Son Of Perdition
Dave Eells
Father, give us patience and understanding to receive what you have mercifully revealed in Jesus name.
The Lord showed me a key to end time revelation years ago. He said that "everything that happened in the gospels and the book of Acts would be repeated in the end except the cast of characters would be multiplied many times over". There is a parallel between the things that happened in Jesus and the disciple’s time and the end time. The characters in their time are worldwide corporate bodies of people in the end time. Bodies of people become larger worldwide bodies. Here are the main character equivalents. Jesus = end time first fruits man-child of Rev.12, Church = woman of Rev.12, Judas = end time worldwide son of perdition, disciples = end time two witnesses, Judaism = end time apostate religious harlot, Roman government = head of the end time world beast, Roman Empire = body of the end time world beast, False religious leadership = body of end time false prophet, etc, etc. This is a key to the revelation and will be more apparent as we continue.
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Jesus’ birth to Mary was a sign to be fulfilled in the end. A corporate body, the first fruits man-child would be born to the woman, the true church in the beginning of the tribulation (Rev.12: 5,6). 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. Previous verses identify the "I" here as Jesus and the "children" as His disciples (7:14 - 8:8,10,16,17). These were for signs of those who were to follow in their steps in the end time. Judas, the son of perdition, was one of those signs. He was a type and shadow of a corporate body in these days. There is an entity hidden in the body of Christ that is going to be revealed in these days. He is our Judas, the "son of perdition," and the "man of sin".
Judas and his spiritual seed are both called the son of perdition. This is not new. God named Jacob Israel and yet He continues to call his literal and spiritual corporate body Israel also (Gen.32: 28 / Rom.11: 26). In Eze.38: 1-6 God names the end time attackers of Israel by the names of Noah’s grandsons (Gen.10: 1-6). These were the majority of Japheth and Hams children. Shem was the only son left out because he was the forefather of Israel. The seed of these grandsons identifies in our day a vast portion of the world, a corporate body that will attack Israel. God is in the habit of identifying corporate bodies by the name of their spiritual or literal father, including the body of Christ. His corporate body today is also called Christ (1 Cor.12: 12,27). We are the spiritual seed of Abraham (Rom.4: 16,17), who walk in the steps of his faith.
Judas is a spiritual father of a vast body of people today. We all prove who our spiritual father is by walking in his steps. For instance Jesus said of the Jews who were fallen away; Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do (Jn.8: 44). Empires or nations also have spiritual seeds. For instance the Roman Empire is the spiritual father of the revived Roman Empire of the Beast because they will walk in the same steps. Only those who walk in the steps of Jesus are his body, according to 1 Jn.2: 3-6. Judas walked in the steps of his spiritual father Dan, the serpent, who was also one of the twelve patriarchs who fell away (Gen.49: 16,17). Judas has a spiritual seed in these days that are also called the son of perdition that will walk as he walked in the falling away. Therefore if we study Judas we will know them.
Paul tells us in 1 Cor.10: 11 Now these things happened unto them (Israel) by way of example (Greek - figure, type); and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. Lets look at our type so we can see what will happen in the "end of the age" to the Church. The children of Israel ate the lamb (Jesus), the death angel passed over (delivered from the curse - Gal.3: 13), and they crossed the Red Sea (baptism - 1 Cor.10: 2) where the Egyptians (old man) were buried, and Israel (the born again man) came up out of the water and went into the wilderness (tribulation - Rev.12:6, 17:3). A "mixed multitude went up also with them" (Ex.12:38). The mixed multitude was part Egyptian (the old man) and part Israelite (the born again man).
Num. 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon. These half-Christians lusted after the flesh and even tempted the true Christians. They hated the manna. The transliterated word manna is literally spelled in Hebrew man. Guess who the man that they hated to eat was. You got it! Jesus is the bread of heaven, the word of God that we must eat to have life (Jn.6: 51). This angered God who said He would give them flesh in verse 20. . until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah (manna) who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt (paraphrased - why did we ever get saved)? Rom.8:13 says "if you live after the flesh you must die".
Num. 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted. The wilderness tribulation that was meant to give life brought death to those who followed after the flesh and so it will in the coming days. Those who according to the type fell away and spiritually died as sons of perdition, came out of their midst. We have these lukewarm people among us now but they will be spewed out of the body (Rev.3: 16) just as Judas came out of the early body of the twelve disciples and Dan is no longer listed among the twelve tribes (Rev.7: 4-8). Those that were left were sanctified from the man of sin that was in their midst and ready to go to the Promised Land.
2 Thes. 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; 2 to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand. 3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. In a few words God is saying; Do not be deceived. The Lord will not come for us until after the falling away reveals the son of perdition. The words "falling away" are from the Greek word apostasy. Apostasy here means falling away from Christ and a lost person cannot fall away. The son of perdition is among the Christians.
In the falling away, the man of sin, the son of perdition, will be revealed. God is going to purge His church of the rebels and get the rest ready to meet the Lord. People who have been acting like Christians will not be able to act anymore, because of great tribulation. My son Justin had an open vision about a great ship on the ocean, filled with people. Some were dressed in white and were on the right side of the ship. Others in black were on the left side. A jet plane suddenly appeared and shot a rocket which blew the ship to pieces. Those dressed in black were not able to swim and sank. The people dressed in white could swim and they built a new smaller ship from the pieces.
The lord showed me this was the proverbial Gospel ship. The water represents the curses written in the word (Dt.11: 26-28). The side of the ship revealed whether you had the works of sheep (right) or goats (left - Mt.25: 33). The garments also represent our works. Rom.13: 12-14 cast off the works of darkness . . . put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Rev. 19:8 And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Those in black were not able to get above the curse. The true identity of these was revealed by tribulation because they fell away. Noah was saved by the flood that destroyed the wicked. The flood of destruction proved who was a son of perdition (Greek - destruction).
John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. Among the people of God in the coming days, not one will perish, but the son of perdition. What happened in Judas’ day is going to happen in this day. Look at the signs in the Gospels, because they are going to be fulfilled again. Eccl.1: 9 That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. If, what you see of your revelation of the end times doesn’t fit into history, it is wrong, throw it out. Those who fall away in this day are revealed to be the son of perdition.
Jn. 13:17 If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them. 18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen . . .In other words, Judas was not chosen because he would not do the things Jesus spoke. The lawless can be called but will not be chosen. "Many are the called, but few are the chosen." The word chosen is the word "eklektos," where we get the word elect. Judas was called to partake of Christ but chose to follow his flesh. Jn. 13:18 . . . but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me. Judas ate Jesus’ bread with the disciples and then betrayed Him. This also identifies the mixed multitude. In our day the body of Judas that will eat Jesus’ bread and then betray the body of Christ.
Jn. 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Mt.26: 22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, Is it I, Lord? Obviously the son of perdition, the man of sin, was as well hidden to the others as he is today. When Jesus sent out the twelve to do the miracles, don’t you think they would have suspected Judas if he hadn’t done any? This is why the son of perdition has to be revealed in our day. He does the religious works and for a time he can hide his lack of fruit. Tribulation is necessary to reveal and separate him from the body. He is a cancer in the body of Christ.
Judas’ hidden lusts overcame him when he was tribulated. For silver (personal gain) he sold out the body of Christ. He was secretly a thief who stole from the common purse (Jn.12: 6). He did not have concern for the brethrens needs, only his own. The son of perdition still takes what belongs to Jesus and his disciples for himself. Jesus and the disciples had all things common, a practice that continued in Acts 2:44, 4:32. Lk.14: 33 So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. We must renounce ownership of our possessions, rights, and will to be a disciple. We are merely stewards of these things for Jesus and the brethren. True disciples steward common possessions, rights, and will to see that all needs are met. Every member of a body (eyes, ears, arms, etc.) serves the body. 1 Cor. 6:19 . . . and ye are not your own; 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
Jn.13: 26 Jesus therefore answereth, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him, What thou doest, do quickly. When Judas ate the sop and Satan entered into him, he manifestly became the son of perdition. God spoke to me so plainly years ago, that it shocked me. He said "SOP, S - O - P, son - of - perdition". The sop was a morsel of bread that was used to soak up liquid food. We must eat the bread of Christ, the word, to bear fruit but it also makes us responsible. Jn.15: 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. Judas was reprobated because he knew too much of the word to get away with what he did. Many are being hardened today because when they hear the word they do not repent. Ps. 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.
The word Judas is a Hebrew word meaning, "to use the hand." God definitely used the hand of Judas for Jesus told him, "What thou doest, do quickly." Acts 2:23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay. Lawless here is the same Greek word as in 2 Thes.2: 3 where the son of perdition is called "the man of sin" or lawlessness. God used the hand of a man of lawlessness to crucify the body of Christ and in these days it will be the same. Our greatest enemy is the man of lawlessness that is among the people of God. From the beginning Jesus knew Judas would fall away. Jesus said, "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil." Remember, the son of perdition must fall away and be a Judas to the body before the Lord can come. Acts 1:25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
Iscariot is made up of two words. "Is" which is Hebrew for man, and "cariot" which is Babylonish or Chaldean for city. So, Judas Iscariot means, "To use the hand of a man city." This shows us that the son of perdition is a corporate body of people in our day who are a part of the city of Babylon. As far as Christians are concerned he is a part of the great Babylonish religious city in these days. Judas represented the city of the falling away that is guilty of the blood of the saints (Rev.17: 6,18:24). He was in league with the Sanhedrin, the corporate false prophet over the apostate people of God.
Jesus said of his true followers, "Ye are the light of the world, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid (Mt.5: 14)." True Christianity is a worldwide city, or congregation of people. However there is a Babylonish city within our city. There are two cities inhabiting the same territory. Gods plan is to separate these two by using one to crucify the flesh of the other. Mt 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many stumble (fall away), and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. You see here that the end time corporate Judas Iscariot will betray and deceive his own brethren worldwide.
John 13: 30 He then having received the sop went out straightway: and it was night. When Judas, the son of perdition went out from among the body to betray Christ, it was night. He now being filled with Satan walked in total darkness. Jn. 9:4 We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 When I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Another aspect of this darkness was that the son of perdition put out the light of the world, Christ. This time he will put out the light of the world, the body of Christ for Jesus said, "Ye are the light of the world (Mt.5; 14). The night of course, is when there is no light to see by. In Jesus’ day, the Jews were coming to the end of their dispensation of light. God was about to revoke the light from the Jews and give it to the Gentiles. They had a night. Now, the Gentiles are coming to the night. Rom.11: 25 . . a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. We must work "while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work." Our work to convert gentiles is going to be totally useless, when God turns away from them and back to the Jews. Rev.9: 20,21 And the rest of mankind . . . repented not . . .
John 13:31 When therefore he (son of perdition) was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. The Son of man is glorified at the time when the son of perdition goes out. We are also the body of Christ, the son of man. The church is going to be glorified or purified, because the son of perdition is going to come out of the midst. Then the Lord will come for a sanctified people. 2 Thes.1: 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. 11 To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Notice that Christ will be glorified in His body before He comes to glorify His body. The body is not glorified here, but Christ in the body. 2 Cor. 4:11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
2 Thes. 2:3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it (The coming of the Lord) will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin (lawlessness) be revealed, the son of perdition. 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. The Greek word for temple here is "naos" and is used nine times by Paul in the New Testament. In every case he uses it as the spiritual temple of God’s people. "Hieron" is the Greek word for the literal temple or building, used seventy one times in the New Testament but never figuratively. Just as Judas was among the disciples, the latter day son of perdition is sitting in the temple of God’s people. This truth will destroy much tradition.
The son of perdition "exalteth himself" "setting himself forth as God". What happens when you rule your individual temple? You are making your-self God! If you walk after your own flesh, you are your own God. God was meant to sit on the throne of this temple and rule it through your spirit. But if you walk after the flesh, the devil is ruling your temple through your flesh. Self is sitting upon the throne. 2 Thes. 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Paul told us in Phl. 3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross (Judas) of Christ: 19 whose end is perdition (son of perdition), whose god is the belly (selfish lusts), and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Rom. 16:17 . . .mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling . . .18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly (self); and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
Judas was not only a disciple who ruled in his individual temple but he was also an Apostle. He was a leader in the corporate temple. In other words the sons of perdition are a vast number of individuals ruling their own life and temple, making up a Babylonish corporate temple. Also they are the apostate leadership ruling in the corporate temple. 2 Pet.2 profiles this apostate leadership as "false prophets, false teachers, denying the Master, make merchandise of you, loved the hire of wrong doing, and their destruction (perdition) slumbereth not." Jude profiles them as "shepherds that without fear feed themselves, denying our only Master, rail at whatsoever things they know not, and what they understand naturally (the letter), clouds without water (no depth in the word), wandering stars (not keeping their position), who make separations (denominations), That is a good description of Judas and the end time son of perdition.
In our type ten of the twelve tribes worshiped the image of the beast, the golden calf. 1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods (Hebrew Elohim), O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Beth-el (house of god), and the other put he in Dan (son of perdition). Notice that we are speaking of a false system of worship that Israel put the name of Elohim, the true God, upon. Also we see that it was in the house of God and in the son of perdition. Much of the house of God falls away as the son of perdition because they have a false image of the true God. The apostate churches have a God of their own making but they use the name of Jesus. Paul warned in 2 Cor.11: 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye bear well with him (Greek). Rev.3: 1 . . . I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest (Christian), and thou art dead.
In the middle of the tribulation these will take the mark and worship the image of the beast in the house of God as the corporate son of perdition. They will take the mark and go back to their assemblies, business as usual, an "abomination that maketh desolate" (Dan.12: 11) "standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand)"(Mt.24:15). The holy place today is not a temple made with hands but the body. If the Jews rebuild the temple it cannot have an abomination that maketh desolate because Jesus said it was already desolate (Mt.23:38). These sons of perdition (Greek - destruction) who sit in the body are an abomination that will bring their own desolation, for when the righteous see this sign they are to flee to the mountains (Mt.24: 15,16 / Lk.21:20,21). At this time the Beast kingdom will desolate this Harlot who has received the seed of the world instead of her husband.
1 Kings 12:31 And he made houses of high places (cathedrals full of apostates), and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi. Notice in ten of the twelve tribes the leadership was ordained of men not God as it is today. The corporate leadership "exalteth himself" "setting himself forth as God" in the corporate temple. In the Korah, Dathan, and Abiram rebellion, they usurped the authority of the true leadership and "all the congregation" followed them (Num.16: 19,22,41). Korah represents the true levites who usurp the authority of the High priest, Jesus. Dathan and Abiram who were not levites, represent those who usurp the position of levite or minister when God did not call them.
To prove the true leadership, God commanded that each tribe take a rod "and, behold, the rod of Aaron (the High Priest, Jesus) for the house of Levi (the true ministers) was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds"(Num.17:8). This is as Jesus and the disciples demonstrated among the false leadership when the rod of their authority bore fruit. The man-child and the two witnesses will demonstrate this in the tribulation. As with Korah, Dathan, and Abiram when "the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households" so the end time false leadership will be swallowed up by the earth (Num.16: 32). The flesh is represented by the earth, from which it is made (Gen.2; 7).
In other words they will completely overcome and consumed by the lusts of the flesh along with" their households", those who submit to them. They "went down alive into sheol"(verse 33). Paul said in 1 Tim.5: 6 But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth. That Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and their households represent the corporate end time son of perdition is seen in Ps.55: 13-15. But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend (Judas the son of perdition - 41:9). We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God (temple) with the throng. Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling (temple), in the midst of them. Notice Judas is plural "them" here and is identified with the Korah rebellion because they went down alive into Sheol. Mt. 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing (the temple of God), but inwardly are ravening wolves (the son of perdition within).
2 Thes. 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he (son of perdition) may be revealed in his own season. This is a repeat of verse 3, which says, "except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition". Notice, that which restrains the revealing of the son of perdition, is the falling away just as the pattern with Judas clearly shows us. He was so well hidden to the disciples that it took the falling away to reveal him just as it is today.
2 Thes. 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he become out of the midst. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming. "Until he become out of the midst" is what the numeric pattern proves and the ancient manuscripts. The Lord is restrained from coming until the son of perdition comes out of the midst of God’s people, the temple. 2 Pet.2:13 calls these apostates "spots and blemishes" among the body. When these come out, the body will be a spotless and blemish less, ready to meet the Lord.
Mt.13: 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn. God says, "in bundles (plural) to burn them", not bundle as if it were hell. This burning is going to happen on this earth in the day of the Lord. Birds of a feather are going to flock together. Mal. 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up. .
We also see here that the sons of God and the sons of perdition will mature together. Notice that the harvest at the end is when the tares will come out of the midst of the wheat. Jesus explains this further in Mt.13: 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity (Greek - lawlessness). 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear. Jesus will gather out of His kingdom the "man of sin" or, lawlessness, which is the same Greek word as iniquity. Only then will the righteous shine as the sun.
Look at the process: 1) The falling away 2) The son of perdition is revealed 3) He comes out the midst 4) The Lord comes for His sanctified body.
Let us study another aspect of the son of perdition coming out of the temple. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath (Greek - spirit) of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming (Greek - presence). Notice that the manifestation of Jesus’ presence is going to destroy the son of perdition in His kingdom. There is a son of perdition or man of sin sitting in our individual temple making himself God. He has to come out of the midst before we are ready to meet the Lord. In your life, the destruction of the son of perdition, the old man, is by the manifestation of Christ’s presence. 2 Cor. 4:16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man (carnal man = son of perdition) is decaying, yet our inward man (spiritual man = Christ in you) is renewed day by day. You see, the manifestation of his presence destroys the son of perdition in our temple.
Jesus has been sown in you as a little seed, like a mustard seed. As you feed that spiritual man, he grows like a baby in the womb. Jesus said in Lk 8:21 My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it. Meaning we have the Christ child inside of us. He has been sown in us as the seed (Greek - sperma) of the word of God. As a mother feeds the baby in her womb we feed Him. Her breath (Greek - spirit) that she takes in, goes into the lungs. From the lungs, oxygen (life of the Spirit) is dispersed to the pulmonary veins, to the heart, and to the baby through the placenta and umbilical cord. The mother has to eat and breathe to feed the baby. We are like that. If we don’t receive the breath of God’s Spirit, we won’t give life to that baby. If we don’t eat the word of God, the manna that comes down out of heaven, the baby is not given life and power to grow. Where He grows in us the old man dies. We are the spiritual mother of Jesus.
Elizabeth in the Spirit said to Mary, "Blessed is she that believed, for there shall be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord." When you believe the word of God, there is going to be a fulfillment of those words. What was spoken unto her from the Lord? Lk.1: 31 And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. She was promised to bear the fruit of Jesus and so are we. Do you believe it? You can only become the mother of Jesus if you believe the word. The parable of the sower is clear. Jesus sows the sperma of the word in the womb of our heart and if we nourish it we bear the fruit of Christ thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold (Mt.13). It is this growing up of Jesus in us that slays the "man of sin or lawlessness". 2 Cor.4: 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death (of the man of sin) for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Paul said in Epe. 3:19 . . . that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God and in 4:13 . . . unto a full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ.
2 John 7 For many deceivers are gone forth into the world (falling away), [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Notice that "the antichrist" is many deceivers. The portion of antichrist that is in the corporate temple are the sons of perdition. The rest of the body of antichrist is in the world. Notice that many deceivers fall away because they do not believe that Jesus is coming in the flesh. The only flesh that Jesus is progressively coming in is that of His corporate body. These apostates believe you should be satisfied with forgiveness but you cannot believe for deliverance from sin, which is the gospel. The blood of bulls and goats brought forgiveness but could not "take away sin" (Heb.10:4). Jn.1: 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold,
the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
Jesus came to take away the sin nature and replace it with His own. 2 Cor.3: 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory. Seeing Jesus in the mirror is believing the true gospel. We say with Paul, " I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal.2: 20). This faith enables God to bring it to pass. The sons of perdition cannot bear the thought that Jesus will take their place on the throne of the individual or corporate temple.
1 Jn.2: 18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. Again we see many antichrists, sons of perdition, falling away in order to be revealed that they are not of us. Notice that this will be seen in the last hour. In Rev.17:12 the Beast rules for one hour which is the last 3 ½ years (Rev.13:5), when he will make war on the saints (verse 7) who refuse the mark of the beast. These antichrist sons of perdition will try to preserve their lives by taking the mark, proving themselves members of the body of the Beast in the last hour.
John goes on to reveal the reason the antichrist sons of perdition will fall away. 1Jn. 2:22. . . This is the antichrist, [even] he that denieth the Father and the Son. What does it mean to deny the Father and Son and how do we avoid that? 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that confesseth (Greek - homo logeo = speak the same as) the Son hath the Father also. You see if we agree with Jesus in speaking the same truth we are not denying Him and we will have Father and Son. Also in the gospel of John Jesus said that if we loved Him and kept His word that He and the Father would make their abode with us (Jn.14:21-23). Their abode is the true temple that will be cleansed of those who speak against the word.
Back in 1 Jn.2 the next verse confirms all that we have said here. 24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. It is imperative that we receive only the teaching that we heard from the beginning, out of the mouth of Jesus and His disciples, not the apostate gospel of the end time religions. Those who do not "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints" will fall away as Jude said (Jude 3-5). Many who start out with us friends will not as Jesus said endure to the end to be saved (Mt.10: 22, 24:13). Those who change what is written to suit religion, do so to their own peril.
2 Jn.9 Whosoever goeth onward (past initial salvation) and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son. You can see that it is not those who start out with you but those who continue as also in the parable of the sower. 10 If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into our house, and give him no greeting: 11 for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works. People think this speaks of the Jehovah Witnesses or the Mormons. It is talking about those that are among us that don’t teach verse 7 that Jesus cometh in the flesh. If a person is teaching that you can overcome sin through faith in the word of Jesus, then that is a faithful person. If they aren’t teaching that, then they are not abiding in the teaching and may have religion but not God.
God made what was written an eternal covenant (Heb.13: 20). The Church has made the same mistake Israel did in changing the covenant after it was made. Haven’t you heard them say that the five-fold ministry or the supernatural gifts and power of God were done away with after the apostles? LIARS! The Bible colleges have turned out apostate teachers by the thousands that deny the clear teaching of the word. Most of the people consider them good men but blood is on their hands and they will be with their father Judas if they do not repent. The wicked will not be counted righteous when they speak lies in the tribulation. Rom.3:4 . . let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified (accounted righteous) in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment (tribulation). This is why they will fall away. I pray that you are not among them.
God does not reveal these things so that we have a witch-hunt. Even if you know who is a Judas that doesn’t mean you should treat them any differently. Jesus knew who Judas was but treated him with equality, love, and training. Jesus knew he should have the same opportunity to prove himself, so that as the son of perdition it would be his own fault. Jesus also knew that Judas had a good purpose in the plan of God. That was to betray and make crucifixion of the flesh possible. I have learned these things from my own Judas’, some of whom God has pointed out to me beforehand. Others I came to realize only after I felt their knife in my back. In effect they are a great ally in the cause of the manifestation of our son ship because crucifixion of self would not be possible without them.