The Anti-Christ's Church, Part II

BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]. For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them]. 2 Timothy 3:1-5

The anti-christ’s church will be proud and arrogant. The seeds of this are being sown already in today’s worldly churches. Look at the huge buildings that are being built and how the congregations brag about themselves and what they are doing. The Bible asks us, does our Father dwell in buildings made with human hands? Look at how so called preachers place their own names on the ministry, when the Holy Spirit had Paul write: who is Paul, Peter, or Apollos, 1 Corinthians 1:12? Today it is common practice for men and women to place their own names on books, web pages, buildings, and ministries when there is only one name, Jesus, our Lord and Savior!

I hear all of the time from church goers that only people who go to their church denomination can be saved. That is the spirit of anti-christ and it is that kind of arrogance and pride that will set up the anti-christ’s end time church. People will hear him speak as no man has spoken before. They will see the false miracles that our Father allows him to perform and they will say that only if you take his mark, the mark of the beast, can you be saved.

The true children of God will see that everything that is being said and done by the anti-christ and his followers is self centered. We will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to see the Truth that they talk of how they are doing the things, that they are believing, that they are serving, and that they are faithful. The confession of the anti-christ and his followers will always start and end with what they are doing. Jesus will be spoken of in passing, but the main focus will always be on human effort. The anti-christ's followers will believe that what they are doing is all of God too. They will have a form of godliness, but it will not be from Christ, it will all be from human pride and arrogance.

When they finally do see Jesus they will say to Him, didn’t (WE) prophecy in Your Name? Didn’t (WE) do mighty works in Your Name? And Jesus will tell them that He never knew them, Matthew 7:21-23. The anti-christ’s church will say Jesus, but their main talk will be of man and all of their efforts will be to draw attention to themselves and their man made church. Just like with so many churches today!