I think that guy during the French revolution,Robspierre or whatever his name was had some simularities with the anti-christ. He tryed to make himself a God, he was seen by many as a good person, he rose to power with a small group of people, he beheaded his enemies, also Hitler, and Antiochus who sacrificied a pig in the Jewish temple.
Some have suggested that history has seen two antichrists, with a third yet to come. The first two were Napoleon and Hitler, with the third perhaps already alive today in the Middle East. The problem with all of this speculation is that it's based on interpretations of Nostradamus' cryptic predictions, written hundreds of years ago, often in rhymes or riddles.
Similarly, the Old Testament "prophecies" quoted in the New Testament and elsewhere were often in fact poetic oracles or even songs (psalms), which could often be fulfilled in one or more different ways, the possibilities even being contradictory (so that no matter what happended, the "prophecy" was "fulfilled"). If the Gospels were written long (more than a year or two) after the time of Christ, then any claim that Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament prophecy has at least two strikes against it: the original prophecy itself is subject to interpretation; and the event that supposedly fulfilled the prophecy may not have in fact happened at all.
This message has been edited by DeclinetoState, 04-06-2006 03:26 PM