‘Confession of Christ, vs. Antichrist in the World:' On Allies, Co-Belligerents and Concentric Circles of Trust
Now there are Allies and Co-belligerents beside You and In Your ranks, these are the people Who believe in the core structure of Faith. Yet the most redoubtable Core are those Who Confess Christ...
‘Confession of Christ, vs. Antichrist in the World: On Allies, Co-Belligerents and Concentric Circles of Trust
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but atest the spirits, whether they are of God; because bmany false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: cEvery spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess 1that Jesus 2Christ 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 4:1-3, NKJV)
Now Who do We trust in concentric circles? Which leads to Our success or Our failures.
I will not here say that All People Who claim to be Christian will pan out. I have come across those Who bless Me in the name of Christ Who turn out to be unreliable, even bad actors.
And some Are not Christian yet They believe in the Abrahamic God. They turn out to be Key Allies.
Yet I will say that those Who explicitly deny the Gospel—They almost always turn sour. They do not stick in the fight, cannot handle stresses and pressures and torsion or foot pounds per square inch. They become disillusioned even of the Truth and turn against the Men of Faith Who We all know are the Good Guys. They end up disputing not only Christ, but every really Good Godly Man Who walks in the light.
It has been said that True Evil is the Eye that perceives Evil Everywhere. When You cannot point to the Men Who are truly Good, when every single leader is evil or corrupt absolutely—without qualification bad. There are No Good Guys, only Evil. This is how You can measure that perhaps someone has become too much of an island unto themselves. They trust only Their Own Self and have severe disdain for and hold the works of others in contempt. They will think everyone Their lesser for not having the same jaded outlook.
No, there are Good Guys, Trump is a Good Guy, Bannon is a Good Guy, Charleton Heston is a Good Guy, Langan is a Good Guy (and when You go against these Men, the burden of proof weighs directly on You, not Them).
But 1 John cannot be refuted or ignored or taken in half measure; the Antichrist is already in the World and ‘does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh;’ perhaps not all Christians are trustworthy in certain moments early on….
However, every person is a corrupted mass of flesh. It’s just that when the person confesses Christ, they are promised to repent of Sin, admit that They are sinful, and most powerfully—They are joined with the Spirit of God. He will work sanctifying and redeeming works in Their [Christians’] lives and They will one day conform to the Image of the Son.
So when a Christian lets You down, pray for them that they continue on the journey of sanctification and do not fall away.
Otherwise, those Who deny the Gospel to Your Face, You know They deny it doubly in Their Heart. Now there are Allies and Co-belligerents beside You and In Your ranks, these are the people Who believe in the core structure of Faith. Yet the most redoubtable Core are those Who Confess that Christ has come in the flesh. Amen,