He is past but some still venerate his image and wonder after the beast because they are not written in the book of life.
He taught that mankind is Christ.

"Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son."

"And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world."

"For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a seducer and an antichrist."

"For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be."