ANTICHRIST AND THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST
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The Coming World Leader has over 30 titles in the Old Testament and 13
in the New Testament. One of the most identifying titles is The Prince
That Shall Come, from Daniel 9:26-27 Which connects his origin with
those who destroyed the temple, which makes him a Roman and a gentile.
He is commonly known as the Antichrist, But What is Antichrist ?
1 John 2:22-23 "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is
the Christ? He is antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who
acknowledges the Son has the Father also." This is someone who denies
Christ as the only anointed one and refuses the interrelation****p of
the persons who are deity.
1 John 4:2-3 "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; and this is
the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is
coming, and now it is already in the world." Several times this term
is used in the plural, and can be applied to almost anyone who is
opposed to Christ. Those who deny that Jesus came in the flesh are
anti-Christ or of the spirit of antichrist. This is one of the ways to
discern a false teacher from a true one.
John is writing after the resurrection and is using perfect tense in
Greek which denotes a past action with continuing results into the
present, and continuing on into the future. He came in the flesh, rose
in the flesh, and is still in the flesh. The same body that He was born
and died with, He rose with. If one claims that Christ rose as a spirit
creature, and not physically, they are of the anti Christ spirit and
are denying the third point of the Gospel. It was the Gnostics that
John is specifically addressing in his epistles.
The word Anti can be understood to mean either against Christ or it can
also means in place of , a substitute is the fuller meaning. He will be
a substitute for the real one. In this way he opposes him. The common
use of this title applies to the great world dictator, the last Caesar
in the end times. He is Satan's chosen vehicle the beast receiving from
the dragon dominion and power(Rev.13:2) .
SPIRIT of Anti Christ
Right now people are being conditioned as never before to accept the
great lie....the DELUSION that will come his leader****p upon everyone
who rejects the gospel. The new age influence is found in the Movies
and through the TV and popular books conditioning people to believe in
other type beings out there , that we are not alone in the universe.
The 'Hollywood' promotion of X files, Independence day, Dark Skies,
Earth's final conflict are not too favorable. However Close
encounters, ET, Contact, Alf and numerous other films and TV show our
openness to other life forms. Especially Star Treks Babylon five series
with a united federation of planets with all kinds of alien races in
the universe living together in peace and harmony . Von Danikens book
Chariot of the Gods has been accepted as a alternative to our ancient
past. Myths are promoted in books and TV that we are star seeds of
another race that is coming back to visit us. This is the new age fable
of a spiritual hierarchy of ascended masters which are spirit guides
sent to govern the human race through history. These views are a
logical as well as entertaining alternative to those who refuse the
truth of creationism and have already embraced in the lie of evolution.
After the rapture when the restraint is removed the demons who are the
fallen angels already disguised as 'aliens' spirit guides and ascended
maters, will come forward and offer their peace plan to the world. This
will eventually become a contract between Israel and the prince that
will come Dan.9:24-26. This will be a time of spiritual revival called
"mystery Babylon" with All kinds of signs, wonders, and lying miracles
which will be exhibited to the world by spirit beings called masters
that will work through their servants of deception. Since the world has
rejected the Lord Jesus, the true Christ, they will accept the devil's
substitute with open arms. He will look good as it gets, since he will
embrace all and reject only one, Christ and his followers who claim
there is only one way.
types of Anti Christ
The bible teaches there are many antichrists and we can find types that
exhibit his nature somewhere in the different men of history.
Nebuchadnezzar was a type of antichrist having an image made of gold
and people were to bow down to it. Its correlation 2 Thess.2.. Haman in
the book of Esther was a type of the Antichrist making a law for the
Jews bow down to the king with intentions of wiping them out . Pharaoh
was a type of an antichrist wor****pped as God who enslaved the Jews.
Pharaoh and his army came after the children of Israel like Satan does
in Rev.12. Nero was a type of the antichrist asking people to bow down
to him adding himself to their wor****p , killing Christians who
refused. Many powerful rulers have acted this way on the stage of human
history. Genghis Khan, Stalin, Hitler are only a few men that bring
memories of horror in their rule of enslavement.
Many powerful rulers have acted this way on the stage of human history.
Genghis Khan, Stalin, Hitler are only a few men that bring memories of
horror in their rule of enslavement.
But there is one who at the end of time unites and rules all the world
and all religions. He is called the man of sin, the son of perdition
who will make them all look like kindergartners.
Rev. 13:13 "He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.:14 And he deceives
those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do
in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make
an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived." This is
fake resurrection that will bring awe to those on our planet.
Rev 16:14 "For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go
out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty." His army of spirit
beings will deceive the governments so that they will want to do battle
against Christ when he comes back.
He is the one who will be totally energized by Satan and will be able
to do miracles (2 Thess2: 9) for the purpose of world-wide deceptionHe
is the one who will be totally energized by Satan and will be able to
do miracles (2 Thess2: 9) for the purpose of world-wide deception,
Judas son of Perdition
Do we see this spirit work today! The antichrist prefigured by Judas is
not a Hitler. He does not fit the outline of most interpretations of
the antichrist. Judas was a professing member of the church, and he was
respected by the other disciples. He was entrusted with the treasury he
went out with them and appears to have cast out demons and heal.
Unfortunately he was unsuccessful to do this on himself.
The Bible calls Judas "the son of perdition." Judas is a type of
Antichrist in that he illustrates some of his characteristics. (John
17:12 This expression is used in only one other passage in Scripture, 2
Thessalonians 2:3. )There it applies to Antichrist standing in the holy
place sits in temple showing himself to be God . How ? By lying signs
and wonders he deceives those who are lost. To the elect his purpose is
to remove them from the faith and be a substitute for the person of
Christ. This is why Spiritual power is not a credential of being from
God; Satan can perform his own powerful works, either through deception
or through his own spiritual resources as 2 Thess. 2:9 states "The
coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with
all power, signs, and lying wonders,"
We call Judas a betrayer, but that is not how he viewed himself. He
thought he would speed up the eventual and probably make some money to
boot. After all following Jesus he should have money and nice things as
he rules over the people.Judas professed to follow Christ. He walked
and ate with him. On the fateful night he kisses Jesus in his betrayal
selling him for 30 pieces. That is Antichrist. Judas still thought he
was a disciple when he did this. Maybe he thought that Jesus would work
a miracle when the soldiers came for him. He wanted the Messiah to cast
off the Roman yoke through a major display of miracle power and be
crowned king, he wanted the kingdom now. Judas thought he was helping
Jesus obtain what was rightfully His. Take the kingdom by force, not
the meek will inherit the earth. But this was not the way Jesus
intended it.
Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, one of the organizational leaders of the
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, said to
the United European Community: "What we want is a man of sufficient
stature to hold the allegiance of all people, to lift us out of the
economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and
whether he be god or devil, we will receive him."
So the world leaders are open for whoever can come along to solve the
political dilemma and make peace. They are desperate they will take
anyone , even the Devil who will claim to be god.
Another biblical type of the Antichrist is given in the person of
Antiochus Epiphanes, a Gentile. He went in and desolated the temple.
Nowhere is a Gentile seen as a type of Christ; and with good reason,
for Christ Himself was to be a Jew. So here, the type of the Antichrist
is a Gentile, Antiochus Epiphanes. The reason is that the Antichrist
himself is to be a Gentile.
Another argument for the Gentile nature of the Antichrist is found in
biblical imagery. Whenever the word "sea" is used symbolically in the
Scriptures, especially in the book of the Revelation, it is a symbol of
the Gentile nations. Since the first Beast in Revelation ...
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