1John 4 tells us that ‘anyone who declares Jesus is not come in the flesh is antichrist.’ KJV Most other versions change the tense to say ‘did not come in the flesh.’ But it is not saying that. It is saying: if you do not believe that Jesus is NOW COME in your flesh you are not of God but are speaking out from antichrist.
This is the case with many who name Jesus but have NOT received the SPIRIT of Jesus Christ. Instead they are trying in their own strength to be a Christian. They are not in him and he is not in them. They are antichrist and therefore make up the great majority of those following Trump. God is dividing the sheep between those who ‘butt with their head’ and those who ‘abide in Jesus and Jesus abides in them’- in their flesh.
4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
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.
Every spirit
This is not a verse to use when dealing with demons in a deliverance session! All of us speak or confess or declare. A false prophet or a false prophecy/teaching in the context of this passage, is one that does not declare that Jesus Christ IS COME in the flesh.
The Gnostics in John’s day were his opponents. They taught that Jesus was just a man and that the “Christ” part of him was the power that did everything and when Jesus died that power went back to the universe…but Jesus died. John made a point of saying: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;” 1Jn 1:1
Jesus is God incarnate! God in human form! The Gnostics disagreed. To them Jesus was just a man who had been anointed(christed) outwardly. They taught that it does not matter what the body does, as in sinning, because the body is not heavenly …so they sinned…believing that their spirit is all that mattered. Yet John argues that IF THEY DO NOT CONFESS THAT JESUS IS IN THEIR VERY BODY-THEIR FLESH-they are not of God and are speaking out of an antichrist spirit
BEING OF GOD
1Jn 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God
You are of God — or you are always coming forth out from God into visibility IF you declare/confess that Jesus is come in the flesh.
Not ONLY “did come” long ago…not has come as most versions translate it…but IS COME.
“every spirit (breath-effect; attitude; influence) which constantly speaks in accord with (says the same as; speaks like; or: confesses and avows) Jesus [the] Christ [as] having come and now continuing in flesh (= in a physical body), continuously exists being (or: is) from out of God.” Jonathan Mitchell NT
Jesus came in the Flesh and continues in a physical glorified body.
The Holy Spirit in you
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
When the Comforter is come….not ‘did come’ or ‘has come’ but IS come. The idea is the same as I John 4:2. He did come and is continually coming forth from out of Father. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus Christ coming forth out from God continuously like a rushing mighty river of God Life! He is always proceeding forth like a River out from God–BUT NOW INSIDE YOUR BORN AGAIN SPIRIT!!
Jesus told His disciples
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Jn 15:26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
YOU ARE LIKE JESUS
This is the whole point of why Jesus came! And why He is always coming!
God has come to you to LIVE INSIDE YOU continuously as a rushing living river of life with the end goal that you would be just like Jesus. You and Jesus are one. You just being you are one with Jesus IF you have received the Spirit of Jesus. If you have never been baptised into the Holy Spirit you need to!
But even after that experience of receiving the Spirit we must abide in His spirit of truth.
Those who do not abide in the Spirit are conversely abiding in their natural mind and as a result are supporting what God is NOT SUPPORTING.
Whether we love other human beings or not is the ultimate test of whether or not we have the Spirit of God. If we support a regime that bombs and starves and steals the innocent and the weak how can we have boldness in the day of judgement?
Millions of Christians today wave the Hex symbol around in their worship services, pray fervently for the success of the Zionist State and long for the day when Jesus shall rule from Jerusalem. All of those things are NOT OF GOD and are from the spirit of antichrist.
I actually visited the church pictured below. It is 5 minutes from my home. They are my brethren in Christ. They love Jesus. But I cannot and WILL NOT join with them because they are supporting the Beast in the Middle East. They have the anointing in their worship! I experienced Jesus there in the singing. Yet their is a big difference between their hearts worshiping Jesus and what comes out of their preaching.
This is why John said in 1 John 4 – TEST THE SPIRIT OF THE MESSAGE.
Any support for loveless apartheid Israel is not of God and is antichrist.
