The Trinity Doctrine in Its True Light
The Antichrist’s Supposed Seven-year Reign
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Now for a second way to deny Christ—and it will absolutely shock you! Again, read carefully—and without bias. What follows is very serious—and to YOU! The popular trinity doctrine, taught to and believed by billions for centuries, promotes that God is “one Being, in three Persons, with one Nature,” and that Jesus is “one Person, with two Natures.” As referenced earlier, supposedly one “nature” of Jesus came to Earth and died at the crucifixion, while the other remained alive, still in heaven.
Let’s stop and consider—let’s “reason together” (Isa. 1:18), using the central question: How can one half of one third of one Being die? Are you confused? You should be! This IS doctrinal confusion—and “God is not the author of confusion” (I Cor. 14:33).
Here is what the New Catholic Encyclopedia openly admits about the trinity. Read slowly: “...one should not speak of Trinitarianism in the New Testament without serious qualification...when one does speak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century. It was only then that what might be called the definitive Trinitarian dogma ‘one God in three Persons’ became thoroughly assimilated into Christian life and thought.
“Herein lies the difficulty. On the one hand, it was the dogmatic formula ‘one God in three Persons’ that would henceforth for more than 15 centuries structure and guide the Trinitarian essence of the Christian message...On the other hand, the formula itself does not reflect the immediate consciousness of the period of origins; it was the product of three centuries of doctrinal development.”
In other words, the idea of “three persons in one God” did not originate in the Bible—the New Testament (the “period of origins”). Neither Christ nor the original apostles taught it. Nor did Paul. Instead, the trinity doctrine simmered in the minds of false Christians for over three centuries. It originated with Roman Catholic theologians, and by the late fourth century became the official doctrine of this universal church.
It was never the teaching of God’s Church. This “god” is manmade—a human invention.
Grasp this. The trinity denies and limits the nature of God. It falsely teaches that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which denies that God is a Family, and that He is reproducing Himself, expanding His Family with many sons (Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10). These sons are Holy Spirit-begotten, which empowers them to develop righteous godly character.
At Christ’s Return, they will be changed from mortal to immortal, from physical to spirit, from the human kind to the God kind. The trinity doctrine both limits God and denies His Master Plan of Salvation for mankind.
Plainly then, and for many reasons, the doctrine of the trinity is antichrist!
To understand much more about this false view of God, and why—how—it completely overthrows the entire Purpose of the true God, read my thorough book The Trinity – Is God Three-In-One? To learn how God’s Master Plan involves you, read The Awesome Potential of Man.
Chapter Thirty-two here addresses the true God of the Bible.
God as One Person?
A third, and somewhat related, doctrine of antichrist is the idea that God is just one Person. This derives from a misunderstanding, in fact, mistranslation, of the Old Testament passage, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord” (Deut. 6:4). Referred to by Jews as the “Shema,” the proper rendering of the Hebrew into English yields a completely different meaning. It is “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, and Him only.” Merely recognizing that Israel had a long history of turning to other gods makes God’s intent even plainer. He wanted Israel worshipping and listening to Him only. Of course, she never did.
Here is the problem. The false view of this verse forces the belief that Jesus appearing in the New Testament is not God, but merely His Son, meaning He holds a lesser status than actual God.
This ignores Jesus’ own plain words: “I and My Father are one” (John 10:30)—two beings in one Godhead. When confronted on this occasion by the Jews, Jesus also stated this: “Many good works have I shown you from My Father; for which of those works do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone You not; but for blasphemy; and because that You, being a man, make Yourself God” (Jn 10:32-33).
Read the entire chapter. Jesus did not say, “You misunderstood Me” or “You did not listen carefully” or “I make no such claim.” This is because He knew that He is God, just like the Father IS God.
Recall that John recorded how Christ was God from the very beginning. All contrary teaching then is antichrist!
“Against Christ”
Now for the fourth way of being antichrist. Remember, the word means “an adversary or opponent of Christ,” or against Christ. Interestingly, Jesus Himself adds more than anyone else in Scripture to simple comprehension of who and what is antichrist. Let’s read what He said to the accusative Pharisees near the end of an important exchange with them. It was regarding the difference between Satan’s spirit (and his kingdom) and the Spirit of God—and the danger of committing the unpardonable sin: “He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathers not with Me scatters abroad” (Matt. 12:30).
This next statement is absolutely crucial to grasp, and it explains why John and Paul warned of many antichrists in the first century who infiltrated and harassed the true Church. Get this.
Remember that Jesus Christ built a Church—His Church—the true Church. His people are part of that one, undivided Church—and none other. Anyone working against that Church—who is not with it, and therefore not “with” Christ—or is in any way attempting to “scatter” Christ’s flock, rather than “gather” it to where He is leading—is obviously AGAINST Christ.
All such then would be ANTIChrist! Is that clear? If not, reread the last paragraph until it is.
“The Spirit of Antichrist”
The fourth and final passage containing “antichrist” warns, “Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know you the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard it should come; and even now already is it in the world” (I John 4:1-3).
This passage is of giant importance. False prophets—and these are all throughout the world today—are tied in this passage to the spirit of antichrist. This would certainly include those who teach falsely regarding the very truth about antichrists. It also includes those who teach falsely about all other aspects of prophecy—as well as the many additional plain truths of God’s Word.
This passage makes these modern thought-to-be prophecy experts antichrists themselves!
Believe God on this. Stop listening to preachers who are not teaching you to obey God’s Law—including the Fourth Commandment—and to overcome sin, but who do talk a lot about prophecy—even though they have no idea what they are talking about. You must disregard who they are—how well-known they are—how popular they are—how charismatic they are—how many people read their books—or watch their programs. Stop listening to them! They may be sincere, but they are sincerelywrong. They will only confuse you.
They are AGAINST CHRIST!
Also notice that I John 4:3 uses the word “it”—not he—“should come,” and that “it”—not he—“is already in the world.” An antichrist is more than just a person or group of people. It is an attitude, an idea, a teaching—a spirit!—and these all flow from a spirit that is alien to God.
The next three verses in the context of John’s warning (Jn 4:4-6) are absolutely crucial to understand. They become vital instruction for you: “You are of God, little children [true Christians], and have overcome them [all false prophets and false ministers]: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. They [the antichrists] are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them [yes, but not true Christians]. We are of God: he that knows God hears us [God’s faithful ministers]; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”
Let’s continue being plain: God’s people overcome the spirit of antichrist—the “spirit of error.” They listen only to God’s ministers. This spirit applies to people, authorities, attitudes and actions. And it permeates all cultures of the world because this world is led and deceived by the devil (II Cor. 4:4;Eph. 2:2; Rev. 12:9).
Can you now see more fully how the mixed-up “Jesus” of the trinity is truly another Jesus, brought by another spirit (II Cor. 11:4)—that of antichrist?
The Antichrist’s Supposed Seven-year Reign