Wow! A lot to digest there. First understand "The Antichrist" isn't a man on earth, but it is Satan who will soon be cast out of heaven along with his angels, Rev 12:7-9, and come to earth to deceive the world into worshipping him as God, II The 2:3-4. ANTI in Greek doesn't mean "against", it means "instead of". Satan will come first instead of Christ pretending to be him.
The AC is the greater Goliath (himself a Nephilim Satan-man so to speak),
the greater Judas (whom Saten entered, another Satan-man), he is THE ULTIMATE, the antitype of the earlier Satan-men.
And this Satan-man is the antithesis of the God-Man Jesus Christ.
This AC only reaches his zenith of power AFTER he is indwelt by Satan, after his deadly head wound is healed (no doubt a publicly observed kind of resurrection). Which is why the whole world begins the beast-worshipping.
Rev 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
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The world believes that this Satan-man is an unkillable unbeatable warrior (think Goliath). The AC speaks blasphemies
against the Most High God as did Goliath.
Rev 13:4
And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who
is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev 13:5
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty
and two months.
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Only AFTER beast worship and the mark is established do the last vial judgments occur. These serve no other
purpose than punishment against the now unredeemable beast worshippers. These judgements also prevent
the total annihilation of the remnant of the righteous.
Rev 14:9
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive
his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Rev 16:2
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and
upon them which worshipped his image.
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Of course this is a miniscule treatment. But the point is that ANYBODY can make sense of Revelation.
It is entirely understandable to those who give it the reverence it deserves.
And yes, the AC is indeed a man. And it actually may be Judas himself. Hard to say. But seems to be a possibility.
Act 1:25
That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to
his own place.
Rev 17:8
The beast that thou sawest
was, and
is not; and
shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Jhn 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
2Th 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition;