
Biblical verses about the Antichrist and Rebellion
OLD TESTAMENT
- [Genesis 27:40] You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- [Exodus 23:21] Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
- [Exodus 32:9] Then the LORD said, “I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
- [Deuteronomy 9:7] Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
- [Deuteronomy 9:24] You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
- [Deuteronomy 13:5] That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
- [Deuteronomy 18:20] But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
- [Deuteronomy 31:27] For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still alive and am here with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!
- [Numbers 14:4] So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
- [Job 34:37] To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
- [Joshua 22:22] “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day.
- [1 Samuel 15:23] For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
- [2 Samuel 15:12] While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of David’s counselors who lived in Giloh. Soon many others also joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum.
- [2 Chronicles 10:19] And to this day the northern tribes of Israel have refused to be ruled by a descendant of David.
- [1 Kings 12:19] So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
- [2 Kings 8:20] In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.
- [2 kings 8:22] So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.
- [2 Kings 17:21] When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.
- [Psalm 41:9] Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.
- [Proverbs 17:11] Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.
- [Proverbs 28:2] A land in rebellion has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.
- [Isaiah 24:20] The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
- [Isaiah 48:8] You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth
- [Jeremiah 2:19] Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- [Jeremiah 28:16] Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’
- [Jeremiah 29:32] this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.’”
- [Ezra 4:19] I issued an order and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.
- [Nehemiah 9:17] They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,
- [Daniel 7:25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time
- [Daniel 8:12-13] And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did. Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
- [Daniel 11:37] Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
- [Micah 1:5] And why is this happening? Because of the rebellion of Israel— yes, the sins of the whole nation. Who is to blame for Israel’s rebellion? Samaria, its capital city! Where is the center of idolatry in Judah? In Jerusalem, its capital!
NEW TESTAMENT
- [Matthew 26:23] Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me.
- [Luke 17:1] Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
- [Luke 22:21] Look! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table.
- [John 13:18] I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- [John 16:1-4] “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. “They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. “These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me. “But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
- [John 17:12-13] While I was with them, I protected them and guarded them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. But now I am coming to You, and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them
- [Acts 7:51] Oh, stiff necks, who are uncircumcised in their hearts and in their hearing, you always are opposing The Spirit of Holiness, as your fathers did, so do you!
- [Acts 20:30] Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
- [1 Corinthians 11:19] For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:2-4] Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness (the son of destruction) is revealed. He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God
- [2 Thessalonians 2:9-10] “The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who perish, because they refuse to love the truth and to be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion to make them believe what is false so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
- [1 Timothy 1:9] We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- [1 Timothy 4:1] Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons
- [2 Timothy 4:3-4] “for the time is coming when men will not endure sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear”
- [Titus 1:6] An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
- [Titus 1:10] For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
- [Hebrews 3:8] do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
- [Hebrews 3:15] As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
- [1 John 2:18-23] Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, so now many Antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
- [1 John 4:1-3] This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is already in the world at this time
- [1 John 4:6-8] We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception. Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
- [2 John 1:7-9] I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son
- [Jude 1:11] What sorrow awaits them! For they follow in the footsteps of Cain, who killed his brother. Like Balaam, they deceive people for money. And like Korah, they perish in their rebellion.
- [Revelation 13:7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
- [Revelation 19:20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.