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Today’s theme has of course been made infamous in cinema. Films like The Omen and the Damian series portrays the antichrist since 666 is deeply ingrained on top of his head. Yet, the word antichrist does not appear in The Book of Revelation. It is mentioned in I John 2:18, “Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.” Also in II John 7: “For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” There have been many apparent antichrists in Christendom, especially the Emperor Nero who John is writing about in Revelation. Essentially, Chapter 13 presents an “earthly” rather than heavenly struggle as in Chapter 12, in which the work of the serpent is carried out by his two lieutenants, the beast from the sea and the beast from the land. read more