Anointing Over Antichrist

Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought! I John 4:2-3 (The Message, MSG)

The spirit of antichrist has been and is currently very active in the world today. Many people hear the term antichrist and think of the Antichrist who will come to power during the seven year tribulation period. The Antichrist who is coming will operate in the antichrist spirit, which is already present on earth. To describe the spirit of antichrist in the simplest terms, we can say that the spirit of antichrist is the spirit responsible for the denial and outright war against Jesus Christ. Any person who opposes the Lordship of Jesus Christ is operating in the antichrist spirit. Think of the word antichrist. Anti means against, and Christ means Anointed One and His anointing. Therfore, this spirit is against the Anointed One and His anointing.

When we look at certain politicians in places of power or celebrities in places of influence who mock and ridicule the things of God and put down anyone who follows Christ, we are seeing the spirit of antichrist in operation. When we see groups seeking to remove God from the public arena, it is the spirit of antichrist at work. When people become easily offended by those who speak the Biblical truth because they know their own lifestyles are in opposition to the Bible, that is the spirit of antichrist. Movements that look to remove the rights of those who live their faith are powered by the spirit of antichrist. Any person or group of people seeking to stop, hinder, or destroy the works and message of Christ is operating in the spirit of antichrist.

This spirit has been in the earth for centuries, coming against even the earliest disciples and apostles. Just read the book of Acts, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Today it runs rampant in the halls of government, in the media, in the entertainment world, in the workplace, in our school systems, etc. But I have some very good news for you.

You, my children, who belong to God have already defeated this spirit, because the one who lives in you is far stronger than the anti-Christ in the world. The agents of the anti-christ are children of the world, they speak the world’s language and the world, of course, pays attention to what they say. We are God’s children and only the man who knows God hears our message; what we say means nothing to the man who is not himself a child of God. This gives us a ready means of distinguishing the true from the false. I John 4:4-6 (J.B. Phillips New Testament, PHILLIPS) emphasis mine

Our God is bigger than the spirit of antichrist, and try though he may, the devil will never overcome the people of God. I am excited to declare that the Spirit of the Greater One, the Holy Spirit of power, has been pouring out His power on the people of the Earth in a mighty way. We have entered into the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that the world has ever known. Now is the time of the Great Awakening. People everywhere who have been living under the spirit of antichrist are receiving God’s wake-up call. This is the most exciting time in all of history to be alive. The Spirit of the Living God is flooding the earth with God’s glory, ushering billions into a relationship with Jesus, and then we will all be caught away to be with the Lord forever.

So, don’t let the spirit of antichrist scare you. His lying, destructive days are short. He’s already been defeated by the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Just watch and see how the Lord trumps the antichrist spirit at every turn, and then whisks all His children away to glory!