{"id":144,"date":"2011-05-08T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realbiblestudy.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-05-08T20:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:48:58","slug":"antichrist-a-person-or-a-spirit-of-evil-behind-political-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Antichrist–a Person or a spirit of evil behind political power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi, India’s leading Christian scholar, stated on May 2, 2011 (as reported at http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/christian-scholar-america-could-produce-antichrist-of-the-21st-century-50078\/),<\/p>\n

“The antichrist is an invention of American eschatology,” said the India-born scholar who now resides in California. “I’m using the word antichrist exactly as the New Testament uses it, which is different than the way American eschatology uses it, which is the Antichrist.”<\/p>\n

Notice Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi believes that the United States could produce the next Antichrist, just as Germany produced Hitler. Dr. Mangalwadi has not done his Bible study homework. There is no possible way that Antichrist could come from the United States of America. The Bible does tell us where Antichrist will<\/em> come from, but apparently most Bible-reading, Bible believing Christians are unaware of this bit of information to be found in the Bible. Some of the most significant clues are furnished by a passage in Daniel (Daniel 11:40) and Micah (Micah 5:5). <\/p>\n

The term “antichrist” appears in the following New Testament passages:<\/p>\n

1Jn 2:18 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. <\/p>\n

1Jn 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. <\/p>\n

1Jn 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.<\/p>\n

2Jn 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. <\/p>\n

The “spirit of antichrist,” the Apostle John wrote, was already in the world even at the time he wrote 1 John 4:3.<\/p>\n

John equates the antichrist spirit with those individuals or movements that deny the fundamental Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ has come “in the flesh.”<\/p>\n

No false cult or false religion will assert straightforwardly that Jesus Christ was God in human form. This doctrine in theology is the doctrine of the Incarnation.<\/p>\n

This doctrine is denied by Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland in their writings. These men are or were leaders in the Charismatic Movement. They believe and assert that Jesus was God before he took on human form, and was God once again when he returned to heaven some forty days after the resurrection, but Jesus was not God in human form from the time of his birth in Bethlehem to the time of his death on the Cross.<\/p>\n

Hagin and Copeland misunderstand Philippians 2:7 (Young’s Literal Translation),<\/p>\n

Php 2:7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, <\/p>\n

for they believe as a man Jesus emptied himself of all the attributes of Deity. This involves what is called “The Kenosis Theory” in theology. Many in the Word of Faith church or movement have been taught this heresy. Others likewise fall into this error.<\/p>\n

But the Bible is very clear when it states at Hebrews 13:8,<\/p>\n

Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. <\/p>\n

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, has never changed in his Person, and has never given up any of his divine attributes, including the attribute of immutability or changelessness asserted of him in Hebrews 13:8.<\/p>\n

My point is that it is apostasy and heresy, a departure from the faith, to deny that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. Such denial is the spirit of antichrist.<\/p>\n

But a careful reading even of these few texts which directly use the term antichrist<\/em> would show to every reader that antichrist is referred to as a person<\/em> when John states “ye have heard that antichrist shall come” (1 John 2:18).<\/p>\n

Beyond this solid evidence related directly to the term “antichrist” is the large body of evidence throughout the Bible which discusses this person under many different names and titles. Ignoring or denying this evidence in the Bible won’t make it go away.<\/p>\n

Every careful Bible reader who engages in Real Bible Study<\/strong> surely knows that the Antichrist is a person who, as of this writing, is yet to appear.<\/p>\n

If you agree with Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi and therefore disagree with me, let’s talk about it here!<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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