The Anti-Christ's Sermon

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. 2 Timothy 3:2

I was listening to a national radio talk show a couple of days ago and the host was talking about how everything is going to change with the world in the near future. He was talking about economies crashing and societies completely falling apart. Yet he proclaimed that he had the answer and the answer to stop all the impending doom, was ourselves. Yep, he was saying that we have the power on our own to stop all the catastrophes. He said that we can change everything if we only come together and just begin to do what it right. He briefly mentioned God in his address but he never mentioned Jesus. His message and his answer to all the worlds problems was us. He spoke of how he had prayed and that he had searched for the Truth and now he was ready to lead us from our own self destruction. Our Father was sprinkled ever so slightly through his message, he does not and did not deny that God had a role to play, but the main course of what he was saying was all man. According to what he was selling it was up to us to do on our own what God wanted us to do. He was saying that we had a choice to act or not to act. According to him we have the responsibility and if we first act, then God will act. He went on to say that if we do what is right, future generations will build museums that will honor our heroic efforts. 

Look at what our Father had Timothy write about the end times: lovers of self, self-centered, proud, boasters, and arrogant. The message of what this guy was saying on the radio is the message of the anti-christ. The anti-christ will speak of glorious things and he will do it better than anyone else ever has, Revelation 13:2. He will speak of the power of man and he will cause people to glory in what they believe that they have done. It will all look and sound very religious. Our Father will be spoken of but man will be the center and end of every proclamation. The anti-christ will cause people to be blasphemous as they boast of what they have done for the Lord and how they have chosen to do the right things. They will brag about how they have prayed enough and that they have worked enough. They will arrogantly proclaim that they are working the works that will allow God to move in this world. The anti-christ and his followers will act and sound very religious, but Jesus will proclaim that He never knew them, Matthew 7:23. 

When the people called Jesus good, He proclaimed to them that only God was good, Mark 10:18. Jesus told the people that it was God in Him doing all the works, John 14:10. The anti-christ’s message will be that we do the works that allow our Father to work in this world. The True message of Christ is that our Father is doing all of His works through us and that He is greater in us and that without Him we can do nothing. The Truth is Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Jesus should be the message with the focus on His power fully working through us and enabling us to do all things.