
words a?t? + ???st??. In Greek, ???st?? means “anointed one” and Christians apply it to Jesus of Nazareth. a?t? means not only anti in the sense of “against” and “opposite of”, but also “in place of". Therefore, an antichrist opposes Christ by substituting himself for Christ.
The term itself appears 5 times in 1 John and 2 John of the New Testament — once in plural form and four times in the singular - and is popularly associated with the belief of a competing and assumed evil entity opposed to Jesus of Nazareth.