Then Again, You May Be the Antichrist

Putin Meets With His Economic Advisors — at an unhinged twenty-five yard distance. Is he afraid of Covid, or being whacked by someone in his cabinet — et tu Brutus?

In a previous post (Putin's Invasion of the Ukraine as a Spiritual Quest ), I noted a line of evidence which suggests that Vladimir Putin (“Vlad the Invader”) considers himself a loyal son of the Russian Orthodox Church, and seems to have the tacit support of that church’s Patriarch. But an archbishop from the break away Ukrainian Orthodox Church has a much different take on Mr. Putin’s spiritual status:

A Ukrainian archbishop and spokesman for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin as the "anti-Christ of our current time" as Russia invades Ukraine.

While Putin appears to be portraying himself as a kind of messianic figure, seeking to reunite the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches (which formally split in 2019), Yevstratiy Zoria put him on the other side of the Christian spectrum.

Bishop Zoria declared bluntly to the BBC,

"Putin is really not messiah, but really anti-Christ of our current time," Yevstratiy Zoria, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, told Harry Farley, religion and ethics producer for the BBC.

"You think he's the anti-Christ of your time?" Farley pressed in an interview broadcast on the BBC's Global News Podcast. "Yes, he is anti-Christ because everything what he does, everything what he do now, is totally against gospel, against God’s law," the spokesman responded.

Meanwhile, Tyler O`Neil, the author of the Foxnews post (Putin Is the Antichrist of the Current Time) came to a very solid conclusion.

While many Western Christians associate Antichrist with the figure from the biblical book of Revelation and look to the Antichrist as a demonic figure who will unite the world in opposition to God, the term "anti-Christ" can also have a much broader meaning, generally referring to a person who opposes Jesus Christ and sets himself up as a false messiah.

The closing line, in many ways, correctly describes Putin’s despotic messianic complex and his long-standing persecution of the people of God.