The body of Christ is coming together daily as men and women everywhere are awakening to the sound of truth. Pure truth that is not tainted by man's tradition and religion is being revealed and carries a Jonah anointing on it that will change lives forever. The power that is packed by the Jonah anointing assigned to this end time revelation is enough to bring the dead church up off the streets and cause them to stand up for truth.

At the same time the body of Antichrist is being gathered also to come against God's people with a counterfeit anointing to pervert and destroy. Sadly both are the product of the church! How can this be? Simply stated, the body of Christ is birthed through the acceptance of truth and obedience to it whereas the body of Antichrist is founded on the refusal of truth and blind acceptance of the lies, deception and lawlessness of Satan. As the seals described in the book of Revelation the sixth chapter are being opened and "revelation" knowledge is being released through God's revealers, the full stature of Christ is quickly coming into being through those that hunger and thirst for truth and a better knowledge of Christ.

At the same time, however, there are those that do not develop a love for truth and indeed oppose it, just as in the early church, even turning on those that are trying to present it.

God will give these lawless ones over to a spirit of delusion and they will become the enemies of God and a part of the body of Satan. Unfortunately they believe the lies of Satan as they are fed false doctrine and man's tradition through the dead church to be condemned by God.

To turn your back on truth is to turn from Christ Himself, because He is the Word or the Truth.

We have witnessed many times that as those in leadership positions turn away from revelation, they open themselves to the spirit of error and begin to walk in opposition to Christ and His people. Again I make the point that these become a part of the body of Antichrist They are anti the anointing that is on God's people and anti the anointing that is on the revelatory Word (the Jonah Anointing).

In the Strongs Concordance number 500 in the Greek section, it tells us the word Antichrist means an opponent of the Messiah. It is from 473, meaning instead of, or in contest to, or a substitution of 5547 - the anointing.

Sadly there are many in the church today who will not hear truth and so are in opposition to Christ. They are actually His opponents! Among us today are Apostles that start works based on ear-tickling false doctrines to build large ministries or take delight in notching their belts with invitations to preach at seminars and conferences because they are so well liked. There are also Prophets that refuse truth but continue in their gifting. These give the oracle or prophesy, tainting those they minister to, both through their counterfeit anointing and the prophetic word that comes from the wrong side or dark side of the supernatural. These are working more in the line of the world's psychics and fortune tellers than true prophets of God! Their gifting will not be removed as they refuse truth, but you will see more of the nature and fruit of Satan manifest through them than the fruit and nature of the Lord. Satan works through the flesh of the disobedient. The works of it are:

Those who walk in truth and obedience will manifest the nature of the Holy Spirit and are the true servants of God.

But again, the gifting will still be there with right or wrong motives and even in those that do not walk in truth. This is why God says: "By their fruit you shall know them." He did not say by their gifts you will know them.

Whose fruit do they manifest?

We must ask ourselves, do those we follow live moral lives? Do they exhibit the fruit of the Holy Spirit or do they operate in anger and rage etc., the fruit of the flesh? Are they "self' promoting and prideful, or are they humbly seeing to it that the Jesus in each person is allowed to be who He is in the fullest?

When Adam and Eve traded wisdom or truth (the tree of life) for intellect or the lie (the tree of good and evil), eternity was replaced by a time-frame. God promises that at the end of this time-frame there is victory for the people of God. Until then, however, Satan for the most part can do as he wishes at least with his own people, the intellectual rebellious ones that make up his body. Satan satisfies his desire for wealth and power by living through those ones. It is a fight between the Antichrist (Satan), through his body and Jesus Christ (the Messiah), through His body. God's holy angels will contend with the evil hosts of hell that have possessed those that make up the body of Satan however and defeat them.

When will this happen? At such a time as God's born again people can separate from sin and even separate from those who refuse to walk in holiness. God's people must live up to the standards set before them in scripture, obey God's word of direction through His true prophets and be willing to change as the contents of the seals are revealed through His revealers. The revealers are given the keys of truth to open the door to eternity. It will only work for those who will receive these keys, however. Again Daniel speaks:

Paul advises in 1 Corinthians the fifteenth chapter:

God is setting up His Kingdom and He will rule His people and His kingdom through those He has selected and chosen as His government. He will be the Head through His government and the Body through His people to come against the head and body of His opponent. At this point in time, however, the body and head of Satan has come together perfectly, whereas for the most part God's people do not have a clue as to who those are that make up the head of Christ. They barely understand who His body is. Here is what is even more frightening! We are not nearly as united in message, method or vision as are Satan's people either. Until we can come to the full stature of Jesus, the victory decided upon and accomplished before the earth was formed cannot be manifested into this era or our time frame. This can only happen through a united people that have knowledge of the Son and have received revelation on the full body of Christ, His head and body. Again, let us look at Ephesians four:

Christ is the head (through people), He is the body (through people). Satan is the head (through people), he is the body (through people). When both groups come together in unity they make up one body with a head on it: the head and body of Christ or the head and body of Satan.

Which of the above bodies do we fit into? Do we walk in truth (the Lamb) or the lie (the goat)? The Apostle John told us that the Antichrist spirit had entered the church during his time, so we see how long this spirit of lawlessness has had to shape and mold the church. You would be surprised as to how much of the church and its ministry has been developed through the intellect of Satanically influenced men and women rather than truth!

Let us look at Daniel the eleventh chapter and start reading in verse 36 to get a deeper understanding of the personality of the Antichrist spirit or the body of Satan.

Before the foundation of the earth it was decided by God that the Lamb would die so that humanity could be set free of the curse of sin.

Likewise the plan for our immortality was preplanned.

The victory has already been accomplished and is to manifest at such a time (here is a huge key) when the full stature of Christ can come together to the defeat of the body of Satan. We must be united in vision and purpose, or speak one language.

The fact is we must see eye to eye before this victory can happen.

So let us return to the book of Daniel and continue reading in chapter 11 for another "eye" opener as to the personality of Antichrist!.

He will not regard the God of his fathers (Yahweh), He will believe in the god of force or the goddess of reason that encompasses all the religions of the world. But it does tell us: "Nor will he desire women". Why? Because he must see to it that the body stays divided. The spirit of Antichrist fears unity more than anything else because it means the body of Christ would be made perfect and be in the position to destroy him. You see, greater is the God who is in us than the god that makes up Antichrist! But the key is, He is in us, all of us. We must allow Him to call His body together and to select those He chooses to live through as the head of that body.

Are women a part of what makes up the perfect body of Christ? If she is then is she also among those chosen to be a vessel God governs through? Not according to Antichrist as we just learned, but how does God feel? In Genesis 1:26 God said: "let us make man" (man is number 120 in the Strongs Concordance the Hebrew section, meaning mankind), so a better way to say it would be: "let us make mankind in our image, after our own likeness and let them (notice plural) have dominion..." etc.

So, the orders were: to make mankind in God's image and let them (male and female) have dominion. Before the curse of the fall they were to both have dominion. Both lost dominion however to Satan after the fall. God told them what they could and could not do in the garden, but they broke His law. Both were cursed! Mankind continued to break the laws of God. Those set forth by Moses and in fact those set forth through all of God's leadership throughout the ages. Adam and his descendants are just plain lawless people. But Christ made a way to remove the curses that were brought on mankind for breaking the law, thus giving them the opportunity of becoming His children rather than Adam's.

So the death of Christ (our Passover Lamb) made a way for the curse to be removed. How? Romans 6:3-5 tells us:

We can be baptized into His death and be born again, new creatures with no curse on us! As we were born the first time in the image of the fallen man, now we are reborn in the image of the heavenly man. Notice I said "we". This is explained in first Corinthians 15:47-49.

In fact because of this opportunity we do not even have to die as we see as we continue to read in verse 51.

But this saying can only come to pass when the body and head can unitedly come together. Men must be allowed their part, and women theirs. With this in mind, let us go back to Genesis now. In verse 27 it says that He created mankind in His own image (so both were in His image), but yet it goes on to say, "in the image of God created He him". Does the word of God contradict itself? Is man greater because he is in the image of God?

No! You see, both were the image of God, but only Adam was made to physically represent the way God saw Himself. Eve on the other hand was made to look the way God saw mankind, as His Bride. Their physical bodies were fashioned differently to look like God and His Bride, but both were the image of God. Again we ask, how? Adam's body plainly was the outward appearance and glory of God, while Eve's body was the outward appearance and glory of man, but the mystery is solved as we understand that their inner man, their souls and spirits were both in the image of the invisible God. Remember, Adam stood complete with Eve in him.

She was separated from him and given a body, but the fact was, as they would come together as one, united in language, vision, emotion etc. they united the Godhead and it was in His power and authority they were to have dominion over earth and all on it. In other words, they as one were the complete image of God. Both were equally important! It took both to be one! Can you see why Satan has struggled so hard to pervert baptism so we would not really be born again into new creatures without Adam's curses? And if by chance mankind did finally manage to get baptism correct, it became even more critical for him to keep men and women divided! A home divided will fall.

Satan is intent on dividing God's house. For sure, Satan does not want them to co-labor in the church or in their homes. If either gender becomes superior, it is okay with him. The knuckle-dragging dominant husbands and all male leadership in the church has suited his needs just fine. But then of course the women's libbers with slogans such as: "If you need companionship, get a pet!" serves his purposes just as well also. Again (the key) if we could just unite as humanity Satan would lose because God, who dwells in us, would come together in His full stature as the united body of Christ to the defeat of the enemy.

You see, through division we have defeated ourselves! God has already won the victory. Our physical bodysuits are just vessels that carry God, and our soul and human spirit. The gender makes no difference to Him. We (men and women) are all Abraham's seed if we have been properly baptized and it was to Abraham's seed that the promises were made.

God becomes a complete body and head (a perfect being) when we (men and women) are one. There is no nationality better than the rest, nor is a free person better than one who is a slave and certainly male is not superior to female. All born again are created in God's image so how could one be above or below the other?

The revelation God has released will continue to make it necessary to change our mindsets concerning many areas of ministry. I have sure had to change my ideas many times! However, old wineskins will not budge in their eschatology and of course the spirit of Antichrist through the lawless will not change either. Because of tainted reasoning and intellect apart from God's Word, men's groups along with women's groups have been formed, dividing the body of Christ, making Him incomplete. Remember the greatest display of power the church has ever known happened in the upper room, where God's people were gathered to pray and await the arrival of the Holy Spirit. It was not just men that the Spirit would fill, it was the women also. The promise at Joel 2:28 was that He would pour His Spirit out on all His sons and daughters and He did just that!

However, just like the leadership Jesus was teaching in Mark chapter seven, much of today's leadership will choose to hang on to their tradition and doctrine, mainly because it benefits them or allows them superiority. The rebuke Jesus gave them is worthy of investigation, however, especially if we are ones in a position of authority over God's people. At verse five of chapter seven the Pharisees ask Him:

He describes some of the areas of life where their thinking was perverted because of tradition, but then He made the statement that I want you to note particularly in verse 13.

We can plainly see here that if the Word of God is of no effect because we walk in man's tradition, then the promises of God for victory cannot by God's own words or spiritual law be operating in our lives, either! Sadly, if we are in a place of authority over God's people and they follow us and our man-contrived religion, the Word of God will be of no effect in their lives also.

Remember, those baptized into Christ are all (men and women) Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promises of God made to Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 17:5-6 and 15-16.

He did not just bless Abraham:

It took both of them for God to accomplish His promises, and it will take both men and women for God to accomplish the final victory today. United we stand - Divided Well, once more a newborn race of humanity will fall, even as did the newly created Adam and Eve!