In the prophetic Scriptures of the Old Testament, there are clear statements that do not allow any private interpretation. According to Isaiah 7:14, the Son is Immanuel – God with us. “Behold, a virgin (not God) shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” In chapter 9, verse 6, the prophet Isaiah states: “For unto us a child is born, unto us (not to heavenly hosts, but to 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 (not everlasting Son), The Prince of Peace.” In Isaiah 35:4 the prophet Isaiah confirmed once again: “Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God (not a second person) with a recompence; he will come and save you.”

The same is testified in the New Testament: “Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.” (Romans 9:4-5) “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.” (1 John 5:20) “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Galatians 4:4-5)

The Lord Himself calls upon all those who are in religious Babylon, but belong to God’s people: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:17-18)

The apostle Paul did not only announce that after his departure grievous wolves would enter in among God’s flock and present false doctrines to draw away disciples after them (Acts 20:28-30), but he also painfully experienced this antichrist movement during his lifetime among those closest to him. He wrote to the local church in Corinth: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

The antichrist movements preaching another Jesus, i.e. not Yahshua, have their roots in early Christianity. The apostle mentioned in his admonition three things in particular. He reproached that another Jesus was preached, that believers received another Spirit and that another gospel was preached. In the epistle to Galatians, He was even led by the Holy Spirit to curse those who preach another gospel.

Regarding this threefold seduction, he surprisingly mentioned the example of the serpent that beguiled Eve. Just as Eve bore two sons, one of whom was of the wicked one (1 John 3:12) and became the first murderer on the earth, while the other was the offspring of Adam and pleasing to God, so there are true and false ones also among believers. On the one hand, there is a true proclamation of Jesus Christ our Lord, connected with the true Spirit of God and true preaching of the gospel. On the other hand, there are antichrist movements, which are under the influence of another spirit, another Jesus, preaching another gospel as a result, which is no longer the message of salvation.

John also writes about these intellectually believing Christians who are of the antichrist: “They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them…” (1 John 4:5). This statement is very clear. Intellectual arguments have been used to make a deity imaginable or comprehensible for humans and all who are of the world receive this secular way of thinking. The main argument is: the Son is not the Father and that is absolutely correct in the natural realm. However, God is supernatural, we cannot judge Him by human criteria. The Son says: “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

Concerning God’s true children, the apostle writes in the following verse: “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:6). So there are only two options: to be in the spirit of truth and know the true God as He is manifested or to fall under the spirit of error leading us away from the truth by earthly arguments.

In 1 John 2 from verse 18, the apostle started to deal with the antichrist topic by a most important note: “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.” It is remarkable that in connection with the last time, the antichrist is mentioned in singular and also that during the New Testament period many were and are under the antichrist influence.

The following verse is very sad and almost beyond comprehension, which testifies: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” It holds that the Lord knows His own (2 Timothy 2:19), which have been born again of the seed of the Word and of the Spirit unto a lively hope (James 1:18) and become partakers of God’s being and eternal life (1 John 5:20).

In the epistle of Jude we read about this diverging development: “Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain…” This antichrist movement truly exercised earthly power and shed blood as Cain had done. The Roman Triune Christianity has bathed in the blood of martyrs. Church historians do not agree on how many millions actually lost their lives during the thousand-year autocracy of the Roman Catholic Church. A lot of blood has also been spilled since the Reformation, especially by the Jesuit Order. In the last book of the Bible, Revelation, this antichrist institution is held accountable for the blood of all saints (Revelation 17:6, 18:24, 19:2 and others).

Just as Roman emperors from Nero to Diocletian, the cruelest one, had begun persecuting Christians, Constantine’s official church continues with it. Earthly power was coming from Rome and the Roman Church exercised it everywhere.

These two spiritual developments have existed since the very beginning just as there were Cain and Abel, Moses and Balam, Jesus and Judas: the true Ecclesia, the called-out church, the redeemed, reconciled with God, the host of the firstfruits redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. And there is also the apostate worldly church, which is defiled by blood, in which all others will be found.

Lord Jesus alone calls this development that deviated from the Word and the Spirit as false Christs and false prophets (i.e. false anointed ones). They are Christians that are anointed, but they believe and share what comes from the mouth of the false prophet. There are even signs and wonders in many of these movements to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. However, it is not possible, thanks God. For God’s true children, the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 19:10), as presented to us in the Holy Scriptures through the Spirit of prophecy and on the basis of the entire prophecy, is the only valid confession unto the Lord, Who says here: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

In the prophetic Scriptures of the Old Testament, there are clear statements that do not allow any private interpretation. According to Isaiah 7:14, the Son is Immanuel – God with us. “Behold, a virgin (not God) shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” In chapter 9, verse 6, the prophet Isaiah states: “For unto us a child is born, unto us (not to heavenly hosts, but to 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 (not everlasting Son), The Prince of Peace.” In Isaiah 35:4 the prophet Isaiah confirmed once again: “Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God (not a second person) with a recompence; he will come and save you.”

The same is testified in the New Testament: “Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.” (Romans 9:4-5) “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.” (1 John 5:20) “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Galatians 4:4-5)

The Lord Himself calls upon all those who are in religious Babylon, but belong to God’s people: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:17-18)

The apostle Paul did not only announce that after his departure grievous wolves would enter in among God’s flock and present false doctrines to draw away disciples after them (Acts 20:28-30), but he also painfully experienced this antichrist movement during his lifetime among those closest to him. He wrote to the local church in Corinth: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

The antichrist movements preaching another Jesus, i.e. not Yahshua, have their roots in early Christianity. The apostle mentioned in his admonition three things in particular. He reproached that another Jesus was preached, that believers received another Spirit and that another gospel was preached. In the epistle to Galatians, He was even led by the Holy Spirit to curse those who preach another gospel.

Regarding this threefold seduction, he surprisingly mentioned the example of the serpent that beguiled Eve. Just as Eve bore two sons, one of whom was of the wicked one (1 John 3:12) and became the first murderer on the earth, while the other was the offspring of Adam and pleasing to God, so there are true and false ones also among believers. On the one hand, there is a true proclamation of Jesus Christ our Lord, connected with the true Spirit of God and true preaching of the gospel. On the other hand, there are antichrist movements, which are under the influence of another spirit, another Jesus, preaching another gospel as a result, which is no longer the message of salvation.

John also writes about these intellectually believing Christians who are of the antichrist: “They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them…” (1 John 4:5). This statement is very clear. Intellectual arguments have been used to make a deity imaginable or comprehensible for humans and all who are of the world receive this secular way of thinking. The main argument is: the Son is not the Father and that is absolutely correct in the natural realm. However, God is supernatural, we cannot judge Him by human criteria. The Son says: “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

Concerning God’s true children, the apostle writes in the following verse: “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:6). So there are only two options: to be in the spirit of truth and know the true God as He is manifested or to fall under the spirit of error leading us away from the truth by earthly arguments.

In 1 John 2 from verse 18, the apostle started to deal with the antichrist topic by a most important note: “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.” It is remarkable that in connection with the last time, the antichrist is mentioned in singular and also that during the New Testament period many were and are under the antichrist influence.

The following verse is very sad and almost beyond comprehension, which testifies: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” It holds that the Lord knows His own (2 Timothy 2:19), which have been born again of the seed of the Word and of the Spirit unto a lively hope (James 1:18) and become partakers of God’s being and eternal life (1 John 5:20).

In the epistle of Jude we read about this diverging development: “Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain…” This antichrist movement truly exercised earthly power and shed blood as Cain had done. The Roman Triune Christianity has bathed in the blood of martyrs. Church historians do not agree on how many millions actually lost their lives during the thousand-year autocracy of the Roman Catholic Church. A lot of blood has also been spilled since the Reformation, especially by the Jesuit Order. In the last book of the Bible, Revelation, this antichrist institution is held accountable for the blood of all saints (Revelation 17:6, 18:24, 19:2 and others).

Just as Roman emperors from Nero to Diocletian, the cruelest one, had begun persecuting Christians, Constantine’s official church continues with it. Earthly power was coming from Rome and the Roman Church exercised it everywhere.

These two spiritual developments have existed since the very beginning just as there were Cain and Abel, Moses and Balam, Jesus and Judas: the true Ecclesia, the called-out church, the redeemed, reconciled with God, the host of the firstfruits redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. And there is also the apostate worldly church, which is defiled by blood, in which all others will be found.

Lord Jesus alone calls this development that deviated from the Word and the Spirit as false Christs and false prophets (i.e. false anointed ones). They are Christians that are anointed, but they believe and share what comes from the mouth of the false prophet. There are even signs and wonders in many of these movements to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. However, it is not possible, thanks God. For God’s true children, the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 19:10), as presented to us in the Holy Scriptures through the Spirit of prophecy and on the basis of the entire prophecy, is the only valid confession unto the Lord, Who says here: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”