https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/revelation

This is a great resource when reading Revelation. The Catena Bible app too

Personally I want to go through it on my own before I read a commentary

Past that to get a deep understanding, you really have to get into some advanced stuff. I'd recommend becoming familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls, LXX, and the Old Testament. Apocalyptic literature is like reading one big piece of citation. The book is kinda like a code and the key is other literature

How will we know the antichrist?

The Antichrist is not an individual

Open to interpretation that one

That's a perfect example of a misconception. The NT *never* mentions "the anticheist" it mentions "antichrist" or "an antichrist"

If you ask the Seventh Day Adventists they say the Pope is the Antichrist

I'm not making an interpretation so much as a grammatical observation of the Greek

Lutherans say the office of the pope is Antchrist. We have a whole book in our confessions about it.

But the point is that reading it at a lay level has not historically been permitted for good reason

Gross

Lutherans are gross

I could see why but I have no concrete reason

I can see why currently

But yeah nah

Not historically

Not the office of the Pope historically

The office of the Pope since the high Middle-ages

Not even then tbh

Like Vatican II onwards

We cite popes in our confessions on many occasions. In fact, in the book "On the Power and Primacy of the Pope" (the book in our confessions) we cite Pope Gregory repeatedly

More on the Antichrist though

The Greek reads: ἀντιχρίστου

Are jews the chosen people?

So what we see here is that we only see the phrase "the Antichrist" in the 1 John passages

But if you actually go read both passages, they both say that antichrists have already come.

The 4:3 passage actually says rather that something is of "the spirit of the antiChrist which you have heard is coming and is already in the world"

@JoeyJoestar1337 the jews stopped being the chosen people as soon as they crucified Jesus and that’s when Christians became Gods people

Yeah, Mac is correct

Book of Job is quite inspiring

Some Pre-millennials will argue some Jews are still chosen, but this idea is not supported in Patristic literature

Did Jesus say? Or is it inferred?

It’s inferred in Abraham and Moses

Jesus makes it clear in Revelation

It's a matter of interpretting the text in context of the Bible

Should we condemn Israel?

Wait that the Jews are evil?

Yes