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Antichrist

1John.2:18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
2:19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us. [/b]

The apostle John seems to speak in mysterious words here, but did he? First we must ask a basic, simple, elementary question? What and who did John refer to when saying they didn't belong to us? In other words, who did us include? Who did these brothers belong to?

1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness.

Was it to a religion, a certain group, the little group John had formed by his teaching just who is John referring to here? The answer is simple, it is found in the entire book of First John which has one theme of belonging to Christ, and Christ belonging to God!

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Now we have context a starting point that simplifies the mystery. Thus, if we are not in Christ, then we are against Christ, that is, anti (anti means against and nothing more!) Moreover, we are lawless, why? Well, if you follow the theme of the bible into Christ and why he was sent to earth we would know the only place we can be sinless is in Christ. We cannot be sinless in the law of the Jews any longer if we are a sinner we are against God, and his righteousness making us lawless to his ruling our lives. We are not in the one place God has said we can be made sinless, that is , righteous, being a sinner we cannot be righteous. Subsequently, we must be imputed someone else righteousness not our own life because we all sinned and fall short of God's glory, which glory means being created without sin.

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Thus, these brothers in Christ were created new in Christ, having a new life, not one they had given themselves by knowledge, study, or attending a religious meeting, but by God in the blood of Christ Jesus. Those not created as Christ, his body members had nothing to worry about if some were teaching and leaving forming a new religion, why? Well, here is the simple truth? Can the flesh, being a sinner live in Christ? No! Of course not, flesh is dead in Christ! So how can a sinner hear what the righteous sinless Spirit of God says in the first place? The flesh can't, and if one is speaking another language having no communication that can be understood they will leave and go into a group that speaks what they want to hear, or at least communicate with each other in the same fleshly language. There is what we in Christ should understand there is a demarcation God himself created not us! Not us because we didn't do something or saying something good enough to convince the other person using God's word the bible.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

No! We must understand God confused the language at Babel, God gave us the pure language in Christ by Spirit and truth. Those of the flesh not in Christ belong by God's law in Babel in the confusion of false religion. In other words, they cannot hear the Spirit of God found in Christ and because we are his body members they cannot hear us, or belong to us. We are missing nothing by letting them go, they are teaching nothing new, but false religion because they cannot be taught by the Spirit – impossible!

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

2Cor.3:13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. 3:14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. 3:15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 3:16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Romans 11:8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10}

We are not making judgments of good, or bad, right or wrong God has spoke telling us light does not dwell with darkness, God has set out plainly before all creation he does not dwell in sin, that is, darkness, therefor, we cannot be in Christ and the flesh at the same time, we cannot be in Christ and sin.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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