Hello, this is Pastor Stephen Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
Today I want to talk about 1 John 2-22, and I want to show you from the Bible that
the Jews are anti-Christs. Now, I'm not talking about the ethnicity or the nationality
of being Jewish. When the Bible talks about being a Jew, it's a religious term. In Esther 817,
it says that many of the people became Jews because the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
So you can't become a different ethnicity. So when we say the word Jew, we're talking about
those who practice Judaism or believe in Judaism, which is a false religion. Listen to 1 John 2-22,
who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ, he is anti-Christ that denieth the
Father and the Son. So according to this scripture, anyone who says that Jesus is not
the Christ is anti-Christ. Now, in order to say that Jesus is not the Christ, you have
to believe that there is a Christ and that it's not Jesus. See, someone who just doesn't
believe in religion, someone who's just an atheist or an agnostic, they're not going around
saying that Jesus is not the Christ because they don't even believe in a Messiah. Christ
means Messiah. The Bible tells us that Christ being interpreted is Messiah. So a lot of
people in this world don't even believe in a Messiah because they're just not religious.
So in order to deny that Jesus is the Christ, you have to believe that there is someone who
is the Christ and that it's not Jesus. What religion today teaches that there's a Messiah,
but that it's not Jesus? You know, they're looking for some other Messiah than Jesus.
Well, that's Judaism. And the Bible says, who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus
is the Christ, he is anti-Christ that denieth the Father and the Son. And of course,
the Jews today deny the Father and the Son. They don't teach that Jesus is the Son of
God. They deny the Son of God. Listen to the next verse. It says, whosoever denieth the Son,
the same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
So 1 John 2, 22 and 23 clearly prove that the Jews are anti-Christs.