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John is the one who specifically mentions the antiChrist in 1 John and 2 John. He is also the one who wrote the book of Revelation and the Gospel of John.
- We know it is the last hour because many anti-Christ are in the world.
- He is the anti-Christ who denies God and His Son Jesus Christ.
- The anti-Christ does not confess that Jesus Christ is of the Divine God.
- The anti-Christ are deceivers and un-Believers.
- Text from 2 Thessalonians 2:1-11, the “Man of sin.”
- Many fall away and that is when the anti-Christ, the “man” or humanity of sin is revealed.
- The “man” of sin exalts themselves above God in the temple of God, the human body.
- The “man” of sin, or humanity of sin, is only restrained by the Holy Spirit.
- Lawless humanity/”the lawlessness one” appears when the Holy Spirit is taken away.
- The “lawless one,” which is the antiChrist, which is the masses of people, exist through Satan.
- The people of the world are under a strong delusion and are condemned.
Below, is every single verse in the Bible which specifically mentions the word “anti-Christ,” and every verse is not referring to the antiChrist as an individual.
We know it is the last hour because many antichrists are in the world. “Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.” 1 John 2:18
That verse describes our world today where there is deeply rooted despise for the teaching of the Bible. People in every city around the world are living by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak. It denies God, denies the Deity of Jesus Christ, and blasphemes the Holy Spirit. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and they are the antiChrist. As it lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life among the “democratic” society of the antiChrist. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
We know we are living in the last hour as we see the image of the beast given life to speak and live through people by forming their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech.
We also know it is the last hour, even as the antiChrist is in every city around the world. The global government of the beast is here and was established immediately after WW2, as the United Nations and was called the New World Order. That is explained in Daniel 8 and also Revelation 17.
Global warming is in the world today and in its intensity is the Fourth Plague, as describe in Revelation 16:8-9. “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.“
He is the anti-Christ who denies God and His Son Jesus Christ. “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22
The world we live in today is living by the principles of humanism, which is the clothing worn by those who live for the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and say. They deny that Jesus is the Christ of God, humanism is described as “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.” They are the anti-Christ as they deny God the Father and His Son.
The anti-Christ does not confess that Jesus Christ is of the Divine God. “By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.” 1 John 4:2-3
The antiChrist is already in the world in the same way that the Lord Jesus Christ is already in the world. Satan copies everything that God does because He wants to be God. A person cannot have the Spirit of Christ without being a Christian, and likewise, a person cannot have the spirit of the antiChrist without being the antiChrist.
We live in a society/global culture which uses a lot of churchy and humanitarian sounding words to nurture human dignity, human respect, and esteem but they scoff at confessing that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. Humanism is the clothing worn by the anti-Christ.
They deny the need for what Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross for the remission of sin. They blaspheme the Holy Spirit whom Jesus gives to us by through the remission of sin. And they deny the existence of the Creator God as they live for the creature human being.
The anti-Christ are deceivers and un-Believers. “For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” 2 John 1:7
“Many deceivers have gone out into the world ” certainly describes the world of today. They are in every city around the world who have no need for the truth of Jesus Christ because the will of the masses is made the governing force. Those deceivers who do not confess Jesus Christ are clearly seen in the churches and in the government. They are the anti-Christ.
Ezekiel describes the deceivers within the churches of today in detail,
“As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’
So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
And when this comes to pass—surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
Ezekiel 33:30-33
The deceiving anti-Christ dominates the churches of today as the Gospel of Christ no longer has a place there. The anti-Christ deceitfully fills the churches as Sunday churchgoers, but they do not confess Jesus Christ to be God in the flesh. The deceiving anti-Christ also dominates government offices as lawmaking no longer includes the values of the Bible. They use deceiving terminology to make their policies sound righteous, such as, “Reproductive Rights” for killing of the unborn, the “Respect for Marriage Act” to promote the LGBQT+ community, and many other such deceitful phrases. We live in a society/global culture where nothing can be taken at face value.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
We know the anti-Christ is not one person because no one on this earth is given the ability to live over 130 years at the very longest. If he miraculously came to power at the age of 30, then the one-person government of the anti-Christ would only last one hundred years. Which the opening of the Seven Seals, the events of the Seven Trumpets, and the Seven Plagues are not going to all happen within 100 years. That would be a total 21 events happening in 100 years, which is less than five years per event. Global warming (Fourth Plague of Revelation 16:8-9] and the Battle of Armageddon [Revelation 16:12-17] are just two of those events.
Also, it is extremely unBiblical to suggest that the anti-Christ, as a single person, has the ability to live through all 21 events. No one will live to be 200 years old, and definitely not live from today in this year 2020 to the end of the world. On top of that, the global culture of today doesn’t listen nor submit to anyone or any leader except the entity within the person that controls what they think, feel, do, and say. That is the entity that enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and by what they say and do they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
Text from 2 Thessalonians 2:1-11, the “Man of sin.”
The term “Man” in the Bible mostly refers to humanity as a whole. Almost always, very frequently, the term “man” in the Bible refers to “mankind” or humanity as a whole. The words “man,” “mankind,” “people.” and humanity are mostly interchangeable. The verse below is an example,
But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.
That verse could be translated as, But Jesus did not commit Himself to people, because He knows all people, and had no need that anyone should testify of people, for He knew what was in people.
John 2:24-25
Many fall away and that is when the anti-Christ, the “man” of sin is revealed. “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,” 2 Thessalonians 2:3
The falling away involves many people, as in today’s world the masses of people around the world scoff at belief in Jesus Christ being God in the flesh. The “man” of sin is in the world today which is responsible for the disappearance of the Gospel of Christ and a massive disbelief in God. The “man” of sin has been revealed through the thing which forms the thoughts, words, behaviors, and feelings of people in every city around the world. The humanity of sin and perdition is here, the anti-Christ is here.
From the time of Jesus Christ, up to WW2, there was a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and many came to Jesus Christ from all around the world. Since WW2, when the global government was formed through the United Nations, there has been a great falling away from the Gospel of Christ. That is explained in Daniel 8. Today, the humanity of sin and perdition (the anti-Christ) dominates the world as they live by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak.
The “man” of sin exalts themselves above God in the temple of God, the human body. “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4
How does the “man” of sin sit in the temple of God as God? By welcoming the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and say. People in every city around the world are living by it and they are those who feel empowered with uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, extraordinary skills, authority, power, formed emotions, amazing physical abilities etc. That is why they don’t believe in God, they don’t feel a need for the remission of sin through Jesus, and they blaspheme the goodness of the Holy Spirit. They exalt themselves above God or anything else which is honored in this world. They are the “man” of sin, the people of sin, the humanity of sin, the anti-Christ.
The thing which sits in the temple of God, our body, is an instrument of Satan. Satan wants to be like Jesus Christ who sits in our body through the Holy Spirit. Satan does that by using the tool which forms what people thinks, feels, does, and speaks. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and they are empowered like a god in what they say and do. As it lives and speaks through people, they seem more powerful than God as they boast, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4
God tells us we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, but the thing which has power over thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech wants to sit in the temple of God, our body, as if it is God.
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The “man” of sin, or humanity of sin, is only restrained by the Holy Spirit. “Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.” 2 Thessalonians 2:5-6
The only thing which is able to restrain the “man” of sin, or humanity of sin, and perdition from appearing is the Holy Spirit. Today, we see the “man” of sin in the world at the exact same time that the Gospel of Christ is chased out of this world. The Lord Jesus is the giver of the Holy Spirit so it’s obvious the Holy Spirit is being taken out of the way. There are no longer any restraints in the world to prohibit the thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and say which enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people.
The Holy Spirit is given to people through Jesus Christ by the remission of sin. Since we live in times when everyone rejects Jesus Christ as God in the flesh, there is nothing restraining the global population of the anti-Christ from appearing.
Lawless humanity/”the lawlessness one” appears when the Holy Spirit is taken away. “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8
Lawlessness refers to being totally contrary to God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. We are definitely seeing that in every city around the world. There is also the appearance of legal lawlessness in every way, shape and form, which comes due to the rejection of the Holy Spirit, not wearing the armor of God, and not being receptive to the Gospel of Christ.
The “Lawless one” is the anti-Christ, which is the masses of people around the world who reject Jesus Christ and live for Satan’s tool which forms what they think, feel, do, and speak. Even so, Jesus Christ comes back to consume them with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. He destroys Satan, the beast, and the second beast (false prophet).
The “lawless one,” which is the antiChrist, which is the masses of people, exist through Satan. “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
Some people might think the “lawless one” or the anti-Christ is Satan, but the verse above says differently. The anti-Christ comes “according to the working of Satan.” In the same way that Jesus Christ comes by the working of the Holy Spirit. The thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and speak is according to the working of Satan because it causes people to deny God, discard the need for Jesus Christ, and blaspheme the Holy Spirit. In fact, the verse above uses the word “they” to describe those who are under its influence. They are those who perish, they are those who do not receive the truth, and they are the unsaved. They are the anti-Christ.
The masses of the “democratic” society in every city around the world are the anti-Christ who have appeared according to the working of Satan, they are the lawless people. As the image of the beast lives and speaks through them, they are conformed to their place in life within the society of the anti-Christ. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
The thing with power over physiology, including our mind and feelings, can do many signs and wonders through the human body, and also has power over the external environment, especially technological devices. Anyone who owns a television, cellphone, Alexa, Siri, computer, etc. knows all about that. The people of the anti-Christ arise from its power, influence, signs, wonders, and blasphemous deceptions. It is the working of Satan. The humanity of the anti-Christ rejects the truth of Jesus Christ to live according to the working of Satan.
Satan disguises himself as an angel to carry out his deception, and his followers disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness to carry out his work, “For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.” 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
The people of the world are under a strong delusion and are condemned. “And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
As the Bible says, those who do not believe the truth are the anti-Christ, and they are the masses in every city around the world. “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22
The “lie” which everyone is believing is that the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and say replaces the need for Jesus Christ, who is God who came to us in the flesh. They are under a strong delusion of deception. That delusion comes by the thing which forms their feelings and thoughts to make them behave according to the works of Satan. They love the darkness more than the light and have more pleasure in unrighteousness than in following the Lord Jesus Christ. They are indeed the anti-Christ who allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them.
, “….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11
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