Reject The Antichrist

Hello! and happy good last day of the Calendar Year 2015; and, it's just hours to go for the New Year 2016, GUYS.  For our first-thing-first this eve of the new year:

THE GOOD NEWS (31 December 2015)

"My dear children, it is the last hour.  You were told that an antichrist would come; but several antichrists have already come, by which we know that it is now the last hour.

They went out from us though they did not really belong to us.  Had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us.  So it became clear that not all of us were really ours.

But you have the anointing from the Holy One, so that all of you have true wisdom.

I write to you, not because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you already know it, and lies have nothing in common with the truth." - 1 John 2:18-21

Symbol Of The Antichrist

(Fourth criterion:  to be sure we are walking in the Light, we must reject the antichrist and remain steadfast in the faith and in what faith teaches.  The believers of John's days knew that before the glorious return of CHRIST, an antichrist would appear.  John says:  the person who denies that JESUS is the CHRIST already is an antichrist.  Today there are still many people who make a distinction:  on one hand the man JESUS, lost in the midst of legend and on the other hand an idealized CHRIST adored by believers.  John says:  "The one who has come in history, HE HIMSELF is eternal GOD."

 

You received from HIM an anointing, and it remains in you.  John not only speaks of the anointing of oil in baptism and confirmation.  "CHRIST" signifies precisely, "HE who is anointed," and this anointing was the presence in HIM of the Spirit of GOD, HIS FATHER.  John adds:  "You cannot receive passively just any instruction in the Church, but you must discern whether the word of GOD is being faithfully transmitted."

HIS anointing [Spirit] teaches you all things.  In writing that, John had in mind the prophets who were the animators of the churches:  through their inspired words the Spirit taught the community.  Today the Spirit also maintains us in the truth through the leaders of the community and those who teach but we are not dispensed from seeking by ourselves the meaning of the Word and discerning what others tell us.)