the description of an Anti-Christ.

I read that book back in the 70's (I was right out of college then) but I still remember a lot of the details.
The author's name is Hal Lindsay I think.

That book will send shivers up your spine, the anti-Christ he describes in that book sounds just like Trump. The way he got elected sound just about right too according to the predictions. Even scarier is the timing of it. Hal Lindsay predicted it would happen in the early part of the 21st century, but I don't think he gave the exact year. His predictions were taken from scriptures in the Bible.

I have to find that book and re-read it now.

according to the Deep Thought computer in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series of books.

didn't Methuselah live to 900? Sarah give birth at the age of 99?
by that method of timekeeping Trump won't be around til the end of the year.

- a demagogue
- hailed by the masses as a new prophet
- put into power by flatteries
- thinks of himself as the highest power
- preaches the opposite of the teachings of Jesus Christ

Has someone determined exactly what the "teachings of Jesus Christ" are? Last I checked, the thousands of different Christian sects disagreed.

And Trump's speeches in Europe and his speech on the retraction from the Paris treaty have revealed his world-view that the world is not a place for loving your neighbor: It's a place where you fight your neighbor for power and money. That's what he's preaching.

To paraphrase Bill Hicks: eternal pain and suffering awaits all who question his infinite love.

A tad problematic.

It's real easy to decide that those illegal aliens, or those Europeans, or those people of color, etc. aren't your neighbors.

And why don't all Christians agree that is THE teaching, and agree on what it means?

And I'm pretty sure, if you bothered to ask some Christians, they all would have given you that answer.

Some say the key teaching is to obey god and his commandments. Others say it is the forgiveness of sins. And if you delve deeper into what the words in those answers mean, you'll get even more variation and disagreement.

The point here, not sure if you are intentionally trying to miss it, is that there actually IS disagreement, even among Christians, as to what the "teachings of Jesus" are. It's not as black-and-white as you are portraying it.

I'm borderline atheist, but have read the Bible a few times and he does fit the description.

They've accepted him with every MAGA hat and Trump-branded item they gleefully adorn themselves with.

I'm not a good enough artist to do it, but it is a powerful warning -- especially combined with Jared's 666 building. Great job, DetlefK.

and claim he was sent by God made me think he was the antichrist. Many will be fooled.

...way and I'm not a biblical person. Seems so clear that not only the Trumpsters (Bannon, Miller et al) personally fit the profile but even more the anti-christ is an ideology of hate, greed, cruelty, violence, racism, lying. I'd say It's here.

buy into it makes it necessary to parse.

It means we'll be rid of him by Valentine's Day or, wait ... President's Day!

Praise Jesus!!

EVERYONE is supposed to LOVE the anti-christ. ALL are supposed to be fooled. Even if I believed in that BS, Trump ain't it.

I agree with you - plus there are so many versions of "The Bible" How does anyone know for sure which one is the "right" one. There are subtle differences in all the myriad texts.

And many scholars are of the mind that John may have actually tripping (quite literally) when he "received" Revelations. There are a few references throughout the Bible to momentary madness likely cause by ergot - (A mold on rye bread) "In the Greek New Testament the Gospel Tare is cited as ???ά??? Zizánia, a lolium rye which grows as darnel among good wheat and is host to the parasitic fungal infection Claviceps tulasne (purpurea), the ergot mould, in which ergoline alkaloids, mainly derivatives of lysergic acid, can be found."
http://www.drugabuseinscripture.co.uk/html/the_tare.html#.WTGDtjOZMxE

"What's that in the bread, it's gone to my head" - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice

If you consider the rigid and dark aspects of religion in the Dark Ages before the Christ, the terrible visions John had would most likely be typical of a bad trip in that time.

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"and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast"

The whole world does not marvel at Trump nor our election of him. He's reviled around the world, and by fully half the US population.

This twit is just a base demagogue with nothing more than the ability to peddle false promises and cash in on fear. He's one of many such leaders in history, including some Roman Emperors (about whom Revelations was really about).

There are no devils, just people who act like them.

I am starting to think Spicer was correct, covfefe was no mistake. It was for insiders

Lovecraft's Cthulhu-themed novels (though he doesn't show up in all of them) were about the imminent threat of an ancient power returning/awakening. And if it were to return/awaken, it would destroy human civilization, replacing it with monstrous, dark cults of debauchery, perversion, violence.

He's orange (not red, but close)
He is greedy, proud, slothful, gluttonous, hateful, lustful, and he lies constantly.
RHe owns (sold to his son in law) the property at 666.
He is also spiteful, self centered, decieptful and indulgent.
He lives in a gilded cage in the sky for appearance' sake (wings?)
Did I mention that he lies a lot?
Has his acolytes spreading his word for him.

Nah. Can't be

Armageddon. I think the Rapture people are hoping he brings on Armageddon.

...but he himself is not the actual Son of Perdition. He exhibits some but not all of the traits, characteristics, and prerequisites necessary to be deemed such.

since the Republican Primary.

Pre-reformation:

John XV.
Gregory VII
Gregory IX

Post reformation: the papacy itself.

During the counter reformation the RCC conveniently decided that the book of daniel was recounting events in the distant past (preterism) and the book of revelations was referring only to the distant future end of times, thus getting the papacy off the hook by not a) being in the distant past and b) this is obviously not the end of times.

More of this blathering gibberish here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist

Who in the Bible is either the devil, or the antiChrist, or one of their primary arms.