ANTI- CHRIST- [Church Unlimited notes- 2nd- 3rd
John]
3John 1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth
good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.https://youtu.be/7dfLhO2HBf8 anti- Christ [2nd, 3rd John]
https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-23-16-anti-christ-2nd-3rd-jn.zip
ON VIDEO [past posts below]
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.Who is anti-christ?
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.Soteriology
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.ISIS
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.Abortion
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PAST LINKS [verses below]
Gematria-
a common use at the time John wrote- which gives each letter of the Hebrew
alphabet a numerical value.
Nero
Caesar[ 1st century emperor] equals 666.
STUFF
HE DID;
1-Made people worship him- as God [2Thessalonians 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;
2Thessalonians 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.]
2-Castrated
a boy- named Sporus- then married him.
3-Put
tar on Christians- set them on fire and used them as human torches.
Nero
ruled as emperor and persecuted the early church- his rule led up to the
destruction of the Jewish temple in a.d. 70.
The
predictions Jesus gave to his apostles about the destruction of Jerusalem and a
great time of wrath [or tribulation] can indeed be seen as having happened
during the 1st century.
Many
people believed Nero to be the fulfillment of the anti-Christ that the New
Testament speaks of.
John
the apostle wrote that ‘anti-Christ’ were those who denied Jesus- at the time
of his writing [1st century].
John-
who wrote Revelation- said ‘the mind that has wisdom’ will figure out who he is
talking about.
John
sent this letter to actual Christians living in the 1st century.
You
would expect that the readers of the letter would have some clue to who he was
talking about.
As we
go thru Revelation- my intent is not to cover [and debate] all the various
views on all the verses in this book.
I
simply show you this view [which I think is about the best one out there]
Because we live in a day where many of the ‘end times’ teachings seemed to be
consumed with a future leader [a famous preacher just prophesied ‘the
anti-Christ is here’ the other day] who is still to come-
And
that this will set off a cascade of events [most see these events as prophesied
in Revelation- and sort of see it as a play book].
So-
it is quite possible that the anti-Christ was Nero-
And
yes- we live in a wicked world- and sure- we might/will continue to see men
‘rise’ and do wicked things.
But
when Paul and John wrote- in the first century- warning the believers about a
wicked ruler who would do bad things-
I
think it would have been a disservice if he were speaking about a leader- who
would not show up- until at least 2 thousand years later.
BELOW-
I pasted some various views here- just to give you a flavor of the different
ways Christians view some of these things.
At
the end I also added some of the passages I talk about on the video.
Here’s
a quote from St. Augustine- an early Christian leader- referring to the verse I
pasted from 2nd Thessalonians-
"Some
think that the Apostle Paul referred to the Roman empire, and that he was
unwilling to use language more explicit, lest he should incur the calumnious
charge of wishing ill to the empire which it was hoped would be eternal; so
that in saying, 'For the mystery of iniquity doth already work,' he alluded to
Nero, whose deeds already seemed to be as the deeds of Antichrist. And hence
some suppose that he shall rise again and be Antichrist. Others, again, suppose
that he is not even dead, but that he was concealed that he might be supposed
to have been killed, and that he now lives in concealment in the vigor of that
same age which he had reached when he was believed to have perished, and will
live until he is revealed in his own time and restored to his kingdom. But I
wonder that men can be so audacious in their conjectures" (De Civitate
Dei, XX.19.3).
I pasted this
from another site-
In both ancient Greek
and Hebrew, letters also represented numerals (as they do in Latin), their
values assigned according to the order of the alphabet, alpha and aelph,
for example, having the numerical value of 1. By adding these values, words
could be represented as the sum of their numbers. This literation of numbers
and numeration of letters was known as isopsephism by the Greeks and gematria
by the Jews (which, in cabalistic practice, has been used to interpret Hebrew
scripture). If the Greek spelling of Nero Caesar (Neron Kaisar) is
transliterated into Hebrew (nrwn qsr), the numerical equivalent is 666.
What is curious,
however, is not so much that 666 can be decoded to signify Nero but that the
name of the emperor is encoded in this particular number, especially since it
could have been represented more readily in other ways. If "Nero" is
retained in Greek, for example, the numeration would be 955 or, if
"Neron," 1005; in Hebrew, then 256 or 306, respectively. It only is
when the words are transliterated into Hebrew that the numeration adds up to
666 (nrwn qsr, 50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200). Even so,
this is an alternate spelling, a letter in "Neron" being
transliterated (nrwn instead of nrw) but not in
"Caesar" (qsr instead of qysr), although
these forms do appear in both the Talmud and a contemporary Aramaic scroll from
Qumran. It is intriguing, therefore, that 666 encodes the name of Nero in
Hebrew when Revelation, itself, was written in Greek.
One should appreciate,
too, that there were no numbers in Greek or Hebrew and that the "the
number of the beast" was not presented as a figure but as letters of the
alphabet or written in full. That is to say, it was not expressed as
"666" (indeed, discrete Arabic numerals would not be invented for
another five hundred years) but as the numerical values of the three letters
representing 600, 60, and 6.
For Watt, the
significance of 666 is that its expression in Latin is the sequential Roman
numerals DCLXVI, which parallels but is the antithesis of the "Alpha and
Omega" that John uses to characterize both Christ (22:13) and God (1:8,
21:6). As the Deity represents the beginning and end, so the Antichrist is a
reversal of the first and last, D (500) preceding I (1). To phrase this another
way, 666 (or rather DCLXVI) signifies the Antichrist because that number
signifies Nero, and Nero—who was a matricide, proclaimed his divinity on
Egyptian coins as the "Savior and Benefactor of the World," and the
first emperor to persecute the Christians—signifies the Antichrist. Indeed, the
procurator of Judea (c. AD 60) refers to Nero as "my lord" (kyrios),
the same title applied to Jesus (Acts 25:26).
If the Latin (rather
than the Greek) spelling "Nero Caesar" (above) is transliterated into
Hebrew (nrw qsr), the final "n" in Neron being
omitted (and its corresponding value of 50), the name computes as 616, which is
the number indicated in the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament (the
fragment illustrated below). If, instead, "Neron Caesar" is correct,
it may be that the Latin was transcribed incorrectly, perhaps because the
copyist realized that this transliteration did not equate to 666 and so omitted
the letter, which changed the sum to 616.
Still, each digit of
666 is one less than seven, the perfect number, and such mathematical play may
have tended to establish 666, rather than 616. Regardless of the number, Nero
is the only name that can account for both 666 and 616, which is the most
compelling argument that he, and not some other emperor, such as Caligula or
Domitian, was intended. Too, for the number to have any significance for a
reader of the first century AD, it would have to refer to a contemporary
historical figure.
Writing a century
later, Irenaeus is the first church father to comment on the number of the
beast, although he apparently was ignorant of what the number actually encoded.
Nor is he correct in assuming that John's vision occurred "almost in our
day, towards the end of Domitian's reign" (Adversus Haereses,
V.30.3; a tradition repeated by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History,
III.18.3, and by the church fathers), which is to say sometime before AD 96,
when the emperor was assassinated and just a few years before John himself died
of old age. Rather, his presumed banishment to Patmos (where Revelation was
written) seems to have occurred almost thirty years earlier, toward the end of
Nero's reign and before the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, which John otherwise
would have mentioned.
For Irenaeus, 666 was
correct. The Antichrist "sums up in his own person all the commixture of
wickedness which took place previous to the deluge....and also sums up every
error of devised idols since the flood" (V.29.2). The flood came in the
six hundredth year of Noah and the golden image set up by Nebuchadnezzar (who
Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednego refused to worship) was sixty cubits high and
six cubits wide (Daniel 3:1ff). This being the case and "this number being
found in all the most approved and ancient copies....I do not know how it is
that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech, and have vitiated
the middle number [L] in the name, deducting the amount of fifty from it, so
that instead of six decads they will have it that there is but one"
(V.30.1).
Nero, too, was the
sixth emperor, counting from Julius Caesar (as did Suetonius, for example, and
Josephus, cf. Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII.2.2, where Tiberius is
identified as the third). "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are
seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come"
(Revelation 17:9-10). Of these emperors, it is Nero who had been "wounded
to death" but "his deadly wound was healed" and he still lived
(13:3)—Nero redivivus.
St.
Jerome-"As for the Antichrist, there is no question but what he is going
to fight against the holy covenant, and that when he first makes war against
the king of Egypt, he shall straightway be frightened off by the assistance of
the Romans. But these events were typically prefigured under Antiochus
Epiphanes, so that this abominable king who persecuted God's people foreshadows
the Antichrist, who is to persecute the people of Christ. And so there are many
of our viewpoint who think that Domitius Nero was the Antichrist because of his
outstanding savagery and depravity." (St. Jerome - Commentary on Daniel;
notes on Daniel 11:27-30, -- BAKER BOOK HOUSE Grand Rapids 6, Michigan 1958)
Some will suggest that the book of
Revelation was written only for those living at the time, and that 666 most
probably applies to Cæsar Nero, who ruled Rome from 54 to 68 A.D., rather than
someone from latter centuries. This point of view, which suggests Revelation
had an immediate application to the first century, is known as preterism. So, just how is Nero
linked to 666?
Preterists take Nero's name, Nero
Cæsar and transliterates the Latin into Hebrew. An "n" is added
to conform with the Hebrew spelling and usage of Nero's name, in a manner
similar to the Greek adding an "s" (i.e., Jeremias, Jonas, etc.). Other
names in scripture where the adding of an "n" may be seen are
Abaddon, Apollyon, and Armageddon. Once Hebraicized, the Latin Nero Caesar becomes "nrwn qsr," which when using the numeric
equivalent of the letters, then adds up to 666 as follows:
Nun
|
=
|
50
|
Resh
|
=
|
200
|
Waw
|
=
|
6
|
Nun
|
=
|
50
|
|
||
Qoph
|
=
|
100
|
Samech
|
=
|
60
|
Resh
|
=
|
200
|
An example of this spelling has been recently discovered in one of
the Dead Sea scrolls. If you use the same process, but without the added
"n" the result is 616. Interestingly, some early manuscripts have 616
rather than 666, but even scholars such as Irenæus [A.D. 120-202] attribute the 616 to only a
copyist error (Against Heresies: V, xxx) "this number [666] being found in
all the most approved and ancient copies" [of the Apocalypse] and asserts
that "men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony" [to it -
666].
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Nine
by Prof. David J. Engelsma
I. The Premillennial InterpretationA. Who they are
A. In opposition to the premill view, there are two basic objections as a whole
.
All of these occur during the first advent of
Christ Jesus (from His Incarnation through His resurrection and ascension).
.
The period begins with the going forth of a
command to build Jerusalem (v. 25).
1) This is the decree of Cyrus that Judah may return to Canaan in 537 B.C. 2) See Isaiah 44:28 and Isaiah 45:13. 3) This was a crucial juncture in Israel’s history and a wonderful manifestation of God’s faithfulness. a) Israel is desolate, doomed. b) God then, amazingly, orders Cyrus to give Israel deliverance, life from the dead.
.
Basically, there are two objections; both
concern verses 26-27.
.
The 70 weeks are fulfilled in the first advent
of Jesus.
Another interpretation of the 70 weeks given by some Reformed amillennialists is the following. The 70 weeks are the entire period from the command to build Jerusalem to the second advent of Christ, including the present age. From Cyrus’ decree to the first advent is 7 weeks; from the first advent to the appearance of Antichrist in the future is 62 weeks; the 70th week is the brief period in the future during which Antichrist will reign and which ends with Christ’s return. The interpretation is possible because of another possible reading of the last part of verse 25. It is possible to translate the last part of verse 25 as follows: “… unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks; and threescore and two weeks the street shall be built again” etc. According to this translation, the building of the street and the wall, during the 62 weeks, is symbolic of the gathering of the church in the new dispensation. This interpretation is wrong for the following reasons:
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Contents:
I. The
Premillennial InterpretationII. The Correct, Scriptural Interpretation |
[parts]
WHY ISIS?
As a country- we have a short attention span, and because of
that the media can manipulate us.
As in the words of an advisor to the president on his
passing of Obamacare ‘if the people weren’t so stupid- we would have never
passed it’ [my paraphrase]
Or for a real time example- Bill Clinton just happened to bump
into the attorney general at the airport.
So- let’s keep this short-
In Iraq you have a divided political party- sort of like the
U.S.
The division is Sunni- Shiite.
Compare that to you- whether you are a Republican or
Democrat.
Iraq had a leader- grant it- bad man- Saddam Hussein.
George Bush thought he had evidence the guy had chemical
weapons [OH NO! THAT MIGHT BE A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRCUTION!]
So we started a war- and watched his opponents hang him in
the streets.
Now- say if Putin decided Obama’s placing of more
weapons/troops on Russia’s border- which we are indeed doing thru NATO.
And say if Russia decided to go to war with us- because of
the threat he sees [like Bush saw] and say if they removed our president from
office- and his enemies managed to try him- and have him executed.
Ok- no matter what side of the aisle you are on- I hope you
would be against a foreign country making such a decision for us.
That’s what we did.
The new president of Iraq- Malaki- was a Shiite- and the
others were Sunni.
This man arrested- imprisoned the ‘democrats’ [Sunni].
And went after his political opponents- just like if Russia
backed a Dem- or Repub. - and the new leader actually went after- and
imprisoned the kids of his political opposition.
So- the Sunni’s protested loudly ‘what the hell have you
done- U.S. - our kids being jailed- the leaders who are on our side being
imprisoned- and the cities we [Sunni] live in- are treated like trash- like we
are now the enemy’.
Eventually one of these imprisoned ‘political’ opponent’s
got out- and he was so pissed off-
He joined an extremist group- named Al-Qaida- and began
fighting- for his own Sunni side- with anger.
His little movement spread north to Syria- and became known
as ISIS.
Now- there's more to it- but like I said we have very short
attention spans.
But you just got the jist of it- maybe for the first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fallujah_(2016) Link on Fallujah-
TRANSGENDER- This has nothing to do with today’s message-
but I have a few minutes- and thought I’d mention this.
Our military just made Transgender people- who serve- as a
separate category.
Meaning- shared facilities [bathroom- etc.]
In the whole debate our country has been going thru- I heard
the defense secretary [Carter] speak about how it’s 'the right thing to do’.
Gender is actually a term- it has an actual definition- and
if we want to begin applying it to a group of people- then we need to re-define
what we are talking about [for instance- if we had a phenomenon where people
‘felt’ like they had 3 arms- and over time we realized many people ‘felt’ this
way- then would we define them as actually having 3 arms?]
The point being- gender is actually something you are born
with ‘John- you are so insensitive by saying that’.
Why?
This is not meant to demean anyone- or discriminate- but the
actual language we are using in this whole debate is wrong.
If we need to change the language- for example ‘transgender’
to something else [I feel like- and identify- as male- female] then the whole
debate would make more sense.
But when Ash Carter says ‘it’s right to not discriminate
against people who ‘transition’ between genders’- that’s not correct.
Everyone who identifies this way- beside the few who were
born with both male and female genitalia- is actually not ‘trans gender’.
And it’s not discriminatory- in any way- to say that.
Just like it would not be wrong to say to a 2 armed person-
who ‘identifies’ as having 3 arms- ‘look- you physically have only 2 arms’-
even if you ‘feel’ like you have 3.
VERSES-
2Timothy
1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
2Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
2Timothy 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
2Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2Timothy 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
2Thessalonians 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2Thessalonians 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Thessalonians 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
NEWS LINKS-
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/06/30/u-s-ship-close-encounter-russian-patrol-orig-vstan.cnn
Look at the headline- it makes you think the U.S. ship went up to the Russian
one.
Why? Our allies in the region believe the U.S. is backing
down to Russian aggression.
But the actual story/video is the Russian vessel was the
aggressor- again.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/01/mafia-take-out-owner-famed-nyc-pizzeria-gunned-down-in-suspected-mob-hit.html?intcmp=hpbt3 Ok- no more Mafia posts for me.
http://www.kristv.com/story/32357104/tobacco-junction-owner-employees-arrested-for-selling-synthetic-marijuana I actually used to buy cigarettes here- I
think the owners thought I was a narc- dressed in black- they see the fire
dept. badge when I open my wallet- and just starting buying them this last
year- on my way to visit David who lives in the area. I bet they are thinking
‘I knew that guy was a cop’! Oh well.
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JOHN 6
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
https://youtu.be/--3fJK_dqiU John 6
ON VIDEO-
.See the quads
.it was a test
. ‘We don’t have enough money for the ministry Jesus’?
.What did Jesus do- multiply the money- or the bread?
.Don’t leave the
crumbs behind
.Nungesser’s bowling alley
.The acid trip
.Manna a sign
.A little Greek stuff
.Zwingli
.Lake Geneva
.Renaissance
.Florence- Italy
.Medici family
.Aquinas
Aristotle
.Greek lexicon
.Proof texting a no no
.Hocus Pocus?
.Fundamentalism
.Aldous Huxley
MY LINKS [verses below]
MY LINKS ON JOHN
NEW STUFF- [past posts, verses below]
WE DON’T HAVE THE CASH JESUS!
MANNA A SIGN
END NOTES
1- WE DON’T HAVE THE
CASH!
Jesus feeds the
people- how?
One night lots of the people who saw the miracles came to
Jesus.
He says to his men ‘wow- it’s getting late- what shall we
do- lots of people are coming’.
It was a test- to see how his men would react.
One says ‘it would take a lot of money- even 200 hundred
‘penny worth’ can’t feed them’.
See?
His guys
[parts]
VERSES-
2John 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.3John 1:5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
3John 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
3John 1:7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Rev.
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 1st Cor. 3:10
17 And the
seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto
us through thy name.
18 And he
said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold,
I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding
in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice,
because your names are written in heaven.
NEWS-
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