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Son of Perdition



 Our Lord Jesus Christ is called The Son of Man. This name is important because it emphasizes he is God made flesh (John 1:1-17). The Apostle John goes as far as to say anyone who does not confess Jesus came in the flesh is antichrist, “every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.” (1 John 4:3 NKJV). 


Now the Antichrist has a name too, which is the Son of Perdition, “the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Perditon literally means damnation, it is an opposite title to Son of Man. Now interestingly there was another man who was called the Son of Perdition, Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Disciples, who betrayed Jesus, was filled with Satan, “Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve disciples,” (Luke 22:3), and “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” (John 17:12) 


This got me thinking, what if the Son of Perdition, the Antichrist to come will rise from the church, just as the first son of perdition was one of the Twelve Disciples? The church as I have written in many other posts has become mainly a business, like the Pharisees and the money changers of the temple that Jesus whipped and rebuked (John 2:13-17). It says Satan is the god of money (Ezekiel 28:11-21), and the church system (not the Body of Christ, Christian believers everywhere) is devoted to money, when Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24). 


It would make sense for the Antichrist, the Second Son of Perdition to rise from the church, because it would follow Judas’ path the first son of Perdition and it would be unexpected. So many brothers and sisters in Christ expect the Man of Sin and Antichrist to come from another religion, be a European aristocrat, or some other group, but what if he comes from Church like Judas did? What if one of the most mainstream and popular ministers on TV is really the Son of Perdition? Remember,  when Jesus gave powers to heal and so miracles to his twelve disciples (Matthew 10:1) he didn’t say, “except Judas.” I can see Satan raising a Man of Sin from the church system to shock us, and because as aforementioned, the Church since Constantine the Great has become a house of Mammon (god of money) as much as a temple of Christ, and Satan is Mammon (Ezekiel 28:11-21). 


I am not claiming divine revelation here, I am sharing some thoughts on who the Son of Perdition might be. As always consult Scripture and continue to build up your deeply personal relationship with Christ. Amen. 


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