What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe about the activities of the antichrist in these "last days"?
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From the official web-site of the Watchtower Society, I read the article, “Who is the Antichrist?” as posted by them at http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150601/who-is-the-antichrist/ From their own statements in that 1 June 2015 article they say that
“the antichrist is, not an individual, but a collective term. People or organizations making up the antichrist spread lies, deny that Jesus is the Christ, or the Messiah, and try to distort the relationship between God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Those who make up the antichrist claim to be Christ or his representatives, but since “they went out from us,” they deviated from true Bible teachings. Furthermore, this group was present at the time when John wrote his letter, in “the last hour,” presumably the end of the time of the apostles.”
They use 2nd John verse 7 to explain that “John understood the antichrist to be all who deliberately spread religious deception about Jesus Christ and Jesus’ teachings.” That is quite general, but do they state anything specific about today? Yes, indeed.
“What about today? People and organizations making up the antichrist still oppose Christ and his teachings. They deliberately spread lies and deceptions with the intent of confusing the identity of the Father, Jehovah God, and of His Son, Jesus Christ. We have good reason to beware of such religious deceptions. Let us look at two examples. For centuries, the churches propagated the doctrine of the Trinity, claiming that the Father and the Son are part of the same entity. The antichrist thus shrouds in mystery the identity of Jehovah God and Jesus Christ… The churches add to the confusion by promoting the use of Bible translations that omit God’s personal name, Jehovah, from the text…"
Those are two examples in that article, which show that Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that all who propagate the doctrine of the Trinity, and churches that promote use of Bible translations not using ‘Jehovah’ in the text, are the antichrist. They should have a read of Young’s Literal Translation of the Bible, for it has ‘Jehovah’ in the Hebrew scriptures thousands of times. The 2004 edition published by Greater Truth Publishers should surely warrant the Watchtower Society clearing them of the charge of ‘antichrist’? Oh, but if those religious publishers uphold the Trinity doctrine, they would fall at that first hurdle. The second hurdle is not promoting the name ‘Jehovah’. Given those two hurdles that have to be cleared to avoid the label of ‘antichrist’ (in the estimation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), it would appear that there can hardly be a Christian religious group today not considered to be antichrist by them.
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