New Testament: 1Jo 2.22–23

To read the Bible in a year, read First John 2 on December 3, In the year of our Lord Christ 2025

By Don Ruhl 

We hear a lot of talk among various preachers and churches on the Antichrist, but how much of it comes from the actual passages where antichrist is mentioned? 

I find that the Premillennialists in particular never refer to the passages where the Bible references antichrist. Here is one of those ignored passages: “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John 2.22–23). 

The Father and the Son are so closely tied to one another that to acknowledge one, you acknowledge the other one. Therefore, he who denies one also denies the other. 

Denying Christ is to be antichrist. 

Questions: 

• What do you believe about Jesus? 
• Do you know someone who denies that Jesus is the Christ? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com