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NASB | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things. |
Subject: Isaiah 45:7 |
Bible Note: Hi, Mark! I understand your argument! But Judas is not an anti-Christ! He never rose up against Jesus and claimed to be a god! He never established a "church" to both imitate and contradict Christ! He is called the son of perdition because He was destined to betray the Son of Man: "it would have been better for him not to have been born!" There is no record of Judas--aside from selling out His Master, acting against Jesus in a coop d'état! Rejecting Christ's Authority and seeking to usurp His Power is what defines an anti-Christ... Please read the whole chapter (Zechariah 11) paying attention to what is truly being revealed... specifically pay extreme attention to verse 6: For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land," declares the LORD . "I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will oppress the land, and I will not rescue them from their hands." Yahweh is not saying that He will create an anti-Christ or many anti-Christs... He is tired of the people rejecting His Authority and Counsel and He decided to remove His Protection from them! Further... the anti-Christ (any of them) cannot be reveal prior to the Word's incarnation! True there are prophecies about the Heavenly Battle and the final encounter where Satan and his minions (which will include humanity's own rebellious factions) will be cast into the lake of fire... yet, though we know and understand that Jesus is God and that He existed as the Son throughout time, the anti-Christ/s could not be revealed till His death and Resurrection (1 John 2:22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7; Revelation 12:9-17; 2 Corinthians 11:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:6-12). God Bless! Angel |