Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is banging the drum to warn us about the coming of the Antichrist spoken of in the Bible. In essays, interviews and lectures, Thiel asserts we must be vigilant against the rise of the Antichrist, which he believes is happening at the present time.
In Christian scripture, “Anti-Christ” can be used as both an adjective — certain individuals fight against the preachings of Christ, and thus are anti-Christ (e.g., 1 John 2:18) — and also as a noun, as some specific force or individual in the prophesied end times whose reign of 3 1/2 years ushers in the great final war of Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus Christ (e.g., Daniel 7; Revelation 13).
Thiel is much more interested in the latter than the former.
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