Prosperity Gospel - A Gospel Of The
Antichrist
By Kato Mivule
October 8, 2006
1 John 4:1-6
(1) Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
(2) Hereby know
ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh is of God:
(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.
(4) Ye are of
God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world.
(5) They are of
the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth
them.
(6) We are of
God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Every spirit
that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh...this is
the spirit of the Antichrist... However, the 'confess that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh'
is not a mere outside mouth confession or a religious confession in
church but an acknowledgment, realization, submission to The
Lordship of Jesus Christ in our personal life and from the heart to
the fact that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh...that He reigns as
Lord in our personal lives.
1 John 4:2
(2) Hereby know
ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh is of God:
It is the recognition, realization,
submission, and obedience to the Life, Authority, Power, Lordship,
Command, Word of God, and Life of Suffering, of Jesus Christ. So,
this is not just mere confession on the outside that “Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh” yet when one’s life and heart are totally
contrary to the ‘Life of Jesus Christ in the Flesh’.
'Confess' in Greek...
G3670
ὁμολογέω
homologeō
hom-ol-og-eh'-o
From a compound of the base of G3674 and G3056; to assent,
that is, covenant, acknowledge: - con- (pro-) fess,
confession is made, give thanks, promise.
So, the Greek word that John used
here ‘confess’ is ‘homologeo’ meaning…
-
To Assent...
-
Covenant…
-
Acknowledge…
-
Confess…
-
Give Thanks…
So, the verse above speaks
about not only confessing the that 'Christ Jesus is come in
the flesh' but obeying Jesus Christ
and living the life of Jesus Christ in us. Just as Christ Jesus
walked in the flesh, so we follow His example and we too walk a life
that is dead to this world, sin and evil and live the life of Jesus
Christ in us.
This means total obedience to the
commands of Jesus Christ in us. It means dying to the things of the
world and the pleasures of the world. It means carrying our cross
and following Jesus Christ daily.
If we Confess, Acknowledge, Realize,
Covenant, Assent that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, then we
live that life of suffering just as Jesus Christ suffered, we live
the life of the cross, we then love the things Jesus Christ loves
and hate what He hates. This means not being a friend of the world
and not loving the things that are in the world. It means 100%
obedience to Christ Jesus regardless of the price and cost, even if
it means our very lives.
1 John 4:3
(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.
The Antichrist spirit confesses not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh...this is a spirit of
rebellion that does not realize, acknowledge, submit to the Lordship
and Life of Jesus Christ. This Antichrist spirit submits to the
things of the world, to the life and lordship of the world, riches,
materialism, silver, gold, and submission to man.
The deceptiveness about this
Antichrist spirit is it's characteristic of hypocrisy; religious
Christians in this category merely “confess” that Jesus Christ is
Lord and that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh but they do not obey
the commands of The Lord...they merely say Lord, Lord but don't do
the things The Lord commands...
Matthew 7:19-23
(19) Every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire.
(20) Wherefore by
their fruits ye shall know them.
(21) Not every
one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
(22) Many will
say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works?
(23) And then
will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that
work iniquity.
It is interesting to note that the
‘Confess Jesus Christ is come in the flesh’ is in present tense and
not past. Christ Jesus dwells in those who obey his commands, those who
love Him, His saints, His True Church…and in Him we live, move, and
have our being.
Acts 17:28
(28)
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain
also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
'Is come' in Greek...
G2064
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
er'-khom-ahee
Middle voice of a primary verb
(used only in the present and imperfect tenses, the others being
supplied by a kindred [middle voice] word, ἐλεύθομαι eleuthomai
or
ἔλθω elthō;
which do not otherwise occur); to come
or go (in a great
variety of applications, literally and figuratively): - accompany,
appear, bring, come enter, fall out, go, grow, X light, X next,
pass, resort, be set.
So, the 'Is Come' in Greek is 'erchomai' generally meaning here...
-
Accompany
-
Appear
-
Bring
-
Come
-
Enter
-
Fall Out
-
Go
-
Grow
The life we live, we live in Christ
Jesus and Jesus Christ in us. We don't live on our own but submit to
His will and obey His commandments. Such a life is a life of the
Cross, it is not a life of pleasures of this world as the Prosperity
preachers desire us to believe.
Galatians 2:20
(20) I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
If Christ Jesus lives in us then we
shall follow after His leading and example and not conform to the
standards of this world.
For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday
today and forever…as He walked, so does He still walk, and so will
He walk and even so we ought to walk after His likeness and
character...
Jesus Christ was not parading around
in the best SUV, Corporate Jet, designer clothing, million dollar
houses, fat bank accounts, expensive vacations and cruises...Jesus
Christ lived a simple life, a life that was not attached to the
riches of this world and not a friend to the powerful and the elite.
Jesus Christ reached out to the sinners, sick and the poor of His
day and so must we if Christ Jesus truly dwells in us and if we
truly confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh....
James 4:4-5
(4) Ye adulterers
and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God.
(5) Do ye think
that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us
lusteth to envy?
Prosperity Preachers always speak
about terms like 'increase', 'going to the next level', 'being
fruitful', 'divine favor in the world and business', financial
increase, influence...and many other blasphemous terms...what the
Prosperity teachers are doing is conforming Christian to the world
and submission to man...this is the spirit of the Antichrist that
'Confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh'...
Brothers and Sisters be forewarned
that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God. Those
preachers who seduce you to such philosophies are liars and wolves
in sheepskin seeking only to destroy your faith in Christ Jesus.
Now, many prosperity preachers argue
that they also take care of the poor, orphans and help the sick but
this is just Hypocrisy 101; these greedy preachers simply throw
money in orphanages and pretend to help the poor not because they
love to but because they seek to use the poverty of the poor for
their own gain...
They get more donations when they show
pictures of the poor to their donors...they pretend to preach the
gospel but what they preach is heresy...their care for the poor is
nothing but pure hypocrisy...they are like the IMF and World Bank
“giving” Africans “Grants” which they expect Africans to repay
somehow somewhere sometime in the future back to the world's elite Bankers - IMF and World
Bank.
John 15:4
(4) Abide in me,
and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Hebrews 13:8
(8) Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
1 John 2:6
(6) He that saith
he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
So, we understand
that the “confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”
has to do with our total obedience to Jesus Christ, abiding in Him,
He abiding in us and them we as a must, walking even as Jesus Christ
walked…
We now understand that we must bear
fruit and that fruit is the Life, character and likeness of Jesus
Christ in us…walking just as He walked…acknowledging that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh…He abides in us even to this day,
therefore His character and likeness is not just historical and past
and irrelevant as the world says but is and must be manifest in us
today…
So, we take a moment and ask our
selves, did Jesus Christ live a life of materialism, worldliness,
greed, sin, hate, murder, jealousy, political Christianity?…which
things, sad to say is what many Christians are walking in today
blinded by foolish pastors and so-called apostles (actually
apostates) who are busy committing adultery with the world and
loving the things of the world.
1 John 2:15-18
(15) Love not the
world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in him.
(16)
For all that is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the
world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will
of God abideth for ever.
(18) Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist
shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know
that it is the last time.
The spirit of the Antichrist is that
which causes men to love the world and hate Christ and become
enemies of God. Brothers and Sisters, let us watch and be very
careful, today's prosperity preachers are agents of the Antichrist
regardless of if they know it or not...the gospel of prosperity,
riches and materialism is one that conforms Christians to the
standards of this world while hypocritically using The Name of Jesus
Christ.
Now, you CANNOT love Jesus Christ and
at the same time love the things of the world such as materialism,
posh cars first class air travel, the best cars – SUVs, Gulf Stream
Jets, Million Dollar houses, huge dollar bank accounts, fame, upper
class neighborhoods, the rich, powerful politicians and so forth…all
best the world can give…
The prosperity gospel conforms people
to love the things of this world and as such makes Christians
friends with this world and as such they become enemies of God.
You cannot love such and think that
you are abiding in Christ Jesus…those who think in such a way are
hoodwinked and bewitched by Satan himself…and such is the prosperity
doctrine and purpose driven life of lies and a life outside Jesus
Christ.
Those who live in such lies called
“prosperity gospel” will never be fruitful with The Life of Jesus
Christ in them…they will never ‘Confess, acknowledge, realize,
assent, covenant, that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh’; they will
always say that “Jesus Christ CAME in the flesh”…such is the spirit
of the Antichrist…the spirit of the world and love for the things of
the world…the spirit that rejects continual submission to the
Lordship, Character, and Likeness of Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:15-19
(15) Love not the
world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in him.
(16)
For all that is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the
world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will
of God abideth for ever.
(18) Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist
shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know
that it is the last time.
(19)
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been
of us, they would no doubt
have continued with us: but
they went out,
that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
The Antichrist spirit is very much
connected to the love of the world and things of the world...
Those who love the world and the
things of the world have no love of the Father in them… These are
they that refuse to ‘confess, acknowledge, and assent that Jesus
Christ IS COME in the flesh’; they refuse the Lordship and Life of
Christ Jesus in their personal lives…
Such is the Prosperity
Movement…this
Movement is one that promises Christians riches here on earth and
the best of the world here in this dying world that is certainly
passing away. The prosperity movement is one that subtly
indoctrinates its believers to love the world and the things of the
world and in the process, they do away with the Love of The Father
and ‘Confess Not that Jesus Christ IS COME in the flesh’…this is a
movement of rebellion and as such it is an Antichrist Movement.
Sad to note is the fact that many
churches here in Africa are being swept by this diabolical movement
called the prosperity and purpose driven movement… TBN TV is the
greatest dispenser of this World Love prosperity and purpose driven
venom from the Antichrist.
I sometimes wonder why these TBN guys
don’t stop their broadcasts here in Africa…we don’t need such venom,
we are tired of it and please TBN keep your Antichrist programming
to yourself. We shall have our bibles, those will be enough for us.
We are tired of such lies like
“Enjoying Everyday Life” with Joyce Meyer, not forgetting Benn
Hinn’s Jet purchase campaigns…
Benn Hinn says that we should give him
money so he can buy a new plane and that we so send him to preach
the gospel around the world…we are tired of such lies, we don’t see
Jesus Christ in such, we don’t see, His character and likeness in
such preachers but greed, materialism, covetousness, merchandising and selling
of all those small idols Benn Hinn loves to call gifts for the price
of donations from his viewers, and sure enough this is an Antichrist
spirit!
Sad and so sad is the fact that the
‘emperor walks naked’ and does not even realize it…the TBN promotion
of such filth around the world is such and simply a walking naked
emperor here on Africa’s airwaves.
Revelation 3:17-18
(17) Because thou
sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked:
(18) I counsel
thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
What amazes me is the fact that
despite heavy criticism against the prosperity movement and its
preachers, many of them still continue to stubbornly preach this
Antichrist Gospel of riches, fame, ‘getting to the next level’
“being fruitful” which is nothing other than love for the world.
Brethren, truly this is the
last hour just as The Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles warned us
2000 years ago about the great deception that would happen prior to
The Lord's Second coming.
The storms of deception
are blowing
left and right and against the people of God, those who call
themselves after the name of The Lord.
Deception is so rampant that Pastors
of churches and Christians are giving themselves over to the overt
love for the things of the world.
The deception is packaged to seduce
Christians in accepting a “good” life in the world. They are
promised the 'best in the world' if they 'saw' seeds of faith... The
talk in Christendom these days is about being “fruitful” and getting
to the “next level” but the fruitfulness spoken about by these
imposters who pretend to be pastors is all about getting more
influence, materialism, riches and money in the world.
The “next level” that these false
apostles speak about is all about “getting to the next level” in the
social ladders of the affluent societies...this is the gospel of
elitism and it only leads towards destruction.
Sad it is to say that the greatest
proponents today are the Western Preachers and Pastors, almost 99
per cent of TBN TV is about the promotion for love of the world and
the things of the world.
We in Africa are daily being bombarded
by the false teachings on TBN about a “good life”, “being fruitful”,
and “ getting to the next level” by mainly American preachers and
America-nized preachers...
When one turns on Christian TV, all
you see and hear is a gospel that speaks not about the cross of
Jesus Christ but about “making it in life”, all we hear constantly
is the heresy and error by such speakers as Joyce Meyer, and not to
mention Kenneth Copeland and his “Faith” programs...all these guys
do is speak about being conformed to the world...
Brethren, those who want blunt
discernment concerning TBN TV, here is it...this is a TV that
promotes a false gospel, another gospel, a gospel of the Antichrist,
a gospel that conforms believers to love the world and to get
justification from man. Yes, regardless of how many innocent and
sincere preachers are on this TV, they have been blinded by the god
of this world and to seduce and deceive believers in loving the
world while hypocritically singing the Name of Jesus Christ.
These are the
last days and the Antichrist does not come dressed in Halloween
attire, the Antichrist comes
dressed in business
attire - in a corporate suit
and a briefcase full
of 100
US Dollars bill notes,
credit
and debit cards,
with a brand new SUV,
flies in a personal corporate Gulf Stream jet, being welcomed on pulpits every Sunday, and
having his programs aired across the world on "Christian TV", while promising millions
peace, prosperity, and a good life here on earth...
It is no wonder that his
(antichrist) gospel
connects well with the elite political establishment; they are all
seeking peace and prosperity...and the establishment know that what
some “Christians” need today is just money and 'making it in life',
the very thing the Antichrist is willing to offer in his peace and
prosperity initiatives...
1 Timothy 6:3-10
(3) If any man
teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even
the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
according to godliness;
(4) He is proud,
knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
(5) Perverse
disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
(6) But godliness
with contentment is great gain.
(7)
For we brought nothing into
this
world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out.
(8) And having
food and raiment let us be therewith content.
(9)
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and
into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
perdition.
(10) For the love
of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after,
they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.
For the love of money is the source of
all evil...don't be deceived, you cannot serve Jesus Christ and at
the same time serve money...the prosperity preachers are liars and
deceivers who desire us to believe that we can love Jesus Christ and
money at the same time...those who heed these wolves who love to
call themselves prosperity teachers and 'enjoying everyday life' preachers
are doomed for destruction...brethren, repent!
Brethren, come out from such, be
separate and The Lord will receive you...Amen
Revelation 18:4
(4) And I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
(14) Be ye not
unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light
with darkness?
(15) And what
concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel?
(16) And what
agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple
of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17)
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you,
(18) And will be
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the
Lord Almighty.
In Christ Jesus
Kato Mivule
Uganda, Africa
<kmivule7@yahoo.com>
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