Deconstructing The common anti christ MYTH.
WHO is the antichrist?
Before showing you from scripture who antichrist is, let me say that you may likely believe there will be a man called "THE Antichrist" come along, and declare himself to be God, in a building over in modern Israel.
That is what so many of us have heard taught and looked for to speculate and identify who "he" is.
Surprisingly, the scripture actually tells us already that many "antichrists" need to be considered, since the man who first used the word "antichrist" wrote that antichrist would come, and was "even now" in the midst of the church.
More surprising is the fact that Jesus never mentioned a man called "antichrist", He never spoke of a re-gathered Israel (he actually voided it as "desolate"), He never spoke of another temple building being built.
-nor did John in Revelation, nor did Paul in his epistles, nor did the writer of Hebrews.
Those omissions should give pause to seriously reconsider the pre-mid-post rapture views and a lot of modern church traditions.
So if there are "many antichrists" which one is THE antichrist?
Here is every verse using the word.
1John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as you heard that antichrist comes, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.
1John 2:22 Who is the liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denies the Father and the Son.
1st John 4:3 and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.
2John 1:7 For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh.
Well look here.. WHO is...?
This <the many> is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Who?
1John 2:26 These things have I written to you concerning them👈 that would lead you astray.
Oh my, the " many deceivers" are "them" who "lead you astray" ?
If you saw the "not in scripture" list on our site, you begin to get an idea of how much leaven there is in Christianity...
SIX IDENTIFYING "antichrist" CLUES ARE FOUND:
1. "These have I written to you concerning them that would lead you astray.
2. "many false prophets", "he that is in the world"
3. "come in the flesh".
4. "Confess not" which means to not speak the same as that Jesus, <the Jesus as they preached in ACTS. Rather "they" come to you preaching out of the flesh.
5. They have the "spirit of error"
6. and does it get any plainer than John 2:22?
1 John 2:22 (NLT) And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ.
Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. (anyone is a plural company)
1 John 2:22 (NKJV) Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son,
Let me say it as:
Who is "THAT Jesus Christ"? It is not "the Apostle's Creed" or a "What We Believe" list, etc.
These are fleshly explanations and definitions and they are words not found in the scriptures themselves.
Anything added to or diminished from God's Word is "leaven".
To "confess" is to speak the same as:
In the Greek word for "confess", "homo-logeo", i.e. "confess" Christ, means to speak the same as, agree, declare the Christ of scripture and not make doctrine from their own formula or explanation.
-the "trinity" being a good example of a term not "homo logeo" in scripture. There are many such terms in the church system on a wide range of precepts.
To DENY IS:
to speak against, disavows, or speak contrary to the Word itself.
You can hear comments like "What Jesus really meant was...", or "that was for them back there. Times have changed", or "that's the way we do it around here", and many other justifications for not accepting what the Word says.
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Therefore we have the "MANY deceivers" among us, in our midst, who do not speak the same as the Word and pervert the gospel, who are the "many" Jesus, Peter, and Paul spoke of, who are "antichrist".
Some are merely repeating what they are taught by others.
Usually in this day of prominent professional ministries with large followings, people "feed" on the ideas and teachings without seriously testing them or praying about whether something is correct or not.
I think we have all done this in our journey.
-And so the scriptures are fulfilled regarding "many deceivers", "deceiving and being deceived", "many shall follow their pernicious ways and be "made merchandise of". 1 Peter 5 is of note.
Thus are the wolves, deceivers, fake shepherds, hierlings, and false prophets among those who are Christian, and are mostly hidden in the body as Christ.
- just as Judas, the first Son of Perdition was also hidden in the midst of the body of Christ among the twelve apostles..
And because they are not yet revealed, they may preach, do signs and miracles, and proclaim Jesus Christ, but they are as Judas who did those very same works,
but was the antichrist hidden in the body of Christ, among the twelve apostles.
As John wrote:
"many deceivers have gone out into the world", and "These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray"
Matthew 24:5 For *many* shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ;
and shall lead *many* astray.
-and so the deceivers also "confess Christ", not that they claim to BE Christ.
How else would they be hidden?
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shall come....
*the "many", whose "end is perdition", is the corporate body of antichrist, the “son of perdition”.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many pastors have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not *that* Jesus Christ ...............cometh in the flesh.
(they that speak not the same as that Jesus Christ)
THIS IS the deceiver and the antichrist: Who? He said the "many".
"THIS is THE antichrist", a body, i.e. a great company of deceivers, just as also the "great harlot", the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, and Israel all are corporate bodies of a multitude of people...
What some believe, erroneously creating from the "constructs" in the Babylonish church system, which
include cherry-picked phrases like "man of sin", "son of perdition", "the Assyrian", the "willful king", "he who sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God", or "abomination of desolation".
While some of those may have some relevance to being "anti" Jesus Christ, they are mis-applied to the point of common acceptance without better examination and applied to a mythical one man in a building in modern Israel.
Each one of those can and should be examined without the bias of mis-applying them as "The Antichrist".
In other related posts, I will deal with what "constructs" are, and we are all familiar with many of them. Most are error and lead away from truth.
A Fake, and just what "the temple of God" is, according to the New Testament scriptures, and very anti-Christ Fake Israel in the Middle East, who are God's chosen people.
As we purge out the leaven together, God bless.
