LET THE PERSON WITHOUT SIN THROW THE FIRST STONE

By Bro. Manny OTFS Chief Apologist

Blessed Mother of God Pray for us

We'd like to share this story related to our topic today. One day Jesus was walking along the road when He chanced upon a gathering of a big crowd of people in the plaza surrounding a lady of ill repute, a prostitute. It was obvious that some of the crowd was preparing to stone her because in the law of Moses, the penalty for such is death by stoning. When the lady saw Jesus she tried to run to her "Help me" she said, but some of the crowd got caught of her and she was pushed to the ground. The men around her each got a stone and was ready to stone but Jesus came near to the lady looked at her and then with a loud booming voice made His now-famous statement while pointing at her, "Let the person who has no sin cast the first stone." 

The crowd made of Jews were frozen they recognized Jesus. They stood still and there was silence not a pin drop could be heard then one by one they began to turn and walk away because not one among them was without a sin. As the crowd dispersed, the dramatic event was about to reach its end but there was this lovely little woman with radiant beauty emerged as the crowd dispersed and getting to the front, she looked at Jesus and then "tossed a small stone towards the woman." Jesus looked at her and got red in the face as he says, "I hate it when you do that, Mama".

Now do you guess who was that woman in our story without a sin? Yes you are right it was his mother, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY who was always obedient to God and since she happened to be in the crowd she had to follow what the Lord said, "Let the person who has no sin cast the first stone" and she did by tossing a small stibe because "she has no sin."

I am sure if you are a protestant reading this your immediate reaction would be,"That is not in the bible!", well that is your favorite reaction and always your only defense. So what else is new? But you know you are right its not, you cant find it in the bible because the story that I just shared to you is a satire of the familiar bible story, "Let the person without sin cast the first stone". Yet I am stressing here a truth, the reality in fact if we really believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God you must must also accept the fact that his MAMA MARY is without sin. But how can that be when  St. Paul said in Romans 3:23, 'For ALL HAVE SINNED and fall short of the glory of God"? Ah that my friend is a favorite among the favorite passages in the bible of the Protestants. Tell you what? St. Paul is right but you are wrong. If you believe in the preachers and pastors  of the Protestants and Evangelicals, you are gravely mistaken in believing the lies of the enemies of the truth. I cant blame you though because you have not yet learned the MARKS OF THE ANTICHRIST because if you do, you will be freed of their lies.

ALL HAVE SINNED, THE QUESTION IS, ALL WHO?

Now let us paused and ponder the words and ask ALL WHO? Who was being referred to by St. Paul when he said those words? Was it All Men, All Women, All the People in the World, All what? See the problem when you take one sentence in the scripture and use it as reference to a spurious and foolish claim that the Blessed Mother is a sinner like all of us?

So come on let us settle this now and find out who is ALL HAVE SINNED referred to by Paul. Let me ask you, have you read all of Romans Chapter 3 from verses 1 to 31? My guess is you have not because if you do, you will be surprised that Paul did not mean ALL MEN he only said ALL HAVE SINNED because he was referring to boastful group of Jews, the converted Christian Jews who put themselves above the other Christians of other nationalities the so called Gentiles. Paul was addressing specific disputes from among the Jews and Gentiles. The Jewish Christians were also known then as the Judaizers for they continued to adhere to the Old Covenant and the Laws of Moses and practices. They insisted that the Gentiles who converted to Christianity must follow the same. The central theme of the Letters to the Romans revolve on the Faith and the Laws of Moses. Its like Paul saying to them ALL OF YOU JEWS AND GREEKS ALIKE. ALL OF US HERE HAVE SINNED. But it is not "all" as in "all men" but only those he was addressing to otherwise Paul would have turned to heresy but he did not he was preaching a truth that all the Jews and Greeks who are arguing over the Laws of the Moses. No one can boast and no one among them is above the others. What am I saying? The Protestants and Evangelicals have taken out of context the teaching of St. Paul to the Romans. It happens when you make conclusion ahead of the facts. It is therefore a kind of teaching that is self-serving to justify their man-made doctrines.

You see Paul would not have meant ALL MEN HAVE SINNED because it's going to result to a big question mark in our faith. Jesus Christ, the Son of God became true human being. He is God who came into the world in the flesh with body and blood and born of a woman. He is as real as a man can be and lived as ordinary man. He was as anybody else except that he has no human father because his Father is God. From the womb of Mary he was formed and born. As a baby he was helpless in the arms of his mother who cared for him, fed him from her holy breast of the milk that came from her. All of Jesus humanity came from one source, the Blessed Mother. He grew up under her loving care as his mother. What am I saying? Jesus is a true man born of a woman and if ALL MEN HAVE SINNED and Jesus is a true man, therefore he is a sinner as well? That is if we follow and believe the logic of the Protestants and Evangelicals pastors and their followers because they are using the same logic to Mary, ALL MEN HAVE SINNED and Mary is a woman therefore Mary is a sinner. It is as fallacious as it can get. IT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE. To say Mary is a sinner just like us puts her under the power of the devil. That is like calling God a liar, a blasphemy in the highest order.

How can God who is the source of all graces enter the womb of a woman to become man in the flesh with body and blood coming from her who is a sinner? Are you out of your mind to even think that such can happen? Do you really believe that God came into the world to save the world from sin and he could not even save the woman who is to be his mother from that original sin which naturally corrupts the mind and body of the person bearing it? No way that could happen!

Didn't God say to Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations". PONDER on this words of God and open your eyes. GOD has already saved those he has chosen to do his work of salvation long before Jesus was crucified on the cross. In this scripture, God is directly addressing Jeremiah. So God knows man before we are even conceived! In the case of Jeremiah, he was already chosen and consecrated even while he was in the womb of his mother. And what is consecrated? It means being made holy. Jeremiah was made holy by God at his conception. How can one be sacred if he is still with that original sin? See? God can preserve those he has chosen for his divine purpose, free from that original sin. For how can one be sacred, consecrated if one is still in sin? 

What makes Jeremiah a wonder is that like the Blessed Virgin Mary there is very little knowledge in the scripture who are his parents. His father is known to be Hilkiah, a priest and one who discovered the books or the Torah but as for his mother, the bible is silent. The mother of Jeremiah considered one of the two greatest prophets is not known in the bible the same as the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary except for the apocrypha books, the protoevangelium of James, little is known about her parents. Those who were born to be holy instruments of God for his plans are apparently hidden and protected so that the plans of God will not be known until they are revealed.

Now let us follow a good logic, If God can make his chosen prophet like Jeremiah from the womb sacred and therefore freed from original sin, cleansed and made holy for his divine purpose, how much more of the Blessed Mother whom he has chosen to be his Mother? God chosen Mary to be his mother. God wills it to have a mother to save us. Its true some men and women have been called full of Grace the difference is in their cases they were given graces by God. With the Blessed Mother, she was filled by the GRACE HIMSELF, the very sources of graces, the giver of graces, God himself. She carried God in her body for 9 full months. She carried the fullness of the Son of God in her body and clothed him with a human body coming from her. How can she be a sinner like us? Can God be tainted by sin? NO WAY! NOT A CHANCE EVEN IF ETERNITY DISSOLVES.

THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS

But wait you may ask, Jesus is both divine and human at the same time? Of course he is. By becoming a true man, the Son of Man, he has not lost his divinity, as Son of God, not at any point in time. One can not separate the humanity of Jesus and his divinity he is just one, both God and Man. 

Remember the Transfiguration of Jesus? O you have forgotten it, it is in the bible. You see Jesus took Peter and James and John to a high mountain apart from the rest there he was transfigured before their eyes. His face shone like sun and his garment became as white as snow. The dazzling brightness emanated from his whole body produced by an interior shining of his divinity. With him were two great prophets of God who were themselves looked glorious beings, and the Apostles recognized them to be, Moses and Elias. They represent the Law and the Prophets witnessing to his divinity and adoring him. The 3 Apostles were shown a foretaste of the glory of heavenly delights. Then Jesus returned to his human state. The Transfiguration witnessed by Apostles strengthened them and prepared them for the terrible struggle that they will have to undergo and experience later.

And this proves my point, Jesus never lost his divinity, his being God for a moment not even when he was in the womb of the Blessed Mother!

You know my friends let me tell you a secret many Protestants and Evangelicals don't want to admit. Their founder, the former priest of the Catholic Church, Martin Luther, looked upon by the Protestants to be their founder and their father was a devotee of the Blessed Mother. And you know what he believes she is freed of sin from the moment of her conception. She is Immaculate. REALLY? Yes really. Here is an excerpt from his writings:

I have come upon a verified Martin Luther writing or a copy of his sermon, it is titled "Sermon: On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God" in 1527. Luther calls her and addressed her the Mother of God. Wow! The Protestant founder calling Mama Mary for what she truly is the Mother of God? But let us first focus on the issue of the Protestants that this article addresses, that of accusing Mary of being a sinner like us. On the contrary this is what Luther said in his sermon:

"It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin"

In another writing this time from his Little Prayer Book dated 1522, Luther wrote of Mary "She is full of Grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin - something exceedingly great. For God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of evil."

So there you have it. I have not witnessed my belief based on my Catholic Faith but based on the faith of the founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther, his own beliefs that the Blessed Mother whom he also called the Mother of God is Immaculate from the time of her conception. She was freed from sin devoid of evil because she was preserved by God. She is not only filled by God's graces she is filled with all the fullness of the 2nd person of the Godhead. Who is like her then? No one.

And so my friends, you must admit your mistake of accusing the Blessed Mother of being a sinner because she is not. Don't be obstinate in your error for that will not help you understand the mystery of who the Blessed Mother really is. Let me remind of what Jesus said in Mark 12;24 "Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God? Which means just because you read the scripture you understand it fully well. Understanding is a gift of the Holy Spirit without it we will not fully comprehend the mysteries in the scripture as Isaiah says "You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving". Why is it so? because you have hardened your heart in your false beliefs. You are clinging to myths and false teachings of those coming from the inside but have gone out of the Catholic Church.

How will you know the mysteries of the Blessed Mother in the fight against the Evil One if you have closed your heart and mind to the truth? Wake up and sober up.

We have an ebook coming out soon available in PDF format or in CD with a title WHO IS MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD? It will help you understand the Blessed Mother and what is she really in the Catholic Church. Its a mystery that we have uncovered and a truth that has always been there but has been taken for granted by many. But you must pray for understanding to the Holy Spirit. Ask him that you be given the gift for the Lord said "Ask and it will be given you; seek and you will find."

God bless you.

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BEATIFIC VISION, YES HEAVEN IS REAL

By Bro. Manny OTFS Chief Apologist

WHO CAN SMILE LIKE THIS AT THE HOUR OF DEATH?

In Christian theology, the beatific vision (Latin: Visio beatific) is the ultimate direct self-communication of God to the individual person. A person possessing the beatific vision reaches, as a member of redeemed humanity in the communion of saints, perfect salvation in its entirety, i.e. heaven.

Who could smile such a beautiful smile while suffering from a very painful disease of cancer of the lungs which is agonizing and painful? I have known a friend who died of the illness and he was shouting even while having given heavy doses of pain killers. Not only that your breathing is impeded but your entire body suffers in excruciating pain but Sister Cecilia a Carmelite nun from Carmel of Sta Fe in Argentina is shown here with that beautiful smile even while she was already at the throes of death. 

Her smile is contagious that one can feel the outpouring of happiness she was feeling at that moment of death. She must have been met by "someone" so heavenly that left a smile on her face so sweet and so tender. According to our Catholic Faith, some have been given the gift of that beatific vision their soul will experience in the afterlife. Here she may have seen it and she looks ecstatic while she is in agony as she lay dying. 

I never in my life saw someone dying with so sweet a smile as if she is seeing and greeting someone while she is about to lapse to her death. Her smile is radiant and one can feel the happiness, the heavenly joy she was experiencing. It's a gift to have such a blessed death. Indeed death has no power over those who die with Christ.

While death is horrifying even to some of the most saintly individuals, but God is so good that he allowed us to see someone dying with that beatific vision, dying in the arms of God. Her radiating smile and happy face give us a glimpse of heaven that awaits those that persevere in the love of God till the end.

We wrote about the reality of Hell and if hell is real, then there is Heaven on the other side. Heaven exists and for those with faith, it is the only thing that matter in our life, to be in heaven after our journey on earth. We are on a journey and this will one day end at the time and season determined for us by God. When our time is up, its up and there is nothing we can do about it. There is time for everything under heaven, a time to be born and a time to die. A time to laugh and a time to cry. A time when we complete our journey and say goodbye to the world hello to eternity. We will all go the way of our ancestors passing through death to either the 2nd death which is hell or the life everlasting which awaits us in heaven together with those that will be saved.

No one is excused from suffering. No one. We all have our crosses if we follow Jesus. He never promised heaven while we lived here on earth, he promised heaven after our death if we walk the talk and do what he taught us and that is to do the will of the Father. In fact, Jesus said in John 16:33 "I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world, you will have trouble. But Take courage; I have overcome the world."So if you are having problems now remember it will pass and it will have solutions. No problem is big enough that was not solved over time. We just have to persevere and hang on to our faith never giving up even when there seems to be no way. 

By Bro. Manny, OTFS Apologist

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HOW TO BE CATHOLIC AND BE HAPPY

By Bro. Manny OTFS Chief Apologist

PHOTO CREDIT TO ST. PAUL STREET EVANGELIZATION,  CATHOLIC IN ACTION

Yes you can be a happy Catholic and live life to the fullest and why not? Many Catholic are happy in their lives minus the complication of living a life outside of the one true faith. Many of us today live through the difficulties worrying about our physical safety and it is but just right because everyone wants to live much longer and today there are so many dangers posed by criminals and violent people with unsound minds. Yet we forget that the most important thing in life is the safety of our souls. Yes the SAFETY OF OUR SOULS. Lest you forget we are living a temporary life on earth and as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, you and I will all die one day whether we like it or not. No one lived forever in this world but we will live through eternity in the afterlife.

While living we have many chances to change our ways and make it right in the eyes of God but in the afterlife no more. As the bible reminds us we only have one life and after that comes judgment. Even saints tremble when they see that their time is up. We know they trembled because many stories chronicling the lives of the saints have attested to it. Even in the writings of the saints before they died they trembled of Holy fear in facing the Lord God almighty as they see the judgment of God waiting. Even if they have lived righteous lives in their absolute humility of submitting to the will of God they still tremble of what his judgment will be. The cause of the tremble of saints is knowing fully well that no one is saved until the judgment is rendered. Waiting to hear the judgment while in the presence of God must be so terrifying moment for the soul because in the presence of the Lord nothing is hidden even the secrets kept by a man while still living will be known. It is so to speak the moment of truth.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Such is a holy fear for it will lead us to our deeper understanding of what and who God is, the Almighty. Deeper understanding calls for knowing who God is and what are his commandments. Its a kind of fear that a child has for his earthly father. A fear that shows respect and love. A fear of losing him and his love. Its a fear born out of love of the child for the Father. We want to be with him always and who would not want to be with a loving father. He gives us the strength and the courage to face the world. He chastises us to correct us. He disciplines us because he wants only what is best for us because the father knows what is dangerous for us and he does not want us to be hurt by sinfulness and be separated from him to eternity.

What is worrying however is that many preachers today would talk of love of the Father not as someone that will chastise or someone that will discipline us but someone that will SPOIL US HIS CHILDREN. What can we say? Why do they preach such lies? Because they are false teachers and all they want is to get us to their false religions to fatten their purse and wallet. So what do they do they preach what you want to hear from them not what the truth is. They compromise the true teachings of the Lord and inject their own malicious interpretations to suit their own agenda. They want their churches, their religion to be attractive so people who are weary of the difficulties will be attracted to them. For it is written in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 it says "For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine but with itching ears they gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." ISN'T THIS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?"

We hear people say, when I was a Catholic I used to gamble, to womanize, to do all the sins that I can do but now when I met Jesus and make him my personal savior, I become a changed man. I don't do those things anymore. I have been saved. "Praise the Lord" says the congregation of Evangelicals, Born Again, and all other Protestant denominations. OH REALLY? Come to think of it was it the Catholic Church that one become sinful in his ways or the person committing them? Of course its the person whether he is a Protestant, Catholic or any other church he belongs to, its the free choice of the individual not the Catholic Church. Worst is that Catholics who came out and separated from the Church used their own wicked ways to get out of the Church and what will follow will amaze you. Those who have made the witnessing, those who are very vocal about their so called conversions to be with Christ as their personal savior will form their own churches. They become another Protestant denomination preaching their own brand of Christianity. Another one of those that will bring people to their kind of heresy.

YOU CAN CHANGED YOUR WAYS WHILE STAYING CATHOLIC

Yes you can! And you can be a happy Catholic. Now how can you be a Catholic and Be happy?

1. You must know that Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church are one. Jesus is the head and the Church is his body. You are therefore in the body of Jesus how personal can that be? Jesus and the Church are one? You may ask and how can this be? Did Jesus say he is the church? Yes he said so in Acts 9:1-6 shows how St. Paul who was called Saul was converted to the faith by the Lord himself:

"Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out threats of murder against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest to ask for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

As Saul drew near to Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?” “Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Saul was actively participating in the persecution of the church. He was one of those responsible even in the death of St. Stephen as he watched approvingly of the Jews stoning him to death. The Church was first known in Jerusalem then as The Way since it was still newly established as a religious community that observed and practiced the teachings of the Lord led by Peter and the other Apostles. So then on the road to Damascus he was after the members of the "church" to bring them as prisoners back to Jerusalem where possible death awaits them. But the Lord intevened and told Saul that HE IS THE ONE BEING PERSECUTED! Saul was after the church but Jesus said, he is the one being persecuted. That proves that Jesus and the Church are one. You go against the church, you go against Jesus. You attack the church, you attack Jesus. You reject the church, you reject Jesus! You love the church, you love Jesus. You follow the church teachings, you follow Jesus. They are one. The question is what church Jesus refers to, is the thousand of Protestant churches or the one true Church, the Catholic Church of Christian? This article is not to proved that because its already proven in our other arcitles please refer to The Catholic Church in this blog.

Now being in the Catholic Church, the Lord's Church means you are with him as your personal savior if you may call it. And if you are with Jesus you are saved.

2. Being in the Catholic Church means following the will of the Father. Living the life to perfection because you have access to the instruments provided by the Lord God for you. Be you perfect as your Father in heaven says the Lord. But we know that it is not possible for a man to perfect by himself without the Lord. That is when Jesus said it, he was actually leading men to his church because it is in the church alone that we can be perfected. And what is that, THE SACRAMENTS! THERE IN THE SACRAMENTS A CATHOLIC CAN FIND JOY AND HAPPINESS IF YOU KNOW WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.

For this article we will limit our discussion to the generalities of the Sacraments instituted by Jesus himself and are taught in the Bible and the Holy Traditions of the Church. In a nutshell there are 7 Sacraments to fill you up with joy and happiness:

• Baptism.
• Eucharist.
• Confirmation.
• Reconciliation.
• Anointing of the sick.
• Marriage.
• Holy orders

Being Catholic there are Sacraments that you are already endowed upon like your Baptism and Confirmation as well your status in life as a Married person or someone in the Holy Orders like Priests or Nuns. But there are Sacraments that we all have to go through regularly as a Catholic and they are taken for granted by many. The life of the Catholic in the church did not stop at being Baptized and Confirmed or Being Married the life of a Catholic continuously revolved around the Sacraments of the Eucharist, Reconciliation and the Anointing of the Sick or the Extreme Unction for they will complete our salvation. They are what perfects the man in the eyes of God through the merits of Jesus Christ. They are what separates the true church from the false religions. 

Any Christian who wants a truly personal relationship with the Lord can find it in the Holy Eucharist for in that Eucharist we meet Christ - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. And Being one of the Godhead, we in fact meet the Most Holy Trinity. It is eternal life. And how are we to receive him in the Eucharist, we must free ourselves of sins for receiving him in the Eucharist while we are in a state of sinfulness or being obstinate in sin which will bring judgment to us for we receive him unworthily. To make us whole and allow us to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, there is the Sacrament of Reconciliation where we receive complete absolution of our sins. You want a personal relationship? Isn't that very personal that when you confess your sins, you hear the voice of Jesus represented by his Priest saying to you I absolve you (forgive you) of your sins?

See that God knows everything, he knows that even if you have already received forgiveness of your past sins you will most likely sin again and again. That is why when Peter ask him how many time must we forgive the brother who have sinned, 7 times? Jesus answered him 70 times 7 times. That is like saying ALWAYS FORGIVE. Forgiveness is without limit for those who sincerely are in a state of repentance even if they sin again and again. Man is weak even those whom the Lord God have spoken to directly would forget and commit sin. Thus only through the merits of Jesus Christ that we are made perfect.

And when everything else fail that your time is up, your time to meet up with the Lord to hear his judgment, we have been given one more Sacrament to save us the Sacrament of the Annointing of the sick which James said, will forgive us of our sins if not even heal us physically.

NOTE: You may refer to the pages on Sacraments which will be made available to you for better appreciation of them as God's instruments of perfection for the Catholics. Yes they are exclusive only to the one true church of Jesus Christ where the the One True Faith can be found.

By Bro. Manny, OTFS Chief Apologist

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THE MARKS OF THE ANTICHRIST

By Bro. Manny, OTFS Chief Apologist

ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE REVEALED UNTIL THE RESTRAINER IS REMOVED

The Apostles have warned us that the antichrists during their time was already at work. The work was evidently to destroy the Church because they the antichrists surfaced when the churches were already being built up in cities, towns and many places in the old world from 33 AD down to the early 100 AD. But they did not only surface, the even multiplied and continue to this day. There is no let up, the devil clearly has no intention of giving up while there is time for him to bring as many souls to hell. They are those who believed and followed the antichrists false doctrines.

St. John testified in his letter that the antichrists were already at work even in the early building of the church as it is written 1 John 2:18-19 "Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us."

1. It is the last hour
2. We heard that antichrist is coming (singular)
3. Even now many antichrists have arisen (plural)

There are three things in the First Letter of John that we must take note, that an antichrist will come before the end of time, thus St. John mentioned that it is the last hour because he has seen that in fact antichrists have risen. When the end comes no one knows says the Lord, not even the Son nor the Angels but only the Father. However Jesus has taught the Apostles to observe the signs. This only proves that Jesus is correct, no one knows and thus in his First Letter, St. John has rightly observed that there already antichrists in the time he wrote the Letter who were teaching and preaching false doctrines about Jesus Christ. And so he equate this to be the Last Hour which is in fact not yet. There are many antichrists that will come for Jesus has correctly prophesied on them in Matthew 24:5 saying, "for many will come in my name claiming 'I am the Christ' and they will deceive many." So there will be many antichrists even then and much more today. This is a fact that there are false preachers and false prophets who deceived many out of the one true faith.

The many antichrists will come first then when the Last hour comes, the Man of Lawlessness the Destroyer Antichrist which is from the seed of the Devil will be known, he is the ultimate Antichrist, the leader of all antichrists the ultimate one. He is not known yet because he's been restrained. As heresies after heresies multiplied caused by the false teachings of the false preachers and false prophets they go deeper into the church which then let to the great apostasy not of the church itself as we will know later but of the great numbers of the elect that is why it is called the great apostasy. The great apostasy must come first for the ANTICHRIST to be revealed in time known only to God.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-15 has taught us about how the The Man of Lawlessness, the ANTICHRIST will be revealed before the end time "Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter presuming to be from us and alleging that the day of the Lord has already come. Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness (the son of destruction) is revealed. He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

"Do you not remember that I told you these things while I was still with you? And you know what is now restraining him, so that he will be revealed at the proper time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and abolish by the majesty of His arrival." Here in this passage, St. Paul gave a hint that he gave the Thesssalonians what he told them about what is restraining the ANTICHRIST. He reminded them that they taught him what was restraining the ANTICHRIST from coming out into the world at the time he wrote the letter and that he will come out and be known at the PROPER TIME.

"The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, in order that judgment will come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness." Here in this passage, its clear that there are those who will not stay in the truth but would rather believe in the lie so that by refusing to love the truth they will be judged by their disbelief. There are indeed many today that have become blinded and deaf no longer able to love the truth because they want the truth to be what they want it to be.

Now listen to this all of you who believed in the lies and what does it say, STAND FIRM AND CLING TO THE TRADITIONS WE TAUGHT YOU, WHETHER BY SPEECH OR BY LETTER.

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth. To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

We know that there are many antichrists that already came out but we can hardly identify them because they are too many however OTFS HAVE IDENTIFIED THEIR MARKS AND WE KNOW THEM BECAUSE OF THE MARKS. You too can learn of the identifying marks to free you from deception.

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