Jehoshua is on the throne of David in New Jerusalem and He is the King of a New Israel
The Doctrine of antichrist, the epistles of John the beloved
Contrary to much of Christendom, the antichrist is not just one person but it’s actually a spirit and whoever has that spirit is an antichrist. This does not eliminate a prophetic antichrist that the bible identifies as the beast, little horn, son of perdition, man of sin and false prophet, however we must understand that the identity of antichrist is not limited to the above figure/figures. This is key in understanding because the antichrist may be the sweet old lady who lives next door to you or the hard working father of three that works two jobs just to keep food on his family’s table. You don’t often hear this study in church because it is a study that deeply offends people because it exposes so called “good” people as who they truly are which is antichrist. It also exposes the modern Christ rejecting Jews and their religion of Judaism as antichrist which then exposes Hebrew Roots, many Unitarians, dispensationalists and many American evangelicals as supporting a nation and religion that at its very core is antichrist. Much of the American evangelical church has to steer clear of these epistles and the true understanding of what antichrist is in order to continue to deceive the people that they need to support Geo-Political Israel because God commands it. This study will expose that lie from the pit of hell as well as the false idea that there are so called “good” people apart from Christ. May the Son of God Jesus Christ and His Heavenly Father get the glory for this study and may the Synagogue of Satan (Christ rejecting Judaism) perish with their father the Devil. 1 John :1-10 (KJV) 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 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. We are starting from the first chapter to get the overall context of what John is telling the brethren. John refers to the beginning of Jesus ministry which was when He was baptized as that is precisely when him and the other apostles began to see, behold and handle him. John says that Jesus was the manifestation of eternal life and that He was with the Father since the start of His prophetic ministry. Jesus received the fullness of the Spirit of Jehovah God at His baptism and this is when the eternal life which was in the Father started to well in Jesus. John says that him and the apostles bear witness of the Son of God’s earthly ministry in which eternal life dwelt in Him hence Jesus was Himself eternal life manifested to the apostles. John is writing this to the church so that his and their joy may be full. The love of John for his Lord and savior is evident as we see later in his epistles he has no sympathy for those who deny His Lord as being the Son and Christ of God. John says that church’s fellowship is with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. John is clearly speaking of a real and personal Father-Son relationship between Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. The various Christologies that confuse this relationship are foreign to John as he posits the relationship between Jesus and God as a real Father-Son relationship. John’s epistle warrants no modern Trinitarian or binitarian doctrine, no Tri Theist doctrine nor any type of modalism but simple a Father who is God and His Son. Jesus came to reveal the Father’s character and that in the Father there was no darkness but rather only light. Unlike many today in Christendom that teach that Jesus came on His own initiative and make the gospel all about Him, John says that the Son came to glorify the Father. Again, John has a very clear gospel here and that it centers on the Father-Son relationship between Jehovah and Jesus. John says that if we walk in the light of God’s commandments then the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. Again, for John there is God and there is God’s Son who is Jesus Christ. There is no trinity in John’s gospel or his epistles, no modalist oneness confusion of persons or merging of persons. The Son of God’s blood atones for those who walk in the love of God’s commandments. The arrogant claim they have no sin or have had no sin and make God a liar. The bible says that all have sinned. Unbelievers are in perpetual sin as they are outside God’s covenant which is centered in His Son. If they repent and believe on the name of His Son, they will be cleansed by His precious atoning blood. For those of us in the faith, we may fall at times but if we confess our sins He (God) is Faithful to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The Son of God sits at the Father’s right hand as our mediator and His blood shed on the cross is sufficient to be applied anytime we go to the Father and confess our sins. 1 John 2:1-29(KJV) 1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.5But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.7Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.8Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.11But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.22Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.24Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.26These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. Here in chapter 2, John starts by talking about the medatorial function of God’s Son. John exhorts the brethren not to sin but also says that if they do sin they have an advocate (comforter) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. There is so much precious truth in this one verse (verse 1) that we would be amiss in just glossing over it. Jesus is our advocate which means “comforter”, this speaks not only to His priestly functions on our behalf as that is in view here but also to His coming to us via His Spirit. The Holy Spirit is also said to be our comforter, hence when we have the Holy Spirit we have the very Spirit of Jesus dwelling in us. Jesus coming to His church by His Spirit is an essential component of Christianity. This is how Jesus is with us until the end of the age. Next, we have John identifying Jesus as the Christ which means “anointed one”. Many modern Christians often forget that this is what “Christ” means and that it means that Jesus is the anointed one of God rather than being God Himself which the mainstream churches teach. Also, the affirmation by John of Jesus being the Christ shows that He believed indeed that Jesus was the fulfillment of the prophecies concerning the coming Davidic King who would be God’s Christ and Son fulfilling the Davidic covenant. For John, the buck stopped with Jesus in terms of looking and hoping for the long awaited Davidic Christ of God. We need to understand this to see where John is coming from as we progress through this study. The next identity of Jesus here in the first verse of 1 John 2 is that God is His Father. John continues to pound away at the truth that Jesus and Jehovah share an intimate covenant Father-Son relationship. This truth has been severely minimized and sometimes forgotten altogether in the mainstream churches. For John there is no plurality in the Godhead or confusing the Father and Son into the same person (oneness, modalism) or being (trinitarianism) but rather a simple but beautiful Father-Son relationship. In verse 2, John says that Jesus is the propitiation for our sins. Propitiation means “mercy seat” showing that Jesus blood was poured out on the heavenly mercy seat in the holy of holies in heaven upon His ascension. Essential to the identity of Jesus is having faith that He fulfilled the day of atonement, which was a day when the high priest of Israel would sprinkle the blood of the atonement sacrifice on the mercy seat in the most holy place. Any denial that the blood of Jesus is all sufficient and that He completely fulfilled the day of atonement is antichrist. The talk that in the future the animal sacrifices will be reinstituted is antichrist and tramples on the blood of the Son of God denying that He was the once and for all sacrifice for sins. The Synagogue of Satan has been instrumental in deceiving professed Christians into believing that a reinstitution of the law of Moses will happen during an earthly millennium. Verses 3-6 state that we know that we are in Christ if we keep His commandments. These commandments are those given on the sermon on the mount which are identified as the doctrine of Christ. 2nd John 9-11 says that those who bring not this doctrine (sermon on the mount) are not to be welcomed in your house or bidden godspeed. In fact, John says that these who abide not in the doctrine of Christ have not God. Those who teach that you do not have to obey the teachings of Jesus are by definition antichrist. Those who say His teachings were not 100 percent given to Him by God are also antichrist. The religion of Judaism is antichrist as they deny that Jesus was a true prophet of God that spoke God’s commandments (Deuteronomy 18). In that chapter 18 of Deuteronomy, Moses said that those who do not hearken unto that prophet (Jesus) will be required (investigated) by Jehovah why they didn’t heed His prophet’s words. The Christ ejecting Jews were held to account by Jehovah God and their city and temple were destroyed in AD 70. Even today the Christ rejecting Jews will face Jehovah’s judgment for not hearkening to the words of His Son. John the beloved says the same thing in John chapter 3: 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. 35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. Clearly God’s wrath is abiding on anyone who does not hearken to the words of Jesus Christ and that includes the Jews reject Him as the Christ and Son of God. Now we fast forward to verses 18 and 19 of 1 John 2: 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. The teaching that there is only one antichrist which is a future political leader is false to the scripture and is not biblical. The bible teaches that there are many antichrists and they were around during the time of John the apostle in the 1st century. These antichrists are even in the church and eventually leave, manifesting themselves as antichrists so that the church can know exactly who they are and stay away from them. Often times, when people leave the church due to their “new found” rejection of Christ those in the church lament “the supposed losing of a brother or sister” but instead we should actually thank God that He exposed them as antichrists. In John 2:9-11, the beloved apostle of Jesus Christ commands us to not even bless or let these antichrists in our house. These antichrists were never part of the Church, they were never true converts for if they had been true converts they would have continued in the church. Verses 20-21 of 1 John 2: 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. The truth is found in the church as we have an unction from God and know all things. Too many Christians are sucking at the tit of the synagogues and trying glean biblical truth from so called Jewish rabbi’s that reject Christ. Scripture tells that the church is the pillar and ground of the truth and is the house of the living God ( 1 Timothy 3:15). We are to go to the Church for truth not those who reject are King. The synagogues are desolate and have no truth and are of Satan. John the apostle says that we as Christians have the Holy Spirit and know the truth. Christ rejecting Jews have the spirit of their father the devil. Now we get to the nitty gritty of what constitutes antichrist. Verses 22 and 23 1 John chapter 2: 22Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Those who deny that Jesus is the Christ, meaning the anointed one of God, are liars and antichrists. Too many times we as believers focus on some future political antichrist which has become a boogeyman of sorts within the Church, yet John says there are many antichrists and the only thing they need to qualify for is to deny that Jesus is the Christ of God. This means that everyone from your local school teacher, police officer, cashier at a fast food place, janitor or CEO of a major corporation are liars and antichrists if they deny that Jesus is the Christ of God. John calls them liars. There is little tolerance among the early apostolic Church for those who deny the Kingship of Jesus. Being the Christ of God includes Jesus being of the seed of David hence the rightful King of Israel which is the new covenant Church. Even Jesus said that when He returns those that refused Him to reign over them as King will be killed by the sword: Luke 19:27 “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me” This will be the fate of all those who deny that Jesus is the Davidic Christ King. These will be the words of Jesus to all the liars that deny His Kingship. They will be killed with the second death upon Jesus return. Of course all professing Christians believe that Jesus is the Christ, however even denial of the Father-Son relationship of Jesus and Jehovah is by definition antichrist. This of course includes the aforementioned liars that deny that Jesus is the Christ because if they deny that He is the Christ they automatically deny His Sonship. The religion of Judaism claims that they worship the God of Israel but John calls them antichrist liars because they deny the Sonship of Christ and that he is indeed the Christ thereby denying the Father-Son relationship of Jesus and Jehovah. What about professing Christians? Can they fit this category of antichrist which denies the Father and Son? The answer is absolutely! There are Christians who believe in oneness Pentecostalism or modalism. This doctrine teaches that the Father and Son are the same person in different modes. This doctrine effectively tries destroy the Father-Son relationship of Jesus and Jehovah by consolidating them into one person. It also denies the authority, supremacy and sovereignty of the Father by replacing Him with Jesus. It takes away also the identity if Jesus as the only begotten Son of God and God’s Messianic Davidic King. This is an idolatrous antichrist doctrine. It attempts to destroy the real Father-Son relationship between Jehovah and His Davidic King by removing any distinction between the two thereby nullifying the relationship and the Davidic covenant. Another danger that we see in Christendom that is antichrist is the modern Trinitarian doctrine that also borderlines on modalism as increasingly the evangelical Churches are pushing the Father aside as the one true God and the God of Jesus in favor of Jesus Himself being the Almighty God and even independent of the Father in terms of His deity. The traditional Trinitarian view gave the Father His place as the almighty God and source of the trinity and that Jesus was dependent on the Father for His deity. In the Western Churches that has been lost and increasingly Jesus is replacing the Father in terms of ultimate worship and being called the Almighty God with almost no references to Him being the Son of God even though scripture calls Him the Son of God almost 100 times. It is safe to say that most of the American Church has the spirit of antichrist as they less and less preach Jesus being the Son of God and more and more preach that He is the one true God. This also effectively attempts to destroy the real Father-Son relationship between Jesus and Jehovah by confusing their positions and their headship. Jesus made it clear that the foundation of the Church is the fact that He is the Christ of God and the Son of the living God (Matthew 16:13-20). Jesus said that the gates of hell would never prevail against His church which is built on that foundation (Christship and Sonship). Verses 22 and 23 also perfectly describe the Christ rejecting Jews and Judaism as a religion. Many Christians falsely believe that although many Jews reject Jesus as the Christ that they still worship God the Father and hence worship the same God we do. This is absolutely false as anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ of God is by definition antichrist. This means that Christ rejecting Jews and any of the various forms of Judaism are antichrists. It’s hard to imagine an antichrist worshipping God or having a relationship with Him. In essence the Christ rejecting Jews have another god, a false one. Remember in John chapter 4 Jesus said this: 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Jesus here is speaking of worship being given to the Father in spirit and in truth. This shows that God the Father is the ultimate object of worship for true Christians. However, true worship of the Father is to honor His Son as we honor the Father: John 5:23 “That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him” This verse above absolutely destroys the false teaching that even though Judaism rejects Jesus that at least they still worship the Father. Jesus said it clearly that all those who don’t honor Him don’t honor the Father and thereby don’t have any kind of relationship with the true God of the bible. In effect Judaism worships a false god and are under the wrath of the true and living God Jehovah as they do not believe on His Son: John 3:36 ”He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” The wrath of God abides on Christ rejecting Jews and their Satanic synagogues and their wicked religion of Judaism. Verse 23 of 1 John 2 says it clearly enough that even a child can understand: “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Judaism is antichrist as those individual Jews who deny the Son of God. If you don’t confess the Son you absolutely don’t have the Father and hence you worship a false god, which Judaism does. Verse 24 of 1 John chapter 2: “Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father” What is it that the Church heard from the beginning? In context, it is the very the opposite of what the lying anti-christ’s teach. The apostle’s doctrine is that Jesus is indeed the Christ of God and Son of God and that He is the propitiation for our sins and that His blood cleanses us from all sin. If we abide in this foundational apostolic teaching, then we will abide in the vine (Son of God) and in the Father (vine dresser). Those who depart from this no longer abide in the Father and Son. Those who reject this also don’t abide in the Father and Son. Those who claim to have a relationship with God yet deny His Son and the sufficiency of His Son’s blood do not have God at all and He rejects them as anti-christ’s. This includes those Jews who reject Christ, they can keep all the Sabbaths they want and eat kosher all they want but if they reject Christ they are anti-christ and rejected by God as children of the devil. Verses 25 and 26 of 1 John 2: 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. If we abide in the apostolic teaching that Jesus is God’s Christ and Son and that His blood is the mercy-seat for our sins then we will have eternal life in the new heavens and new earth. Anyone who rejects any of those three things will have an appointment in the lake of fire and yes that includes any Jew who denies any of those three things. In verse 26 John gives us the purpose of him writing these things to the Church which is to make the brethren aware of these seducing anti-Christ’s. John says these anti-christ’s are seducers so they come into the Church with stealth and supposed good intentions. They masquerade as Christians or so called Messianics and Hebrew Roots, but as John said they were never of us in the first place as they only had an outward profession but were never truly converted. They seduce those Christians who have an itching ear to “return to the Jewish roots of the faith” so called. These anti-christ’s will call themselves Rabbi and call their churches synagogues and try to emulate the Christ rejecting synagogues of Judaism. They will even talk about “Yeshua” and bewitch these unstable Christians that we are not in the new covenant yet and that we need to return to the law of Moses. These unstable Christians are those who put the Jews of the flesh on a pedestal as God’s chosen people all the while ignoring tons of scripture that says the flesh profits nothing and that we must be begotten from above to see the Kingdom of God. These unstable Christians get impressed by outward appearances of Jewishness. The end result is often a denial of Jesus as the ultimate law giver, the sufficiency of His blood an od the need to one day return to animal sacrifices in some future earthly rebuilt temple thereby denying the blood of Christ which inaugurated the new covenant through the death of the cross. These unstable ones end up trading in the cross for a supposed star of David. Verse 27 of 1 John 2 “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” We as Christians have received the Holy Spirit from Jesus and it abides in us as the Holy Spirit is also the Spirit of Christ. Colossians 1:27 says that Christ in us is the hope of glory and Paul elsewhere says that the word of Christ dwells in us richly. The function of the Holy Spirit is to teach us all things and bring to remembrance the things Christ taught us. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth as it leads us into all truth. Verse 28 and 29 of 1 John 2 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. John exhorts the brethren to abide (remain) in Messiah, this is done by keeping the commandments given by the Messiah: John15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.” To abide in the Son of God is to keep the commandments He gave on the sermon on the mount. If we keep the commandments of Messiah (remain in Him) then we will not be ashamed at His coming and enter into the Marriage supper of the land. Matthew 25:10 “And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” In context, the wise virgins are those who had their lamps trimmed with oil, meaning they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Ezekiel 36 says that those who are given the Holy Spirit keep the commandments of God. These wise virgins are those who obey the teachings of Jehoshua. John exhorts the brethren to keep the commandments (remain in Jehoshua) so that when He comes you will be brought into the Kingdom. Jehoshua is righteous and John says that the evidence of being born of God is that one does righteousness which in this context is keeping the commandments of the Son of God. The false doctrine that we are sinners and can’t stop sinning even after being saved is unbiblical.
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