By
Pastor Darryl Woodson
John
10:4-5_And
when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow
him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but
will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
Many
will come in the last days masquerading as christs and prophets but are false
christs and false prophets and this deception is already on the earth. When we
know the voice of our good Shepherd, we will not know the voice of strangers.
The
word Anti-Christ comes from two (2) Greek words anti to counterfeit and Christos
that means the anointed one. So the Anti-Christ is the counterfeit, the
anti-anointed one, an anti-substitute, a counterfeit savior.
Other
names for Satan in the Bible are the Beast, the man of lawlessness, the devil.
He will have an agenda to put in place a one world government, a one world
religion and a one world currency.
The
Anti-Christ’s MO (Method of Operation) is;
1. He will use an image.
1. He will use an image.
Revelation
13:15_He
was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of
the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of
the beast to be killed.
2. He will use a mark.
2. He will use a mark.
Revelation
14:9-10_”If
anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead
or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God,…He
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb.
3. He will use miracles.
Revelation 13:3_And I saw one of his heads as if
it has been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the
world marveled and followed the beast.
The
spirit of antichrist is already upon the earth and it is the deceiver of men
but the end of the false will be according to their works.
1st
John 3:7-9_...let
no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is
righteous…For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy
the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed
remains in him…
The
purpose of the manifestation of the Son of God is that He might destroy the
works of the devil and what victory this is! Sin is of the devil but those that
are born of God do not sin.
If we are indeed born of God, we have to live in the Spirit, and not
only to live, but also to walk in the Spirit! Galatians 5:24-25
Many
antichrists have come even before the Antichrist and these went away that they
might be made manifest that they were not of us. The antichrist denies the
Father and the Son. 1 John 2:18-19. The spirit of antichrist involves turning
away and hearing and not doing as according to the Word of God. 2 Timothy 4:3-5