The Antichrist Hatred of Holiness Parents and Grandparents

The Holy Spirit arrested me with one of the most alarming prophecies of the Antichrist spirit. The Bible warned ChristÂ’s church that one of the signs of the end and the rise of the Antichrist would be hatred for parents and grandparents because of their Bible convictions. Any saints of God that have classical convictions, convictions that separate them from the Hollywood myths of beauty and flashy flesh, are utterly rejected by the spirit of Antichrist. Any modern "christian" that has come under the influence of the Charismatics, new Evangelicals, or Catholics are mostly under this spirit of Antichrist that has invaded the church world. Anything goes. Any limits on lifestyle choices, any rigid standard, Bible or not, is unacceptable in all of these churches. They believe that Bible believing fundamentalists are kin to the Taliban and must be opposed at all cost.

Gospel preachers who refuse to modernize their message or their standards of holiness living are treated as the most dangerous preachers on earth by this spirit of Antichrist. Every Charismatic, new Evangelical, Catholic writer, radio or television personalities, are constantly taking digs at the Bible believing fundamental preachers. It is all right to do religious business with the Muslims, Hindus, Indian medicine men, or Aborigines of many different cultures, but the rigid "Sola Scriptura" crowd is as dangerous as the devil. Actually, they have replaced the devil with Bible believing Christians. ThatÂ’s the very soul of the Antichrist spirit. It is the replacement of the idea of a devil and evil spirits with the uncompromising Bible believers who live by strict standards of the Bible and believe the Rapture is about to happen, followed by the Judgment of this earth and every system created by flesh.

The Bible has warned us that this would happen right before the end. The prophet Micah warned of this day with startling words, "For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a manÂ’s enemies are the men of his own house." (Micah 7:6) Jesus Christ took these words of Micah and put them in his own language of warning. He said, "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my nameÂ’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." (St. Matthew 10:21-22) Apostle Paul described this spirit of Antichrist and pointedly said it would be one of the evidences of the end of the church age. He warned, "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good." (2 Timothy 3:2-3) We are here, right now. This is the day that Micah, Jesus Christ, and Paul said we would be in just before the Judge steps onto the scene. You are already choosing sides.

The Spirit of the Living God gave me this list of characteristics of the Antichrist spirit. he Antichrist himself cannot appear until the Restrainer is gone. The Holy Ghost in the Rapture-ready saints is that Restrainer. But the Antichrist spirit and influences are powerfully at work preparing for the Antichrist. Apostle John warned us, "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." (1 John 2:18) Do not be deceived because someone talks much about Jesus. The greatest deception is from the very ones that often use His name. Jesus said, "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (St. Matthew 24:5)

Antichrist Characteristics

The spirit of Antichrist downplays and, always in the end, denies the great truth of the Pre-Tribulational Rapture and the coming Tribulation and judgment of this earth after the Rapture. This spirit will produce new Bibles, strange paranormal signs (like angel feathers, gold dust, uncontrolled laughter, impartations, etc.), grandiose religious events; anything to get your heart broken loose from the glorious hope that the Son of God is about to come in the clouds for His saints.
The spirit of Antichrist hates fundamental Bible believing Christianity. Next to his hatred of the Rapture and Tribulation is the hatred of strict obedience to the Word of God. Fundamentalists are now called "Bible-dolators". Strictly following the truth of the authority of Scripture, as every true Christian must, has been given this new name. They declare that we are Bible worshippers and call us Bible-dolators.
The spirit of Antichrist hates the distinction of male and female. This spirit promotes an utterly false perception that God has a male side and a female side, and that all men and women have both a male and female orientation. This is the spirit behind Pope John Paul II calling Mary a co-redemptrix. This is the same spirit that has destroyed the Biblical command that men and women maintain their masculinity or femininity.
The spirit of Antichrist pushes women to dress like men, cut their hair like men, and generally change their God-given lifestyle to take on a male orientation. This is called an abomination in the Bible. "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use (employment, conduct, and, finally, sexual orientation) into that which is against nature:" (Romans 1:26)
This spirit promotes the opposite with men. Men are pushed to let their feminine side show by long hair like a woman, earrings, etc., and to generally let their personalities change from the strong, manly characteristics, to the more soft emotional tendency of womanhood. "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." (Romans 1:27)
The spirit of Antichrist demands the changing of the Bible to destroy the maleness of the Sovereign God and His angels and to make the Bible a gender-free book. Nothing happening in the church is more diabolical than this subtle work of evil destroying the masculine nature of God and all His creation.
This spirit of Antichrist has at its foundation the need to destroy any relationship between the old-fashioned saints with their Godly families and the new "anything goes" deception and destruction lifestyle of undisciplined living. Distaste for parents and grandparents that cling to godly living, or (vice versa) if itÂ’s the young that hold the truth, is the order of the hour in the realm of the spirit of Antichrist. Never has the young person or young adult rejected the great and godly saints of the church as is happening right now.

Certainly there are more signs of this spirit; but I conclude by reminding you that hope is on the way. When Jesus comes, the Bible promises, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." (Malachi 4:5-6) Soon, the Lord of Lords will end the reign of the spirit of Antichrist and all of his works will be destroyed.

Joseph R. Chambers