The Antichrist Is Coming

By Author: Doug Krieger
Total Articles: 16
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CHURCHES OF CHRIST SITE DENIES THE FUTURE ANTICHRIST


Dear Mike M. (Churches of Christ) -

The website of the Churches of Christ, though for the most part intensely evangelical, has committed a glaring oversight by alleging that John's First Epistle does NOT speak of the future, bodily personification of the Antichrist. Instead the emphasis is upon the spirit of Antichrist and the doctrine that many antichrists are gone out into the world (which is true) and that he who denies that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is indeed antichrist and that there are many antichrists that are gone out into the world who shall arise in the Last Days—yet there shall be the embodiment of a future end-times' person called in the Bible: THE ANTICHRIST.

In essence, your site denies the tangibility of the Antichrist and commits the issue to a spiritual reality only, while denying the preponderance of Biblical justification for such a future reality. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son bears the spirit of antichrist only. Yet, you claim there is no such thing as THE Antichrist.

Initially, ...
... I dismissed your doctrine as a casual oversight until I realized the profound nature of the error juxtaposed to the Gnosticism which John fought against in the early Church. Denying the materiality and thence, the incarnation that Jesus Christ came in the flesh—and that He resurrected with a physical body and ascended as the Glorified Man and is currently seated on the right hand of God the Father as the Son of Man—was the dastardly heresy that possessed the Gnostics and made their error so grievous in the early Church.

However, your site subscribes to a new heresy by denying the future materiality of The Antichrist whose titles in Scripture are innumerable! I urge you and brethren in the Churches of Christ to come to your spiritual senses and acknowledge the precise error which Satan desires you to embrace—for if he is unable to dissuade you of the Son of Man's physicality, he will persuade you to deny his own personal materiality in the body of Antichrist where he shall find the most fertile of human temples—a temple which he shall utterly desecrate by his counterfeit incarnation; and hence, the prophesied abomination of desolation spoken of by both Daniel and Jesus shall take place (Daniel 11:31, 12:11; Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14).

This future Antichrist is as physical and as spiritual a reality as the Son of Man and the Spirit of Christ!

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