Liberalism and the Spirit of the Antichrist

Today is a rainy day in Houston, but it’s a good day to take time to write my first blog post. I have been thinking a lot lately of the events that have taken place in our country. The election of the nation’s first Black president brought lots of hoopla to our country’s electorate and many thought that our nation was headed for change everyone could believe in. Well, 89 days after President Obama’s inauguration many have been rendered confused by his totally liberal, socialist and left winged decisions. This should however come as no surprise to those who are alert and aware of the things that must take place on this earth. As a Christian, I believe in the accounts of end-time events spoken of in the Bible. I believe that as God has set all things on its course they will all come to pass and I believe that the foundations necessary for these events to take place have been laid.

Liberalism and all of its flavors provide the necessary workings for the Biblical end time events spoken of in the Bible to take place. 1 John 2:18-19 says, “18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

1 John 2:18-19, speaks about those who had started in the faith but then veered to other teachings, not remaining true to the message that Christ had given for us to believe. Now many see one concept of the anti-Christ, which is a person who will rise up and lead many into following the devil. That would be an easy thing for many to look out for because his actions will be evident when he arrives. What has been taking place, however, since the time that the church began, is the mindset and spirit of the antichrist. All things that oppose the message of the Bible and its teachings about Christ is anti-Christ. Jesus also tells us that even Christians will fall into the deception that will be in full force in the end of days. In Matthew 24:24-25, Jesus gives the following warning, “24"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 25"Behold, I have told you in advance.

At the core of the concept of liberalism is liberty. It began as a movement that respected that humanity had been given certain rights by God which man nor the government had no right to control or regulate. However in the late 19th century and early 20th century those who embraced liberalism began to think that the free market ideas and the pursuit of individual freedoms were not able to be sustained through the current concept of liberalism. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#NewLib This excerpt was taken from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Many efforts to revise and reform the concept of liberalism have provided us with the “new” flavor of liberalism that exists today. The concept of liberalism have transformed from a viewpoint where man has been created with certain rights by God to one where man, should be completely separated from the authority of God, and the government will now fulfill the role of God. But it is a detour that had to be taken in order for the things of the end to take place.

It was inevitable that America, the bastion of Christianity would be infiltrated by the anti-God teachings of liberalism. The plan of how the American mind would be saturated through liberalism has worked like clockwork. Through the use of the public school, university -college system and even some churches, liberalism have now been embraced by a large segment of the American population. We have now become a society where in most cases the Bible is not the authority by which one should live their lives. Obama holds very anti-Christian beliefs. Pitting man against God through liberal ideologies makes it very convenient for the person of the Anti-Christ to take power. Obama is presently building relationships with powers that have been America’s enemies for decades. Why? America now has a leadership that embraces the anti-Christian sentiments of these countries. Muslims hate America because of their support for Israel. Cuba hates America because of our stand against the socialist – communist views they hold. The same with Venezuela, but they embrace Obama because he is as socialist, and liberal as they are. An America awaits the transfer of her sovereignty to the will of anti-Christian nations.

Revelations speaks of a time when all the powers of the earth will fall prey to the rule of an institution of immorality. Liberalism embraces immorality in many forms. Abortion, homosexuality, same-sex marriage and welfare are policies of liberalism that pits itself in direct opposition of Christian teachings. There are those who profess to be Christian, yet at the same time support anti-Christian ideologies such as these. How easily it will be for these to accept the mark of the anti-Christ, as they have accepted the mind and the spirit of the anti-Christ. The saddest thing about this is that Christians are not even aware that they have accepted anti-Christian beliefs. Liberalism and self rule has convinced many to believe that it’s fashionable to reject, what it considers “out-of-date” ideologies of the Bibles. For the Christian that has not been bamboozled by liberalism the Bible is still the final word. Jesus and His Apostles warned us of this time when the spirit of anti-Christian sentiments would be upon us and as we look at our nation their prophecies are vividly coming to past.

It is at this crucial time in the history of Biblical events that we must take heed to the things we embrace and believe for the spirit of the antichrist is upon us. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 1 John 4:2-3