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Christian Clarity
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This was the first article on the Non-Creating Speech of Sin, posted around June of 2003. At the time it was an outline/organizational chart that was never really adequate for something so large. There are more articles since, which have been ( and are being ) compiled into a master links page in preparation for the completion of a book "Enemy of God: The Non-Creating Speech of Sin". You can read a brief description of each and links to the drafts here. Sometimes it is helpful to remember where we started to know where we are now and where we are going in God's grace. I've spell checked it since, but it remains the same as the original except for some small improvements such as spell checking, complete book names of Scripture references, and HTML coding corrections for presentation for uniformity. The text is the same.
The Living Speech of sin: Pre-(falsely) Incarnate Anti-Christ: Belial: Satan
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day: for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
I. The Speech of Sin is alive and Not the Word of God
II. The speech of sin is Belial and is Satan and is the anti-Christ (the anti-Word of God)
A. Belial
B. Satan
III. The Speech of sin to be silenced at the end of days only by Christ
The speech of sin is sin. That is, sin is a speech, a living creature, a spirit that lives in the flesh, a word created by God that is not the Word of God. Many have been deceived by this very speech of sin to be spoken through by it to lie that sin is the mere title of an act (and thus have been slaves to fear and guilt as there is always enough confusion on what 'act' is supposedly deserving of the 'title' to both be supposedly pious and doubtful enough to be polite to others who are in doubt...) and have further been deceived that sin is a non-living 'concept' which man 'does' in self-will as if men had 'free will'. The free will lie is detailed elsewhere. It suffices to say here that the free will lie is the main lie by which sin hides itself and it is through the device of the free will lie that it seems to fallen, deceived man that sin cannot be alive. For once fallen to the speech of sin there is no escape excepting real, literal, and new birth in Jesus Christ and being spoken through by the indwelling Holy Spirit of God. There is only oneness with God in Christ as new creation or oneness with sin in death. The speech of sin is the perfect lie as it can add to itself perpetually if not for God. There is no flaw in it and it is perfectly self-validating within itself. Only this one thing it cannot do: create.
Psalmlm 140:8-11 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah. [As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again. Let not the man of [evil] tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to [his] ruin.
2 Corinthiansinthians 6:14-18 Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever? and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for ye are [the] living God's temple; acCorinthiansding as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people. Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean, and I will receive you; and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty.
I. The Speech of Sin is Alive and Not the Word of God
A. That sin is a living creature:
1. God speaks of it as a living creature to be ruled over by Cain who was seduced further by it after God spoke of it so that Cain killed Abel:
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
2. God speaks of sin as a living creature that men must die to in order to live to God. Men do not die in reality to an abstract to then live to reality. Sin is truly deceiving men now and is no metaphor or allegory alluding to something else. Indeed it is that very lie in the speech of sin that deceives many to this hour.
Romans 6:10 For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
3. God speaks of sin ruling over men and men in bondage to sin. Men are not in bondage to something that is not yet but that is now (i.e. sin not an act by men in "free will". One is not ruled over by an act that has not happened yet or that happened previously but what exists in reality now):
Romans 6:17,18 But thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed. Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
4. God speaks that sin has killed and is killing men:
Romans 7:11 for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
5. God speaks of sin ruling as a principality in the earthly tabernacle of the real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ:
Romans 7:17-21 Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not. For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do. But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.
6. Sin's dwelling place is in the earthly tabernacle which clothes the real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ and in the heart of men who have not been born again. Abstracts and acts yet to be committed or committed in the past do not 'dwell' anywhere. Sin makes its presence known by the tongue as well as the flesh:
James 3:5-16 Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species; but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God. Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water. Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom which comes down fRomans above, but earthly, natural, devilish. For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.
Romans 7:17-18 Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.
B. Entrance of Sin into the World
It is plain that God used Satan to speak the fall of man. There is no doubt or uncertainty until sin speaks through the serpent the first question in all of Scripture. For the woman, never having before heard any other speech than the Word of God did not understand the that the word of sin was not the Word of God but an outright different speak that could create nothing. Being cast out of the garden was not simply in regard to eating the forbidden fruit. It was also in regard to Adam and Eve's having eaten the fruit and mixed the knowledge of good and evil with the speech of sin by Adam's hearkening, literally giving ear and place to the voice of his wife that was in his wife, which was the sin now in her speaking. He gave ear to an alien speech that was not the Word of God.
Gen 3:17-19 And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
The voice of his wife was the voice of sin speaking through a possessed and deceived Eve. But Adam was not deceived.
The on-going fall is that deception by sin and subsequent ignorance, enslavement and death in men that all speech is really one speech and only one speech exists: that real death as a result of sin possessing, totally deceiving and speaking through all men. The common speech of men is the speech that sin speaks through them. It is all they know not only as supposedly what knowledge or wisdom is but as speech and what to say in any given instant. This speech can create nothing yet speaks on merely to spread itself.
II. Sin is Belial/Satan/the anti-Christ
All speech that is not expressly the Word of God He speaks through us is an abominable offering through the mouth to God.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
A sin-offering (the literal rendering of the word 'sin' in the above revelation), an offering of its own words by sin lay at the door of Cain's mouth. God then pronounces with His Word the same on Cain and sin that God had formerly pronounced on Eve concerning the relationship between her and her husband. God had formerly said as a creating act of His Word, that Eve's desire would be for her husband and he would rule over her because of the sin being in her, having had entrance through her ears such that she dis-obeyed God:
Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
God then says this very thing to Cain, indicating a further fall through the voice of sin in him that would effectively be his wife and be joined to him in oneness: the speech of sin. (..and the two shall become one...)
Thereafter is spoken by God in His Holy Scriptures of the sons of wickedness, the sons of the devil, the sons of Belial (which are all the same) and the righteous are distinguished fRomans them constantly:
2 Sam 23:6,7 But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands; And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.
1 Chr 17:9 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be disturbed no more; neither shall the sons of wickedness waste them any more, as formerly,
Acts 13:8-12 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul fRomans the faith. But Saul, who also [is] Paul, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him, said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of [the] devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of [the] Lord? And now behold, [the] Lord's hand [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
1 John 3:9-10 Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God. In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.
The Word of God, speaking to sons of wickedness in the Pharisees:
Mat 23:34-36 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute fRomans city to city; so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, fRomans the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
God speaking directly of Belial:
Deu 13:13 There are men, children of Belial, gone out fRomans among you, and they have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom ye have not known;
(Children of Belial arrive--act of speech follows followed by an act of the flesh. Belial was not the 'other gods' or one those other gods but the speech which induced men to follow false gods and the speech/spirits of those false gods...the speech of sin)
Judg 19:22 They were making their hearts merry, when behold, the men of the city, sons of Belial, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.
(Children of Belial: act of speech...)
Judg 20:13 And now give up the men, the sons of Belial, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil fRomans Israel. But [the children of] Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
(For the children of Benjamin had already hearkened, given their ears to the speech of sin through the sons of Belial. Sin had killed them...)
1 Sam 1:13-17 Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; and Eli thought she was drunken. And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine fRomans thee. And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah. Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto. And Eli answered and said, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition which thou hast asked of him.
1 Sam 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How should this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he was as one deaf.
(Children of Belial, act of speech...)
1 Sam 25:17 And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.
(child of Belial unable to hear the Word of God...)
1 Sam 30:22 And all the wicked men, and [men] of Belial, of those that had gone with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [aught] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away and depart.
2 Sam 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
2 Sam 22:4,5 I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised; So shall I be saved fRomans mine enemies. For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
(David speaks a different speech than those very 'torrents of Belial' (the words of sin that are death) when he speaks to God--God speaks His Word through David back to Himself for David...therefore David is truly saved...)
2 Sam 23:6,7 But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands; And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place. (Rev 21:8 But to the fearful and unbelieving, [and sinners], and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [is] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.)
Prov 6:12-15 A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth; he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth disCorinthiansds. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.
Prov 16:27 A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a sCorinthiansching fire.
God proclaiming the end of Belial, which will have been fulfilled at the end of days on the return of the Word of God in His flesh:
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.
Nahum 1:14,15 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Nahum 2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts: and I will burn her chariots into smoke; and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy prey fRomans the earth; and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Nahum 3:4 -- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,
Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
The witchcraft and the sorceries are the words, those spirits not any part of the Word of God; deceivers.
Satan as the deceiver of the righteous/sons of God with his speech. Satan appears, act of speech--evil:
1 Chr 21:1-2 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel fRomans Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
Satan the accuser of the righteous/sons of God with his speech. Satan arrives, accuses, attempts to place his own speech in Job's mouth:
Job 1:8-11 And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth fRomans evil? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land. But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!
(The speech of sin seeks to be spoken through the mouth of Job in order to blame him later for having spoken wrongly as if Job had freedom of speech and had freely 'chosen' to speak evil. (!) But God sustains Job so that even as sin speaks through his wife, the words of sin have no entrance to him and are not spoken through him:
Job 1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed anything unseemly to God. and Job 2:9 And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die. Job 2:10 But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good fRomans God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Satan as the tempter with his speech through his servants and through himself seeking to place words of sin and deeds of sin in the righteous:
Neh 6:5-15 Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in this manner the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand, in which was written: It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, and acCorinthiansding to these words thou wilt become their king. And thou hast also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning thee at Jerusalem saying, There is a king in Judah! And now it will be reported to the king acCorinthiansding to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be slackened fRomans the work, that it be not carried out. -- Now therefore strengthen my hands! And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabeel, who had shut himself up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill thee; even in the night are they coming to kill thee. And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in. And I perceived, and behold, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me; and Tobijah and Sanballat had hired him. Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have wherewith to spread an evil report, that they might reproach me. My God, remember Tobijah and Sanballat acCorinthiansding to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear. So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
Mat 4:3-11 And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread. But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth. Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God. Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage. Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.
Note: The temptation was for Nehemiah and then the Word of God, Jesus Christ to give a place in themselves, notice, ear to the word of sin as if it were truth in Nehemiah and in the Christ and as if the speech of sin was reality in order to accept the powerless 'exegesis' of Satan concerning God's Word--for God to equate any other speech with His own (this is the only time in the whole of the Holy Scriptures the two speaks speak directly to each other face to face as if in actual intelligent conversation). But in truth they are aliens and have no common understanding at all. The Father speaks through the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit Words which create what He says--but which the speech of sin cannot hear as creation but only as more of its own speech. That is, every time God speaks it seems to the speech of sin as if it is itself validated and empowered. There is no speaking to each other in truth of the two speaks. The speech of sin was created, the Word of God was not. There is no translation between them as one creates and the other does not and cannot. Neither can hear the other.
John 8:42-47 Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth fRomans God and am come [fRomans him]; for neither am I come of myself, but he has sent me. Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer fRomans the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father: and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me? Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.
God's Word is a creating act that He alone Speaks. The speech of sin can create nothing. It has power only to manipulate what is already created: the heart, mind and soul of fallen men to which God gave it. Because it can create nothing in truth, it speaks as if it were the only speech possible to be spoken and as if there were in truth only one speech in reality in absolute denial of the existence of the Word of God. God says of those through whom the speech of sin is spoken who speak a false gospel and to deny their only Lord and Savior:
Jude 1:8-11 Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities. But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against [him], but said, [The] Lord rebuke thee. But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they Corinthiansrupt themselves. Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Corinthianse.
God is separating the darkness fRomans the light, the speech of sin and all its children fRomans His children:
John 1:1-5 In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.
Gen 1:3,4 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Mat 13:37-43 But he answering said, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man, and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil [one]; and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is [the] completion of [the] age, and the harvestmen are angels. As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire, thus it shall be in the completion of the age.
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;
and they shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.
Sin speaks through Satan trying to gain access to the godhead by an act of speech...Therefore to tempt God in prayer is to ask for purely fleshly and worldly lust to be satisfied...that asking is the sin seeking power fRomans God to be fulfilled as it cannot fulfill anything itself...
Rev 12:9-11 And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day and night: and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.
That sin is a speech that will be falsely Incarnate as the Word of God:
1. Sin/Belial is now called anti-christ: anti Word-of-God as the test of a spirit of anti-christ is an act of speech in Christ. Note that the word anti-Christ has its first appearance after the incarnation, life, crucifixtion and resurrection of the true Christ, Jesus Christ, even though it is called Belial, Beliar, the devil, Satan, false prophet and beast both in the old and new testaments:
1 John 4:1-6 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God; and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world. Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world. They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. FRomans this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Dan 7:3-14 And four great beasts came up fRomans the sea, different one fRomans another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till its wings were plucked; and it was lifted up fRomans the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second, like unto a bear, and it raised up itself on one side; and
Zep 3:8-9 Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to assemble the nations, that I may gather the kingdoms together, to pour upon them mine indignation, -- all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that [was] with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone;
Rev 20:9-10 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city: and fire came down [fRomans God] out of the heaven and devoured them. And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where [are] both the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages.
Isa 14:5-20 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers. He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly. The whole earth is at rest, is quiet: they break forth into singing. Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. Sheol fRomans beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise fRomans their thrones all the kings of the nations. All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us! -- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. How art thou fallen fRomans heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations! And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High: none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, [saying,] Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; [that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] dismissed not his prisoners homewards? -- All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house; but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.
Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;
That sin is not merely an act or a state or mere lawlessness:
1 John 3:4 Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
God speaks as spirit and as life to declare that to practice sin is practice lawlessness and that sin is lawlessness. This in no way makes sin a mere act or non-sentient state out of which lawlessness is done. For sin existed before the law was given. If sin were mere lawlessness then no sin would have been seen before the law. But this is not the case:
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Romans 5:12-14 For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (for until law sin was in [the] world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law; but death reigned fRomans Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is [the] figure of him to come.
While sin is indeed lawlessness and actions done by sin are said to be sin and sin-ful and those through whom they are done are rightfully called by God sin-ners, just as good works are said to be righteous and only of Christ and those through whom they are done are truthfully called by God righteous and saints, sin is not a mere act or state in the same manner that righteousness is not a mere act or state and in the same manner than truth is not a mere concept but is alive and is Jesus Christ. The Word of God declares sin to be alive and all works of sin to be sin as well as being one with their father the devil, the man of sin. As well, all righteous works are done of God and are said to be righteous. Yet God does not say that works are dead things in which we walk but only that we walk in them, He having formerly made them in order that we, as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ walk in them. In a manner that mimics the truth of Christ that is Christ, sin lies and all who are spoken and done through by sin are dead to God.
There has long been a device by sin that attempts to establish similarities and paralellisms between sin and Christ, the speech of sin with the Word of God. In truth, that is, in Christ who is the way, the truth and the life, all lies of sin are not true and not of Christ. The two are alien to each other and have no similarities at all.
Death is not the opposite of life though in the speech of sin sin so says. For death knows nothing of life as darkness knows nothing of light.
To --say-- that death and life, Christ and the anti-Christ (the speech of sin falsely incarnate) are opposites is to --say-- that sin truly has knowledge of the truth of Christ in order that it stand against Him. But sin has no such knowledge as is directly declared as spirit and as life by God:
John 1:1-5 In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.
1 Corinthians 2:7-10 But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) but acCorinthiansding as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
Therefore the greek logic which is itself nothing more than a theory of opposites within the speech of sin is seen to be a device of sin whereby it lies that all things are to be understood by merely opposing 'concepts' as if nothing exists which cannot be intelligently set against its opposition. (For more on false opposites see 'Devices') But sin in truth knows nothing of the knowledge of the holy or true wisdom as is specifically declared by God in the foregoing revelation. Therefore it can truly oppose nothing and truly gain no new intelligence by such efforts. What is falsely called knowledge within sin is then deception and lies because it can create nothing, not even within the mind of the one so deceived, new, real truth as knowledge.
John 8:10-11 And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee? And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen