Against Dispensationalism » mark hitchcock http://againstdispensationalism.com Defending Christianity Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:21:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 THE ANTICHRIST FASCINATION http://againstdispensationalism.com/2012/04/the-antichrist-fascination/ http://againstdispensationalism.com/2012/04/the-antichrist-fascination/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:49:40 +0000 admin http://againstdispensationalism.com/?p=1103

Perhaps more than any other evil figure in Scripture, Christians most fear the Antichrist. After all, “in premillennial eschatology the final world ruler who opposes God and his Christ (particularly in relation to his deity), oppresses God’s elect (especially the Jewish people), and seeks to usurp the place of divine worship through desecration of the holy (especially Jerusalem and its temple) is known as the Antichrist.”[1]

Many dispensationalists believe he is alive today. In an interview in Eternity magazine in 1977 Hal Lindsey responds to a question regarding the Antichrist: “In my personal opinion, he’s alive somewhere now.”

This reminds us of Tertullian’s statement 1700 years ago that Antichrist “is now close at hand.” One poorly timed 1988 book was Gorbachev: Has the Real Antichrist Come? Best-selling author Dave Hunt writes that there “is strong evidence indeed that the Antichrist could appear very soon — which means that the rapture may be imminent.”[2] He is convinced that “somewhere, at this very moment, on planet Earth, the Antichrist is almost certainly alive.”[3] Mark Hitchcock’s 2002 book asks: Is the Antichrist Alive Today? He titles chapter 8: “Antichrist is Alive and Well.”

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