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Test the Spirits!
According to
Gnostic teachings, Jesus is no longer the savior of the world who died for sins
and rose from the grave, but a spiritual adept who appeared to exemplify and
teach the transcendent knowledge of "enlightenment."
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There is a dark being
in the scriptures who is associated with "light" and who is behind
all false teachings of "enlightenment." Our brother John carefully
warns us to, "Test the spirits ... to see whether they are from God."
The test is simple but unequivocal. "Every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." "In the flesh!";
not a "spiritual, angelic, aeon/avatar, but a unique incarnation of the
Creator YHVH, who lived a human life, and died a human death, and was
physically, bodily raised to eternal life. The true Gospel message is simple
and beautiful, and accessible to all. It is not a deep esoteric knowledge, or
mystical experience.
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“By
this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the
Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.” - 1
John 4:2-3
Civilization continues to erode as the world is being prepared
for its greatest deception, the appearance of the false messiah -- the
Antichrist.
The word literally means "one against Christ" and
also, one "in place of Christ."
Yeshua (Jesus) predicted and warned his disciples and all
believers of this dangerous development in the last days.
Toward the end of the first century, the gospel message came
under the influence of Greek philosophy and culture, and was corrupted by Greek
"Gnosticism" to the point of heresy.
"Gnosis" - meaning "knowledge", in this
case, special, particular, hidden, esoteric, "spiritually
enlightened" knowledge, was the basis and goal of Gnosticism, both at that
time, and today in its many contemporary expressions.
These spiritual adepts claimed to be the "spiritually
enlightened" ones, some of whom inserted themselves among the true
believers to draw followers and to replace the true revelation of Yeshua
(Jesus) with a counterfeit.
The apostles addressed this heresy in numerous letters.
Paul
exhorted Timothy to, "Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing
ideas of what is falsely called knowledge (gnosis)." [1
Timothy 6:20]
Most of these Gnostics believed Yeshua, whom they called,
"Christ", to be divine, but that he was only one of the
"aeons" or "divine spiritual beings."
They taught that Christ only seemed to be human, that he was
never actually born to a Jewish household, growing up in Nazareth, and that He
was never actually crucified nor bodily risen from the dead.
This Gnostic "Christ" revealed himself only to
reaffirm and exemplify the message of "spiritual enlightenment" for
those who sought this "special revelation."
And they believed that he was only one of numerous
"prophets" appearing from time to time with this
"universal" Gnostic message.
The apostle John was well aware of this and was led by the Holy
Spirit to teach and warn of it.
And Gnosticism is alive and well today.
One of its ubiquitous signs is the "all seeing eye",
which is traceable to ancient Egypt as the "eye of Horus" and is
associated with the same "special revelation" or
"enlightenment" propounded by the Greek Gnostics.
The same false rendering of Yeshua also abounds today in various
Gnostic teachings, so that the words of John the apostle are just as relevant
as ever, perhaps even more so.
According to Gnostic teachings, Jesus is no longer the savior of
the world who died for sins and rose from the grave, but a spiritual adept who
appeared to exemplify and teach the transcendent knowledge of
"enlightenment."
There is a dark being in the scriptures who is associated with
"light" [2 Corinthians 11:14] and who is behind all
false teachings of "enlightenment."
His light is darkness. [Matthew 6:23].
So, our
brother John carefully warns us to, "Test the spirits ... to see
whether they are from God."
The test is simple but unequivocal.
"Every
spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God."
"In the flesh!"; not a "spiritual,
angelic, aeon/avatar, one of many bringing a false message and a false "light"...
but a unique incarnation of the Creator YHVH, who lived a human life, and died
a human death, and was physically, bodily raised to eternal life.
The true Gospel message is simple and beautiful, and accessible
to all.
It is not a deep esoteric knowledge, or mystical experience.
We can rejoice in the beautiful and simple fact that in Him, namely "Yeshua (Jesus),... are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." [Colossians 2:3]
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