will the anti-christ be Jewish ?
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Actually, it doesn't say it all.
[color=dark red]Don't stop reading where you stopped! Keep reading the passage![/color] (Hint: vs 3-5 are the explanation of the "stop judging others")
This passage (with the understanding that the NLT isn't a very literal translation here) in no way is a passage which tells us to stop judging ALLTOGETHER!
This passage is provoking us to proper Christian judgment!
Remove the board from your own eye and ~then~ you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye!
The "judge not lest ye be judged" is an admonition, not to cease judgment, but to ~not~ judge a brother in areas where you yourself are likewise (and often to a greater extent) guilty!
vs 3-5 clearly explain this!
Also, note that this is telling us the proper way to judge a brother, not any ordinary fellow. A "brother" is a fellow member of the church.
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Quote ephod - Galatians 1
No Other Gospel
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Some how ephod i don't think the above scripture is in relation to the pre-trib post-trib belief.
I don't think it was being debated back in them days was it ?
No Other Gospel
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Some how ephod i don't think the above scripture is in relation to the pre-trib post-trib belief.
I don't think it was being debated back in them days was it ?
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[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Antichrist - Why do you all think it will be a clearly identifiable person?
The word is self explanatory but it is not as simple or as easy to interpret as it may appear. Antichrist means against Christ/God.[/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Conventionally, it refers to any powerful individual or ruler who opposes the Christian way of life and who probably would bring about the apocalypse. Obviously this Adversary is not going to appear during the last days, it would be too late and too obvious, but as we all know he is here already. In fact he has been here almost since the beginning. This makes his influence all the more sinister and dangerous because his influence has not been suspected and as such he has been able to insinuate himself into the lives of many people without themselves knowing it.
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[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Antichrist first appeared during the original fall of man. It came when man made a voluntary decision not to use his intuition, which is an instrument of the spirit and which had a direct connection to the spirit and through which the spirit was to direct the activity of the human being on earth. This, the human spirit had been doing. This ensured a close connection to the Spiritual realm.[/font]
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A time came however, under the influence of Lucifer when man was induced, tempted so to speak to begin to rely more on the intellect.
Through this however, the control of the life of the human being through the spirit was lost since this calls for the use of the intuitive perception, which was no longer used. This was first instigated by using the concept of temptation.
Therefore man's intuition began to wither away, until we came to a spiritual atrophy.
The intellect thereby, through this now took over also the work that belonged to the spirit. It began to make all decisions in life, whether moral, religious, artistic, in fact everything to do with our daily lives, conduct and well being.
It has been used almost exclusively to make all our decisions spiritual or material for literally thousands of years.
Through this however, the characteristics of the spirit and its abilities and what it could really do remained closed to this humanity.
Nothing or very little that belongs to the spiritual in man can still be seen in the man of today. Therefore, the man of today is more of an intellectual person, not a complete man who should have been in a position to use both his spirit and his intellect. In making decisions no matter what it is, we use principally our intellects even in deciding on matters which clearly do not belong to the intellectual category. Therefore society begins to suffer as a consequence. It is out of balance.
Sadly, man cannot really correct this effect of the one sided cultivation.
The frontal brain, being the seat of the intellect and through being continually exerted over thousands of years went through a change to which all parts of the body is subject and to which also all creatures are subject and which happening we all would have observed in our environments at one time or the other. It underwent an enlargement because of the demands made upon it. It had to enlarge to be able to be in a position to handle the increased work load. Therefore it 'hypertrophied' to use a medical term.
So there must have been a particular point in human history where this aberration set in. We cannot attribute a smaller frontal brain to primitiveness.
The study of history and evolution can testify that with increasing frontal brain size came the chaos and confusion in our societies which was a phenomenon characteristically absent with early man.
The role of the cerebellum has not been clear to anybody until now. It has always been a kind of a mystery to those who have concerned themselves with it. To those who have studied and even to casual observers it looks like a kind of miniature brain.
It has two hemispheres just like the latter, it has extensive in-folding called convolutions just like the frontal brain and there are extensive interconnections between the two, hemisphere to hemisphere and so on. To any casual observer it looks like a shriveled brain.
Scientific experiments in which various parts of the cerebellum have been stimulated to find out the functions of these parts have been carried out yet nothing have been conclusive from these investigations. No part of the body has ever responded to these stimulations quite unlike what happens when the frontal brain is stimulated. When the latter is stimulated depending on the part, corresponding parts of the body have responded with various degrees of movements.
With the cerebellum however, this has never been the case yet when it is damaged severe disruptions have been noted especially in posture and other fine precision movements. Could it mean that the cerebellum does not directly control these movements but does so through an agent? Why is it that gross stimulation does not elicit any response? Yet when damaged produces disturbances of a gross nature.
[/font][font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]The cerebellum is meant to be that part of the brain which has direct connections with the spirit and as such is meant to be the instrument of the spirit, receiving from the latter and passing what it receives on to the frontal brain to carry out in the World of Matter.
Because this instrument of the spirit was not used for thousands of years because we decided not to receive anymore from the spirit, the instrument for this which is the cerebellum also underwent a change because of the low demand on it. Because of this low work load it became atrophied -as it was not used.
The sheer smallness of this part of the brain in relation to the frontal brain bears witness to the crime of humanity against the ordinance of God. Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely equally.
The brain as it is today is nothing but a monstrosity. The frontal brain has become a monster both anatomically and functionally that now it is almost impossible for man of today to control its activity.
In its normal activity the cerebellum is supposed to receive from the spirit or rather the intuitive perception which is the instrument of the spirit in pictures which it then modifies according to its nature and then passes this on to the frontal brain.
The tool which was supposed to be used to receive instructions from the spirit is the cerebellum, which owing to the fact that it has not performed this function for so long has shrunk in size and has become considerably weakened.
The spirit, due to the absence of this bridge cannot make itself heard. The tool it is supposed to use for this is too weak for the purpose because it has been constantly suppressed for thousands of years. Therefore we can no longer receive from the spirit and just because of this we have estranged ourselves from God, Who can only communicate with us through our spirits. Therefore through our own decision we have cut ourselves off from God.
Through the physical characteristic of the 'small and the big brain' every child that is born also comes or so to speak inherits this kind of brain which has now become characteristic of the human species. Original Sin. Hereditary sin.
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[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]You already will gather the consequences of the one sided cultivation of the intellect.
What we have done is that we have inherited a tendency to sin, a tendency to easily entangle ourselves in all sorts of sin because through this abnormal brain it becomes more difficult to recognise God and thereby obey His Laws because of the weakened tool which is the cerebellum.
The sin itself has not been inherited but through this kind of brain it is indeed easier to sin because of the estrangement from God.
We inherited a tendency to sin because our anatomical disposition makes this indeed easier.
Therefore, through our guilt the spirit cannot now act to control our lives.
The spirit cannot make itself heard and now lies in the physical body sleeping.
Therefore the activities of the spirit cannot be seen today on earth because the bridge through which it could act toward the outside is no more effective for this.
Therefore no spiritual works can be spoken of as such by humanity of today, we can only speak of intellectual work.
The works of the spirit are relatively few and can only be spoken of in regard to Art and Music and even now the intellect plays a very strong role.
Therefore man has cut himself off from God!
But how did this come to be? This started through the appearance of woman in Creation and the intentional exploitation of her charms and abilities. Man came to desire her only for himself and as such disobeyed his warning intuitions as a result. In desiring woman for himself alone he began to accumulate earthly treasures to acquire her. While doing this however, he neglected to do what was most important and woman all the more encouraged him to continue on this course which was bound to estrange him from God. [/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]In his desire to impress woman and gain her earthly love he could not think of anything else; this idea occupied him above all else. Therefore the attention paid only to material things through the desire to satisfy woman and acquire earthly things for her sake turned our gazes only to this earth and with time made us forget the purpose of life. Woman however came to enjoy the attention given to them by man. They thereby became the centre of man's whole life.
What however started in this way has grown to unimaginable proportions so much so that it has become self propagating and has affected all things in such a way that the initial reason for all this is hardly recognisable, although if keenly scrutinised one could still find traces of this initiating process - the corruption of woman.
Women are the mediators of Light Powers because they are in a position to receive directly from the Luminous Heights and then pass this on to other human spirits.
If they fail however, then the entire human race was bound to fail.
Through their activities, women have now led men astray.
All other evil then came just because of this one act. Acquisitiveness led to greed which in turn led to avarice, lies, murder and so on. It took on a life of its own and propagated itself; of course under the direction of Lucifer, the originator of this evil.[/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]The great Adversary who uses these people as tools, who stands behind these people and gives them the strength to carry out their activities against those who believe in Jesus is that same Adversary who has always been, Lucifer. Only he can have the power to be the Antichrist. Only he can have the strength to dare to oppose the Message of God and the redemption of human beings through this Message.
It is not a question of his opposing the Christian Church that matters since this cannot really be equated with God or the Truth that He represents. It is a question of his opposition to the Truth of God in the truest sense. Hence the one sided cultivation of the intellect is antichrist and cuts off man's spiritual intuition.
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The word is self explanatory but it is not as simple or as easy to interpret as it may appear. Antichrist means against Christ/God.[/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Conventionally, it refers to any powerful individual or ruler who opposes the Christian way of life and who probably would bring about the apocalypse. Obviously this Adversary is not going to appear during the last days, it would be too late and too obvious, but as we all know he is here already. In fact he has been here almost since the beginning. This makes his influence all the more sinister and dangerous because his influence has not been suspected and as such he has been able to insinuate himself into the lives of many people without themselves knowing it.
[/font][font="verdana, arial, helvetica"][/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Antichrist first appeared during the original fall of man. It came when man made a voluntary decision not to use his intuition, which is an instrument of the spirit and which had a direct connection to the spirit and through which the spirit was to direct the activity of the human being on earth. This, the human spirit had been doing. This ensured a close connection to the Spiritual realm.[/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]
A time came however, under the influence of Lucifer when man was induced, tempted so to speak to begin to rely more on the intellect.
Through this however, the control of the life of the human being through the spirit was lost since this calls for the use of the intuitive perception, which was no longer used. This was first instigated by using the concept of temptation.
Therefore man's intuition began to wither away, until we came to a spiritual atrophy.
The intellect thereby, through this now took over also the work that belonged to the spirit. It began to make all decisions in life, whether moral, religious, artistic, in fact everything to do with our daily lives, conduct and well being.
It has been used almost exclusively to make all our decisions spiritual or material for literally thousands of years.
Through this however, the characteristics of the spirit and its abilities and what it could really do remained closed to this humanity.
Nothing or very little that belongs to the spiritual in man can still be seen in the man of today. Therefore, the man of today is more of an intellectual person, not a complete man who should have been in a position to use both his spirit and his intellect. In making decisions no matter what it is, we use principally our intellects even in deciding on matters which clearly do not belong to the intellectual category. Therefore society begins to suffer as a consequence. It is out of balance.
Sadly, man cannot really correct this effect of the one sided cultivation.
The frontal brain, being the seat of the intellect and through being continually exerted over thousands of years went through a change to which all parts of the body is subject and to which also all creatures are subject and which happening we all would have observed in our environments at one time or the other. It underwent an enlargement because of the demands made upon it. It had to enlarge to be able to be in a position to handle the increased work load. Therefore it 'hypertrophied' to use a medical term.
So there must have been a particular point in human history where this aberration set in. We cannot attribute a smaller frontal brain to primitiveness.
The study of history and evolution can testify that with increasing frontal brain size came the chaos and confusion in our societies which was a phenomenon characteristically absent with early man.
The role of the cerebellum has not been clear to anybody until now. It has always been a kind of a mystery to those who have concerned themselves with it. To those who have studied and even to casual observers it looks like a kind of miniature brain.
It has two hemispheres just like the latter, it has extensive in-folding called convolutions just like the frontal brain and there are extensive interconnections between the two, hemisphere to hemisphere and so on. To any casual observer it looks like a shriveled brain.
Scientific experiments in which various parts of the cerebellum have been stimulated to find out the functions of these parts have been carried out yet nothing have been conclusive from these investigations. No part of the body has ever responded to these stimulations quite unlike what happens when the frontal brain is stimulated. When the latter is stimulated depending on the part, corresponding parts of the body have responded with various degrees of movements.
With the cerebellum however, this has never been the case yet when it is damaged severe disruptions have been noted especially in posture and other fine precision movements. Could it mean that the cerebellum does not directly control these movements but does so through an agent? Why is it that gross stimulation does not elicit any response? Yet when damaged produces disturbances of a gross nature.
[/font][font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]The cerebellum is meant to be that part of the brain which has direct connections with the spirit and as such is meant to be the instrument of the spirit, receiving from the latter and passing what it receives on to the frontal brain to carry out in the World of Matter.
Because this instrument of the spirit was not used for thousands of years because we decided not to receive anymore from the spirit, the instrument for this which is the cerebellum also underwent a change because of the low demand on it. Because of this low work load it became atrophied -as it was not used.
The sheer smallness of this part of the brain in relation to the frontal brain bears witness to the crime of humanity against the ordinance of God. Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely equally.
The brain as it is today is nothing but a monstrosity. The frontal brain has become a monster both anatomically and functionally that now it is almost impossible for man of today to control its activity.
In its normal activity the cerebellum is supposed to receive from the spirit or rather the intuitive perception which is the instrument of the spirit in pictures which it then modifies according to its nature and then passes this on to the frontal brain.
The tool which was supposed to be used to receive instructions from the spirit is the cerebellum, which owing to the fact that it has not performed this function for so long has shrunk in size and has become considerably weakened.
The spirit, due to the absence of this bridge cannot make itself heard. The tool it is supposed to use for this is too weak for the purpose because it has been constantly suppressed for thousands of years. Therefore we can no longer receive from the spirit and just because of this we have estranged ourselves from God, Who can only communicate with us through our spirits. Therefore through our own decision we have cut ourselves off from God.
Through the physical characteristic of the 'small and the big brain' every child that is born also comes or so to speak inherits this kind of brain which has now become characteristic of the human species. Original Sin. Hereditary sin.
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[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]You already will gather the consequences of the one sided cultivation of the intellect.
What we have done is that we have inherited a tendency to sin, a tendency to easily entangle ourselves in all sorts of sin because through this abnormal brain it becomes more difficult to recognise God and thereby obey His Laws because of the weakened tool which is the cerebellum.
The sin itself has not been inherited but through this kind of brain it is indeed easier to sin because of the estrangement from God.
We inherited a tendency to sin because our anatomical disposition makes this indeed easier.
Therefore, through our guilt the spirit cannot now act to control our lives.
The spirit cannot make itself heard and now lies in the physical body sleeping.
Therefore the activities of the spirit cannot be seen today on earth because the bridge through which it could act toward the outside is no more effective for this.
Therefore no spiritual works can be spoken of as such by humanity of today, we can only speak of intellectual work.
The works of the spirit are relatively few and can only be spoken of in regard to Art and Music and even now the intellect plays a very strong role.
Therefore man has cut himself off from God!
But how did this come to be? This started through the appearance of woman in Creation and the intentional exploitation of her charms and abilities. Man came to desire her only for himself and as such disobeyed his warning intuitions as a result. In desiring woman for himself alone he began to accumulate earthly treasures to acquire her. While doing this however, he neglected to do what was most important and woman all the more encouraged him to continue on this course which was bound to estrange him from God. [/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]In his desire to impress woman and gain her earthly love he could not think of anything else; this idea occupied him above all else. Therefore the attention paid only to material things through the desire to satisfy woman and acquire earthly things for her sake turned our gazes only to this earth and with time made us forget the purpose of life. Woman however came to enjoy the attention given to them by man. They thereby became the centre of man's whole life.
What however started in this way has grown to unimaginable proportions so much so that it has become self propagating and has affected all things in such a way that the initial reason for all this is hardly recognisable, although if keenly scrutinised one could still find traces of this initiating process - the corruption of woman.
Women are the mediators of Light Powers because they are in a position to receive directly from the Luminous Heights and then pass this on to other human spirits.
If they fail however, then the entire human race was bound to fail.
Through their activities, women have now led men astray.
All other evil then came just because of this one act. Acquisitiveness led to greed which in turn led to avarice, lies, murder and so on. It took on a life of its own and propagated itself; of course under the direction of Lucifer, the originator of this evil.[/font]
[font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]The great Adversary who uses these people as tools, who stands behind these people and gives them the strength to carry out their activities against those who believe in Jesus is that same Adversary who has always been, Lucifer. Only he can have the power to be the Antichrist. Only he can have the strength to dare to oppose the Message of God and the redemption of human beings through this Message.
It is not a question of his opposing the Christian Church that matters since this cannot really be equated with God or the Truth that He represents. It is a question of his opposition to the Truth of God in the truest sense. Hence the one sided cultivation of the intellect is antichrist and cuts off man's spiritual intuition.
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will the anti-christ be Jewish ?
All who have rejected Jesus as the Messiah are anti-christs - Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc...
1 Jn 2.22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
2 Jn 1.7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
All who have rejected Jesus as the Messiah are anti-christs - Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc...
1 Jn 2.22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
2 Jn 1.7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
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The antichrist will be an assyrian.
Micah5:<SUP>1</SUP> Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. <SUP>2</SUP> But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. <SUP>3</SUP> Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. <SUP>4</SUP> And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. <SUP>5</SUP> And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. <SUP>6</SUP> And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Micah5:<SUP>1</SUP> Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. <SUP>2</SUP> But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. <SUP>3</SUP> Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. <SUP>4</SUP> And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. <SUP>5</SUP> And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. <SUP>6</SUP> And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
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