The Angel of Light
2 Corinthians Chapter 11
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To understand who the Antichrist is you must understand who Satan is like because the Antichrist will be like him. 2 Corinthians chapter 11 teaches us a few very important characteristics about Satan and his followers that will also apply to the Antichrist. One of those attributes is that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11 sheds such great light into how to recognize the Antichrist, even though the word 'Antichrist' is not mentioned in these passages. What these passages describe is how Satan works and he is the pattern the Antichrist will conform to.
Paul, in these verses, speak of a group of people in the 1st Century who were claiming to be true apostles, but were not.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15: NKJ
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of
light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform
themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according
to their works.
Paul focuses his message on the characteristic of Satan transforming into an angel of light. Whether we speak about false apostles who try to fool people into thinking they are righteous, when they are not, or we speak about Satan who fools people by transforming into an angel of light, they all share similar characteristics. The Antichrist will also display these same characteristics.
What are the main characteristics of the kinds of false apostles Paul describes in these passages of Scriptures? They are people who deceive. They deceive the world into believing that they are Godly and righteous, when they are not. Since they are not righteous and claim to be, they are also liars. In studying the Bible, these are two characteristics Satan loves to do. He loves to deceive and lie; and so will the Antichrist. The Antichrist will deceive the masses into believing he is a god, although it is debatable whether he will claim to be the Christian Messiah because he will make it clear that he is against God and Christianity by martyring more saints than can be counted.
On the outside, the Antichrist will seem like a messiah with promises that sound good, but on the inside he will be worse than any rogue the world has ever seen or can imagine.
What is important to notice in this passage of Scripture is the description that Satan transforms himself into an angel of light. So, also his followers transform themselves into ministers of righteousness. What is inferred here is that they are, in reality, men of darkness cloaked in what looks like, to the world, as righteousness.
But, the key to their nature is also found in these verses. Their 'end will be according to their works.' In other words, these false apostles' works will be evil, although they portray them to be good and righteous. Their final end will be destruction, just as their evil deeds deserve.
Just as Satan transforms himself into an angel of light, false apostles and the Antichrist easily transform themselves into ministers of righteousness by deception. It's like the phrase the Bible uses for similar people who are ungodly acting to be righteous as being 'wolves in sheep's clothing.' The Antichrist will cloak his evil deeds in a cloak of righteousness as his followers do even now.
The world sees the acts of the false apostles and eventually the Antichrist as righteous-looking acts, yet behind the scene their motives are as evil as Satan's motives. Everything Satan does, he tries to undermine who God is, what God does and what God stands for. So do these false apostles and so will the Antichrist.
The evil deeds of the harlot system, that is made up of what I call false apostles, are being exposed as evil and not righteous like they want you to believe. I am helping to remove the cloak of righteous-looking acts of the false apostles and exposing them as to what they really are; they are of their father Satan and are full of evil deeds.
When studying about the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation chapters 13 and 17, you will find that the phrase 'false apostles' would very well describe his system for it is totally made up of false apostles. The Antichrist's system is also described as a harlot; what I call the harlot system, found in Revelation chapter 17. The Antichrist will come on the scene in parallel with the harlot system and he will be a part of the harlot system. We will study the harlot system in its own section.
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