Jesus Christ Versus Antichrist

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There is so much false doctrine surrounding our knowledge of the Antichrist that I thought maybe this would be a good subject to discuss. Especially since our walking in victory depends on it! You see, unless we understand the enemy's strategy we will never be able to stand in the end or gain the promises of God and be the benefactors of the victory Christ fought and won for us. Apostle John gives us a really good clue as to who and what the Antichrist really is.

Doesn't sound like Antichrist is just one physical man does it? He said there are many and already here! How then is II Thessalonians 2:3-4 to be understood?

Apostle Paul speaking in Corinth may actually reveal a different perspective however and open spiritual eyes to understand this confusion surrounding the Antichrist.

This scripture pertains to Christ, but the same holds true of His opponent and counterfeit, the Antichrist. He too has a body of people and there are many members in this body as well! In the next scripture, as Christ is the head of His body let us look into the identity and nature of the evil one at the helm of this opposing body.

Side thought: This decree was incidentally the birthing of the world's competitive nature and the root of much abuse and heartache as it drives man to be number one, the best of the best , goal setters with natures much like his mentor.

This was the decree of Lucifer!! The man of sin has been revealed! It is Satan through his body of people, who is the Antichrist!

So okay, now we see the man of sin, but where is this temple he rules from? Where is its location? Again, let us allow scripture to enlighten us.

This is scary! So let's be sure we see this correctly! The Antichrist exalts himself above all called God, and sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God! We just read also, we are that temple! Apostle Paul also told the early church the mystery of lawlessness was already at work in God's people, but then assured them God would restrain from final judgment until and I accent until, the mystery man of lawlessness is fully understood and his intentions exposed. The end will not come in other words until his identity is resolved and God's people are made to understand it is the strategy of the enemy to use God's own people to mislead not only the church but all of humanity!

The enemy has done everything he can to keep a veil of deception over the eyes of man to blind them from this truth, and prevent them from seeing the devil's body of people or understanding really the body of Christ. God's people have therefore been enticed by the world's pleasures, drawn by the world's immorality becoming just as lawless and entwined in the Tree of Good and Evil as they are.

Satan knows full well, he loses if mankind begins to take sides, making open eyed decisions as to which body they choose to serve. You see, heaven and hell meet face to face daily through humanity and we are individually each on one side or the other, the body of Christ or the body of Satan! There is no neutral zone!

The devil is aware also if God's people choose to accept God's end time manna their spiritual eyes will not only be opened, but their faith will increase causing Christ's victory over this world as well as the devil himself to manifest on earth! How is this victory guaranteed? When the Lord's people believe God's end time truth, claim His promises for their own kind, enter into His covenants, in short when they believe the word! Satan knows the law of God very, very well! He knows if they believe it will happen!

In fact, Isaiah prophesied this decree of God long before the days of Mark.

John proves Christ's victory has already been accomplished and stands ready to manifest!

Why was it necessary for Christ to defeat the world? Because everything in it evolved from the twisted knowledge Eve chose from Satan. It's true she would now know evil as well as good with his wisdom but decay and death were for the first time introduced to the planet. She was told she could be like God, making her own choices, be just like the one who tempted her in other words!! In actuality she and Adam became inferior as a result of their choice, less in status and it is their descendants built this world we live in. Nothing would ever be perfect again! This knowledge caused all life on earth to be out of order and harmony with the whole universe. God sent Christ, the Word to overcome it.

So with these victorious scriptures in mind let us get back to understanding what must be changed for the victory of Christ over Antichrist to manifest and stop the devil's work on earth.

As we continue in II Thessalonians we will begin to see more of the answers.

Those that do not know God at all are of course the easiest target for the enemy to add to his body. Through these he will continue ruling this world and acting as its god, but those that know their God are a bit more of a challenge. However he has a clever strategy, a plan that has been quite effective in fooling mankind since the garden! God's people must be very cautious as the word warns even the elect can be fooled!

The book of Daniel reveals Satan's clever tactic is to attack the Godly through unsuspecting ones they may be friends with or even related to as well as showing us his predestined demise.

Again let us use another scripture from God's kingdom to even better comprehend the plans of the enemy.

So we can see how Satan cleverly pitches his tents, the bodies of those he uses as puppets, to get next to or lure God's people to do things against God's kingdom law. He successfully causes them to sin, become part of his lawless body. In doing this he takes back or repossesses God's land and His house that His Son gave His life to Jubilee, set free and return ownership to His Father. In this way Satan reclaims God's property making them again a part of his body and residents once more of his world. They are in big danger of becoming Esau's, by giving up their birthright, their first fruit status and thereby forfeiting their home in New Jerusalem and Mount Sion for Mount Seir. Esau God hates and He promises to level Mount Seir to a plain! Obadiah prophesied about him, I would not care to be like him or his offspring.

Satan particularly targets the fivefold offices in the church to carry out that part of his decree to rule God's people. This explains why there is so much sin in the leadership of the world's churches and why their ready acceptance of things God calls an abomination. Man has been fed lie after lie from the garden on by this creature! By planting his houses intimately and comfortable next to the Lord's houses as we spoke about above, God's people become complacent, feel relaxed with them accept as normal their evil society. They become completely intertwined in the roots of the tree of good and evil, assimilated into its people and absorbed by their world. Truly Satan is clever with his veil of deception! For the most part people are not even aware they are under it. Nor are they aware of the two bodies, the two heads of those bodies or the two kingdoms. Just as in the days of Noah, they are going about their daily lives unaware of the spiritual battle they are very much a part of.

Again, all of humanity is on one side or the other, the body of Satan or the body of Christ and the battle of the kings rages on through them. It is the King of Darkness, Antichrist against the King of Light, the Lord Jesus Christ. In the supernatural the victor is already evident. Jesus won! Because of His victory as God's people die their spirits since the battle of the cross go to paradise to be with the Lord. God's people are therefore no longer held captive by Satan in Hades, Jesus overcame death and the grave for them.

But in the natural, right here on earth another part of that victory is about to manifest another part of that victory is about to manifest however and become evident for all to see.

Moses shows us it is not what we do that brings victory, but what Abraham did. Thank you father Abraham!

So in closing, we know now who the Antichrist is. It is the body of Satan. We know also, because we have a free will, we can choose to remain a part of this world, Satan's kingdom and his body where death reigns. Or we can be born again, develop a taste for truth, be nourished and grow into a completely new species, a part of the body of Christ and His Kingdom where life is eternal. Once again, we are each one evidence of one body or the other! We also plainly see Satan's body stems from fallen Adam crossed with angels full of lust, perversion and lawlessness. It is this body mirroring both the angels and Satan's nature that developed this world and its society. Waiting in the wings for the Lord's Day and total restoration of creation is Christ's body! They have been seeded with the fruit of the Spirit, blessed and gifted by the Holy Spirit with the abilities humanity had when they were perfect in the garden. These stand ready to build a new earth. Ones that love the law, love each other and above all love God. Christ lives through the obedient, Satan through the lawless. Christ lives through the humble, Satan through the proud. As heaven and hell, Christ and Antichrist meet face to face through humanity the two realms, the spiritual and natural meet and become one and the victory now in the supernatural manifests on earth, Christ wins!