Church leaders, pastors and priests have replaced Christ with their personality and by doing so, they have become the Antichrist. The Antichrist does not only mean ¿against¿ Christ but also ¿in place of¿ Christ. The Antichrist is not only a single individual but a class of people. John the Evangelist warned believers that the Antichrist is coming in the last days, which means now:
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. - 1 John 2:18
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. - 2 John 1:7
By this you 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 heard was coming and now is in the world already. -1 John 4:2-3
Those positions derived from Catholicism. Catholics speak of pope as of a Vicar of Christ (from Latin ¿Vicarius Christi¿) which means an earthly representative of Christ. Church leaders, pastors and priests who are the Antichrist pretend to be the representatives of Christ on earth, as though Jesus Christ is not present. Church leaders charge those who confront them with the rebellion. They also say, ¿Jesus Christ is in heaven, but church leaders are on earth.¿ By saying so, they admit that they lord over believers replacing Christ.
The Lord and Savior is not a church leader but Jesus Christ. Church leaders, pastors and priests are not for the good of believers. The only true position in the church is the position of an elder or overseer. They pretend to be elders but domineering over believers contrary to the will of God:
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge but being examples to the flock. - Peter 5:1-3
After reading this book you will be aware of the Antichrist and the tools they use to turn believers from Christ to doctrines of their organizations.