The Antichrist
Beast
Are the trinity teaching (that teaches Jesus is God along with the Holy Spirit, and the Father) and the Modalism teaching (that Jesus is the Father and Holy Spirit but he just changes forms or modes) the Anti-Christ beast spoken of in the book of Revelation?
The wheat and tares both claim to be Christians, they look like each other, but you can't tell them apart until you see their fruit. The wheat has a lot of spiritual fruit, and the tares have rotten fruit that can be deadly. The wheat is weighed down and will bow when ready to be harvested because of the fruit, this shows that the Christians who are wheat are being humble and bowing before God who granted them the power to do His works. The tares have little rotten fruit and stick upright (because they're not being weighed down with spiritual fruit) because of pride. They both claim to be Christians, but the wheat are allowing God to work through them and produce fruit and the tares are not listening to the conviction of the Holy Spirit pruning them so they will bear little to no fruit.
Why am I talking about the wheat and tares you may ask? Well the tares look just like Christians at first glance, until the harvest is ready, and in the same way, the antichrist is going to look just like the Christ, it's going to be a version of Jesus, a perverted version, but a version of Jesus, not some other person that comes on the scene. The antichrist beast has a mouth like a lion, we know Satan is likened to a lion as is Jesus. In this case the antichrist beast (Jesus who is God) will speak like he's Jesus. But he also has the body of a leopard, with spots. The body of the antichrist are those who have spots (sin).
2 Peter 2:13 The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. 14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. Jesus speaks the words his Father commands him to.
John 7:16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent me. 17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak of myself.
John 12:49 I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. 50 And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
The true Christ preaches we were free from being slaves to sin (and we will be a spotless bride for Christ's return), but the antichrist teaches the body of Christ has no way to stop sinning in their flesh, so spots and blemishes they are. (2 Peter 2:13)
The body of Christ is spotless, but the body of the antichrist has spots and blemishes and they don't think they can change their spots (like a leopard can't change his - Jeremiah 13:23).
The body of Christ is washed clean by the word of God, the Holy Spirit gets us Holy to be presented to Jesus.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
The antichrist beast has 10 horns, the lamb of God, the true Christ has 7 horns, representing the 7 spirits of God, but this beast has 3 more representing the trinity.
The true Christ tells us we're free from being slaves to sin, and have the Holy Spirit inside so we can stop sinning. The antichrist tells us we're still stuck sinning until he comes back.
The true Christ says we are judged by our works, and doing the will of God, the antichrist says his blood covers us so we don't have to continue in the law, that the law was done away with at the cross.
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
1 John 1:8 is the most popular verse used for people who want to continue in their sin. However, this is clearly talking about people who say they have no past sins to confess before our Father. Jesus is cleansing us of our sin through the washing of water by the word (Ephesians 5:26). This passage is speaking of Christians who say "God doesn't see my sin, He only sees the blood of Christ." They're saying they have no sin they need to repent of, and the truth is not in them.
The bible says that those who continue in sin are clearly of the devil. The children of God are manifest (or made known) by the fact that they don't sin!
1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
The bible also says that we have a way out of every single temptation that comes to us. If you have a hard time believing you can stop sinning, it's a lack of faith in God's Holy Spirit power. Because God told us we have a way out, always, because He is faithful.
Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
BY FAITH
YE ARE SAVED
This is why it is through our FAITH that we are saved. The more faith you have that God is faithful and gives you a way out so you don't have to sin, the more you can stop sinning (through the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent to you).
Most Christians today have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof (the Holy Spirit). The antichrist (Jesus as God) says He wasn't powerful enough to stop us from sinning. The true Christ Jesus says the power he followed was the spirit of God that's inside of us and he freed us from being slaves to sin.
Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we have an obligation, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Once again we see that in Romans 8:16 the Holy Spirit bears witness that we are children of God when we mortify the flesh and live in the spirit. This is what was being said in 1 John 3:10 the children of God are made known to people by the fact that we let the Holy Spirit convict us of sin and let God prune us so that we can bear fruit of the spirit.
The word "gospel" means "good news." But the antichrist Jesus as God is bad news if you don't want to sin anymore. They teach you that you will always be a slave to sin in the flesh you're in right now. Whereas the true Christ teaches the good news, that if you follow YHWH and listen to His Holy Spirit, and walk like Jesus did daily, and mortify your flesh, you will live by the spirit and not be a slave to sin anymore. You won't be affected by demons harassing you and placing spiritual blinders on you anymore due to your sin. That's definitely GOOD NEWS!
People will wonder after the antichrist beast and say who can be like him? People who believe Jesus is God wonder after Jesus as their God and worship him, but say who can be sinless? like Jesus? Who can be like him? Because he was sinless because he was God (in their minds). They nullify the gospel that Jesus came to free us from being slaves to sin.
The true Christ did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it and we are supposed to also, we do it through the Holy Spirit he sent us, so it's not our works (it's our faith that the Holy Spirit can do this that lets it happen).
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.
Jesus says he "never knew you" to "Christians," people who called him "Lord", because they didn't do God's will. The antichrist beast is lawless and preaches the law is done away with. That's why he's known as the lawless one.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
Jesus came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it. We follow his example and fulfill the law too.
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Don't let anyone tell you we cannot fulfill the law as we were told TO fulfill the law. We were told to agape love each other. Agape love is laying down your life, your fleshy will and doing God's will over your own to save others, even the people who would kill us. We should be able to say, "Father, forgive them they know not what they do" as they kill us. If we Agape love we are FULFILLING the law!
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: THEREFORE love is the FULLFILLING of the law.
The true Christ will say he never knew you to many Christians because they were practicing lawlessness. The true Christ has a bride who has been washed by the water of "the word," which is God's Holy Spirit. We let His Holy Spirit wash us through His pruning us, convicting us, and getting rid of our sin so we will be spotless before Jesus arrives.
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The Anti-Christ will say that God only sees his blood and we won't be judged for our works when he comes back.
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How do you be one of the ones Jesus "knows" when he comes back? Jesus says we get in by doing God's will. When we do God's will, we are picking up the cross/stake, like Jesus did, and we will be hated by many (even our brethren) just like Jesus was. We will know him, because we will be one with him (the body of Christ, bruised and hated).
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
The Revelation of the Beast
By Jeffrey Dean
