Post by TomLine on May 3, 2016 23:48:53 GMT -5
ANTICHRIST REVEALED
by Tom Lineaweaver
by Tom Lineaweaver
First, how do we define the word "antichrist." It is a compound word. It's two parts are "anti-" and "Christ." The basic meaning of the prefix "anti-" is "opposing to or against." You can see that in most any dictionary. So, antichrist means opposing to or against Christ. That should make it simple. Anyone who opposes or is against Christ is antichrist.
Religious leaders have long misled people into believing that the antichrist was a specific person to be revealed in the last days. And they further claim we are in the last days, and have been since the time of Christ. They claim this specific person called the antichrist must be revealed before the "second coming of Christ." But, what does Scripture say?
The word "antichrist" appears in only four verses in the entire Bible. All of them are in 1st and 2nd John.
It is written in 1st John 2.18-23,
Little children, it is the last hour. As you have heard that the antichrist will come, even now there are many antichrists. By this we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us. But they went out, revealing that none of them were of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have written to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? Whoever denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father. - MEV; biblegateway.com
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have written to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? Whoever denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father. - MEV; biblegateway.com
1st John 4.2-3 states,
This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and is already in the world. - MEV; biblegateway.com
2nd John verse 7 states, "For many deceivers, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Each one is a deceiver and an antichrist."
There you have it. Those are the only places in the entire Bible where the word "antichrist" is used.
There you are. You have the definition, you have what Scripture says. What is so difficult to understand. Not once does Scripture point to a specific individual as "the antichrist."
In the first quote, John says that because there are many antichrists they knew it was the last hour. Some say we are still in that last hour. As of this writing we are in the last hour of May 3, 2016. This last hour will last 19 years. Does that make sense? Not to me. There is no way we are still in the last hour that John was speaking about more than 1900 years later.
What does John say about the antichrist? He says it is "spirit." And people who have the spirit of antichrist are liars that deny Jesus as the Christ, and that he came. Do you know anyone that denies Jesus as the Messiah? I do. His name is John Hagee. There is no doubt in my mind that John Hagee has the spirit of antichrist. He denies Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. He did this in a book entitled, "In Defense Of Israel." There are probably religious leaders, and many that call themselves "Christian" that agree with John Hagee. If so, they too have the spirit of antichrist.
What lie is the spirit of antichrist telling today? That people that deny Christ can be God's chosen people. It is claimed by religious leaders that have the spirit of antichrist that the current nation of Israel are God's chosen people, eventhough they deny Christ. This denies John 3.16 and many other Scriptures that say we must believe in Christ.
Zionism, which many so called Christians in the United States support, is an antichrist movement. They deny Christ. John made it plain that anyone that denies Christ is antichrist. There is no way to be God's chosen people is you are antichrist.
The spirit of antichrist controls most of the churches in America and the rest of the world. It controls the Government of the United States, and Israel, and probably many Governments in the world. Is it any wonder the world is in such sad shape.
However, I believe that God always has a remnant. I am calling out to that remnant to unite in a new church. The world needs a church that is totally under the authority of Christ.