Antichrists-who are they?

One of the Great Deceptions

by Dan Baxley

www.yahshuaservant.com

To uncover the "Antichrists and the Antichrist" we need to understand the importance of identity.  We certainly understand the importance of our own names, connecting us to a family, to a bank account, and for paying our taxes, but many fail to pay this kind of attention to our Creator, to our Savior, YaHshua.   Letting me express how important this is we will then see the truth in identifying the Antichrists and the Antichrist.  It is a battle of names, marks and seals, all having to do with names.  We find this simple truth in the question --Which god is your god, whom do you call Lord? This is the same question Solomon asked, with an expectation of an answer, "…what is His son's Name, surely you know!"   He is not actually asking you to guess, he, under inspiration is saying you know, that, at least, you should know, so, do you?

Proverb 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know! ESV

The Identity, the Name, must be considered

When it comes to identifying the Creator God and His Son, and our Savior, the scholars and teachers fall flat choosing to ignore the specific, revealed, identity of our Heavenly Father and our Savior when dealing with the lay members of the faith – it isn’t that they do not know, they choose to ignore this revealed truth.

The true Savior, the Messiah, the real Christ of the first century, came to proclaim a "salvation" made available to all mankind and to reveal God the Father, whom the world had not heard of.  The Savior claimed that He, YaHshua, came in that Father's Name, His Father’s Name, and made it plain the religious leaders and people of then and before had not heard of the Father, not until YaHshua revealed Him. 

(Mat 11:27)  All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. NIV

The Gospel of John is all about "personal identity" and we see his writing in the Book of Revelation is a virtual war about “identity” between the Beast and guess who –

John 5:43; John 6:45-46; John 17:12; John 17:25: John 10:25; John 14:28;  John    7:16; 1 John 4:2; Rev 2:3; 2:13; 3:8; 3:5; 3:12; 21:27; 22:4 

Rev 22:4  "... and His (Heavenly Father’s) NAME will be on their foreheads" –

(Rev 13:17)  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name(the identity of the Anit-Christ and Beast).

 Even after reading the plain instructions and warnings concerning the name and the mark of the Beast there are those that will continue to tell you it is not about an “identity” war.  His Name, the Name of our Heavenly Father is going to be a mark placed on those that belong to Him and that belong to YaHshua.  YaHshua came in the Name of His Father and from this knowledge alone it should not be too difficult to figure out just what that “MARK” of God is to be.  Now look at the Beast, the Antichrist of Antichrists and what do we see?  He to has a mark and that mark is also an “identity”, a name, identifying him, his organization and those following him or, at least, bending to his will, and it is the False Prophet that will cause the world to worship him.

  There is a “mark” and it has to do with a “name” -- a name and a “number” connected with that false name.  There will be more than one way to accept this mark of the Beast but there is only one way by which we come to the Father.  Whose name would you choose?  Do you even know the Name of the one true Savior, the name that leads you to the Father?  Do you know the Name of the One and Only God the Father?

Mark of God 

Have you ever wondered what the "mark" of God is, or do you think you know?  One thing is certain many teachers and preachers do know but refuse to teach in the true Name and Identity or our Creator God.  These teachers of the word, these scholars of the Scriptures should all be ashamed – many of them know our Savior was born YaHshua but they teach in the false name of JESUS (Hey-Zeus) why don't they correct this error, this deception of "identity".  Modern self-proclaimed prophets spend a great deal of time searching out the "identity" of the Beast and the False Prophet and have no problem identifying Satan but not when it comes to the Creator of the whole universe – they are willingly ignorant.  When you consider the name JESUS has only been around for the past 400 years this becomes even more astounding.

  These teachers are without excuse.  Virtually every Christian minister teaches lay members that god is God, lord is LORD, and Jesus is all of these.  They make every excuse possible for not using His proper identity.  Why do they insist on substituting LORD or YHWH or YaHWeH? And when they say “god” is GOD, which gods are they speaking for there are many gods and many lords? 

(1Co 8:5)  For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) KJV

They teach in the name of Jesus – supplanting the Savior’s birth Name with a false name. They call on the Majesty of all Majesties, the Father of our Lord and Savior, YaHshua, by other names, or resort to using titles as names covering the true identity that separates the Living God and His Son from all the false, dead gods and lords of this world. 

The Christians are consistent in one thing, the acceptance of a false name for the Savior of the World.  Virtually all modern Christians confess in the false name of JESUS, ignoring our Savior’s true identity, his birth name, YaHshua.  Still, many of the teachers, preachers, and ministers of the flock know this but refuse to repent of this error as they continue leading people into worship calling on a false name.  Remember what you read in Revelation 13, the “mark of the Beast” is all about the “name of the Beast” – think about, pray about it.

All Seeking the Same GOD

Some attempt to simplify things by saying all religions are worshiping the one God in different ways, using different names, but all are still worshiping the same god, merely in different ways.  And from the pages of religious news we hear of the call for all religions to unite – what an abomination.  To say we are all searching for god in different ways is so wrong.  Think about it, when did any Muslim tell you he, or she, is seeking the same god you are seeking?  When did you ever tell a Hindu your god is the same as his, you are both seeking the same god?  NEVER -- this kind of reasoning only sounds good -- a worldly wisdom that falls flat when push comes to shove.  Seeking the same god, indeed, what a shame and a sham.  There is only one way, there is not many ways, only one. 

(John 14:6)  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Not Many Names

Who is your god?  Even Islam makes this error, they call on Allah as a name, and if it is then it too is a false name – Allah is not the name of our Savior and according to our Savior it is only through Him we can come to the Father.  The term Allah is a term to replace the term “god”, GOD, or G-D as a name -- in this they are correct, ALLAH is their term for GOD, used as a name, but the Name of our Heavenly Creator and our Heavenly Father is not ALLAH any more than the term, GOD.  If we accept what they say, that Allah is the name for their God, then what is your name for your God?  If we say “God” is His name then what is the name of His son - can you tell me?  The title, Allah, is used as a name just like many use the title, or term, Elohim, as a name. These, however, are titles equivalent to the English title, “God”, but none of these terms properly identify the One true God and Savior.  If you accept Elohim as a name and Allah as a name then you have made another big mistake, for as names they are totally wrong and do not apply to our Savior our Creator and certainly not to our Heavenly Father.  We are not all seeking the same “god” or “elohim” or “allah”, or Krishna, or Buddha, and not any of the thousands of gods found in the Indian religions.

JESUS is not His Name

It is easy to prove, without a doubt, that “Jesus” is not His name and never could have been -- let’s establish a few things concerning His Identity and the importance of this knowledge concerning the identities of the antichrists -- 

1. If you do not have the Son, you do not have the Father (1 John 2:23)

2. There is only one name found among mankind that can save (Acts 4:12)

3. The Anti-Christs (plural -- more than one) can be identified (1 John 4:1-4)

4. The liar is the one that denies YaHshua is the Christ, such is the Anti-Christ

Not only is the Savior denied but the Father as well, because the Son comes and came in the Father’s Name.  To deny the one is to deny the other

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Deny His Name – Deny the Father

    The Father’s Name cannot be “Jesus” and it cannot be the name of our Savior as this name never existed until around 1600 AD.  We need to go back and see the Name given to our Savior by the messenger angel, Gabriel, before His birth (Matt 1:21).  Your Bible most likely says “JESUS” and in this is the “deception” and we must find out the true Identity of our Savior for it is written that all that call on His Name will be saved –

(Rom 10:13)  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

(Act 2:21)  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

      His Name, His true “birth name” is YaHshua and is a name seen in the Old Testament and most modern translations of the New Testament as “JOSHUA” the commonly recognized name of Mose’ right hand man and the same man that led the Children of God (YHWH) into the promised land, into the Kingdom.  Is it some accident our Savior is named a name such as “JOSHUA”, which is pronounced more accurately as YaHshua? 

(1Jn 2:22)  Who is a liar but he that denies that YaHshua is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.  (the false name Jesus is replaced, thus revealing the deception)

(1Jn 2:23)  Whosoever denies the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.

    So, who is the liar?  The Muslims say YaHshua (Aramaic – Yeshua, dropping the H) was a great prophet, but deny Him as the Son of the Living God, and the professing Christians say He, the Messiah of the New Testament, is the Savior but they deny His Name for another name.  Both Muslim and Christian, in their own way, deny our Savior, and in this deny our Heavenly Father.  These denials mark the “antichrists” from day one to now and will also mark the Beast and the False Prophet as the deceive people of the world into believing the lie.  There is coming a point of no return, a time when the God of Heaven will send a strong delusion –

(2Th 2:10-11)  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

The truth is, my friends, that JESUS is not His Name.  This is a warning, a strong warning of a time to come when a “strong delusion” will fall over mankind and then for those under the influence of this delusion will not hear the words of sound doctrine and will fall completely into believing the LIE .  Sometimes I think we are in that time now, so many professing believers have written me to chastise what I believe and share and to argue about His Identity, both Jew and Christian alike.  Still, I feel the door is still open and the “strong delusion” has not yet been sent but it is going to come.  By accepting the truth now you can avoid this blinding delusion – you may not be popular but you will survive what they will not – His wrath to come.

YaHshua makes a prophetic statement found in the book of Hebrews.  Paul, as far as we know, takes a quote from the Old Testament and applies it to our Savior and His confession to our Heavenly Father and it is a very meaningful statement, a declaration really, a pronouncement –

"I will declare your Name to my brothers; ..." (Hebrews 2:12)

   This declaration is attributed to our Savior YaHshua and is a promise and it should strike the heart of every believer to answer the question, What is His Name?  It is time to wake up for there is salvation in no other.  Make all of the excuses you want, our Savior and our God are being falsely represented by “another name”.  There is no other name and you had better make sure you know under what Name Salvation comes, a Name declared to the Heavens and the Name of all Creation.  Confess Him and He is willing to confess you, by name, to our Heavenly Father.

Salvation - Confession

 "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to (found among) men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) (“given” or found among men – on this earth, in other words)

What is so hard to understand in this verse? The Name pointing to the One True Savior is a Name "found among mankind" -- it is not a secret Name, a Name of angels or of some secret object, no, it is a Name men have and do use, a Name with the honor of being applied to our Savior and a Name that ultimately points to our Heavenly Father.   If you see this, if you can accept this then it is not I that has made this known to you but YaHshua Himself – He is the one making this known.  I take no responsibility whatever for this knowledge as it is not mine it is received from my Savior and I pray He will make this known to you also, but perhaps not, for as in the days of Noah, when the end approached, there were few that understood enough to be saved from the flood.  As in the days of Noah, so everyone goes about their business as if nothing is going to happen, as if all things go on as from the beginning.  Do you see it, can you see it, if so I thank our Savior YaHshua for opening your eyes and for allowing me to be a small tool in this personally revealed truth.

The test verses are:

 (Philippians 2:11)  And that every tongue should confess that YaHshua the Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 (Matthew 10:32)  Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in    heaven.

(1 John 4:15)  Whosoever shall confess that YaHshua is the Son of God, God dwells (lives) in him, and he in God. (Ever wonder who the Holy Spirit is?  A spirit that is Holy?)

(2 John 1:7)  For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that YaHshua the Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist.

The operative word in the above verse is, “come”, not that He was flesh originally flesh but that He came in – this would also mean He had to have come from somewhere. 

(John 3:13)  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

(John 1:18)  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

   Our Creator God came to us in the flesh of man.  He came, originated from our Heavenly Father whom He was a part of before coming to us in the flesh.  He existed before and is the Creator of all things.  No one know of the Father before He came and revealed Him but still, many claiming the Scripture as theirs deny this.

Three ways to Denial

An example of denial leading to being an “antichrist” is found in the Muslim acceptance of Yeshua (YaHshua) having actually lived: The Islamic religion acknowledges Yeshua as a prophet, a man of flesh and blood but deny He “came” from heaven as the Son.  In this denial they pronounce that they are “antichrists”. 

 What about the Jews, let’s not exclude them, after all, some if not most of the Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox Jews deny YaHshua ever existed and those that do refuse Him as Savior and never as the Son of their God.  The religious, devote Jew, is then, also and “antichrist”. 

Let’s not leave the Christians out either – they say the Messiah of the bible came from Heaven, so He did “come” down here from above, but then  they deny Him personally by giving him another name, a pagan name pronounced by most in the world as “the Zeus”.  By using another’s name and making Holy Days, festivals and customs of pagans past their own.  How do they do this?

Those wonderful holidays - days based on Pagan theology: 

Easter (substituted for the Passover) is a festival of renewal in the pagan world and has to do with all things sexual surrounding reproductive stages of live and rebirth.  Ever wonder why the “Easter eggs, and the Easter bunny?  What in the world do eggs and bunnies have to do with the Risen Christ?  The title of this Holy Day has been connected to the goddess Ishtar and Asheroth, the sex goddess of the Middle East. Easter is considered the replacement for our Savior’s Passover focusing on His resurrection on Easter day, the Sun’s day.  The Passover should be a time of remembrance of our Savior’s sacrifice for us. 

Christmas is a time of cutting down a tree and decorating it and laying gifts at its feet and celebrating the birth of a young King, the only problem is the king this celebration honor was for Tammuz, originally.

 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Tau)

 To place our Savior’s birth in the winter is faulty.  The truth is, no one really knows when the true Christ was born, but from the timing in the Gospel accounts we know He was not born in the middle of winter, but this did not stop the Christians after the first century from adopting a pagan celebration to the child god Tammuz whose birth day just happens to be December 25.  Today, in the modern era, Christmas has been declared a Federal Holiday to protect its financial blessing to the seasonal retailers and has slowly degenerated into a monetary necessity.   This custom of cutting down a tree and decorating it was being practiced long before birth of our Savior.  This custom has been adopted by the Christians and does not have its origins in Christianity but in paganism.

(Jer 10:3-4)  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Sabbath Day: The Messiah worshiped on the seventh day of the week, Saturday, the same day our Creator rested from creation, but the Christians have chosen the first day of the week, the Suns day (Sunday) and with a little less research and some assumptions turn the Suns day into the time of our Savior’s resurrection.  The Suns day was, of course, the high day for the Romans engaged in Sun worship, the Sun god, father of Tammuz.  

Christmas, Easter, and the day of worship are but three prime examples of Christian holidays and customs adopted from the pagans and heathens of old.  These three customs alone testify the modern ChristianChurches are not founded upon Scripture but upon the pagan past of ancient Rome.

Heaven and Hell:  The main Christian concept of Heaven and Hell drowns in pagan views and teachings that are really laughable to the intelligent mind.  The Bible tells us only the Messiah has come from Heaven and that only that witch is from Heaven can go to Heaven.  Hell is taught as a terrible place where the sinners go to live forever.  Get that?  The pagan concept is no one really dies, either you go to Heaven and live eternity in a life of boredom or go to Hell and live eternally in pain but still alive.   Then there is the other place dreamed up to answer the question about people not bad enough to life in Hell and not good enough for life in Heaven and that is the place in-between, Purgatory, some call it.  All of this is the religion of the Anti- Christ.  The Bible, the inspired words of our Savior, YaHshua, teaches the coming Kingdom (Government) of God – He is coming here, we are not going there.  Hell is in the end, a total end and anyone sharing in the Hell Fire of the Holy Bible will cease to exist, there will be no eternal life in Hell Fire.

Professing Christian religions are so far removed from what the Scriptures have to say that they have to set up heads (Prophets, Popes and Apostles) to reinterpret the Word to suit their cherished pagan ways, to cover themselves in their own reasoning.  Ever wonder why there are so many different denominations?  It is difficult for self proclaimed religious leaders to share their perceived power and authority with others. 

There is a sense that the Old Covenant and the Laws found in the Hebrew Scriptures, that testify of our Savior YaHshua, are done away, abolished, even though our Savior says otherwise (Mat 5:16-18).  When will all be fulfilled?  After the Millennial rule of our Savior YaHshua, and this after the Judgment then a New Heaven and a New Earth, this will be the final fulfillment of “fulfilling all things”.  But the pagan Christians make this claim of abolishment and then want to chain the new believers to a different set of rules and doctrines, most of which have pagan origins and are not truly biblical.  Oh yes, they say, we are free from the Law and they are right, partly, we are free from the required penalty of the Law, which is death.  We escape this through our acceptance of YaHshua as our Savior.  Once this freedom is realized the leadership sees they have a problem in building their work or desire for greatness, so they must prove to you and me they have the truth.  They may be sincere but wrong as they bring new converts into the pagan way under the Banner of the Holy Bible.   With these pagan holidays, festivals and traditions they call on their god Jesus, a name that never existed until 4-500 years ago.  This truth should wake people up, but most when faced with this fact want to argue and refuse to accept they have been duped – Jesus is not and has never been His Name – it is not His Name and it is not the Name of our Heavenly Father – wake up if you haven’t already.

Restoring His Name -- Restore His Name

  By restoring our Savior's birth name we can see the impact of the above test verse and those verses dealing with the Antichrist and the name and the mark of the Beast to come.   The name JESUS is a modern invention coming to us from around the 16-17th century (Original spelling, Iesus, in the KJV of 1611 bible -- how would you pronounce that name?). The European version of this lie concerning the "birth name" of our Savior is IeSUS even this day, pronounced Ie-Zuus (The - Zeus ?).   It is the British, the Americans and other English speaking people that say Jesus (gee-zuz).  The claim is this name, Iesus, is from the Greek Iesous, pronounced Ie-soos, or Hay-soos, which not even close to the English – it is not a transliteration and it is not a translation of the original name delivered to Maryam.  Mary and Joseph did not name our Savior, they were told what to name Him and it was not the name JESUS.  This is the lie, this is the deception and everyone, nearly, has accepted it.  Take the vowels out of this name Jesus (Iesus) and you have JSS or ISS, the sound of a snake and a very similar name to Isis the Egyptian goddess whose number among the gods is 666.  If you take the Greek, from whom the King James Version translators have derived their first name, Iesus, Iesous and remove the vowels you still have ISS and this predates the KJV and all modern translation. 

The truth is far from the twisting of names so closely associated with names appealing to the Romans and the Greeks – the truth is not even close as the deception is total over the world of the Christian Church as we see it today.  The birth Name of the Messiah is YaH-shua (Seen as Joshua, in the O.T. KJV and most other modern versions), which is to say, YH's Savior, or YaH's Salvation.  He came in the name of His Father, YH (YaH).  His birth name came from our Heavenly Father by way of an angelic messenger, not by man -- a Name chosen from among men, chosen by His Father from Heaven.   Joseph and Mary were instructed to Name Him a certain Name, a Name from His Heavenly Father -- They were not asked their opinion!  They were both told, at different times and apart from one another, what to Name this child!  If names don’t matter, as some say, then why didn’t God the Father leave it up to them?

To Joseph: (Matthew 1:21 ) "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou (Joseph) shall call his name JESUS (?): for he shall save his people from their sins." KJV  

Note: Jesus should read, with the knowledge they had in 1611, Joshua at the least.  (Do you see the lie?  The name Jesus did not exist at the time the KJV was being put together, but the Name Joshua did and does to this day.  It is found in the Holy Bible, it is one of the O.T. books, Joshua, and  is the name of a famous leader of Israel, Joshua (Y'shua), but the translators choose to use a corrupted name, a name following a corrupt tradition, a name more closely related to a pagan god (Zeus) than to a real champion of Scripture -- our Savior was named a Name chosen by His Heavenly Father.  It would have been correct, at the time of the creation of the KJV Authorized, in their present knowledge, to have used the name "Joshua", but they followed the tradition of the Roman Church in using a corrupted Latin name bastardized from the Greek, neither of which were transliterations of His birth name.  This deception goes all the way back to before Constantine and his declaring the Christian religion the state religion.   

To Mary: (Luke 1:31) And, behold, thou shall conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS (?). KJV 

(Jesus is not the name given to Mary -- this is not the name Mary is commanded to name the child to be conceived -- she is told to Name Him YaHshua, the same name as the man that led Israel into the promise land.  At the birth of our Savior He was Named, YaHshua, like the Joshua of the KJV, and it could not have been this bogus name found in modern translations as the name Jesus did not exist then, not until around 1600 years later and eventually finding a home in the translation known as the King James Authorized Version -- a government bible approved by the king to be read in the churches of England)

What our Savior Said

(John 6:43) I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; But someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. NIV (A different name is accepted without any resistance at all—incredible, but our Savior new this would happen and warned his followers of just such a thing)

(John 17:8) Holy father, protect them by the power of your name -- the name you gave me -- so that they may be one as we are one.

 Do you see the error of the world's wisdom?  The LIE presented as truth.  Following the traditions of men they do error in teaching JESUS as YaHshua.  The JESUS of the King James Version is emphasized by all capital letters, in the verses quoted, pointing to its significance, but this name is dead wrong even though the translators have "capitalized" that bogus name to signify its importance -- they know but deny the power there of, following their own customs and traditions, denying the Holy Name of our Savior.  The name delivered by the angelic messenger, the name "you shall call", is YaHshua, a Hebrew name for a Hebrew baby, not the pagan name JESUS (Hey-Zeus, or He-soos).  Yes, there is the argument – “no one can prove the name Jesus is in reference to the Greek and Roman god Zues” -- this does not remove the fact, however, that 2/3 of the world pronounce the name Jesus as Ie-Zues, or "the Zues".  The fact is -- pagan Europe does not say, Gee-sus, like the English, but Hey-Zues (Ie-sus).  Please, wake up, do not allow this delusion to fog your mind.  The name Jesus is not the Hebrew/Jewish equivalent of YaHshua -- YaHshua is the equivalent -- from Hebrew/Jewish to English and European it is YaHshua and is found in the English bibles as “Joshua” (properly pronounced as Y’shua).  In the 16th century, when the KJV translators were at work the equivalent would have been this name Joshua, or Ieshua, pronounced, YeHshua, but they chose, Ie-sus instead.  Why?  Think about it a little and you will know the answer.

In John 6:43, by the Christ's own words, He claims to have come in His Father's name and later in His tormented prayer He specifically states He was "given" this name (John 17:11), a name of power and salvation, a name of unity between Him and His Heavenly Father and a Name He wants and prays we, as followers, will find the same unity.  This Name separates Him and our Heavenly Father from all other gods, all other "lords", a Name making reference to His and our Heavenly Father.  Notice, also, that He says someone will come in a different name and will be accepted (John 6:43). In this we see a prophetic statement witnessed by the body of the Living Christ, the Church, His Church on this Earth watching as another name, a different name, a different Messiah is being accepted by the World.

     To Repeat the Identity of the Anti-Christ(s):

     Who are the antichrists, the anti-messiah people? That question has already been answered, but here it is again – the religious Jews, the religious Muslims of Islam, and the Pagan Christians that preach and teach in this false name Jesus.  The pagan Christians have the right book and have the message in varying degrees but deny the personal Savior of the Gospels whose testimony is found in the Hebrew Scriptures and is witnessed to by those belonging to Him. “…Worship God! For the testimony of YaHshua is the spirit of prophecy."  (Rev 19:10) and (1Jn 5:10, Rev 1:2; 12:17)

Are names important?

The Scriptures are filled with references about names and the Name of the Creator, but for now I would like to quote just one, a verse that is a little more personal to you, and me.  We will forget that Joseph and Mary were not allowed to name Him, we don’t need to point out that our Savior prayed His followers would be kept in His Name, or that eventually every knee will bow to Him and His Name, and move on to read a personal message to you.

(Revelation 3:5)  He that over cometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

It seems that your name is important, how much more the Messiah's, and of our Heavenly Father?  He, YaHshua, is willing to confess your name before His Father, so, where should this leave us?  How then should we treat His Name, a Name found among the names of men but given Him by His Father from Heaven?

(Mat 10:32)Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

(2Ti 2:19) Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 

Php 2:10-11) That at the name of YaHshua every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that YaHshua the Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

So!  Who are the Anti-Christ(s), those Anti-to the Real Messiah?

  If you haven’t guessed the answer to that question you need to reread everything in this article.  The Antichrist can be a single personality and it can also be an uncountable number of people -- professors of the Christian faith and like those of other religions.  Islam acknowledges YaHshua (Yeshua) as His Name and as a prophet but denies Him as the Son of God, they deny Him as Savior, they deny He came from the Heavenly Father.  Anyone that denies "YaHshua as the Messiah", come in the flesh, is an Antichrist, an anti-messiah.  Anyone denying YaHshua as Savior will also be denied, by YaHshua.  If you count yourself a believer and accept "Jesus" as Messiah and deny "YaHshua", then you must answer the question, who is the Messiah?  Jesus or YaHshua?  If you say "Jesus", knowing better, having the knowledge of His true identity, then you qualify for the title as one of the "AntiChrists".  This is a question you need to answer.  No, Jesus is not YaHshua, and it does matter. 

(Philippians 2:9-11) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and  gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of YaHshua every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,  and every tongue confess that YaHshua the Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. NIV

(Heb 13:15) Through YaHshua, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that confess his name. NIV  (Most Christians and Jews)

(1Jn 2:18) Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. NIV

(2Jn 1:7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that YaHshua the Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. KJV  (Mainly the Muslims of the Islamic religion)

(1Jn 4:3) And every spirit that confesses not that Yahshua the Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. KJV  (The Muslims following the teachings of their Imams fall into this category)

(1Jn 2:22) Who is a liar but he that denies that YaHshua is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.  (Let no one tell you this is not important – read this verse again)

    Reading the above verses it is plain to see there can be more than one "Antichrist", and it is the acceptance or rejection of a NAME – His Name -- that determines this.  There is another scripture that speaks of a single individual that is identified by many as the Antichrist, and while this may be true, he is not alone.

(2Th 2:3-4) 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; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

   This "man of sin" is written about and is covered by many commentators covering many different angles to the exclusion of the other "antichrists", in most cases ignoring the aspect of multiple antichrists.  What is unusual about this single "antichrist", this “man of sin” is his personal deception.  Not only does he deny Yahshua but goes against all that is called God (?) -- all that is worshipped (?) -- seeing himself as God (?).  His personal deception is so great it does not only deceive his followers but himself as well -- he believes he is God, or, in God’s stead (?).  The ultimate deceiver is one that believes the "lie" also, and while he reached the height of deception, of deceiving and being deceived, he is not alone.  This trait is common, in varying degrees, among the great artists of persuasion, the more you believe in your product, yourself, and the message you preach, right or wrong, the more convincing you can be.

(2Ti 3:13) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

   All the same, this special, singular Antichrist is given something other deceivers of the past have not ever been granted, something that will push him over the top as the ultimate deceiver of all time.  He, by the power of Satan, will push the world head long into a deception that will end in the worst way -- eternal death. 

   You might say this coming great deceiver, is the ultimate child of Satan -- Satan's attempt at doing what has already been done, attempting to replace the real Messiah, the true Christ an imposter.

(Rev 13:2) "... and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority".

(Rev 13:4)And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?

What do we see?  Satan, that old Dragon, receives adulation vicariously through the Beast, that man and Antichrist thinking himself to be God -- Satan's desire -- to be as God exhibited in him, the false Christ.  The ultimate deceiver is granted the "power" of Satan and is even given his, Satan’s, seat of authority -- read it again, Rev 13:2-4. 

This has to be a really big deal for Satan, to relinquish his power to a human, even to giving up his "seat", the place of his authority?  One could say this deceiver will be Satan in the flesh (the stuff movies are made of). We can look at history and see what men will do, and have done thinking they are doing the will of God, or have been chosen by God for a greater purpose.  Some have sacrificed their own lives for the sake of others, but others, maybe fewer in number, have caused either directly or indirectly the death of millions.  Imagine someone with the full power of Satan?  Son of Satan -- the ultimate deceiver and denier of YaHshua as the Christ – thinking himself God.  This is what Satan failed at, and we know the Beast and his false Prophet will also fail.

Some others have suggested the coming "Antichrist" will be a Muslim, the 12th Imam, perhaps?  This is not something new.  For anyone with access to a Clark's commentary, you will see Clark saw the Islamic religion as a religion of Satan and the Antichrists of his day and of bible prophecy.  This bible commentary dates from 1830 AD so the idea Islam is connected with the "antichrist" image is not new, far from it.  

During the same historical period when Clark saw the Muslims as the antichrists others were naming the Roman Catholic Pope as the “antichrist”, calling himself God as signified by the title, Vicar of Christ (In Place of Christ or God) taking titles and other authorities to himself that belong to our Creator and Savior.  Certainly the office of Pope and the men occupying that seat of power have claimed the right to bind and lose anything on earth and in Heaven.  These authorities are claimed through Scripture in what appears to be a permission passed to Peter by the Messiah Himself:

(Mat 16:19)  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

There is some serious problems with this position of the Catholic Church, claiming the Pope sits in Peter’s seat and this power of loosing and binding is then passed to the Pope, whomever it may be, giving that Pope of the current time absolute power, not only over men, but of things in Heaven too.

 First, Paul, not Peter is identified as the Apostle to the Gentiles (Romans 11:13) and no one can argue the Roman Church is anything but Gentile, in fact, Paul tells the Romans he is their Apostle.

Second, the context of this may not be to Peter only, but to all of the Apostles.  YaHshua was not speaking only to Peter.  YaHshua was using Peter as a teaching tool to emphasize who the real Rock of the Church is.  The testimony from the Hebrew Scriptures is that YaHshua is that Rock, Peter, on the other hand, is a “stone”, or pebble.  Peter, the object lesson, not commissioned to be the Apostle to the Gentile, that office given to Paul. 

  The Roman Catholics accept the word of the Pope over the Scripture. They, for the most part, laugh at the statement made famous by Martin Luther, “Sola Scriptura”, meaning, “by Scripture alone”, which the Catholics reject.  It has been given to the Pope to override Scripture and the misinterpreted authority for this central doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church is the primary reason others in the Faith of the New Covenant see and openly identify the office of Pope as the end-time false prophet?

The Jews of the Ultra Orthodox wing are also seen as “antichrists” and it is conceivable the Beast could come from them, as some suppose, the “man of sin” (2Thes 2:3) to be a Jew. My problem with this view is -- the False Prophet accompanying the coming Beast whom the False Prophet will cause everyone to worship seems to fit the description of the Muslim system.  In the religion of Islam there is the leading Imam (Prophet) and a Caliph (King) needs this man’s approval and in turn the Imam declares the civil leader as ordained by Allah (God).  This is also the way the Roman Catholic church operated in the past, too, but not today.  This could, of course, change and the Roman system could be restored to past glory, but for now it seems the system of Islam is moving ever more in that direction as we witness the Arab nations in upheaval.  We see the possibility of an Arab unity and the desire of some in that region to restore the Caliphate with a central leader approved and supported by a lead Imam.  Today, Iran is an example of such a state, and if this style of government would take hold in the Middle East we could see the resurrection of a past glory, the Persian Empire, under a different name, of course.

We will know the answer to these speculations one day, but for today we are witnesses of His Word and its truth as it unfolds on a worldwide scale and in our personal lives.  The focus should always be on Israel and the Middle East as the pin point of events to happen. 

Consider

Consider, the Difference between Jesus and Yahshua!

  1. Jesus followers depict him in paintings having long hair, like a woman.  Yahshua, likely had short hair considering the Apostles instructions -- 1 Cor 11:14-15 "... if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him"

  2. Jesus birthday is celebrated on December 25, 01 AD (or is it 00 AD?).  YaHshua's birth is not really known for sure but educated guesses and biblical evidence suggest September - October, B.C. 4-7, probably around the Feast of Trumpets (Holy Day for the Israelites and Jews - a day Christians should consider with respect to Matthew 24:31 demonstrating the sound of trumpets announces special events).  One thing is sure, the shepherds and the sheep were still out in the open at the time of His birth. 

By the month of December the sheep would have been corralled and the shepherds indoors, winters in the area of Bethlehem are not pleasant.  Nowhere is the birth of our Savior made into a Holy day, or holiday, and not one of the Apostles suggest we celebrate His birth. There is, however, a lot made out of Him being the Passover and our Passover (not Easter, a pagan festival of fertility and rebirth – bunnies, eggs, and all fertility symbols). 

(1Co 5:7)  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: (Also see – Jn 1:29, 1Pt 1:19, Rev 5:12)

 He is the sacrificial Lamb and is our Passover, but few Christians recognize the Passover, opting instead for Easter, of pagan origin, having to do with fertility rites and the resurrection of the Sun (sun rise services).  The Babylonian religions surrounding Baal worship were heavy into fertility rites and festivals.  Some have suggested the term, Easter, is a derivative of the fertility goddess’ name, Ishtar.  (Look up Ishtar, in Wikipedia for more info on this sex goddess)

Please, be sure in your own mind as It is written, “…one man honors one day over another and another honors every day alike…”, (Rom 4:15).  What ever you decide do your best to be sure it is in honor of your Savior, be convinced in your own mind.  Being convinced does not mean “locked in” unchanging as in all growth processes there will be change, change for the better and closer to the living truth.

Pagan festivals have no power over you, or shouldn't one way or another. The Christian festivals are nearly all based on pagan festivals of the past and they cannot hurt you nor do you any good either.  Some let the physical control their live living in fear thinking it is the festivals and the traditions that make the religion, that define them.  Historically men and women have been put to death for ignoring what times declared to be holy by those claiming to sit in the chair of religious authority.  It is men that make holidays a threat but in reality those found in the Messiah are free to do as they please, set free from the restraints of men. 

It is all up to the individual, of course, and when the freedom in the Christ is truly realized you can stop troubling your spirit over the does and don’t of the traditions and festivals of men. Whatever you decide decide it in His honor for He has set you free from all commandments of men. 

  3. Jesus is worshiped in "Sunrise services" every Easter Sunday by millions of professing Christians facing the east early Sunday morning – Professing believers pay homage to the rising of the sun as a symbol of the rising of the Son of God from the dead, a truly pagan practice which the Israelite priest practiced (Eze 8:16).  YaHshua, in reality, had already risen - the tomb was found "empty" early Sunday morning, the angel telling the first visitors, "He is gone" (Mat 28:1-6).  He was not there He was already gone.  His resurrection occurred late Saturday evening.  How do we know?  We now consider point 4 --

  4. Jesus is said to have been crucified Friday evening and raised back to life on Sunday morning, a length of time hardly even close to what Yahshua said – hardly counting a day and a half.  YaHshua said the only proof he would give that He is whom He claimed to be would be the sign of Jonah.  The sign of Jonah is the defining proof and to suggest anything else is to call the Messiah, YaHshua, a liar (forgive me Father for making such a statement). 

(Jonah 1:17)  Now the LORD (YHWH) had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Yahshua quotes this recorded event and not one challenged, then or now, concerning the time Jonah spent in the belly of the great fish.  YaHshua says, “So shall the Son of man be three days and three night in the heart of the earth …” 

Jonah had been in the belly of the great fish, prepared by YHWH for this purpose, for three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17, Matthew 12:39-40).  YaHshua was not speaking in a general way, but a very specific way, and this is the proof, the only proof, He gave to those doubting Him and to His disciple who would remember His words later. 

Yes, the Apostles would recall these words and, as Acts 1 report, the raised YaHshua with them proving His words true. From that moment on the disciples of YaHshua were willing to give up their own lives for the Gospel message and the Testimony about YaHshua (Luke 24:7-9).

  YaHshua was cut off in the midst of the week on Passover Wednesday, a full three days and three nights ahead of His resurrection,  just as He said, just as his disciples remembered – not Friday evening like the pagan, Roman Church teachers.  YaHshua spent three days and three nights in the grave, in the heart of the earth, not a day and a half as the pagan Christians teach. -- Crucified on Wednesday covered in death that evening as the sun began to set, resurrected Saturday evening, exactly three days and three nights later, just as Jonah was in the belly of the "great fish".  The Christian Jesus, on the other hand, cannot meet the truth test for the Messiah's claim of being the Son of the Living God.  Read it again –

Matthew 12:39-41, Luke 11:29-32.  Jesus, as proclaimed by the vast majority of Christian teachers, was only one and a half days in the grave, where as YaHshua were exactly three days and three nights in the grave, just as He said and just as His disciples remembered it.

 5.  Jesus is honored weekly on the Suns-day, the first day of the week.  YaHshua observed the seventh day, the Sabbath, as a day of the week to honor the Creator God of the Bible.  The Creator, YHWH, also the Creator of the seventh day, a day He called a day of rest (Gen 2:2-3). This is in keeping with the Ten Commandments so many Christians adore but ignore.  The Sabbath command is the Fourth Command, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy" (Exodus 20:1-17).  Can anyone find where in the pages of scripture we are told the Sabbath day (seventh day of the week) had been changed to the Sun's day, to the first day of the week?  No, but the followers of Jesus have changed the time to suit their false god, or should I say the Pope of the Catholic religion is responsible for this changing of times and seasons (Dan 7:25)? 

A little research into the history of the early church and it is easy to uncover the changing of times (holy days) and seasons (the calendar) being hallmark events of the Roman Catholic Church demonstrating its mark of supremacy over the Christian communities, even to this day – and over the world for that matter. 

The Protestants coming out of the Roman Church may have parted ways with MotherChurch, but they took with them the traditions introduced by the MotherChurch as their own. Traditions of the churches find their origins in pagan religions and cultures dating back to Babylon. They kept the same pagan holy days (holidays) and festivals, renamed and twisted to fit certain Christian events. 

From the Protestant daughters of the Roman Church other religious children (groups) were spawned in various forms, differing in minor technical doctrine, but the majority maintaining the same celebrations, the same religious festivals and customs even to accepting the false "Jesus", a false Christ, not of the Holy Bible. 

The Christians preach the message of salvation but turn from the Apostles and from what YaHshua, the real Messiah taught, chasing after and accepting as doctrine the doctrine of devils. 

(1Tim 4:1)  Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

They have the appearance of religion but are of the world following the ever present traditions of Babylon.  The Babylonian religion, Satan’s religion, is alive and well in the ChristianChurches.

All the same, it is the responsibility of the "professing Christian" to prove the truth, "rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim 2:15).  Your Salvation is your responsibility (Philippians 2:12) not someone else’s.  We are commanded to study for approval (2 Tim 2:15) an today, in this explosion of information and with the internet at our finger tips the professing believer has little excuse for not doing jus that – proving all things, testing every spirit whether it be of man or devils or Satan himself.

  6. Jesus' followers think they are to convert the whole world, to create the Kingdom of God on earth -- and then go to Heaven?  YaHshua says our citizenship is in heaven and that He is going to establish the Kingdom of the Father on earth when He returns, Heaven is coming here and our citizenship is coming with Him (Philippians 3:20-21, Eph 2:19, 1 Peter 1:17, Rev 21). 

  7. Followers of Jesus say they are commanded, commissioned, to preach the Gospel to the whole world and then the Kingdom will come.  Yahshua, in reality, gave that command to the Apostles and even though they are all now dead, their words and teachings cover the globe – they did as commanded and the Holy spirit is doing the rest.

They accomplished their commission, not by their power but by His.  China is receiving the Word in their language and this is truly a wonderful thing.  Considering they are about the last country on the face of this earth to allow the printing and preaching of the gospel message.  We now have the gospel message both preached and published in a book we call the Holy Bible, printed in the language of the people of China, the translated words of the prophets, of YaHshua and the Apostles.  China, the last hold out, in times past, had placed the death penalty on anyone owning a bible, let alone preaching its message in this generation and today there are bibles coming off printing presses in China and not just in their language.  And by what power has this come about?  What power has kept the Holy Bible alive with the Apostolic message and the words of our Savior going around the world?  Who can take singular credit?  This is all by the power of the Spirit of our Heavenly Father.  The Command to go to the world was directed at the Apostles of YaHshua.  And we see mission accomplished, not by any single group or man. 

The Last Command

What was and is Yahshua's last command to His followers?  Contrary to what you have been told -- read it for yourself -- the Last command or our Savior to His followers:

Revelation 22:10  " Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."    (In other words, mind your own business -- this is the last command of our Savior)  

  Does this sound like a command to convert the world?  Hardly.  The Spirit of our Father moves wherever it wishes, opening and closing the minds of men and women.  By His Spirit, not by power or might is the Gospel revealed and the true Messiah made known.  Millions upon millions of believers have been murdered in the name of Christianity under the name of Jesus, Iesus, Isous, and Isis.  Preaching the gospel of men, holding the Holy Bible in one hand and a sword in the other is totally contrary to the message of the Messiah, YaHshua.  Pagan Christianity has slaughter millions in the name of their god, Iesus, thinking they are doing THE GOD a service but in reality they have killed many thousands of saints, those true believers and possessors of the Holy Spirit, of YaHshua, true citizens of the coming Kingdom.

The antichrist is those that reject Yahshua as Messiah.  A time will come when everyone, in the judgment day, will have to make a choice, Yahshua or Jesus or some other god claiming authority belonging only to our Creator.  Salvation is found in no other.

(Rom 14:11) For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God (our Heavenly Father).

(Php 2:11) And that every tongue should confess that YaHshua the Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

(Mat 10:32) Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

(Rom 10:9) That if you will confess with thy mouth the Lord Yahshua, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou will be saved.

   What a statement, what a powerful, powerful statement -- you can't just think it, you must be willing to confess His Name with your mouth, confess YaHshua is Lord.  This is a perfect example of destroying the concept that it is "what's in your heart that counts".  Certainly what is in you heart must be there before you speak, but to think that is all that’s necessary is a mistake, you must be willing to say, "YaHshua is my Savior" -- raised from the dead by my Heavenly Father just as He will raise me from the dead -- this I confess by my mouth, from my mind, and in writing -- HalleluYah!

Final Note: Quoting from the Athanasian Creed of 325 AD, a creed established by the Roman Catholic Church and still considered in full force -- "And we believe in the Holy Spirit.  But, those who say, Once he was not, or he was not before his generation, or he came to be out of nothing, or who assert that he, the Son of God, is of a different hypostasis (a different substance or essence) or ousia (being lower than), or that he is a creature or changeable, or mutable, the Catholic and Apostolic /Church anathematizes them."

At first look everything seems to be positive but once you understand the last lines of this creed deny the humanness of YaHshua, that He was not a man, or “creature” as we are and it is denied that He is changeable – excuse me – He did change, He put off the old and took on the new, He was quickened by our Heavenly Father and changed to an immortal body -- He came in the Flesh (a change from immortal to mortal) then He changed again, back to immortal.  The Roman Church is saying that anyone claiming YaHshua was in the Flesh is to be “anathematized”.  This means to be cursed, “To invoke evil or injury upon”, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.  That’s right; the Catholic Church is to invoke evil and even injury on any one denying the Creed of 325 AD. 

This Creed of the Roman Catholic Church is in stark contrast to what the Apostles taught and in fact labels themselves, the Roman Church, and all that confess this "Creed" as "anti-christ", according to what the Apostles had to say about it.

(1Jn 4:1-3) Beloved, 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 ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Yahshua the Christ is come in the flesh is of God:  And every spirit that confesses not that Yahshua the Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

How do you try the spirits of devils and men?  By the words of your Bible!  And what a revelation we read, “Every spirit that confesses YaHshua the Christ is come in the FLESH is of God”, with this truth it is evident that any not making this confession or denying others this confession are of the spirit of the Anti Christ.  This does not take some special interpretation and explained in the very next line, “And every spirit that confesses NOT that YaHshua is come in the flesh is not of God – and this is that spirit of antichrist…”

JESUS is NOT HIS NAME

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