Have you prayed against Antichrist today?
To answer that question truthfully, you first need to know who Antichrist is. Protestants once knew the identity of Antichrist. But the Protestant school of prophetic interpretation has been out of fashion for a long time, and other systems such as Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, and Dispensationalism have captured the bulk of Reformed and Evangelical pulpits in our day.
For the Postmillennialists, Antichrist is yesterday’s news. He came and went in the first century, so there’s no need to pray against him. For in the literal sense of the word he is history.
With the Dispensationalists it’s not much different. For them, there’s no need to pray against Antichrist, because Antichrist will not appear until sometime in the future. When Isaiah prophesied to King Hezekiah that the Babylonians would come and carry off all Judah’s treasure to Babylon, he exclaimed, “The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good…Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?” Hezekiah saw the destruction of Jerusalem as a small thing since it was an event in the distant future and would not affect him. Not Hezekiah’s finest moment, that. For Dispensationalists, it is much the same way. The coming of Antichrist is a future event and not a clear and present danger. Perhaps some Dispensationalists pray against the supposedly future Antichrist, but human nature being what it is, probably most do not.
Lux Lucet 