EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/22/2024 11:53 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “The
Characteristics of Antichrists”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: 1 John 2:18-19, 22-23, 26
Message of the verses: “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us….Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies that the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also….These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.”
I mentioned in our last SD that this SD for today will be
very short as it is really an introduction to these verses that I quoted
above. After this short introduction
then I will begin looking at the sub-section entitled “The Introduction of
Antichrists.”
I will just quote the one paragraph from MacArthur’s
commentary for the introduction to these verses above. “The combination of deceptive hypocrisy and
demonic heresies made the antichrist teachers doubly dangerous as the
intentionally tried to creep into the church unnoticed, before hatching their
destructive schemes (cf. Jude 4). In
order to warn his readers, John began this section with a brief introduction of
the antichrists followed by a description of their characteristics.”
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