I generally believe in the historicist point of view about the Antichrist. That is that the Papacy is the Antichrist office, that the Roman Catholic Church and the other churches that hold the doctrine that the Lord's Supper literally becomes the Lord himself upon "consecration" (Eastern Orthodox, and probably Episcapal/Anglican) and of "intercessory saints" other than Jesus himself are Mystery Babylon the Great (Fornication between nominal christianity and idolatry).
As for the antichrist himself I think his final selection has something to do with a strange happening in the selection of the last three popes (John Paul I and II and the Current Pope Benidict). These last three only received the Myter of Spiritual authority over the Catholic Church at their "coronation" and not the THREE TIERED CROWN OF TEMPORAL AUTHORITY OVER THE WORLD that Popes have historically received. (Currently the statue of "Peter" at Saint Peter's Bassilica is wearing this crown.) I BELIEVE THAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE THE NEXT POPE TO RECEIVE THIS CROWN.