Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 56
Reading: Matthew 27:57-66, 28:1-15
Scripture: He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee. (Luke 24:6)
Note: Docetism was an early heresy that claimed that Jesus didn’t really become incarnate physically. Docetism comes from the Greek word _dokeō,_ which means “to seem” or “to appear”. According to the docetic view, there wasn’t really a physical incarnation. It was all just an appearance of incarnation, a simulation or pure phantasm.
This unfortunate view from scholars in biblical studies, who have benefitted from training in biblical knowledge is rather shocking, disappointing and somewhat appalling. It is a widely held view by the adherents of other faiths, with Islam being the chief proponents of such line of thought; believing that a Holy and Just God couldn’t have permitted a prophet like Jesus the Messiah, to die a shameful and accursed death on a cross in a world full of evil.
This is what the Qur’an had to say about the crucifixion of Jesus in Sura 4:157-158, “And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain. But Allah took him up unto Himself. Allah was ever Mighty, Wise.”
Refusal to admit, believe and confess that Jesus Christ was incarnated physically, is akin to actually rejecting Jesus as the Son of God, denying the Christian faith, and is a manifestation of the spirit of Antichrist.
For all the dissenting voices and opinions concerning the physical incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and literal bodily resurrection, the Bible is very clear and emphatic on who and what constitutes a manifestation of the spirit of antichrist. Are you an antichrist?
Food for thought: The scriptures are uncompromising on who or what constitutes the spirit of antichrist; rejecting the physical incarnation of Jesus.
Declaration: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1John 4:3)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
