The Antichrist is not the opposite of Christ; he is another Christ, and not the true Christ. This is how the apostasy will begin: the church will fall away because we are worshipping another Christ. Many of us who say we believe in Jesus really believe in the Antichrist.
But if you want to resist deception, keep reading. I will show you how the Antichrist deceives Christians, and how to avoid his deception.
DECEPTION BEGINS IN OUR IMAGINATION
Remember the story of the golden calf? Many of us think the Israelites were worshipping a false god. But look carefully at their words:
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 32:1-4, NASB, italics and bold text mine.
Do you see the Israelites imagining the true God? They were not attempting to worship a pagan deity like Dagon or Ra. They imagined the true God was strong like a calf and glorious like gold, trying to picture what Yahweh was like.
But they had already heard God's voice from Mount Sinai. They did not see Him or his form. By imagining a visible God, they worshiped another god, though picturing the True God.
They took a path away from the true God to a false God, a path away from Christ and towards the Antichrist. We are also on the path towards the Antichrist if we imagine God in any way other what He truly is. (Click HERE for part 2.)
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