“They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions …” (2 Pet. 2:13, NKJV)
The conclusion reached at the end of the last few teachings is that everything that is not Christ is still controlled by our carnal nature, and thus by the Evil One. Within the institutionalised Babylonian church system perverted believers become part of a demonic many-membered man that opposes the Bride of Christ as a many-membered man. The apostatic church system veils the believers within it, so that they cannot understand that the system prevents that “the man of sin, the son of perdition, he … who opposes” is manifested WITHIN them. We need to start discussing the specific ways in which the church has been paganised, but in this teaching I would like to drive the point home.
The apostle John had already seen many antichrists in his day, 1900 years ago (1 John 2:18). Over the years the antichrists gradually increasted, and today they are everywhere. The primary reason so many people today preach about the coming of the Antichrist, who they think will eventually sit in the Jews’ third temple, is because they are ignorant. They are themselves the fulfillment of the prophecy about the antichrists – they obviously cannot reveal their own identities!
In the next while there will be a double unveiling that will shake the world to its religious core – the fullness of “our Lord and of His Christ” (Rev. 11:15) will be revealed, and those who operate with the spirit of the antichrist WITHIN THE CHURCH will also be revealed. Twice we find the term spots and blemishes used when speaking about these believers:
- “They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.” (2 Pe. 2:13-14).
- “These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.” (Jude 1:12-13).
Please note – the two pericopes above refer to those with the spirit of the antichrist who “feast with you” “in your love feasts”. Read this along with 1 Cor. 10:27-32: “Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.” Discern which spirit functions within you – the spirit of the antichrist, or the spirit of Christ.
- Selah: Answer the last question prayerfully.
- Read: 33-34
- Memorise: 33:55
