Just recently we have seen a political figure being worshiped just the way the antichrist will be accepted. The final antichrist will "say" He is god and the world will fall in line to follow him. We see how it can happen, ignoring all the clues until it is too late and they are sealed for hell with the exception of a remnant who God will protect.
All an antichrist has to do today is "say" what the world wants to hear and the "saying" alone is enough for most people. Even a little doing helps solidify the allegiance to this personage's false persona and the followers will ignore all the clues they know are there using excuses of all kinds to follow this person.
We live in a fantasy world of make-believe, through television and movies we have been trained to think something is true merely by the "saying." People do not look for clues or truth, only that someone says what they want to hear.
Words are of little value, it is in the lifestyle and commitment that proves the words. If the words are all that is there with a little bone thrown in to fool the people then we have seen an antichrist at work.
I grieve every time I see a Christian becoming overpowered with love for a personage who clearly has monstrous clues of his level of evil, but the people will not see it.
They have concocted a persona in their mind about this person that they choose to believe and will not listen to all the clues about them. Those who lack discernment will be the kind of people who follow the antichrist. They may even say they would never do that but have already demonstrated by their favorite actor or political leader that they would in fact do exactly what they say they would not.
How we respond already is a clue of what we will do in the future. If we are discerning and critical about everything then we will not be fooled. It is those who refuse to be critical thinkers who will see the truth about anyone. Those who are not critical thinkers will have idols they follow no matter what the clues that prove their idol to be wicked.
Psalm 118:8
"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man."
Jeremiah 17:5
"Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord."
This is an important verse in Jeremiah, God clearly tells us not to trust in any man. This means that when a man, no matter how much we like them, says something we are to evaluate it in terms of the Bible. In other words, God is more important than any man.
When a man is so important to us that we cannot think critically that man becomes an idol. Those who have idols must repent from this, coming back to Christ alone.
2 Timothy 3:13-17
"While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work."
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