A DEEPER LOOK AT ANTI-CHRIST

Part One

Apostle Jacquelyn Fedor

WHO WILL OVERCOME ANTI-CHRIST?

In Revelation 21: 7 it tells us, he who "overcomes" will inherit all things. 1 John 5: 4 assures us, if we are born of God we can "overcome" this world and this victory is obtained through our faith. Romans 10: 17 says that faith comes from hearing the word of God and Revelation 21: 11 says that we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb (positionally) and the Word of our testimony (experientially), or we could say, we "overcome" by what we know of God. The Truth concerning His ability to perform the promises He has made to His people, His love for mankind, and gaining a better understanding of what His plans are for the church, is what our faith is built on. When the enemy comes against us with His illusions and lies, he can only fail if we are looking at the situation through the Truth concerning the matter. God never goes back on His Word. In fact, He hastens to perform it. Abraham saw this Truth.

Rom 4:20-21
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully convinced that what He (God) had promised He was also able to perform.

Revelation 17: 4 also tells us the Lamb will "overcome" the enemies of the Kingdom of God because He is the Lord of lords and King of kings "and" He is the Word. He is our testimony.

Rev 19:13
13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Remember John 1: 1 where it tells us in the beginning was the Word and then in Revelation 22: 13 it says He is the end as well. So it was the Word in the beginning and it is the Word at the end. He is Truth. He is Life.

John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the Truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The Word is not only our road map, the Way, but He is also both Truth and Life.

The Word or Truth in Strongs Concordance means to establish, set office, make firm, set at the right hand, prosperous etc. The human race was all of these things in the beginning, but they bought the lie. They were deceived. All they did was in vain after that. Truth establishes, lies divide and corrupt. Truth will conquer the lie in the end however. Jesus is the Father of Truth. Satan is the father of lies. Only the children of Truth (or Jesus) will be standing in the end. They will be the "overcomers" that walk into the "age to come".

John 16:13
13 "However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Children of the lie (Satan) will be unstable, poor spiritually, uninformed and cannot "overcome". They will not see the new age, the new day, the age to come!

THE BODY OF CHRIST VERSUS THE BODY OF SATAN

If Jesus is Truth, then His body must be made of people that have heard Truth, received it, changed and become that Truth also. As His body comes together and spreads this Truth to others, the Kingdom of God is established. His offices are set. All becomes stable and trustworthy. Uprightness prevails or overcomes the kingdom of man that is governed by Satan. Now the new Kingdom age of Truth can be ushered in. This is why as Truth is revealed we must eat heartily of it. It is the tree of Life that will allow us to live forever. Truth is the backbone of the church that will help it to stand firm and overcome in the face of the enemy as Satan makes the attempt to bring corruption, defeat and finally death.

1 Cor 15:53-54
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

The trumpets of Truth are blowing loud and clear. Are we listening? They are sounding a message of glad tidings that will crumble the lies this old world is established on, and her systems will fall. We must ask ourselves, are we spiritually governed by God's Mountain (Sion) and do we live in the hope of being His City, His Bride (New Jerusalem), or are we a part of the corrupt and failing systems and establishments of man? In other words, are we a part of Truth, the body of Christ, or are we still walking in lies? If we are a part of false doctrine and do not really care enough to change, and are still living by the world's standards, then we are a part of the body of those that oppose Truth, that do not adhere to the Word. Perhaps we even claim to love Christ, but are in fact not established in Truth at all. How can we love the Lord when He is Truth, and yet love the lukewarm church and the world systems that support her? Here is the Truth.

I Jn 2:15-18
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world-- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-- is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

By being anti-Truth, are we not anti the Word, or "anti-Christ"? There are many out there that will not receive the Word or Truth as He is being revealed, nor will they receive His children that are in His image.

I Jn 3:1-2
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. (He is Truth.)

WHICH BODY ARE WE A PART OF?

Supernaturally the body of Christ is being raised against the body of Anti-Christ. Sadly there are many that are not even aware of being caught up in the lie that has established Satan's religions and world, and unknowingly are a part of the body of Satan, or the body of Anti-Christ. What maturity level are we? Do we still like the world's music? Do we still enjoy the world's games? Do we still prefer the world's people? What about the clothes the world wears? Do we follow their trends? Do we look like them? Do we act like them? When God harvests the earth and gathers those of His Kingdom, will we be marked and recognized as Abraham's seed, or Adam's? Are we Christ's crop, or Satan's? If we are caught up in these things we must stop what we are doing, repent and change, and not be deceived and ensnared again in the lie. We will die!

I Jn 3:7-8
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Read Genesis 3: 4 and 5 to recognize the lie.

Gen 3:4-5
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die (the first part of the lie).
5 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil (the second part of the lie)."

Their eyes were opened for the first time to see into this soulish realm where evil dwelled alongside of good and tainted all of perfect creation. As their spirits died, Adam and Eve and all after them, could not see God's Kingdom any longer unless God would open the closed eyes of their spirit as He did at Genesis 21: 19 for Hagar. Hagar and her child were starving for water in a dried up wasteland. She cried out to God. He heard the child crying.

Gen 21:19
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

She physically brought water from the supernatural to this realm. Eve physically brought both she and Adam to this realm. An angel (messenger) with a sword (Truth) keeps them from the Kingdom until God gives the Way back in. The Kingdom is very real. Because of the lie however, we are spiritually dead to it and the provision that abounds there.

Who actually was the serpent that deceived Eve? See Revelation 12: 9.

Rev 12:9
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

THE LAWLESS ONE, THE MAN OF SIN

Satan was the original father of the lie. He rebelled against God's law and was the original lawless one. All that are engaged in his world are at heart lawless ones also, and in his image. In the economy of Satan for instance, cheating is considered being slick. Lying the way out of a situation is cunning, and not being caught at any of it is considered clever. Immorality is accepted, be it adultery or homosexuality, and addiction to drugs, food and alcohol is a norm. All of this is in opposition to God. He lists such things as abominations and those that participate are certainly not a part of His body. They are a part of the body of Anti-Christ. Truth tells us that at the end of this world of Satan, the righteous will enter into God's city (New Jerusalem), but those that walk in the above abominations and lies will not be able to enter.

Rev 21:27
27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Those that consider themselves Christians, that deliberately walk in the filth mentioned above are no better than the religious leaders Jesus spoke to in John 8: 43-47.

John 8:43-47
43 "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.
44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
45 "But because I tell the Truth, you do not believe Me.
46 "Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the Truth, why do you not believe Me?
47 "He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."

How would you like to hear "you are not of God"?

Think about this, there will be a time that the church moves from Christianity to Eternity where there will be no sickness, no death, no evil or any sorrow. Everyone that has been faithful and walking in Truth is excitedly waiting much like the early church waited in the upper room for the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Maybe we didn't make the changes we should have however, or maybe some of the Truth released seemed too hard so we just kinda ignored it. Maybe we are so busy trying to be successful that we don't have the time to check to see if we are walking in false doctrines or the lies of Satan. In Matthew, Jesus warns us:

Matt 7:22-23
22 "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' (These are church people!)
23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

It is such a shame that much of the church today walks in the way of the world. They do not really separate themselves from it, and in their heart, feel very much a part of it. These are exposed to the evil anointing on a daily basis that draws humanity to unrighteousness. It is the ultimate goal of Satan to lure mankind into his evil anointing. It guarantees our defeat because it corrupts our thinking, and corruption cannot become immortal. It can only affect us however because in our hearts we invite it. There admittedly is a thrill or certain excitement when the forbidden is tasted, and that rush of emotion is caused by this opposite anointing that resides in evil. Beware! This anointing is also in direct opposition to the Messiah, the Christ, and is the opponent of the anointing of God that draws humanity towards righteousness. Those that walk in Satan's tainted anointing are a part of the body that manifests as Anti-Christ. Had they hungered for Truth and been saturated in the anointing that is on it, they would not have been deceived into becoming a part of the lawless one. The anointing on Truth is greater than the anointing on evil and breaks the yoke of lawlessness. It is therefore imperative for Satan to find ways to lure us into the company of Adam and his world.

Truth and the anointing on it exposes sin so humanity can repent and be saved, while the lie and its counterfeit anointing says we have the right to choose for ourselves good and evil, or what we think is right or wrong. If we listen to the lie, we become a part of the man of sin, the lawless one, and fall away from the faithful and triumphant church that overcomes the world and establishes God's Kingdom. We become Anti-Christ. We will die.

II Th 2:8-12
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed (those who refuse to walk with Truth), whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth (the Word and song of prophecy) and destroy with the brightness of His coming (Truth's anointing is a light that exposes sin).
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the Truth, that they might be saved (If we don't love Truth, we don't love Jesus).
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (Notice, God will send them delusion),
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

You have just met the son of perdition, the man of sin, the lawless one, or Anti-Christ. So, we see an Anti-Christ is one who does not develop a love for Truth or the Word. In Jesus there is no lie. In Jesus there is no evil: all is good, all is righteous. Jesus is the Tree of Life. He is the Christ, the Anointed. The leaves of this tree heal the nations. His fruit will overcome Anti-Christ. Satan on the other hand, is the tree of good and evil. He is Anti-Christ, anti the anointing. His leaves corrupt, kill, steal, and destroy. All that eat of his leaves become anti-christs like him. They will be overcome and destroyed or corrupted, rotten fruit at the final harvest.

So as an individual we can become an anti-christ. When we come together as a body we become the Anti-Christ, the full stature of the body of Satan! Now, in closing, let us read 1 John 2:17 and 18 again.

I Jn 2:17-18
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.