The desire to be wise.

Joan Boney … apostle/prophet

God gave Adam and Eve everything they needed to live well on this earth.

The desire to "be wise" and take the place of God and do it all themselves got in the way.

Genesis 3:1-6    Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

(exactly opposite to that which God said)

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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The primary characteristic of antichrist is to be "as God" … to take the place of God, departing from scripture.

II Thessalonians 2:3-4    Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

First, they would "fall away" from scripture … Scripture would no longer be the main thing ruling over them.  They would still profess some scripture, but scripture would no longer rule in all of their decisions and doctrines.  They would exalt their own thinking over the scripture and change the scriptures to suit their thinking, becoming their own god.

Romans 1:22    Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Forgetting that the Holy Scripture make us wise through God and through faith in God.

II Timothy 3:15 … the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

They no longer needed the scriptures to make themselves wise for they considered they were wise in themselves, knowing "good and evil", therefore knowing what to do without asking God.

(Some scriptures they kept but many scriptures they explained away by their own thinking, by that which seemed wise to them in their own eyes, fulfilling their own lust.)

They no longer turned from their sins but rather approved themselves in their sins by twisting the scriptures to suit themselves.

Romans 1:28   And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

(A reprobate mind is a mind without God's judgment.)

Romans 1:29-32    Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful

 (implacable:  not placable, not capable of being appeased, unyielding, unforgiving, inflexible, unbending, vindictive, someone who cannot be calmed or made less angry.) 

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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II Thessalonians 2:10-12    And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

When they become completely past all reason and cannot be reached, how can they not be under a strong delusion, and if that strong delusion has been given them by God how can it be broken us by humans?

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The fruits of their own wisdom in matters has destroyed them.  They wanted to be as gods.  They cast aside portions of scripture which would have brought them to their senses again.

They ended up "eating and drinking to their own damnation."

I Corinthians 11:29     For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

II Timothy 3:7   Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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Matthew 18:3   Jesus says:  Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

"a little child" … 

Philippians 3:9   not having mine own righteousness,

Even refusing to know anything other than Christ … as Paul determined to do.

I Corinthians 2:2    For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Doing as Jesus, understanding of our own selves we can do nothing.

John 5:30   Jesus says:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

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In their desire to be wise, they became antichrist … opposite to Christ, the Word.

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Can such be saved?

*  Is any thing too hard for the Lord?   (Genesis 18:14)

*  And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.  (Mark 10:27)

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