THE ANTICHRIST

 THE ANTICHRIST

He’s Already Here! Prepare!

The final Deception is coming!!

An Exposé Of Deceit by Gary L. Patrick & Dennis Tevis 2018

NOAH 2.0 – AN ANALOGY Earthquakes, fires, floods - nature’s excesses appear to be increasing daily!! Disasters on all sides and at historic levels are wreaking havoc on the earth. Chaotic weather, along with failing man-made infrastructure, is multiplying devastation; claiming life, property, and anything else in its path! Most are alarmed, but few realize the root cause - human sin. Why? Because the overwhelming majority, blinded by worldly unbelief, choose to ignore God and the warnings found in the Bible. And our time, toward the end of the present age and just as God’s Word predicted, parallels Noah’s day.

For 120 years, this “preacher of righteousness” warned the antediluvian world of a coming catastrophic flood. Its wickedness had reached a level that necessitated God’s judgments to put a check on sin. Noah was commanded to build an ark where believers of his message could find their only refuge. A time arrived when the ark was finished. All of a sudden, groups of animals and birds came from each direction, making their way toward and into the ark. Here was a warning sign for all to see. And yet the people went right on disregarding all the cautions of impending doom. Just a few days later, the prophesied event occurred. When the ‘business as usual’ folly of that ungodly generation passed, it was too late! Continuing to ignore plain heaven-sent evidence produced grave results, causing untold loss of life and desolation. Likewise, in our time, lies, misconceptions, denials, and unconcern surrounding the events preceding the second coming of Christ are lulling people willingly into a false sense of security that will not be realized until it, also, is too late!

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With the advent of social media, postings can go viral in a matter of hours. It's out there for all to view and form reactions. Information is available at one's fingertips. The same thing can be said of the Bible. This book, because of its near global availability, is also highly accessible. Sadly however, it is too often greatly ignored. To neglect the Bible by disregarding an imminent forecast of massive deception, which will engulf the entire world, puts you in serious trouble. Carelessly overlooking biblical warnings will prove to be eternally fatal! God through His Holy Scriptures has revealed the specifics leading up to this “last great delusion” beforehand. Sinister powers are vying for the allegiance of all humanity, and their attention is primarily focused upon a certain key city – one that captures the awe and imagination of most today – Jerusalem.

The mastermind behind this plot is Lucifer. Under the symbol of the King of Tyrus, the Bible reveals his beginning, purpose, and downfall: “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I [God] have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” (Ezekiel 28: 14-15). Though “perfect” and invested by God with the highest authority given to created beings, at some point something happened to him that brought “iniquity” (lawlessness, sin) into his heart. Under another symbol, the King of Babylon, Lucifer is …

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That they all might be damned who believed not the truth

 'Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN HIS TIME. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.' 2Th 2:1-12

This is something people don't like to think about. They say things like- our ancestors have been waiting for Jesus for centuries and He's not returned and that old stuff about his coming quickly is obviously not true. But it is true and yes, for centuries- since 33 AD and the death of our Savior- people have been waiting for Him to return. Paul told the people in his day the following…

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Don't be deceived. Christ will return but there is going to be a falling away first. That falling away will reveal the man of sin, the son of perdition ((SATAN)) who places himself above God to the point he will sit in God's place as if he were God.

This hadn't had this happen in Paul's day, but it had begun. A falling away came first, a falling away from what? A departure from truth that is capable of causing a deception- something that can deceive people.

We are told the truth, Satan and his power on earth would be revealed before Christ's return. People couldn't let themselves be deceived by believing otherwise. They needed to expect this revelation of the man of sin.

2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

Paul wanted knowledge of the deception of Satan being revealed to be on people's minds. Paul didn't want people to be lulled into a complacency that would say otherwise. Paul wasn't advocating smooth words and a hope of Christ's return to the exclusion of what must come before that happens. He wanted them to remember he talked about this stuff when he was physically with them.

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming

That mystery of sin was already at work among them and would remain among them until that Wicked is revealed…. And it would be that Wicked revealed who would eventually be consumed — by what? 'Whom the LORD shall consume with the SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH' What comes from the Lord's mouth? TRUTH.

The spirit of the Lord's mouth… Truth will consume the Father of Lies. The Lord will destroy that Wicked with the LIGHT of His Return.

What this is all saying, if I'm understanding it correctly (BIG IF), is that evil will exist right up until the LORD'S return.

Evil will exist and this evil can cause people to be deceived. This evil will present itself as God, understandably causing the people to be deceived.

Paul is admonishing Christ's followers not to be deceived by this evil which had already begun to infiltrate that Christian organization. Alongside the true followers of Christ there would exist lies, deception making itself seem as if it were of God. That Wicked would be revealed. We can't let ourselves be deceived even centuries later, especially centuries later as we still wait for our Lord to return. We have to recognize that among Christ's followers is an EVIL that has existed in and among Christ's followers throughout time and it will only be done away with by Christ at His return. WE ARE NOT to attempt to destroy the EVIL as if we had the power to do such a thing. We are warned, we are made aware of the deception among God's people, a mingling of wheat and tares until the very end. We need to seek TRUTH Christ's TRUTH so that we are not deceived and we do not become a part of the deception of the evil one.

So great is this evil…

2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

READ THAT AND RE-READ THAT, AND RE-READ IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

This Wicked will work with DECEPTION! The deception will be so incredibly strong that people will no longer love truth, and once they no longer desire truth to be saved but want only their deception, God is going to give them strong delusions, letting them believe the lies they want to believe.

These people will be damned that do not believe TRUTH. These people will be damned that have pleasure in unrighteousness.

We have truth or lies, righteousness or unrighteousness. When we choose to accept lies from the deceiver we allow ourselves to be deceived. This deception is going to appear like the REAL THING, it's the only thing that makes deception - deception.

You can't be deceived if you don't believing you are in the truth.

You won't be in the truth, but you will believe you are.

You will believe you have all the truth you need and you'll stop searching for truth.

You will believe you have enough and need no more, you are already rich in the blessings of God you don't need to seek out more truth than what you already have. You have the love of God and you are doing the work of God, you are believing and you are loving your fellow man by taking care of his needs- helping them as Christ instructed. You are clothing them, feeding them, housing them, visiting them, you are doing so much for your fellow man that you must belong to Christ, because the Bible says those who do those things are Christ's.

So why, why does Jesus say that many will say didn't they do wonderful works in His name, but they are lost? Why are they lost if they are doing the wonderful works, doing all that Jesus said they should do? These people believe they are genuinely Christ's. We have Paul telling us that the Wicked will be revealed, that it will exist and already exist among them and wouldn't be destroyed until Christ return's. We have these truths and we are warned not to be deceived. So how can we ever be deceived if we are doing all those wonderful things that we are told by Christ's to do?

There are truth and there are lies, there is truth and there is deception, there is righteousness and unrighteousness-- we must seek TRUTH above all things. Our wonderful works and believing we are doing the words of God, of Christ, will not automatically guarantee that we are Christ's. There is a deception that makes people believe they are Christ's but they aren't.

We have to have a love for TRUTH, a desire not to want to be deceived. We need to seek truth. Our allegiances reveal where we believe. If we align ourselves with deception when we are able to leave that deception for the truth, we are accountable. You say TRUTH doesn't matter, that nothing matters but Christ- you are deceived, Christ is the TRUTH. Christ stands for TRUTH. His life was one of all TRUTHFULNESS.

Our actions will determine if we want to serve The Truth by following the truth He followed, or if we just want the label Christian and no more.

What is truth? Study to show yourself approved unto God- rightly dividing the word of TRUTH. Study truth.

A person following revealed truth isn't guaranteed Salvation. If they follow the truth and do not have the love of Christ they aren't Christ's. They have to go hand in hand! Truth and love- truth and compassion- loving GOD in all truth, and loving MAN in all truth. You can't stop at one and neglect the other.

God's Ten Commandments that Jesus upheld and expounded on, living a life of sinlessness in obedience to those Ten Royal Laws is truth. But if I stop there and do not advocate for love in actions towards others while fulfilling the commandments, I'd be very remiss.

REMEMBER. Isn't that word 'remember' a powerful, powerful word of caution.

If you tell someone to remember it's for a reason, always. When you say remember, you don't want something forgotten.

When Christ lived out his life in perfect obedience, shaking the man made dross off the Royal Ten Commandments, polishing them so their truth would shine through, it was for us that He did that.

If the Royal Ten Commandments were to be done away with, Jesus had plenty of opportunity to rip it apart in many, many ways. He reinforced it- the TWO COMMANDMENT ENCOMPASSING THE TEN- LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS. Jesus went about shaking the heavy weight of man's interpretation off those Ten Commandments. He told them if they committed adultery in their lust, not just in their actions- that their minds were sinning and that was just as bad as their flesh committing the act of sin. Wow, Jesus went and made that commandment so much more restrictive than the people were following it already.

Jesus said, if you're hateful in your heart towards someone to the point of wanting them dead, you are a murderer already! Again, the do not murder commandment was made more restrictive than they were ever thinking it should be.

Jesus took another commandment they'd made super restrictive in many ways and said that it was wrong what they'd done to it. There is a proper way to keep the Sabbath and that's not by being a statue unmoving, unthinking, being loveless on that holy day. Do you see?

Jesus knew that sin was a transgression of the law, and He did NOT transgress the Royal Law, the Ten Commandments in any way at all whatsoever! He was, is and will ever be, SINLESS. This is TRUTH! HE IS TRUTH.

If we ignore something that Jesus went to great pains to point out the truth about- that the Ten Commandments are absolutely still binding and must be obeyed and when transgressed forgiveness must be sought, then we are deceived. We should never ignore truth!

Those who argue the Ten Commandments are no longer in effect are deceivers, and so many believe them! They say those who advocate for keeping the Ten Commandments are being sticklers for the law and trying to get to heaven by their works.

That's a lie! LOVING GOD, LOVING OTHERS upon those two commandments hang all TEN! Only through LOVE and recognizing the love in the TEN COMMANDMENTS- the TWO COMMANDMENTS BROADLY, can we recognize the LOVE of Christ. He sacrificed Himself, the Sinless One, the One who transgressed not a single Ten Commandment because He knew we are sinners in need of a Savior from our failings, from our sinfulness. I can believe about myself that I keep the Ten Commandments in all truth, in love, and I'd STILL fall short. I have my Savior who did that for me! But He did not do it for me and say, 'Okay, you don't have to keep the commandments any longer, I did it for you. Go on, go transgress those laws they aren't in effect any longer.' He didn't say, 'I know you can't keep them, so don't even try.' NO. He said 'IF YOU LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS….. ' How could He say that knowing we couldn't?

He could say it because in those commandments are PURE LOVE, and IF we have accepted CHRIST as our SAVIOR, He will send us the Holy Spirit and through the Holy Spirit it is possible to keep the revelation of love throughout the Ten Royal Laws. Loving God and loving Others in TRUTH.

I don't keep the SABBATH commandment as Christ commanded me to in order to be saved, in order to think I obtain righteousness by my action. I keep the SABBATH commandment of Christ because I LOVE HIM, and HE loved me enough to create the SABBATH commandment. He LOVED ME ENOUGH to keep the SABBATH commandment perfectly to show me the Love in the SABBATH.

I can't change the Sabbath to suit my traditions.

Just like the Jewish leaders (when Jesus ministered upon Earth) over time had piled many rules upon the Sabbath, today people have taken the Sabbath and moved it around to suit their own desires. If you think I'm wrong, tell me why the Sabbath day was kept by the Jewish people and early Christ followers both until it became a selling point to win over the pagan people to change it to a day they worshipped the sun on? The resurrection of Christ was NEVER EVER a reason for the change, it's NOT BIBLICAL AT ALL WHATSOEVER. Man changed it and labeled it as a Christian holy day, not God. And today millions upon millions upon millions believe in that LIE, that DECEPTION and say it doesn't matter at all whatsoever. It doesn't matter that we are told to REMEMBER that particular Royal Law. It just doesn't matter. Jesus' love is all that matters and the excludes the Ten Commandments- as if Jesus didn't make them all the more important to us with His ministry.

DECEPTION! BLINDED! BELIVING LIES! DECEIVED!

IT MATTERS IN THE SEARCH FOR ONLY TRUTH!!!!

As I said, my keeping the true Sabbath will not earn me anything at all. My loving Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, enough to live His truth matters. He gave us the truth in His life, don't let yourself be deceived so that you'll be among those who think they are doing all things a Christian should, but will be shocked when Jesus tells them to get away from Him.

Don't let yourself be deceived! Search for TRUTH! You won't be able to say you weren't given an opportunity to know the truth, you are being given it- right now. 'This wicked' works deception and will continue to do so until Christ returns. 'This wicked' has worked deception since the days of the Apostles in many different ways. Don't be deceived! Seek truth! Seek Jesus!

2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Our First Parents Chose Lies Over Truth, We Must Choose Truth Over Lies.

 2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

I've spoken about it before but it bears speaking about again. The truth is so important, without it we have nothing at all. Think about it for a moment. When the first pair of humans were created and placed in the Garden of Eden, they were given truth by love. God is love. God is truth. They were given instructions, much like we might give instructions to someone that needed them. Adam and Eve were told what to do and what not to do. The list wasn't very long.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, BE fruitful, and multiply, and REPLENISH the earth, and SUBDUE it: and HAVE dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to DRESS IT and to KEEP IT.

Mankind was to take care of the garden he was placed in. In what sense were they to take care of it? There were no weeds in the garden, all was perfection. Man was in a garden with beauty beyond our imagining. He was given leave to do in the garden as he willed. Imagine for a moment that you were in a garden where you could tend to it in such a way that was pleasing and wonderful to you every day. No tools need. A simple, gentle grasp of an exquisite flower tenderly lifted out of the soil. A relocating of that perfect flower into new soil just by setting it down and watching the living roots bury themselves into the dirt. Or possibly something to that effect. You could create such wonders and do so as often as it pleased you. This garden is not at all like our gardens today. We do have gardens that are gorgeous in places all over the world (and sometimes in our own back yard) these take work, hard work and constant upkeep. The Garden of Eden wasn't one of hard work, but of unique creative beauty that our amazing gardens today only hint at. The Creator's hands brought the wonderful garden into existence and then taking the two new creatures, humans, he placed them within that garden. It was teeming with animal life, insects, reptiles, amphibians, you name it and each one was perfect, and wonderful, beautiful. Have you ever been somewhere that took your breath away because of its beauty? Again, that place is only a hint of creation's perfection. So how does one take care of a garden that is perfect in all ways? Through the wonders of perfect imagining and the ability to alter things as the will moves. Through communing with nature in way unknown to us now. In truth, the first humans were able to enjoy and live in that garden in a manner that we can only imagine, and imagine we must.

God didn't stop there. After He told Adam and Eve about their life in the garden He also told them their food would be provided from every tree in the garden….

Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.

…except one…

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

There was a very special tree in that garden, a tree of something more than the pleasure of tasty fruit.

This special forbidden tree contained the knowledge of good and evil and the pair were told as such. The other trees in the garden were for their pleasure, but this one, this single tree was made of something that should they choose to disobey their Creator's command, would kill them, end them. This tree was very deadly.

Did Adam and Eve know what death was? They had to have been given the comprehension of the outcome of their actions or it would have been meaningless. The word death would have described nothing if it had no meaning as being what it was. When told they would surely die if they disobeyed, they were given the full comprehension of what their actions would mean. Perhaps in a vision of themselves as being lifeless and returning to dust, we don't know. But for God's words to have any sense of caution, they had to know what dying would entail.

Dying would be living without God, not them as spirit beings ascending to heaven. Dying would be their Creators and them separated from each other.

Dying would make them outcasts.

Dying would be horrific and completely undesirable.

This awful thing that would happen should they eat of that tree and willfully disobey God's command, was well known to Adam and Eve or else they've have had no reason to stay away from it.

Some say the test was in them not knowing, just in their choosing not to listen to God. Then what point was there in God telling them there would be consequences if they didn't comprehend those consequences? If I tell my very child not to touch a hot stove or it could burn them, they might look at me in complete incomprehension. If I tell them not to touch the hot stove because it would cause them a lot of hurt, they'd probably understand because what child doesn't get 'owies' when learning to walk from falling down and bumping a knee? Children learn that things can cause them pain, things can hurt them, and if they are told that hot stove can hurt them, then they'd be cautious around that stove. Comprehension has to exist if we speak to our children. Those children must have a sense of what we are telling them or it is useless for us to expect them to understand and not hurt themselves. We don't tell infants not to hurt themselves, we know they have no way of understanding, we protect them and teach them as their comprehension grows as they age and learn. We don't tell an older child or adult who doesn't have the ability to comprehend things not to hurt themselves, we continue to protect them for the rest of their lives.

God did not tell Adam and Eve they would surely die, without their comprehension of death. They were created with that full comprehension. Their Life-Giver, their Creator, the One who was Love, and revealed that Love in creation, was everything to them. They loved in return, how could they not? Separation from those who sustained their very lives, was a thought of pure terror solidifying their desire to abhor that tree and all it stood for.

The first sin was so much more than we truly realize. There have been too many depictions of poor, innocent Eve in all her purity and goodness absentmindedly wandering down the path to the forbidden tree only to be met by the evil villain, as if she hadn't a clue in the world that nothing good would come from that tree. Eve wasn't a sinner, she had no evil intent in her at all, but she had the knowledge that her Creator, her God, had given her that the tree was off limits and that was all she needed to know. She had every bit of knowledge in her that knew better than to do what she did and yet she was seduced into sin. The allure of the tempter overcame her reason, her knowledge. A seed of doubt was planted.

What happened when that fruit was eaten by the pair? They began the process of dying immediately, didn't they? The death sentence was pronounced, they were put on death row in that instant. They didn't have to wait for a trial at all. They knew everything in their entire perfect lives had changed- beginning with the robes of righteousness, the pure robes of the light of God's love disappearing from their bodies so they no longer were clothed in sinless perfection. Separation from God's righteousness, disobeying God, turning from the TRUTH of God's words and accepting SATAN'S LIES cost the pair God's perfection.

They turned away from TRUTH and accepted Satan's deceptive LIES.

Do you not comprehend the importance of being TRUTHFUL? Of accepting TRUTH? Of learning what is TRUTH?

Deception caused the FIRST HUMAN SIN and every sin after is a result of that deception. Tell me that deception isn't insidious, and something we need to guard against by knowing the truth.

Jesus lay claim to being THE TRUTH. Yet we cringe and refuse to accept His truth when it interferes with our traditions. We cringe when we hear that there might be truth that we aren't looking into, because we like the little bit of truth we have, thank you very much. We don't need any more. We grasp hold of one truth to the exclusion of all others, telling ourselves it's enough to simply love without studying Jesus' entire life as the example and following in that example. We take a bit here, a bit there and ignore those parts that clash with our lives.

TRUTH.

Adam and Eve chose lies over truth. We must choose truth over lies.

3Jn_1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children WALK IN TRUTH.

1Jn_1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and WALK in darkness, we LIE, and do NOT THE TRUTH.

1Jn_1:7 But if we WALK in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Mal 2:6 The law of TRUTH was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips…

Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and TRUTH)

Deut 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of TRUTH and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Rev. 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and TRUE are thy ways, thou King of saints.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and TRUTH.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me

Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of TRUTH; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH, because THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Every lie is of the Devil. We deceive ourselves when we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

A lie caused our first parents to sin, and lies are still deceiving many. Don't pretend lies are truth. Pray not to be deceived, because the deceived will not see the truth through the lies they believe.

God help us to only ever want all Your truth and nothing less! All through Jesus Christ our Lord now and forever. Amen!