My pastor always says that the Antichrist is or going to be the pope.
He most likely takes a historisist view then.
Historicist interpretations of the Book of Revelation - Wikipedia
Which until the last hundred or so years seems to have been the main line of interpretation within many Protestant churches. Many now take a Futurist view no doubt influenced by popular christian end times films, and books and Dispensationalism.
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