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Revelation and the Anti-Christ

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I am sorry to say that I was not impressed with this book.   The best thing about it was the comparing of various scriptures throughout the New Testament to passages/events/personages in the book of Revelation.     First of all, the commentary was rather meager.   Not that there wasn't much written, but what was written often seemed to be a mere paraphrase of the text he just quoted.   But there was some commentary, and here is where the author diverges from Scripture several times.   First of all, he rejects a millennial reign of Christ, saying instead that, "The Scriptures indicate that Christ has continuously reigned over the church from heaven from its beginning in the first century and will reign over the church in a new heaven and a new earth beginning with the end of time.   Ever since the first century, the church has always been the kingdom of Christ on earth…." , "Christ will not return to earth to set up an earthly kingdom; the kingdom is here no