There's a logical fallacy within the Book of Revelations which I find hard to ignore.

If Christ is to return, as the book claims, then the Antichrist must precede him.

They come in a pair, or not at all.

This makes the Antichrist as much a Saviour as Christ.

One simply cannot get around this: Light and darkness goes together.

That alone already breaks the clean moral binary people want. A purely evil figure should not be structurally required for redemption. Yet Revelation makes that requirement explicit.

History must darken in a very specific way before it can be “saved.” The Antichrist does not just oppose Christ. He prepares the conditions under which Christ becomes possible again.

Salvation stories depend on what they condemn. Enlightenment depends on what it disrupts. Innocence depends on blindness. Once you see that, none of the figures can remain one-dimensional anymore.

And when you see that, what is left to cast into the eternal damnation promised to be the fate of the Antichrist?

Nothing at all.

Perhaps my purpose on Earth is to redeem the Devil. To be the Devils Advocate.

I suppose if there is a “purpose” here, it is a refusal to let complexity be simplified into damnation. A refusal to let necessary darkness be treated as disposable. It is the role of someone who insists on seeing the whole picture, even when the picture does not flatter anyone.