Those Who Are Trying
To Lead You Astray
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. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they
had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed
that none of them belonged to us.
But you have an
anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do not write to
you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because
no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus
is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the
Father also.
As for you, see that
what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also
will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised
us—eternal life.
I am writing these
things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. As for you, the
anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to
teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that
anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
1 John
2:18-27
In order to know
heresy you have to know the difference between a counterfeit religion and our
true religion. The apostle John helps to protect believers from heresy by
showing them examples of counterfeit Christians and teachers. One of the signs
of the last days is the coming of the antichrist. Antichrists are those who
claim to have His power and authority but don’t, or those who reject or oppose
Him and His teachings.
Watch out for those
who depart from the fellowship of Christians, those who deny Jesus as the
Messiah, and those who draw the faithful away from Jesus.
We can protect
ourselves from error and deception by knowing the false but relying on the
Truth.
Beware:
The devil may add a few grains of truth to what is false.
Our Daily Bread –