I didn't know the account previously, but on the subject of antichrist, I always remember something obscure I learned that there was a mistake or coverup and the proper rendering is Ante-christ, like ante-chamber (a room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room) so maybe the jokes on him. It is not the opposite of Christ, but the gateway, the prior-to-Christ. The necessary step towards, not away.

Someone said it would be Biblical....