Anti-Christ Time

Continuing the thought:
How do we know that we know?

1 John 2:18-27

1. Live It
2. Love Differently
3.Listen to it

Watch Out
Its Anti-Christ  time!
The term Anti-Christ is only found in John's writings.
Seven times in his letters.

There has been lots of conjecture since the first century as to what or whom this is!
Lots of theories.

Here the term is plural - Anti-Christs.
Whom will judge you for not worshiping them.

Listen Up
Its all about Jesus.
An Anti-Christ denies Jesus is the Messiah/Christ.
Unity of believers in Jesus.
Anti is all those against Jesus.
There is no middle ground.
No reinvention of whom Jesus is.
We each must get Jesus connected.

Stay Put
Live out the story.
Some will fall away.
Some will not reach Heaven.
Some will appear to be our brethren.
To abide means to be transformed, to follow.

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I have a real problem with the term Christ.
It is used as if a last name for Jesus.
But it is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew term Messiah.
And in spite of bad Roman Catholic documentation, the New Testament was written in Aramaic.
Should Erasmus have paid attention to the earliest Syrian writings, this mistake would not have occurred.
The oldest copy of the New Testament is in the American Library of Congress - a gift from the Turkish government.
It predates all of the Greek fragments in existence!
So ... I try to avoid the term Christ all together.