Our only hope for eternity is in Christ, who is "the way, the truth, and the life" (Jo. 14:6). So it is our most important business in life to listen to and then to follow God's secret message. It is our business to strive to learn God's secret language (Ma. 4:1-20; Lu. 8:9-15), and to study to find it, to follow it and become stable, mature, and true workmen for Christ (II Tim. 2:15). It is the way to God that is life's greatest adventure.
God's secret language is indeed spiritual, not literal, as many today claim. It is only with spiritual discernment and worship (I Cor. 2:14; Jo. 4:22-24) that the doorway to the heavenly kingdom is opened up to us. To concentrate on earthly kingdom is but an indulgence in Satan's cheap imitation of the heavenly kingdom. This is indeed of antichrist, and it lays waste to us. John told us all about that subject in I Jo. 4:1-6, 5:1, 5 and II Jo. 7-10. According to these Scripture passages antichrist, or a false prophet, is "he who is not of God" (I Jo. 4:6). It is also any who claim that Jesus Christ has not come in the flesh (II Jo. 7). This is the scriptural antichrist, which is far removed from any manmade idea.
Certain men today would want us believe that the unbelieving Jews in Israel will one day make a covenant with antichrist who is someone from the Gentile world. Yet they never bother to address the most obvious fact of all, namely, that the unbelieving Jews themselves are antichrist by the very nature of their unbelief. So you have antichrist making a covenant with antichrist. How silly! For the Jews in Israel reject Christ still, and strive to take East Jerusalem from the Palestinians so that they can have the entire temple mount to place their new temple there (already built off-site), and then begin sacrificing their newly bred heifer cows. This is the mind of antichrist, as it seeks to undo the cross of Christ (see Phil. 3:18). And this is what modern evangelical Christians believe in supporting and aligning themselves with, namely, the enemies of the cross (Acts 13:10; Jas 4:4). Even though they claim Christ, their works entirely support those whose primary goal is a reinstatement of the temple and the animal sacrifices.
In just this way do modern Christians support Satan and his antichrist activities based on their unproven theories that so radically depart from the real Gospel. Though they have no concept of what they are actually doing, supporting, and financing with U. S. taxpayer dollars, what they are effectively doing is cutting themselves off from any vibrant contact with God. They realize nothing of that special higher awareness that accompanies the true Gospel and those Christians who follow it. This is a very serious deficiency in them. For they miss out on the many blessings that accompany this consciousness of the presence of God in one's life. They shove it aside as irrelevant, but in so doing they trade off God's richest way of blessing to serve a perverted gospel instead of the real Gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:7-8). Along with these many and matchless blessings they miss out on true service to Christ. For they cannot serve both Christ and antichrist, not light and darkness together (see II Cor. 6:14-15). They pay a very heavy price throughout all of time and eternity, because they refuse to listen to the truth. Nowhere throughout the entirety of sacred Scripture are any of God's people told to support anything like this for any reason. Only those who are not of God believe in taking such liberties and indulging in such unrighteousness (see Ro. 1:18, 2:8; II Th. 2:10-12). They have no idea that they are missing this higher place where the Christian needs to be. Perhaps they think that they would rather remain here in the place of spiritual darkness than to acknowledge their spiritual shortfall and repent.
So they miss out on experiencing that spiritual advancement into this higher spiritual place where God becomes consciously present. In that place of higher awareness and victory his glory shines through into the darkness of our natural being. It abides there with us every moment of every day. We begin to recognize that God has indeed come to us, and is now very much with us, and we with Him. This is the wondrous miracle of the true Christian faith in one's life. It deeply enriches, bestowing upon us his glorious "tidings of comfort and joy", even in the midst of a dark and sinful world.
If you really do want God with you, Christian, then take time out to listen and learn of the true Gospel of Christ that you have been missing.
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