Responding to NAR Doctrines - Part 1
The eschatological teachings of NAR are also faulty and deceptive.
The teaching that the Body of Christ will face the Antichrist instills fear in the believer’s heart and naturally causes him or her to actively look for, expect, anticipate and prepare for the rise of the Antichrist. Yeshua admonishes us not to fear those who kill the body but to fear Him who is able to destroy both the body and the soul in hell.
Teaching that we should fearfully look out for and prepare for the rise of the Antichrist instead of hopefully looking up for the appearance of our Lord, Savior and Messiah Yeshua is a totally upside down, back to front and inside out doctrine.
Instead of seeking Yeshua they are seeking the antichrist. They fear Yeshua’s return because the antichrist precedes Yeshua and they would rather postpone Yeshua’s return so as to escape facing the antichrist and the Great Tribulation.
We are encouraged to expect, hope for, eagerly anticipate and diligently prepare for the imminent appearance of our Lord Yeshua whom we will meet in the clouds and be with Him forever more. We are to look to the heavens and keep our eyes on Yeshua.
Mark 13:33 (NASB) 33 “Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.
Amen. Come Lord Jesus come.
We are washed by the Blood, Sealed by the Holy Spirit and hidden in Christ until His appearance to redeem the purchased possession which is our body. We are not appointed to the wrath of God. A sinful world is appointed to God’s wrath and during the Great Tribulation many people from all nations will come to salvation and all Israel will be saved.
Revelation 3:10 (NASB)
10 Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-6 (NASB) 2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3 While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 (NASB)
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
Who will see Him coming in Power and judgment if not His people Israel and an unbelieving and sinful world.
Matthew 26:64 (NASB)
64 Jesus *said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.”
Revelation 1:7 (NASB)
7 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.
We are not appointed for wrath or judgment; we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and He has promised to keep us from that day.
Revelation 3:10 (NASB)
10 Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
We will come back with Him on the clouds.
Zechariah 14:5 (NASB)
5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!
Jude 1:14-15 (NASB)
14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
He will gather His people Israel and bring them back to their land.
Nehemiah 1:8-9 (NASB)
8 Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples; 9 but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.’
In the context of the totality of Scripture it is clear that the tribulation will bring Israel to cry out Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. They will see Him coming on the clouds of heaven and they will look upon the one whom they pierced and cry as one cries for his first born.
Zechariah 12:10 (NASB)
10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
Zechariah 13:9 (NASB)
9 “And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”
Then will be a great repentance and all Israel will be saved For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead.
Romans 11:11-15 (NASB) 11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! 13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Revelation 22:18-21 (NASB) 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.