This is incredible. I just finally read what you wrote and I will want to save this text. I have a friend who is so caught up in "end times" stuff that is based mostly on what mortal men have said, not necessarily what God's Word says. I grew up Baptist and my parents watched TBN all the time, so all that Hal Lindsay doomsday prophecies had scared me into thinking that I wouldn't even live until high school, much less a time when I'd be married with a family of my own. I think one stumbling block is to think of the "Antichrist" as a specific person, rather than something more abstract and spiritual. "Is Obama the Antichrist?" I've heard many people ask. He embodies the SPIRIT of the Antichrist, as does Bill Gates, George Soros, and so many others in the past. People get caught up looking out for a boogeyman to come when I think the spirit of the Antichrist is already upon us and threatening to overwhelm us. Cancel culture is the Antichrist, as Christ is about leaving one's past behind and becoming born again, while cancel cutlure is a spirit of accusation and condemnation, searching people's history for sins. That goes against Christ, as does Transhumananism and of course the whole LGBTQP-CIA feldercarb.