His Child, thank for stating your position in such a succinct way. The fact you can do so speaks volumes. It must be thrilling to believe Jesus will return before Pope Benedict passes - a shot time, indeed. Do you also believe Jesus will return while President Obama is in office?

I have a hard time believing Jesus could not return before 1929 or 2013. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your 83.4 year application?

What does it mean to deny that Christ came in the flesh? That is what we need to know.

One way is to deny that Christ ever came, that the whole thing was a farce. However many do admit that He came, that He was a good man, but was not divine, that He was not the Son of God. These people deny that Christ came in the flesh and are therefore deceived by the spirit of antichrist. Another way to deny that Christ came in the flesh is to deny some essential port of His work, while still professing to believe on Him. This is the Matthew 7:21-23 class of people, and may be the most insidious of all!!!

John 1 says that Christ was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God, and that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and was full of grace. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, 2 Corinthians 5:19. Christ came to save sinners, 1 Timothy 1:15. The grace of Christ brings salvation, Titus 2:11. In Him dwelt the fullness of God bodily (in the flesh), Colossians 2:9. In His favor (grace) is life, Psalms 30:5. In Him was life and the life was the light of men, John 1:4. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten sin, that whosever beliveth in Him shall not parish, but have everlasting life, John 3:16.

If Christ had not come, all men would have perished. He that believes on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, John 3:36. 1 John 5:10-12 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son. 11 And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life. John 10:9-10 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

These text proved that Christ was manifested for the purpose of giving life. Therefore those that deny that Christ alone gives life, that man has life in himself, that man is immortal, is denying that Christ came in the flesh and has the spirit of antichrist, for they are denying the essential port of Christ's work. Denying the very thing that he was manifested in the flesh to do! The doctrine of hell is one such denial. And who teaches that?

"to deny" that Jesus is the Christ
IS
"to not confess" that Christ came in the flesh ...

The antichrist is described in 2 Thess. 2
There he is called "the man of sin".



Verse 3.
A falling away --- apostasy.
The falling away here is religious.
This falling away within the Christian community precedes the rise of the "man of sin"; the apostasy is the cause of his appearance.



Verse 4. - He opposes -- what does he oppose?
The object of opposition is not so much believers, as opposing Christ; for he is antichrist, the opponent of Christ.

But he is NOT Satan, for 2 Thessalonians 2:9 shows he is the instrument of Satan.

How does he oppose Christ? Not by denying Him. No, but by elevating himself above Christ!

And "exalteth himself above all that is called God".
Not only is he against the heathen gods, outlawing paganism, but also against the true God (comp. Daniel 7:25; Daniel 11:36).
Or that is worshipped;
he places himself above everything that is worshipped. The same word that is used in Acts 17:23,

So that he as God.
He claims the full authority to speak as the ultimate voice of God.

Sitteth in the temple of God.

Paul to compares believers in particular, or the Church in general, to the temple of God (see 1 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 2:20-22).
Thus this antichrist "sits" (or is enthroned) in the Christian church.


Showing - exhibiting - himself that he is God.

NOT like the Roman emperors to be acknowledged as one of many gods, but he claims for himself to be the very voice of God.


Assuming to himself all power in heaven and in earth, taking upon himself the authority to get rid of God's law (the 2nd commandment) or change God's law (the fourth commandment) and to make new ones.

He opposes Christ in his priestly office, by pretending to offer him up again in the sacrifice of the mass, and even thinking to create Christ within the wafer.


He opposes Christ in his priestly office by making dead people saints and intercessors and advocates.


And yes, he also denies that Jesus came in human flesh.
The whole fabricated doctrine of Mary's immaculate conception ---that is Mary by a special intervention of God, undertaken at the instant she was conceived, supposedly did not inherit the sinful nature common to all Adam's descendants.
Therefore she could pass on to Jesus a perfect nature unlike that of any other human.

If anti-Christ is merely someone who refuses to acknowledge that there was a historical Jesus Who is the Christ, then there were and are millions of anti-christs in the world and it means absolutely nothing as far as believers are concerned ...

M: Do you also believe Jesus will return while President Obama is in office?

H: ... Christ can come while Obama is in office or within the first year of his successor. But I would suspect while Obama is in office.

I believe the "little horn," the "man of sin," the "antichrist," and the "beast" symbolize the same church-state coalition that will enforce the "mark of the beast" during the "time of trouble". The entire world will be divided into two groups: 1) the minority who live in harmony with the seal of God, and 2) the majority who live harmony with the mark of the beast.

I'm sorry; but that is your high and exalted opinion to cover your prophet. The Bible says otherwise about the Antichrist. Four times the word is mentioned and ONLY by John in his epistles:

• 1 John 2:18 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 2:22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
• 1 John 4:3 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.
• 2 John 1:7 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.

It is evident, comparing scripture with like-scripture (the right thing to do), that:


... something which only non-Christians do. For refusing to make such confession is made with the mouth as Pharaoh Ramses, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go." (Exod. 5:2) Secondly, John said that the spirit of the Antichrist was present in his day and that his was "the last hour", i.e. the time of the fall of Jerusalem. Read Acts 12.

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Incorrect. Read Acts 12, the entire chapter.

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