ANTI CHRIST SPIRIT
1Jn 2:22 –1Jn 2:23 Who is a liar but he 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 either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1st John 4:2 Hereby know you have the Spirit of God: Every spirit that proclaims that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:
1st John 4:3 And every spirit that does not proclaim Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2nd John 7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Jesus Christ is God in human flesh (incarnation) come to pay for the sins of the world. Jesus would have to be God and of infinite value to pay for the vast amount of sins of every human being ever born. Sins are committed against the character and kingdom of God. The antichrist spirit denies there is sin and a need for a savior. The antichrist spirit denies we need God’s power to overcome our sinful nature. The antichrist spirit relies on religion and human effort rather than a powerful heart change that can only come when we receive the indwelling Christ.
The Bible does not just depict Jesus just as a teacher, a moral leader, a prophet, a social reformer but the Son of God come to be savior and Lord of our lives. Any religion or philosophy that does not give Jesus His rightful place is an antiChrist and anti God Spirit. Whoever denies the Son denies the Father, the plan, and the person God has chosen for the forgiveness of the sins of the world.
John 10:1 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John 10:2 But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Jesus is teaching us that He himself is the door. He is the great shepherd ordained by God’s will and He alone is the savior and Lord of the creation. We cannot enter God’s favor, forgiveness, kingdom, or presence without coming through Jesus. I have heard the complaints of other religions and skeptics but God answered human need with perfection. God denies the teachers, prophets, the works of men, and spiritual disciplines that come from the minds of men rather than the heart of God. It is not about works but a faith that leads to obedience. God is not looking for our works but our obedience to His commands. God has not commanded us to earn our own salvation but to believe and obey His plan of salvation through His Son. The way is narrow because there would be a multitude of opinions as to what is sin and what is God’s payment for sin. God in His infinite wisdom ordained one way and that is through His only begotten son Jesus Christ. An antiChrist spirit promotes false religions which spreads confusion blinding people from finding the true way to God.
Romans. 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Many want God to accept their imperfect works and standards when God demands perfection. We are incapable of perfection so Jesus came to impart it to us judicially through the cross and experientially through the power of His Spirit. We need to separate doing from being. To many try to do Christianity or some religion without a heart change without loving God, righteousness, and a heart obedience. To many people do things to avoid judgement or receive a reward but this is shallow. We are to serve God because we love Him. We are called to a heart change not to an outward performance to some law or standard. Religious works to attain God’s forgiveness and favor is not true Christianity or true religion. True Christianity does works not so we can save ourselves or avoid punishment but because we are already saved and in love and gratitude we live to please God. We are not earning salvation we are walking in what Christ has already done for us. The antiChrist spirit is works that are false and lead to death.

This is what we believe as Christians. We believe all other religious paths are powerless to bring us to a relationship with a holy God. Christians believe in the uniqueness of Christ as savior and Lord. It is what separates real Christians from other religions. The root of all false religions is works human effort to attain something only God can give by His power. Grace is God giving us His forgiveness and love which is something we cannot earn and do not deserve. We resort to human effort instead of God’s power. There is an arbitrary opinion by every religion on how much and what works are required by God to please Him. God sent Christ to end all such speculation. God chose faith in His Son as the criteria for saving us from evil and its consequences. We are to trust in God’s power and perfection not our own inconsistent and imperfect works. Many fail to experience God because they want to come to God in their own way and that is unacceptable to God this is a powerful antichrist spirit. When these people fail to experience God they declare Christianity is untrue. In reality it is their rebellion to Gods plan of salvation that has kept them from experiencing God. God does not want a multitude of imperfect paths but one perfect one where He is honored in the greatest way. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

Today as never before Christianity is under attack from atheism, humanism, science, and false religions. I believe the reason why people who are under these powerful religious and philosophical deceptions fail to touch God is because of their failure to accept God’s plan to know Him through Jesus Christ. These poor souls will fall deeper into doubt and unbelief. When we cannot experience God we doubt His existence. We doubt God’s existence or fail to experience Him because people insist God does not exist or that He accept their standards or religions denying God the right to bring us to Him in way that pleases Him. We have no concept of God’s perfection and holiness so we want to soil God with our low standard and demand He accept our man made religions and philosophies. Many philosophies and religions are used to justify evil behavior without any twinge of guilt or conscience. As the world grows more rebellious to the truth they are moving farther away from God’s truth making it harder for people to know and experience God. Demonic powers are holding people under strong delusions fueled by human selfishness. The purpose of these demonic powers is to control masses of people to keep them from knowing God and the real purpose of life. We want to make sense of our lives rise above our powerlessness and our fears but we cannot because we resort to the philosophic inventions of the mind and superstitions of other religions. All this from an antiCHrist spirit ruling the minds of multitudes in this age of people who reject the truth.

Today an antiChrist spirit is alive in many religions and philosophies that are nothing more than some person or group trying to gain control over people because they desire power not truth. Religions are becoming a political tool to create armies and to go to war. Many religions no longer worship God because they love Him but are a political ideologies disguised as religions to control masses of people. The call from these religious ideologies is for those in poverty to blame those who have wealth as the reason for their poverty. These ideologies teach other religions or peoples are the reasons for their problems. They are sectarian every man is for himself. They leave in their wake because of their beliefs death, poverty, destruction, and discrimination of all that is good and civilized. These religions are barbaric and filled with hatred for even their own kind who have any diversity in their views from another sect in their own religion. Hatred for anyone who does not believe as they do is sown into the hearts of the people of these religions, this alone should teach us these religions are false. It is written in the very religious books they read to destroy the unbeliever and this false teaching is spreading like a disease around the globe. Religion is a powerful motivator especially in the hands of these corrupt people who desire world domination. Just like the nazi’s and communist who’s ideology was based in twisted science it is now an ideology steeped in twisted religious ideals. There is so much anger from those who deny Jesus Christ is Lord. The spirit of antichrist is violence and they deny any dialogue for fear of of having their beliefs overturned. In many Islamic countries Christians are being persecuted and it is against the law to convert to Christianity. These people are blinded by hatred. Satan wants people killed by the millions before they come to know the one true God His love and salvation that has been given as a free gift through His Son Jesus Christ.

The purpose of Christianity is to teach who the one true God is and the perfection of His character. It teaches us to live in harmony with the will of God and to be a blessing to each other as fellow human beings. Any religion even perverted forms of Christianity that sow hate and are violent are anti God and antiChrist. Even people who hate us and don’t believe as we do are not to be hated, rejected, or killed but loved and won to Christ by the truth and His example. It is the fear of losing power and control over large segments of the population that these pseudo religious leaders fear. Ignorant poverty struck people in mind and bodies are used as pawns needlessly giving their lives for a false religion and cause. The insidious promise of an eternal reward for doing evil is controlling the mindset of a huge population of people in our world. The only way for this to end is for religious leaders of these religions to teach non violence, moderation, tolerance and enter a dialogue with others who do not believe as they do. The problem is violence is one of the tenants of their beliefs. The second is the world community must lose its self interest of selling arms or gaining and economic advantage by refraining from helping these people. These religions pretend to respect other religions but are anti Christ knowing Jesus alone is the answer for this world. Filled with hatred and violence this antiChrist spirit is moving through the world and its mandate is convert or die. A spirit of fear which is not of God wants to enter the heart of millions to control their allegiance to the ruling antiChrist spirit in these regions of the world hoping to spread its empire to other countries in the world.

The antiChrist spirit has taken a two pronged attack upon our present world. The first one is the spread of false religions the other is the denial of the existence of God, His power, and the right to rule His creation as he sees fit. In certain intellectual circles Christianity is mocked as a belief lacking reason a superstition of inferior minds. The intellectual elite in arrogance and pride condemn Christianity as superstition and foolishness. These people fear having their evil behavior controlled by a moral standard that benefits all mankind. This philosophy rages at Christianity because it will limit the amount of evil they are allowed to do because they have no boundaries or borders for their evil. Atheism unleashed nazi’s and communists into the mainstream of the 20th century bringing death and destruction. We are reduced to mindless animals chance beings moving on genetic impulses. Free will and wrong and right are now lines we blurry with confused dialogue about genetic code and wired brains. They claim to have morality and standards while declaring there are no absolutes. They claim moral high ground but have reduced human life to accident and purposeless chance devoid of meaning and purpose. They declare they have ethics only to deceive the uninitiated about their corrupt beliefs which allow evil to run rampant in the human heart. If we continue in this vain all evil will be exonerated and every evil justified as part of the evolutionary process. The arrogance of these minds that have failed to understands the smallest portion of the creation base all their beliefs on their infinitesimal knowledge now promote anti God philosophies to the so called poor unwashed ignorant masses. They have reasoned themselves out of the truth mocking and magnifying every discrepancy they believe they have found in the Bible. They sell their propaganda as reason to those who want a reason and a rationale to do evil. They have banded together to bash Christ to give proof and validity to their behavior. Science once the friend of God to discover how we can work in harmony with natures laws now uses its knowledge to try to disprove God and all the complexities of our creation are relegated to chance. Their minds set on discovering natural laws and scientific paradigms no longer see a creator. Arrogance is called reason and faith in God is called superstition. They having become earth bound and myopic closed minded never seeing the beauty of the human soul and are trapped and imprisoned in a natural world where death and a meaningless existence reign supreme.

Another new tactic of the antiChrist spirit in our world today is pluralism. Pluralism is a myth. It believes all philosophies and religions are of equal value. Pluralism is given by liars to the ignorant. It comes from those who believe in their own intellectual superiority not in the equality of others beliefs. Pluralism is supposed to believe in tolerance for all beliefs. This may be true in theory but just try and teach that God created the world in a college or a high school. Teach we are more than animals by random chance and mutation see how much respect you get. They forget when science believed in making gold from ordinary things and bleeding human beings with leeches relieved illnesses. In the early seventies there were no women marathon runners because science believed woman would die or be barren. Yet these hypocrites can only remember the catholic church persecuting Galileo or its torture of many in the inquisitions as though atheism has no blood on its hands. I do not defend catholicism as the true faith in Christ. Catholicism is contrary to many true Christian beliefs but it does not give atheism the right to use it as a straw dog to attack all of Christianity. It is not atheism’s place to declare catholicism as true Christianity and then bash the eternal truths that true Christianity teaches. Remember the experiments of Nazi’s who believed in the god of science they were the first to invent weapons of mass destruction. The theory was they were a super race superior to all others based upon scientific proof. These were scientific principles that led a world to death and destruction. In the early fifties we were taught that blacks were inferior not as far up the evolutionary chain as whites. Communism has killed more people in this century but the intellectuals blame all wars and evil in this world on religion.

These powers both religious and philosophical want to kill Christ again. History is being rewritten to remove any record that Christ existed. His spirit, His words, His truths must be silenced for them to continue in their self made world devoid of moral absolutes. Like Satan they want to make the world over recreate it in their image and likeness. The problem is mankind is in darkness and evil and refuses to look to God as the model of truth and all that is good. The sad thing is absolutes are only for the atheists who firmly believe religions are evil and their is no God. Absolutes are only for false antichrist religions who use these absolutes to enslave minds and hearts of people. There is no such thing as no absolutes because that in itself is an absolute. To many live in a world of failed circular reasoning. The moral principles of love taught by Christ are so powerful and are practically repeatable in every culture. There has never been a moral philosophy ever spoken or greater than the principles taught by Christ. Invisibly they have set the standard of the world. Intuitively every man claims ownership of them as though conceived by human minds. Rationally they work better than any other. Subconsciously we live by them and know they are true. All this from a liar, a lunatic, a fanatic or the son of God their is no room for theories.