Finally, we are going to look at the attributes of the Antichrist again. Paul spoke about him as being the lawless, that means, somebody who does not care about the Old Testament, which actually is the basis for the New. There was a part in the law of Moses, the Psalms and prophets which spoke about that what God would do in the New Testament. The law was broken by everyone; that is without question. All have trespassed the commandments. In Heb. 3: 5, the thought concerned is being brought forth like this, “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.” As already said, we are not to comply or burden ourselves with all the things written in the law, but we have to look for the shadows and types which concern the plan of salvation. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Mt. 5: 17–18). The expression “fulfilled” shows very clearly, beyond any shadow of doubt, that the prophetic part of the Old Testament is meant.

After His resurrection, we read of the Lord, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself” (Luke 24: 27). “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures” (verse 44–45).

We have to watch, as we are reading the New Testament that everytime we find the terminology “as the Scripture says” or “as it is written” it refers to the Old Testament. Jesus Christ, our Lord, preached at a time, when not a single line of the New Testament was written. And so did the apostles. Every true servant of God will use the Old and the New Testament together in his preaching. Of Paul, the great apostle, we read, “…there came many to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening” (Acts 28: 23).

Only if somebody proclaims the Kingdom of God in this original apostolic way, it will be possible to trace the doctrines of Christ and of the apostles right back to their beginning. In Acts 26: 22, the apostle testifies like this, “…saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come” (Acts 26: 22).

After Peter had spoken at the gathering in Acts 15, James stood up and said, “Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God first did visit the nations, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written…” (verse 13–15).

While reading the New Testament, we can see, the Lord and the apostles were constantly using the Old Testament. The lawless has a theology totally separated from the Old Testament, and the New Testament he explains and interprets as he likes.

This man also is being described as the son of perdition. Only one man before him was given the same title, and that was Judas. In John 17: 12, Jesus said of him, “…and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.” Just as Judas, the son of perdition, betrayed the cause of Christ, so does this man. Judas was the treasurer, and this man has the treasuries.

In John 13: 2, we read, “…the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him.” Both, Judas as well as the Antichrist, are being brought into direct connection with Satan. In John 6: 70, the Lord Jesus said, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” About the Antichrist in his last stage, Paul writes the following words, “…even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” (II Thess. 2: 9). Paul explains here about the work of Satan which is happening through lying signs and wonders. This reminds us of Rev. 16: 13–14, “And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon (Satan), and out of the mouth of the beast (political ruler), and out of the mouth of the false prophet (Antichrist). For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, that go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” This last battle will happen just before the commencement of God’s Kingdom on earth.

The Antichrist will play his role at the appointed time, when he that is holding up is being taken away (II Thes. 2: 6 + 7). Very clearly, this is not any human being or force but the Holy Spirit in the church of the living God, which is the only power to withstand the satanic forces. At the very moment the bride church will be taken up into glory, the Antichrist will come out to the open. Then, when Christ, the Lord, returns after the marriage supper as King of kings (Rev. 19: 11-21) with the redeemed for the one thousand years reign, the nations which gather against Israel will be slain and the Antichrist will be consumed by the spirit of His mouth (II Thess. 2: 8). The prophet Isaiah has spoken of the same event in chapter 11: 4, “…he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.”

Now we are coming to the most important marks of the Antichrist, and all who wish to be in glory should take these things seriously.

The disciple who was very close to the Lord Jesus asks in I John 2: 22 the question, “Who is the liar?” He also gives the reply right away and says, “…but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ. He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”

Whosoever denies that the one God revealed Himself as Father and Son is deceived by the antichrist lying spirit. God is the eternal Spirit (John 4: 24), and those who worship Him must do so in Spirit and in Truth. The Truth is His Word, and the Spirit always agrees with His Word. God is eternal, timeless, you cannot put Him into space, you cannot limit Him. He is infinite, as One He is all in all. He is the origin of all things which exist. At first He came out of this infinite “Spirit-fullness” into a theophany, which is a spiritual body. In this theophany form or shape He walked in the garden of Eden and manifested Himself throughout the whole period of the Old Testament.

His eternal purpose was to bring humanity back into the original state, wherein we were before the fall. In the Spirit-Body He could not die; therefore, He had to come out of that supernatural realm into the body of flesh to redeem us, because we had fallen in this body. Thus the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us in human form. He simply came out of that spiritual into the body of flesh to redeem us and finally transform us into His glorious body (I John 3: 2).

Jesus is the Lord, He can be no other than God Himself. “In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”; not a third or two parts, but the fullness (Col. 2: 9). What He said then is still valid today, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14: 9). He is Immanuel — “God with us” (Mt. 1: 23).

The antichrist spirit denies this manifestation as Father and Son and makes out of the one God different persons who should have co-existed alongside one another from eternity. In the last consequence the scriptural monotheism is changed into polytheism. That is the root and the direct influence of the antichrist spirit, which is against Christ, the Lord. There are not three personalities making one God — there is one God manifested as Father and Son, dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit.

Paul, a Jew and a Christian and apostle, writes of Jesus Christ, “…who is over all, God blessed forever” (Rom. 9: 5). The Lord said in the Old as well as in the New Testament the same: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Mark 12: 29–32; Dt. 6:4). Because humanity was lost, a redeemer became necessary. In Is. 43: 10–12, the Lord says, “…before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour … therefore, ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.” We were to be placed back as sons and daughters of God, and thus we see the greatest mystery of all as it has taken place. He had to become a Son, in order to make us His sons and daughters. So He came and was born into this world as the Son. But in His origin He was God, is God and for ever will be God. Of this Son, who was to be born according to prophecy, we read, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Is. 9: 6).

In spite of the revelation of God as Father and Son the Scripture only speaks about one God, never about two or three. Therefore, we don’t find a single time in the Bible the terminology of “trinity”, or “triune God”, or “eternal Son” and so forth. The doctrine of the trinity does not originate with the prophets and the apostles. It’s a product of the antichrist spirit who has turned the Godhead upside down. What Paul writes, should open the eyes of everyone, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the nations, believed on in the world, received up into glory” (I Tim. 3: 16).

The three revelations of God were not put as three separate persons, one beside the other, by any apostle. That is Hellenistic, philosophical and rational thinking of the human mind. There are not three who agree, there is One who is manifested in three different ways to accomplish His eternal purpose with humanity. In heaven He is our Father. That is why we pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven…” On earth He was manifested as the Son, as Redeemer, and therefore, it is absolutely necessary in order to be saved to believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, because that is the way He revealed Himself as our Saviour. Whoever has the Son has also the Father, who was manifested in the Son, and thereby has received eternal life. In the church the same God is working through the Holy Spirit. God was above us, then He was with us, and finally He found a way through redemption to dwell in us. The apostle puts it into these words, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life“ (I John 5: 20).

From the Old Testament period, which lasted approximately 4,000 years, not one single conversation between Father and Son is recorded. Not one time did He say, “My beloved Son, I will send you“ — in the contrary: He always spoke of coming Himself to be our Redeemer, for instance in Is. 35: 4–6 and Is. 40: 3, etc. Whenever the promise was given for the Messiah, that was for Him to be born into humanity, like in Psalms 2: 7 we read, “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.” It never states a single time that there was a Son of God in heaven who then became a Son of God on earth. The New Testament speaks very clearly about the immaculate conception of Christ. God became tangible in human form. He Himself became man. That is the incomprehensible, unexplainable mystery of His divine love. As Son, He suffered and died. God is a Spirit, and therefore, as such He cannot die. The redemption became necessary in the body of flesh to redeem us from this body of death (Heb. 2: 14–15). By His resurrection we have the guarantee for the resurrection body which we will receive (I Cor. 15: 50–57).

Jesus Christ is the Word that became flesh — the logos, the Yahweh, who came out of that fullness of Spirit and was revealed in the theophany which was a spiritual body. Then He came out of that realm and took upon Himself a body of flesh. That is the full and plain truth. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1: 1, 14). Jesus is not a minor God, He is the expressed image of God (Col. 1: 15-20). Just as God (Hebrew.: Elohim) was manifested as Lord (Hebrew.: Yahweh), in the same way the Father was manifested in the Son, the same being, the same person all the time — only different forms of appearance.

The apostle does not leave us in the dark, where this antichrist movement comes from. But he states very clearly, “They went out from us, but they were not of us” (I John 2: 19). This development does not originate with the Jews, it is simply a misunderstanding of those who joined the believing Christians without having had the same experience with Christ. Already in the first few hundred years after Christ this branch was taking form, but only after the council of Nicea, an universal organisation was made. Every Jew knows the first commandment, “I am the Lord thy God … Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Ex. 20: 1–3), and would never make three Gods.

Certainly, we have three distinct manifestations of God. This is why we, for example, read, “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all” (I Cor. 12: 4–6). We say “Amen” to that. But no apostle would have had the idea of benediction, “May the blessing of God the Father and of God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be with you.” The terminologies “God the Son” and “God the Holy Ghost” do not appear a single time in the whole Bible. They always go back to the origin, and thereby are identified with God. We read of the Son of God, about the Spirit of God, but a triune God would surely be a strange God. The doctrine of Christ and the doctrine of the Antichrist have for the shallow observer who doesn’t penetrate into the subject a great similarity, and it seems as though it was only a struggle with words. But they are never the same, in fact totally different from one another. The Christ that is being preached by the Antichrist is absolutely not the Christ of the Bible. Of course, it will only be seen by those whose eyes God will open and to whom He will reveal this mystery. “All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him” (Luke 10: 22).

The power of the Antichrist was already at work in its infancy right from the beginning. John called those who belong to this branch false prophets and speaks about them in I John 4: 1–3 and gives the following warning, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world.”

It is not the Antichrist only who doctrinally acts as a false prophet. There are many false prophets and false “Christs”, for they propagate the same teaching. Therefore, the Lord gave the warning about them in Mt. 24. All preachers, evangelists, pastors who have taken the false doctrines about Godhead, water baptism, etc. from that false prophet are contrary to the Word of God, and therefore, they are also false prophets and spiritually belong to the antichrist camp.

The word “Christ“ means “the anointed”. So there are many false anointed ones which are the false Christs, about whom our Lord was speaking. There are great men, miracle workers, with a mighty anointing, but are still false and bound in traditional teachings, defending the Antichrist without knowing it. Therefore, we have to watch, because the false and the right will be so close together, that if it were possible even the elect would be deceived. But thanks be to God, that they who are chosen will not be deceived. The Word of God was revealed to them by the Spirit of God whereby they were sealed.

Our Lord referred to those who were mightily used in spiritual gifts, but were still wrong. He said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out demons? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Mt. 7: 21–23). There is no need to vainly repeat the creeds which have become a tradition. Everything has to be examined and proved by the Word. Denominational traditions have replaced the apostolic doctrine. The Lord will judge everything according to His Word.

The Spirit of God will say the same thing everytime. That also applies to all the servants whom the Lord placed. Here we are not dealing with just a confession with our lips but rather, as Paul explains, that “no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit” (I Cor. 12: 3). As Lord He is God, and that is what we are concerned with. It is only he that can say out of the deepest conviction, “Jesus Christ is the Lord” who has received the revelation that the Yahweh of the Old and the Jesus of the New is the same self Lord. There is only one faith, one Lord, one baptism. Whosoever cannot believe this, is still under the delusion of the antichrist spirit, regardless to what religious denomination he might belong.

The following verse is given as a challenge and also as a self-examination. Whoever has the Spirit of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, will believe what He said after His resurrection, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty” (Rev. 1: 8). This is the testimony of our Lord and Saviour, who spoke of Himself as being the Almighty. Does anyone believe that there is more than one Almighty? Whether we read about God or any of His manifestations, it’s always in the singular. There is only one Creator, one Sustainer, one Saviour, one King, only one Father, one Son, one Holy Ghost; only one salvation, one church, one eternal life and so forth. Whatever proceeds out from God is always in the singular, but Him being expressed in a multifold plurality justifies the word Elohim.

Here we certainly don’t speak about the “Jesus Only” doctrine which is also unscriptural. Jesus did not bring Himself into existence, He did not pray to Himself. When He prayed it was not one weak God praying to another strong God; He did pray in His humanity as the Son of man. However, the Truth will be known to those who are born of that same seed of God’s Word and have the same Holy Spirit. The main thought which is basically used for this expositions is to bring forth the pure, unadulterated biblical doctrine, which has to be restored back again, right now at the end time. Only after the everlasting gospel is preached to all nations as a witness, then the end shall be (Mt. 24: 14). Not a man-tempered gospel, but the same gospel preached at the beginning!

Whether a Bible teacher or a Bible reader, all should profoundly and fundamentally make a comparison with all honesty. We should detect the difference between Christ, as He was originally taught, and in the way denominations speak about Him today. A comparison will show that there are two different Christs being presented. The same thing applies to all the other doctrines which have become part of the believers so much and anchored in them, and still they think if anyone speaks about Christ, the same has to be of God.

Because of this general attitude, many will find it hard to detect the Antichrist straightaways. The one, the Scripture very clearly describes as such, presents himself to the masses of all nationalities and before all religions and speaks about Christ. Therefore, people don’t even dare to think that such a man could be the adversary of Christ.

Just take for example the historical visit of the Pope in India, where he spoke to a very large multitude of Hindus and said, “Christ is found in every religion.” Here we have to ask, what kind of a Christ? The one Mary still holds in her arms as a baby? The one that is made of some sort of a material and attached at a cross? The one that can be used for every purpose? The self-made? The one that becomes Christ from a baked piece of wafer after the repetition of “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus”? The Christ who listens to Mary? The one who has many mediators put around him? The Christ whose ascension to heaven fades away, because the ascension of Mary in soul and body is so much more emphasised? The Christ that has to give way to the queen of heaven? and so forth.

The Christ which is being presented by the Pope’s church is not the Christ of God; that is a Christ who is being formed and placed as needed. Such a Christ, of course, is everywhere, wherever we put him or lift him up or carry him. He is always there as we need him. But that is not the Christ described to us in the Bible whom we know by experience as Lord, as Saviour, as King and as Judge. Finally we will come to know Him as God. Just as Yahweh became Jesus, so Jesus will be Yahweh. To confess Christ with our lips has nothing to say whatsoever. The spirit has to be tested and proven. The doctrines have to be compared. The Christ whom we find in the Holy Scriptures is not the way we form him. He is above every concept, above every understanding and the same, yesterday, today and for ever (Heb. 13: 8).

As we can see from the Scripture itself, Christ always referred to the Word of God. Therefore, we must emphasise once again that a verbal expression or referring or confessing about Christ means nothing. It has to be the Christ we mean, we teach, we love and speak of, found and described in the Holy Scriptures. The decision, whom one likes to believe and trust, must be made by everyone himself. Here only the advice can be given to critically search these spiritual matters and come to the revelation of God and His Word and His plan of salvation and believe it with all your heart.

We are now living very near to the consummation. The time of grace will soon end. Without compromise we must put all the Bible truths back onto the candlestick again. There are many revival preachers and there were also great men in the past who, in various ages, have brought forth again truths which were hidden before and the established churches withstood them. Many have given their lives for the Word of God. All true believers are called upon to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). We are now in the last battle. The victory will be with those who stand with Him that overcame death and hell and Satan and rose on the third day as the great Conqueror. As we take our stand with God, He will be with us, until we come to see what we believe. The gates of hell will not prevail against the true church. The final victory will be God’s, and those who believe Him will participate in it.

May all readers be blessed in a special way, is my prayer. “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Phil. 4: 23).

Finally, we are going to look at the attributes of the Antichrist again. Paul spoke about him as being the lawless, that means, somebody who does not care about the Old Testament, which actually is the basis for the New. There was a part in the law of Moses, the Psalms and prophets which spoke about that what God would do in the New Testament. The law was broken by everyone; that is without question. All have trespassed the commandments. In Heb. 3: 5, the thought concerned is being brought forth like this, “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.” As already said, we are not to comply or burden ourselves with all the things written in the law, but we have to look for the shadows and types which concern the plan of salvation. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Mt. 5: 17–18). The expression “fulfilled” shows very clearly, beyond any shadow of doubt, that the prophetic part of the Old Testament is meant.

After His resurrection, we read of the Lord, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself” (Luke 24: 27). “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures” (verse 44–45).

We have to watch, as we are reading the New Testament that everytime we find the terminology “as the Scripture says” or “as it is written” it refers to the Old Testament. Jesus Christ, our Lord, preached at a time, when not a single line of the New Testament was written. And so did the apostles. Every true servant of God will use the Old and the New Testament together in his preaching. Of Paul, the great apostle, we read, “…there came many to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening” (Acts 28: 23).

Only if somebody proclaims the Kingdom of God in this original apostolic way, it will be possible to trace the doctrines of Christ and of the apostles right back to their beginning. In Acts 26: 22, the apostle testifies like this, “…saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come” (Acts 26: 22).

After Peter had spoken at the gathering in Acts 15, James stood up and said, “Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God first did visit the nations, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written…” (verse 13–15).

While reading the New Testament, we can see, the Lord and the apostles were constantly using the Old Testament. The lawless has a theology totally separated from the Old Testament, and the New Testament he explains and interprets as he likes.

This man also is being described as the son of perdition. Only one man before him was given the same title, and that was Judas. In John 17: 12, Jesus said of him, “…and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.” Just as Judas, the son of perdition, betrayed the cause of Christ, so does this man. Judas was the treasurer, and this man has the treasuries.

In John 13: 2, we read, “…the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him.” Both, Judas as well as the Antichrist, are being brought into direct connection with Satan. In John 6: 70, the Lord Jesus said, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” About the Antichrist in his last stage, Paul writes the following words, “…even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” (II Thess. 2: 9). Paul explains here about the work of Satan which is happening through lying signs and wonders. This reminds us of Rev. 16: 13–14, “And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon (Satan), and out of the mouth of the beast (political ruler), and out of the mouth of the false prophet (Antichrist). For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, that go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” This last battle will happen just before the commencement of God’s Kingdom on earth.

The Antichrist will play his role at the appointed time, when he that is holding up is being taken away (II Thes. 2: 6 + 7). Very clearly, this is not any human being or force but the Holy Spirit in the church of the living God, which is the only power to withstand the satanic forces. At the very moment the bride church will be taken up into glory, the Antichrist will come out to the open. Then, when Christ, the Lord, returns after the marriage supper as King of kings (Rev. 19: 11-21) with the redeemed for the one thousand years reign, the nations which gather against Israel will be slain and the Antichrist will be consumed by the spirit of His mouth (II Thess. 2: 8). The prophet Isaiah has spoken of the same event in chapter 11: 4, “…he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.”

Now we are coming to the most important marks of the Antichrist, and all who wish to be in glory should take these things seriously.

The disciple who was very close to the Lord Jesus asks in I John 2: 22 the question, “Who is the liar?” He also gives the reply right away and says, “…but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ. He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”

Whosoever denies that the one God revealed Himself as Father and Son is deceived by the antichrist lying spirit. God is the eternal Spirit (John 4: 24), and those who worship Him must do so in Spirit and in Truth. The Truth is His Word, and the Spirit always agrees with His Word. God is eternal, timeless, you cannot put Him into space, you cannot limit Him. He is infinite, as One He is all in all. He is the origin of all things which exist. At first He came out of this infinite “Spirit-fullness” into a theophany, which is a spiritual body. In this theophany form or shape He walked in the garden of Eden and manifested Himself throughout the whole period of the Old Testament.

His eternal purpose was to bring humanity back into the original state, wherein we were before the fall. In the Spirit-Body He could not die; therefore, He had to come out of that supernatural realm into the body of flesh to redeem us, because we had fallen in this body. Thus the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us in human form. He simply came out of that spiritual into the body of flesh to redeem us and finally transform us into His glorious body (I John 3: 2).

Jesus is the Lord, He can be no other than God Himself. “In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”; not a third or two parts, but the fullness (Col. 2: 9). What He said then is still valid today, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14: 9). He is Immanuel — “God with us” (Mt. 1: 23).

The antichrist spirit denies this manifestation as Father and Son and makes out of the one God different persons who should have co-existed alongside one another from eternity. In the last consequence the scriptural monotheism is changed into polytheism. That is the root and the direct influence of the antichrist spirit, which is against Christ, the Lord. There are not three personalities making one God — there is one God manifested as Father and Son, dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit.

Paul, a Jew and a Christian and apostle, writes of Jesus Christ, “…who is over all, God blessed forever” (Rom. 9: 5). The Lord said in the Old as well as in the New Testament the same: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Mark 12: 29–32; Dt. 6:4). Because humanity was lost, a redeemer became necessary. In Is. 43: 10–12, the Lord says, “…before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour … therefore, ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.” We were to be placed back as sons and daughters of God, and thus we see the greatest mystery of all as it has taken place. He had to become a Son, in order to make us His sons and daughters. So He came and was born into this world as the Son. But in His origin He was God, is God and for ever will be God. Of this Son, who was to be born according to prophecy, we read, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Is. 9: 6).

In spite of the revelation of God as Father and Son the Scripture only speaks about one God, never about two or three. Therefore, we don’t find a single time in the Bible the terminology of “trinity”, or “triune God”, or “eternal Son” and so forth. The doctrine of the trinity does not originate with the prophets and the apostles. It’s a product of the antichrist spirit who has turned the Godhead upside down. What Paul writes, should open the eyes of everyone, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the nations, believed on in the world, received up into glory” (I Tim. 3: 16).

The three revelations of God were not put as three separate persons, one beside the other, by any apostle. That is Hellenistic, philosophical and rational thinking of the human mind. There are not three who agree, there is One who is manifested in three different ways to accomplish His eternal purpose with humanity. In heaven He is our Father. That is why we pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven…” On earth He was manifested as the Son, as Redeemer, and therefore, it is absolutely necessary in order to be saved to believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, because that is the way He revealed Himself as our Saviour. Whoever has the Son has also the Father, who was manifested in the Son, and thereby has received eternal life. In the church the same God is working through the Holy Spirit. God was above us, then He was with us, and finally He found a way through redemption to dwell in us. The apostle puts it into these words, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life“ (I John 5: 20).

From the Old Testament period, which lasted approximately 4,000 years, not one single conversation between Father and Son is recorded. Not one time did He say, “My beloved Son, I will send you“ — in the contrary: He always spoke of coming Himself to be our Redeemer, for instance in Is. 35: 4–6 and Is. 40: 3, etc. Whenever the promise was given for the Messiah, that was for Him to be born into humanity, like in Psalms 2: 7 we read, “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.” It never states a single time that there was a Son of God in heaven who then became a Son of God on earth. The New Testament speaks very clearly about the immaculate conception of Christ. God became tangible in human form. He Himself became man. That is the incomprehensible, unexplainable mystery of His divine love. As Son, He suffered and died. God is a Spirit, and therefore, as such He cannot die. The redemption became necessary in the body of flesh to redeem us from this body of death (Heb. 2: 14–15). By His resurrection we have the guarantee for the resurrection body which we will receive (I Cor. 15: 50–57).

Jesus Christ is the Word that became flesh — the logos, the Yahweh, who came out of that fullness of Spirit and was revealed in the theophany which was a spiritual body. Then He came out of that realm and took upon Himself a body of flesh. That is the full and plain truth. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1: 1, 14). Jesus is not a minor God, He is the expressed image of God (Col. 1: 15-20). Just as God (Hebrew.: Elohim) was manifested as Lord (Hebrew.: Yahweh), in the same way the Father was manifested in the Son, the same being, the same person all the time — only different forms of appearance.

The apostle does not leave us in the dark, where this antichrist movement comes from. But he states very clearly, “They went out from us, but they were not of us” (I John 2: 19). This development does not originate with the Jews, it is simply a misunderstanding of those who joined the believing Christians without having had the same experience with Christ. Already in the first few hundred years after Christ this branch was taking form, but only after the council of Nicea, an universal organisation was made. Every Jew knows the first commandment, “I am the Lord thy God … Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Ex. 20: 1–3), and would never make three Gods.

Certainly, we have three distinct manifestations of God. This is why we, for example, read, “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all” (I Cor. 12: 4–6). We say “Amen” to that. But no apostle would have had the idea of benediction, “May the blessing of God the Father and of God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be with you.” The terminologies “God the Son” and “God the Holy Ghost” do not appear a single time in the whole Bible. They always go back to the origin, and thereby are identified with God. We read of the Son of God, about the Spirit of God, but a triune God would surely be a strange God. The doctrine of Christ and the doctrine of the Antichrist have for the shallow observer who doesn’t penetrate into the subject a great similarity, and it seems as though it was only a struggle with words. But they are never the same, in fact totally different from one another. The Christ that is being preached by the Antichrist is absolutely not the Christ of the Bible. Of course, it will only be seen by those whose eyes God will open and to whom He will reveal this mystery. “All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him” (Luke 10: 22).

The power of the Antichrist was already at work in its infancy right from the beginning. John called those who belong to this branch false prophets and speaks about them in I John 4: 1–3 and gives the following warning, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world.”

It is not the Antichrist only who doctrinally acts as a false prophet. There are many false prophets and false “Christs”, for they propagate the same teaching. Therefore, the Lord gave the warning about them in Mt. 24. All preachers, evangelists, pastors who have taken the false doctrines about Godhead, water baptism, etc. from that false prophet are contrary to the Word of God, and therefore, they are also false prophets and spiritually belong to the antichrist camp.

The word “Christ“ means “the anointed”. So there are many false anointed ones which are the false Christs, about whom our Lord was speaking. There are great men, miracle workers, with a mighty anointing, but are still false and bound in traditional teachings, defending the Antichrist without knowing it. Therefore, we have to watch, because the false and the right will be so close together, that if it were possible even the elect would be deceived. But thanks be to God, that they who are chosen will not be deceived. The Word of God was revealed to them by the Spirit of God whereby they were sealed.

Our Lord referred to those who were mightily used in spiritual gifts, but were still wrong. He said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out demons? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Mt. 7: 21–23). There is no need to vainly repeat the creeds which have become a tradition. Everything has to be examined and proved by the Word. Denominational traditions have replaced the apostolic doctrine. The Lord will judge everything according to His Word.

The Spirit of God will say the same thing everytime. That also applies to all the servants whom the Lord placed. Here we are not dealing with just a confession with our lips but rather, as Paul explains, that “no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit” (I Cor. 12: 3). As Lord He is God, and that is what we are concerned with. It is only he that can say out of the deepest conviction, “Jesus Christ is the Lord” who has received the revelation that the Yahweh of the Old and the Jesus of the New is the same self Lord. There is only one faith, one Lord, one baptism. Whosoever cannot believe this, is still under the delusion of the antichrist spirit, regardless to what religious denomination he might belong.

The following verse is given as a challenge and also as a self-examination. Whoever has the Spirit of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, will believe what He said after His resurrection, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty” (Rev. 1: 8). This is the testimony of our Lord and Saviour, who spoke of Himself as being the Almighty. Does anyone believe that there is more than one Almighty? Whether we read about God or any of His manifestations, it’s always in the singular. There is only one Creator, one Sustainer, one Saviour, one King, only one Father, one Son, one Holy Ghost; only one salvation, one church, one eternal life and so forth. Whatever proceeds out from God is always in the singular, but Him being expressed in a multifold plurality justifies the word Elohim.

Here we certainly don’t speak about the “Jesus Only” doctrine which is also unscriptural. Jesus did not bring Himself into existence, He did not pray to Himself. When He prayed it was not one weak God praying to another strong God; He did pray in His humanity as the Son of man. However, the Truth will be known to those who are born of that same seed of God’s Word and have the same Holy Spirit. The main thought which is basically used for this expositions is to bring forth the pure, unadulterated biblical doctrine, which has to be restored back again, right now at the end time. Only after the everlasting gospel is preached to all nations as a witness, then the end shall be (Mt. 24: 14). Not a man-tempered gospel, but the same gospel preached at the beginning!

Whether a Bible teacher or a Bible reader, all should profoundly and fundamentally make a comparison with all honesty. We should detect the difference between Christ, as He was originally taught, and in the way denominations speak about Him today. A comparison will show that there are two different Christs being presented. The same thing applies to all the other doctrines which have become part of the believers so much and anchored in them, and still they think if anyone speaks about Christ, the same has to be of God.

Because of this general attitude, many will find it hard to detect the Antichrist straightaways. The one, the Scripture very clearly describes as such, presents himself to the masses of all nationalities and before all religions and speaks about Christ. Therefore, people don’t even dare to think that such a man could be the adversary of Christ.

Just take for example the historical visit of the Pope in India, where he spoke to a very large multitude of Hindus and said, “Christ is found in every religion.” Here we have to ask, what kind of a Christ? The one Mary still holds in her arms as a baby? The one that is made of some sort of a material and attached at a cross? The one that can be used for every purpose? The self-made? The one that becomes Christ from a baked piece of wafer after the repetition of “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus”? The Christ who listens to Mary? The one who has many mediators put around him? The Christ whose ascension to heaven fades away, because the ascension of Mary in soul and body is so much more emphasised? The Christ that has to give way to the queen of heaven? and so forth.

The Christ which is being presented by the Pope’s church is not the Christ of God; that is a Christ who is being formed and placed as needed. Such a Christ, of course, is everywhere, wherever we put him or lift him up or carry him. He is always there as we need him. But that is not the Christ described to us in the Bible whom we know by experience as Lord, as Saviour, as King and as Judge. Finally we will come to know Him as God. Just as Yahweh became Jesus, so Jesus will be Yahweh. To confess Christ with our lips has nothing to say whatsoever. The spirit has to be tested and proven. The doctrines have to be compared. The Christ whom we find in the Holy Scriptures is not the way we form him. He is above every concept, above every understanding and the same, yesterday, today and for ever (Heb. 13: 8).

As we can see from the Scripture itself, Christ always referred to the Word of God. Therefore, we must emphasise once again that a verbal expression or referring or confessing about Christ means nothing. It has to be the Christ we mean, we teach, we love and speak of, found and described in the Holy Scriptures. The decision, whom one likes to believe and trust, must be made by everyone himself. Here only the advice can be given to critically search these spiritual matters and come to the revelation of God and His Word and His plan of salvation and believe it with all your heart.

We are now living very near to the consummation. The time of grace will soon end. Without compromise we must put all the Bible truths back onto the candlestick again. There are many revival preachers and there were also great men in the past who, in various ages, have brought forth again truths which were hidden before and the established churches withstood them. Many have given their lives for the Word of God. All true believers are called upon to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). We are now in the last battle. The victory will be with those who stand with Him that overcame death and hell and Satan and rose on the third day as the great Conqueror. As we take our stand with God, He will be with us, until we come to see what we believe. The gates of hell will not prevail against the true church. The final victory will be God’s, and those who believe Him will participate in it.

May all readers be blessed in a special way, is my prayer. “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Phil. 4: 23).