How could believers fall for false Christ's, when He literally just said in that passage the things that must come that it's not Him if they say they are. Had He not, sure, but He explained it off so its not fallen for. The false prophet paves the way and prepares the people for the antiChrist like John the Baptist prepared the people for Jesus. Who's gonna prepare God's people to accept something instead of Christ, when they have Christ and won't listen to the voice of the stranger saying I am in the desert, come? That's for the lost.
It is very easy to be deceived if you believe in the chiliastic 1000 year heresy, or if you believe in the rapture. Also, the devil doesn’t play fair. You think the antichrist will just use rational arguments? He will use them, of course, but he will also hypnotize people, and preform false miracles of all kinds. All who hope in miracles will fall for him too. The only people that won’t be fooled will be those advanced in the practice of the Jesus prayer, those who, with their whole being, in deed and word and thought, hope only on God, on Jesus Christ.
How could believers fall for false Christ's, when He literally just said in that passage the things that must come that it's not Him if they say they are. Had He not, sure, but He explained it off so its not fallen for. The false prophet paves the way and prepares the people for the antiChrist like John the Baptist prepared the people for Jesus. Who's gonna prepare God's people to accept something instead of Christ, when they have Christ and won't listen to the voice of the stranger saying I am in the desert, come? That's for the lost.
It is very easy to be deceived if you believe in the chiliastic 1000 year heresy, or if you believe in the rapture. Also, the devil doesn’t play fair. You think the antichrist will just use rational arguments? He will use them, of course, but he will also hypnotize people, and preform false miracles of all kinds. All who hope in miracles will fall for him too. The only people that won’t be fooled will be those advanced in the practice of the Jesus prayer, those who, with their whole being, in deed and word and thought, hope only on God, on Jesus Christ.