n2thelight
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Here's a Message from Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 11 about the coming Antichrist. I refer to this one a lot on various levels, so if you read my posts you'll probably see me quote this a lot about events for the end of this world.
2 Cor 11:2-4
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Right off the bat Paul is comparing his warning for the Church to not be deceived to the deception Satan as "that old serpent" in God's Garden pulled off with Eve.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
KJV
Paul's fear was that they might instead believe a false apostle preaching "another Jesus", and that they might believe it. This is the very same type of warning our Lord Jesus gave in His Olivet discourse against believing on a pseudo-Christ that is to appear in Jerusalem for the end (Matthew 24:23-26, the passage is about a singular false one claimed to be Christ. Our Lord Jesus said don't believe on that false one).
This is kind of a huge... revelation here by Paul. He's showing there are false apostles that preach to believe on "another Jesus" via "another spirit" and "another gospel". That reveals how the true Gospel of Jesus Christ was being twisted even in Paul's day.
Then in 2 Corinthians 11:5-12 Paul starts talking about his commission in comparison to other brethren, and then Paul makes another huge... revelation about some of them:
2 Cor 11:13-15
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
False apostles? deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ? Yes, and the Greek for "transforming" is actually a word that means 'to transfigure or disguise' (Strong's no. 3345). Paul is talking about certain brethren in the Church 'disguised' as apostles of Christ; that's a huge... revelation about there being false teachers among Christ's body in his day. He did warn this would happen especially after his leaving (Acts 20:29-31). And in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2, he warned against listening to those false ones who were passing letters as if from Christ's Apostles, their having confounded among the Thessalonian Church the order of events for Christ's return and gathering of the Church.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
And no great surprise, because even Satan disguises himself as "an angel of light". That word "transformed" again is actually 'disguise' in the Greek (Strong's no. 3345). If you don't yet realize it, Paul here just revealed Satan disguises himself as an angel of light, meaning a heavenly servant of God. Does that mean he looks like he has horns, a goatee, a pitchfork, and red flannel underwear? No. It means disguised as The Christ, or didn't you catch Paul made the earlier comparison to "another Jesus" in this chapter??
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
KJV
Also no great surprise that Satan's ministers also are disguised as God's ministers of righteousness. Paul is pointing to those brethren preaching the "another Jesus" and the "another gospel" he warned at the beginning of the chapter.
In Summary:
There are those crept in unawares of Jude 1 that are preaching that "another Jesus" and are preparing the deceived to accept Satan who will come disguised as an angel of light, and those deceivers disguise themselves as the ministers of righteousness. In essence, Paul is repeating the warnings our Lord Jesus gave about the coming "man of sin" to Jerusalem for the end of this world to sit in a temple claiming to be Messiah, working great signs and wonders to deceive with (Matthew 24:23-26; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:11-14).
Most won't get it,heck most don't know what they are saved from.Believe in Christ and everything will be okay,however it's more to it than that!!!