Every now and then, you hear about some kook who is claiming to be Jesus Christ reincarnated.
There is a guy in Australia at the moment who is doing that.
But they are like oddities in a freak show.
The media reports on them just because they are so unusual
and then the most zealous church-goers preach a few sermons
about how there will be such people in the last days, just before Jesus returns.
And we all feel good that we have not been sucked in by them.
But that so misses the mark.
The confusion comes from a little Greek word, 'kristos'
which is the same as the Hebrew word 'messiah' (or 'messhiach')
which is the same as the English word 'anointed'.
Every king that ever ruled in Israel was anointed.
They were all messiahs.
Some were good kings and some were bad kings.
Being anointed or not being anointed had little to do with it.
The anointing was usually done as a ritual in the Old Testament, using oil.
But the oil symbolised God’s Spirit… which some had, but which others did not have.
New Testament teaching is that God has made that anointing available to “all flesh” now
so that sons and daughter, and your servants and hand-maidens can all be anointed now, and not just kings.
That is what Peter said on the Day of Pentecost
when God’s Spirit was poured out on 120 followers of Jesus
who were waiting for some sign from heaven fifty days after Jesus was crucified.
It is our JOB now, to all become little messiahs… little anointed ones
walking in the footsteps of Jesus… THE one ultimate Christ…
THE one ultimate Messiah… THE one ultimate anointed one!
There was a parallel understanding in the Old Testament about this very SPECIAL anointed One…
usually referred to by Jesus himself as the Son of Man
often referred to by New Testament believers as the Suffering Servant
but generally regarded by Jews as their great Liberator…
a prophesied special leader who would sit on the throne of David
and make Hebrew beliefs the beliefs of all the world.
Like I said, from time to time you get people who suffer from delusions that they are this great Liberator…
that they are the personification of everything that people had looked for in Jesus…
fake, delusional, kooky Messiahs with a capital M.
But what we have all around us in churches all over the world every day of the year
are literally millions of people all claiming that THEY are anointed.
Not THE Anointed one, but anointed ones all the same.
Now, they COULD be right.
All they need, in order to be truly anointed by God
is the same Spirit that came in the words that Jesus spoke when he was here on the Earth.
We just have to walk in his footsteps… take up our cross and follow him.
But what you will mostly find in churches everywhere are false Christs… just like Jesus promised.
And you will find them in churches that say almost nothing about the Holy Spirit as well.
Because they ALL teach that their LEADERS are “anointed’.
But which of these many supposedly anointed men of God is actually teaching you to obey Jesus?
NONE OF THEM… to my knowledge.
They all teach you to listen to them, and believe what they say, and do what they tell you to do.
Why?
Well, because they are anointed… because they are all messiahs…
because they are all little Christs, sent by God to tell you what to do.
But it is the job and responsibility of every believer on Earth
to discern whether they are true Christs or false christs.
Our eternal destiny is resting on that.
How are YOU going to be able to recognise the true Christ among all of them?
We have been seeing this abuse of the word “anointed" big time in the cult of Donald Trump
where some falsely anointed religious leaders have elevated Donald Trump to a role even higher than their own
claiming that Trump has been “anointed by God” to save America.
They are not quite saying that Trump is the reincarnation of Jesus
but they have united in teaching that he is very definitely anointed by God
to become some kind of innocuous Saviour.
They have used that term… 'anointed'... over and over again, comparing Donald Trump to Cyrus in the Bible...
a man whom God used to help the Hebrew children rebuild their Temple in the Old Testament.
Ironically, what is most clear about the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in the modern era
is that it will be the Antichrist himself who will make an agreement with the Jews to make it happen.
I have made this video, because I think we are going to be hearing more of this kind of talk…
talk about evil leaders being messiahs in the next few years.
My decision to write this script was triggered by a post I received on this channel
from a viewer who was saying that Vladimir Putin is God’s anointed one
to save the world from the evils of American democracy, which, the viewer said
has been abused by the left wing in America.
Now, there is some truth in that teaching, as there almost always is with heresies.
The political left in America, like the political right, has little or no genuine interest in either God or truth.
They are all about promoting themselves.
Atheism and licentiousness are part and parcel of liberal politics, and not far away from liberal theology either.
The Putin worshipers are also correct in that God is very likely going to use Putin…
or more likely communism in general... to pour judgment on America.
In “one hour” America will be destroyed.
And the merchants, shipping companies, and world leaders will lament her fall.
But what will follow will be many times worse.
And that is being overlooked by those who promote men like Trump and Putin.
Ironically, the Trumpeters condemned socialist policies in the Democrat platform
because they supposedly wreaked of communism.
But now, in dutiful service to their new messiah
they are actually promoting the cruel totalitarian policies of world communism in the hands of a dictator like Putin
as an expression of their desire for revenge on all that they hate about the political Left in America.
It beats me how they can be so easily and so irrationally manipulated.
But hey, that is the crazy world we live in at the moment:
crazies in tin-hats call the shots and they each have their minions who are ready to crawl on their bellies to Satan
if that is what they are told to do.
If prophecy is correct, it’s not going to get any better either.
Much worse lies ahead.
The only way to be spiritually prepared for what lies ahead
is to stop listening to all the static and start listening to the One who has been called the Way… the Truth… the Life.
The one true Liberator of all mankind.
The Risen Son of God.
The One Ultimate Christ who is the Cornerstone by which to measure all lesser anointings such as our own.
It’s time to shut up with all the flattery, and bow down in humble obedience to our Lord.
There are hard times coming, friends. He has predicted them.
They are coming for the express purpose of sorting out the genuine from the fakes.
If you don’t have something stronger than your pastor or your priest to use in telling right from wrong
then I have to tell you that you are probably one of the fakes.
You, too, will “wonder after” the coming world ruler
and you will be there applauding as he sends millions of genuine Christians to their deaths.
But death will not be the end for those of us who have found something greater than life itself.
We have found it in the teachings of the One who has been described as the “express image of God”…
the One whose teachings are described as a “greater prophecy”
than anything you can find anywhere else in the Bible… the One who IS the Word of God!
Jesus! Yeshua! Yehoshua!
Whatever you want to call him, as long as you let his teachings break you
and shape you into what God intends for all of us
who are to bring his anointing to all the world in these last days.
Contact us today, if you would like to be part of that great movement.
Don’t leave it until it is too late.