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Body Of Antichrist

Part II

 

 

 

 

 

In Part I of the present work, we noted how the Image of the Beast in Scripture actually describes the body of the spirit identified as Antichrist. In prior efforts, we have described it as The Collective which moves under the leadership of the Spirit of Antichrist.

 

Once again, as Satan is a fallen angelic being, he does not have the power to pour himself into an earthly entity, and become a man, in the same way that God incarnated His Son Jesus as the God/Man Christ Jesus. This means that the myth of "the" Antichrist is just that – an unscriptural fable that Satan wishes to sustain, because it suits his agenda.

 

Satan does, however, have the infernal spiritual power to manipulate mankind's sinful nature to deceive  people, so that they are maneuvered into rejecting the salvation that Christ offers. This is, as we shall see, the primary objective of the Devil.

 

Thus, when the Scripture tells us the second beast in Revelation – the one that comes up "out of the earth" – "causes" the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the antichrist beast, that wicked spirit simply seeks to convince the people they don't need Jesus.  

 

"And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:12). 

 

In other words, we usually think of this "False Prophet" as a priestly figure in earthly terms, who through deceit convinces the earth dwellers to worship "the" Antichrist, who the devil has led us to believe is a miracle working superman.

 

The truth is, the "False Prophet" texts in Revelation describe the spirit – utilizing signs and wonders -- that empowers earthly vessels to believe they don't actually need the exclusive form of salvation engineered by God the Father through His only begotten Son.

 

In the final stage of this cycle, the earth dwellers are -- in effect -- embracing the spirit of Death, through their inactivity in taking the steps necessary to obtain salvation.  

 

Recognizing that the False Prophet spirit is not the spirit of Death which he "causes" the earth dwellers to follow, using the process of elimination, we can conclude the only other significant spiritual stronghold in the Scriptures is "Hell."

 

This is relatively obvious as the "Hell" spirit is routinely paired with the "Death" spirit.

 

For example, at the final judgment of God, when every person that has ever lived stands in judgment before the throne of God, "Death" and "Hell" are both emptied of those held within, and are cast into the lake of fire.

 

"And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them" (Revelation 20:13).

 

Moreover, the aforementioned Death and Hell are spoken of with proper names, as their "names" were capitalized in the following verse.

 

"Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him" (Revelation 6:8).

 

This is in addition to the fact that the False Prophet spirit takes the earth dwellers Captive, in order to "cause" them to neglect the salvation of Christ.

 

"He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword" (Revelation 13:10).

 

Thus "kill" allegorically equivocates with the spirit of Death, and "captive" is related to the bondage enabled by Sin, a characteristic common to the power known as Hell.

 

Many believers, thinking they are taking the Christ-like course of action in avoiding "killing," typically reason it is better to take captive than to kill, if presented with the two options. This mindset, like so many others which are based on an earthly perspective, sidesteps what this verse is actually telling us.

 

In the "kill or take captive" scenario, the spirit of Hell is linked to captivity. The parable of the rich man in Hell obviously addresses it. When the rich man pleads with Abraham in paradise to send the beggar Lazarus to him with some water because of his "torment," Abraham tells the rich man there is no way out.

 

"Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence" (Luke 16:26).

 

Of course, Jesus is the third in contrast with Death (Antichrist) and Hell (False Prophet), as he repeatedly announced He came to set the captives free:

 

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me…to preach deliverance to the captives…and the opening of the prison to them that are bound" (Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:1).

 

Another way to look at these spiritual factions, and the way Death and Hell function symbiotically is to review the status quo. The Bible plainly teaches that all mankind has inherited the Death that was pronounced on the first couple Adam and Eve.

 

"The tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:17).

 

We have already shown that in the Lord's creation, he revealed the Double Helix of Chromosomes in our DNA, which we now know to be 23 pairs. These "doubled" Chromosomes fall short of the number seen in Revelation, which reveals the perfect DNA of creation is 24 pairs of Chromosomes, as seen in the form of the "elders" of perfected man, who are in complete fellowship with the God of heaven.

 

"Behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold" (Revelation 4:2,4). 

 

This is the completed number of humanity, after being perfected in JESUS CHRIST, from our previous fallen state where all mankind was separated from God due to our sin.

 

Note how the entire creation is represented in the seats, where the "elders" are seated – precisely as the New Testament tells us occurs when we are rejoined with God through Jesus Christ.

 

"God, who is rich in mercy…hath quickened us together with Christ…and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places" (Ephesians 2:4,6).

 

After the fall which was hereditary – a primary feature of Flesh and Blood DNA – the harmonious state between God and man could only be achieved on a temporal basis, as the blood of an innocent sacrifice emerged, restoring the lost channel of connection through the agency of faith.

 

The beneficiary of this process was to manifest the invisible influence of God to the nations, so that the Gentiles would observe the Spiritual light which the LORD bestowed on His people. At the same time, the Spirit of God anointed "holy men" to communicate that God desired all nations to account for the hereditary curse of the fall, and be rejoined to the LORD.

 

"What if God…endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath…that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy…even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" (Romans 9:22-24).

 

It's important for us to remember that the entire creation is already under the curse of Death and Sin.

 

"We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. For the earnest expectation of the [creation] waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God" (Romans 8:22, 19).

 

This temporal state follows us to judgment day, and unless we have been Spiritually born again in Jesus Christ, we will be separated from God forever.

 

Thus, the real threat to Satan's sick gambit is the possibility that each person feels the tug of the Holy Spirit whose role is to lead us to salvation in Christ. Therefore, Satan's primary efforts are allocated towards deceiving those that dwell on the earth into rejecting the central thesis of the Scriptures, which tell us if want to see the kingdom of God, we must be born again in Jesus Christ.

 

"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I way unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (John 3:5).

 

Satan cares not what we believe, as long as this epic truth of the LORD's solitary salvation does not impact our lives. This is seen in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, in which the Word of God is planted, but the results greatly vary.

 

"[Some seed] fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold" (Matthew 13:8).

 

Some of the seed fell among thorns, and the result was the seed was choked. Some seed fell on shallow ground, and had no root.

 

"Some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture" (Luke 8:6).

 

 

"Some [seed] fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls [representing Devils] of the air devoured it. Those by the way side are they that hear: then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved" (Luke 8:12).

 

The Body of Antichrist is comprised of those who have rejected the Gospel, as well as the shallow minded, and the hard hearted. The image of the beast, as the opposite of the body of Christ, is hostile to those who are vacillating (read Lukewarm) between belief and non-belief, and since the spirit of the False Prophet (the "Hell" half of the divided house of the devil) is moving them to Death, the body of Antichrist is antagonistic to anyone even remotely still considering Christ.

 

"And [the False Prophet spirit] had power to give [animating energy] unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as would not [conform to] the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:15).

 

The social pressure of those that surround you, those who you work with (or otherwise interact with), is what is in view in this verse, and the body of Antichrist is far larger than those linked together through the Spirit of God.

 

"Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. [But] ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (I John 4:3,5,4).

 

- James Lloyd

 

To Be Continued