The Rev. Jerry Falwell says the Antichrist is probably alive today and is a male Jew.=Mr. Falwell says he also believes that the second coming of Christ will probably happen within 10 years. In a speech on Thursday about the concern people have expressed over the new millennium, Mr. Falwell told about 1,500 people at a conference on evangelism in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist is male and is a Jew.
”Who will the Antichrist be?” asked Mr. Falwell, whose Sunday services at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg are carried by television stations nationwide. ”I don’t know. Nobody else knows.”
”Is he alive and here today?” he asked. ”Probably. Because when he appears during the Tribulation period he will be a full-grown counterfeit of Christ. Of course he’ll be Jewish.
Of course he’ll pretend to be Christ. And if in fact the Lord is coming soon, and he’ll be an adult at the presentation of himself, he must be alive somewhere today.”
According to the Bible, the Antichrist will spread universal evil before the end of the world but will be finally conquered at the second coming of Christ.
Mr. Falwell said today in Williamsburg that he did not intend his statement to be anti-Jewish. He said he meant only that the Antichrist must be Jewish because Jesus Christ was a Jew.
