SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
11-25d-2004
My Worship Time Focus: The Spirit of Antichrist
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 4:3
Message of the
verses: “3 and every spirit that
does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist,
of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.”
Just a reminder that the Spiritual Diaries that I am
writing are not from November of 2004 as I have not been able to locate the
ones from 1 John 4:1-6 and as I was doing some research as to why they were not
there I found that in the commentary that I was using to help me understand
what is in these verses, Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s commentaries, I found that he did
not write anything concerning these six verses and so I followed his outline
and did not write anything about them. I
am try to correct that error by quoting from John MacArthur’s Study Bible what
he has written on these different verses.
John MacArthur writes:
“The spirit of antichrist.” “Those
false teachers who denied the true nature of the Son are to be identified among
the antichrists in 2:18, 19 (2 John 7).
The same demonic deception that will work to produce the final world
ruler (See Revelation 13:1-8 for more on the antichrist in the end times), who
rules as the false Christ is always actively seeking to distort Jesus Christ’s
true nature, perverting the gospel. The
final Antichrist will not be something new, but will be the ultimate embodiment
of all the antichrist spirits that have perverted truth and propagated satanic
lies since the beginning. This is
similar to 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8, where the man of lawlessness (Antichrist) is
still to be revealed, but the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.”
Some people thought that Hitler was the Antichrist, and
my thoughts are that he was “an antichrist,” but not the Antichrist that will
come upon the world during the last seven years, prior to the second coming of
Jesus Christ as described in Revelation 19.
My thoughts that our last President would also fall into the category of
being “an antichrist.”
12/9/2017 10:11 AM
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