Antichrist

===Other Christian interpretations===
====Martin Wight====
The devout Christian and political theorist [[Martin Wight]], writing immediately after [[World War II]], favoured the revival of the Antichrist doctrine not as a person, but as a recurrent situation featuring "demonic concentrations of power."<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Hall|title=The International Thought of Martin Wight|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|location=London, England|date=2006|isbn=978-1403969279|page=37}}</ref>

====As "man of lawlessness"====
{{main|Man of sin}}
The Antichrist has been equated with the "man of lawlessness" or "lawless one" of 2 Thessalonians 2:3, though commentaries on the identity of the "man of lawlessness" greatly vary.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schink |first=W. F. |title=Our Great Heritage: Vol. 3 |date=1991 |publisher=[[Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod#Publishing|Northwestern Publishing House]] |isbn=978-0810003798 |editor1=Lange |editor1-first=Lyle |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |page=572 |chapter=The Scriptural Doctrine of the Antichrist |editor2-last=Albrecht |editor2-first=Jerome G.}}</ref> The "man of lawlessness" has been identified with [[Caligula]],<ref name="netbible"/> Nero,<ref>St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on II Thess., Nicene-Post Nicene Fathers</ref> and the end times Antichrist. Some scholars believe that the passage contains no genuine prediction, but represents a speculation of the apostle's own, based on contemporary ideas of the Antichrist.<ref name="netbible">[http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=MAN%20OF%20SIN Net Bible: Man of sin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707075356/http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=MAN%20OF%20SIN |date=July 7, 2009 }}</ref>

====As "being in league with other figures"====
Several American [[evangelical]] and [[fundamentalist]] theologians, including [[C. I. Scofield|Cyrus Scofield]], have identified the Antichrist as being in league with (or the same as) several figures in the Book of Revelation including the Dragon (or [[Serpent (Bible)|Serpent]]), the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Whore of Babylon.<ref>See footnotes in [http://www.studylight.org/com/srn/view.cgi?book=re Revelation 7 and 13] in the ''Scofield Reference Bible'', 1917</ref>

====As Satan====
[[Bernard McGinn (theologian)|Bernard McGinn]] described multiple traditions detailing the relationship between the Antichrist and [[Satan#Christianity|Satan]]. In the dualist approach, Satan will become incarnate in the Antichrist, just as [[Incarnation (Christianity)|God became incarnate in Jesus]]. However, in [[Eastern Orthodox Church|orthodox Christian]] thought, this view was problematic because it was too similar to Christ's incarnation and suggested [[Dualism in cosmology|dualism]]. Instead, the "indwelling" view became more accepted. It stipulates that the Antichrist is a human figure inhabited by Satan, since the latter's power is not to be seen as equivalent to God's.{{sfn|Cabinet|2001}} [[Luca Signorelli]]'s fresco, ''The Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist'' (see above), depicts the indwelling view. Satan whispers in the ear of this Christlike figure and his left arm is slipped through the Antichrist's garment as if he is manipulating him.

====As Jesus himself====
Creciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace) was a sect led by [[José Luis de Jesús]], who claimed to be both the returned phase of Jesus Christ and the Antichrist. He claimed that the term Antichrist had nothing to do with Satan (who according to him was destroyed); rather, it referred to his assertion that the old "Jewish" laws, which Jesus had taught during his first coming, were now abrogated during his second coming as de Jesús. Followers of the sect had themselves tattooed with the number 666, referencing this belief.