Hippolytus: The Coming Of The Anti-Christ

Temptation is all around us. It covers the walls that we see each day and even the phones that we text on each morning when we wake up. We can’t get away from it and we never will because it was put on this Earth for a reason, to weed out the true believers of Jesus Christ. Hippolytus, a beloved Saint, and a disciple of John, was a well-respected Christian martyr and antipope from 218 to 235 A.D. He was a very controversial writer and his writing were often forgotten since they were written in Greek and schismatic. One of his many writings focused on the returning of Christ and the teachings, visions, and the coming of the Anti-Christ, as well as the temptation that the Anti-Christ possess. Many people of the Bible have seen the Anti-Christ

From Hippolytus’ stand point, he is said to be a personal opponent of Christ and will return at the end of the world alongside Christ himself . Instead of being the son of God, he will be seen as the Son of Satan. He will be everything that Christ is not essentially. While Christ is compassionate and helpful, the Anti-Christ shall be deceitful and un-trustworthy. According to Hippolytus, the Anti-Christ will come whenever Jesus returns back to the Earth to save us all from our sins, but we are not to take what he has to say into account because he is inevitably evil, as Satan, since he is said to be essentially the son of Satan. Moreover, the Anti-Christ will also familiarize Jesus in looks, actions, and personality, in a last attempt to sway anyone in the direction of the devil and away from righteous. 1 John 4: 3 says, “And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist” , meaning that anyone who believes what the Anti-Christ says will not be with God and will not have the true spirit of God In their hearts, but will only have the Anti-Christ, meaning the Devil. Moreover, Hippolytus states that temptation is a force that drives us all and that the Anti-Christ will possess. He will try to get us all in the last minute to sway towards his side and fall in the

This experience is going to be terrifying. If ones heart is not in the right place and this is what they have to live with for all eternity, this is going to be one scary truth. For those who are believers and are tempted by the Anti-Christ and have to spend eternity with this, was the temptation really worth it? Daniel was a true believer and that was why he warned his people and that was why God told him so that no one would have to spend eternity alongside this beast. God loves us and does not want us to be tempted by something that could easily take us away from sitting at the right hand of our heavenly