THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE A CHRISTIAN ACCORDING TO JESUS
Matthew 24:5
“For many will come IN MY NAME, saying, I am Christ; and shall DECEIVE many.”
Matthew 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?' Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of LAWLESSNESS (anomian).'"
The only people on this planet that do anything in the NAME OF JESUS are Christians!
So the Anti-Christ will come in the guise of a follower of Christ.
Jude 1:4
“For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have SECRETLY SLIPPED IN AMONG YOU. They are godless men, who CHANGE the grace of our God into a LICENSE FOR IMMORALITY and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign Lord.”
ANTI-CHRIST = Anti means in place of. Christ means the anointed. Thus it translates as in place of the anointed Christ.
People received Paul as if he was Jesus Christ himself!
GALATIANS 4:14
"And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, EVEN AS CHRIST JESUS"
This is interesting as Paul is saying that people received him as a person would receive Christ Jesus himself; on that SAME LEVEL.
Yet what did Paul claim?
Galatians 2:20
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me."
zw de ouketi egw, zh de en emoi cristoV: o de nun zw en sarki, en pistei zw th tou uiou tou qeou tou agaphsantoV me kai paradontoV eauton uper emou.
Paul says it is not really "him" that you see, the "he" was crucified, and it is "not I but Christ" living in his body. He is claiming that he is essentially Christ, and for this reason he is superior to all of Christ's Disciples who opposed him at every turn.
2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-14
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES into the apostles of Christ And little wonder; for Satan himself is TRANSFORMED into AN ANGEL OF LIGHT (Greek PHOS)"
PAUL NEVER MET THE HISTORICAL JESUS. PAUL ONLY CLAIMED TO HAVE MET JESUS IN A VISION.
SO WHAT ABOUT THIS ANGEL OF LIGHT?
LUKE 10:18
“I saw SATAN fall like LIGHTNING from heaven.”
ACTS 9:3
"And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly a LIGHT FROM HEAVEN (LIGHTNING) flashed around him," (PHOS EK TOU OURANOU)
Revelation 12:9
“The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient SERPENT called the DEVIL, or SATAN , who leads the whole world astray. HE was HURLED TO THE EARTH, and his angels with him.”
Acts 9:18
“Immediately, something like SCALES (from a SERPENT) fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could not see again. HE got up and was baptized.
ACTS 22:6
"And it came to pass that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from HEAVEN A GREAT LIGHT about me" (EK TOU OURANOU PHOS)
ACTS 26:13
"At midday, O King, I saw in the way A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, (OURANDHEN PHOS) above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me"
2 CORINTHIANS 12:7
"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the MESSENGER OF SATAN to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure."