Our examples:
Jesus said:
John 5:30
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.
As HE heard from God, Jesus spoke.
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As the apostle Paul heard from God, he spoke.
I Corinthians 2:1-7
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 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.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
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In 1982, I was reading in 2 Thessalonians 2, and God began teaching me about antichrist and the end time apostasy in the churches.
For several years after that, from time to time, God would teach me additional things about antichrist.
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4 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.
As I read this, God said to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the churches. The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
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The
churches I had been attending at that time were teaching that
antichrist was one man and he was a man in the governments of men of
this world.
A small group of woman were speaking about antichrist and one woman said she thought antichrist was Henry Kissinger.
I had been reading Leo Tolstoy's book, "War and Peace," and Tolstoy said the Russian people thought antichrist was Napoleon.
During WWII, some church people thought Adolph Hitler was the antichrist.
My
aunt thought the Catholic church and the pope were antichrist. (By what
God showed me, this is more nearly correct, but you have to include
protestant churches also in the apostasy of the end times.)
Here is what God showed me:
I John 2:18 (John said:) 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.
Antichrist was not one man but was a "spirit" operating though many men in the church groups.
I John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
The apostle Paul was speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus and he said:
Acts 20
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Antichrist
was already sitting there among them in the church at Ephesus and just
waiting to take over and speak perverse doctrines to the church group.
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And
God showed me many pastors who spoke things opposite from scripture and
added doctrines to their churches which was "anti" Christ, opposite to
Christ, The WORD, the New Testament Bible.
When I heard them and knew it was not of God, I went to many with the things they had taught. Not once did any pastor repent or show any sorrow over the wrong teaching he had done.
There is no repentance with antichrist.
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When
Jesus returns, HE will raise the dead in Christ and send HIS angels to
gather the elect of God from off this earth and take them to the new
heaven and new earth.
At the return of Jesus antichrist and the apostate churches and their followers will be destroyed by Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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