HOW Can the ANTICHRIST TRICK the Very ELECT ?

The first ancient trick foisted upon GOD’S people is recorded in Genesis: 

Yea, HATH GOD SAID . . . ?

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, 

Yea, hath God said,

PASSOVER PREPARATION.... Fleeing From LEAVEN

or... the time The Apostle John fled from the Heretic Cerinthus .... 

Agnus Dei-- The LAMB+ of GOD
by Giulio Romano
Drawing: ink on paper c. 1540

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Fleeing from LEAVEN...

Hippolytus, AD 170-236, 

a Bishop of Portus, 

disciple of Irenaeus

… who was the disciple of Polycarp

… who was the disciple of John. 

from Irenaeus Against Heresies, ANF Vol. 1...

There are also those who heard from him [ i.e., Polycarp / Sr.JH ] that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.” 

And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, “Dost thou know me?”

“I do know thee, the first-born of Satan.”

Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; 

as Paul also says, 

“A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”

[ ***  ANF vol. 1, Irenaeus Against Heresies , BOOK 3, Chapter 3, section 4, page 416 (hard copy) [ pages 826-827, Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com. See the additional information at the end of the post for references in the Ante-Nicene writers and the context for this excerpt./ Sr. JH ]

Now, WHO was this abominable heretic Cerinthus of AD 100, 

... and what did he teach?  

Here is what the Early Church writers recorded about this man who was considered a fore-runner of some gnostics.  

Unfortunately, the teachings of Cerinthus have made their way into the "golden, best, and historic" version of the Netzarim edition of their New Covenant. 

 CERINTHUS

ANF vol. 5, Hippolytus, The Refutation of All Heresies  Book X, Chapter 17, page 147 hard copy, [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 303-304. ]

Cerinthus, however, himself having been trained in Egypt,determined that the world was not made by the first God, but by a certain angelic power. And this power was far separated and distant from that sovereignty which is above the entire circle of existence, and it knows not the God (that is) above all things.

And he says that Jesus was not born of a virgin, but that He sprang from Joseph and Mary as their son, similar to the rest of men; and that He excelled in justice, and prudence, and understanding above all the rest of mankind.

And Cerinthus maintains that, after Jesus’ baptism, Christ came down in the form of a dove upon Him from the sovereignty that is above the whole circle of existence, and that then He proceeded to preach the unknown Father, and to work miracles.

And he asserts that, at the conclusion of the passion, Christ flew away from Jesus, but that Jesus suffered, and that Christ remained incapable of suffering, being a spirit of the Lord.

 Now, here is the LEAVEN of the Ebionite heresy, which has also made its way into the "golden, best, and historic" Netzarim volume. 

THE EBIONAEANS

ANF vol. 5, Hippolytus, The Refutation of All Heresies  Book X, Chapter 18, page 147 hard copy, [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 303-304. ]

But the Ebionaeans assert that the world is made by the true God, and they speak of Christ in a similar manner with Cerinthus.

They live, however, in all respects according to the law of Moses, alleging that they are thus justified.

  

The item below is from ANF Vol. 5, Hippolytus Refutaion of All Heresies, BOOK 7, page 114, Chapter 22 [  [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 235.]

CHAPTER 22

DOCTRINE OF THE EBIONAEANS

The Ebionaeans, however, acknowledge that the world was made by Him Who is in reality God, but they propound legends concerning the Christ similarly with Cerinthus and Carpocrates.

They live conformably to the customs of the Jews, alleging that they are justified. according to the law, and saying that Jesus was justified by fulfilling the law.

And therefore it was, (according to the Ebionaeans,) that (the Savior) was named (the) Christ of God and Jesus, since not one of the rest (of mankind) had observed completely the law.

For if even any other had fulfilled the commandments (contained) in the law, he would have been that Christ.

And the (Ebionaeans allege) that they themselves also, when in like manner they fulfill (the law), are able to become Christs; for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in a like sense with all (the rest of the human family).

 +  +  +

Purge out 

therefore 

the old leaven, 

that ye may be a new lump,

as ye are UNLEAVENED.

For even 

CHRIST our PASSOVER

is sacrificed

for us. 

Therefore let us keep the feast,

not with old leaven,

neither with the leaven of 

malice and wickedness,

but with 

the UNLEAVENED BREAD+

of purity and Truth.

I Corinthians 5:7, 8 

+  +  +

 This is the section about POLYCARP AND JOHN in its fullness. 

*** FROM ANF vol. 1, Irenaeus Against Heresies , BOOK 3, Chapter 3, section 4, page 416 (hard copy) [ pages 826-827, Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com ]

4. But Polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had seen Christ, but was also, by apostles in Asia, appointed bishop of the Church in Smyrna, whom I also saw in my early youth, for he tarried [on earth] a very long time, and, when a very old man, gloriously and most nobly suffering martyrdom, departed this life, having always taught the things which he had learned from the apostles, and which the Church has handed down, and which alone are true.

To these things all the Asiatic Churches testify, as do also those men who have succeeded Polycarp down to the present time, — a man who was of much greater weight, and a more steadfast witness of truth, than Valentinus, and Marcion, and the rest of the heretics. He it was who, coming to Rome in the time of Anicetus caused many to turn away from the aforesaid heretics to the Church of God, proclaiming that he had received this one and sole truth from the apostles, — that, namely, which is handed down by the Church.

There are also those who heard from him that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.”

And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, “Dost thou know me?”

“I do know thee, the first-born of Satan.”

Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; as Paul also says, “A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”

PARAQLITA in the Pre-Peshitta Writings of Hippolytus

Hippolytus -- ( c. 170--236 AD ) A disciple of Irenaeus, Bishop of Portus, and living in Lyons at some point. A saint and martyr of the church, being thrown into a canal and drowned for the Faith, a year or two after the commencement of the reign of Maximim the Thracian, that is, somewhere about AD 235-39. Introductory Notes, p. 6

Note to Readers: Let us diligently observe how these Early Christian apologists wrote and spoke of the Paraclete as always being the HOLY SPIRIT or Advocate or Intercessor ...  but never "Redeemer+".

It would have behooved the translator / editor of the Netzarim's "Golden, Historic, and Best" Aramaic-English New Testament  to check the Early Church Apologists if he were confused and / or  chose not to rely upon the work of the standard and approved Peshitta translators, Drs. Etheridge, Murdock and Lamsa, for correction or understanding. 
The Early Christian Apologists work to correct ALL heretical teachings and thus, one can be saved from ignominious statements ... both receiving them and making them ...  if one lays to heart the work of these Early Christian Martyrs and Confessors from the Unified Christian Church of the first 3 centuries. It is a shame not to do so.

HIPPOLYTUS, ANF Vol 5, Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus: Dogmatical and Historical, Discourse on the Holy Theophany, p. 237, Sections 8,9, and 10

8. But give me now your best attention, I pray you, for I wish to go back to the fountain of life, and to view the fountain that gushes with healing.

The Father of Immortality sent the Immortal SON+ and WORD+ into the world, WHO+ came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and HE+, begetting us again to incorruption of soul and body, breathed into us the breath (spirit) of life, and endued us with an incorruptible panoply [ a display of all appropriate appurtenances... SrJH].

If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God.[ i.e,  "Divine" in the sense of being regenerated back into the family of God , as Adam was in the beginning.  Ed.Footnote #6: 2 Peter 1:4... "that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature." ...SrJH ] And if he is made God by water and the Holy Spirit after the regeneration of the laver he is found to be also joint-heir with Christ after the resurrection from the dead.

Wherefore I preach to this effect:

Come, all ye kindreds of the nations, to the immortality of the baptism.

I bring good tidings of life to you who tarry in the darkness of ignorance. Come into liberty from slavery, into a kingdom from tyranny, into incorruption from corruption. And how, saith one, shall we come?

How?

By water and the Holy Spirit.

This is the water in conjunction with the Spirit, by which paradise is watered, by which the earth is enriched, by which plants grow, by which animals multiply, and (to sum up the whole in a single word) by which man is begotten again and endued with life, in which also Christ was baptized, and in which the Spirit descended in the form of a dove.

9. This is the Spirit that at the beginning “moved upon the face of the waters;” by whom the world moves; by whom creation consists, and all things have life;

who also wrought mightily in the prophets, and descended in flight upon Christ. This is the Spirit that was given to the apostles in the form of fiery tongues.

This is the Spirit that David sought when he said,

“Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me."

Of this Spirit Gabriel also spoke to the Virgin, “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.”

By this Spirit Peter spake that blessed word,

 “THOU+ art the CHRIST,

the SON+ of the LIVING GOD.”

By this Spirit the rock of the Church was stablished.

This is the Spirit, the Comforter,

that is sent because of THEE+,

that HE may show THEE+

to be the SON+ of GOD.

10. Come then, be begotten again, O man, into the adoption of God. And how? says one.

If thou practicest adultery no more,

and committest not murder,

and servest not idols;

if thou art not overmastered by pleasure;

if thou dost not suffer the feeling of pride to rule thee;

if thou cleanest off the filthiness of impurity,

and puttest off the burden of sin;

if thou castest off the armor of the devil, and puttest on the breastplate of faith, even as Isaiah saith,

“Wash you, and seek judgment,

relieve the oppressed,

judge the fatherless,

and plead for the widow.

And come and let us reason together,

saith the Lord.

Though your sins be as scarlet,

I shall make them white as snow;

and though they be like crimson,

I shall make them white as wool.

And if ye be willing, and hear my voice,

ye shall eat the good of the land.”

Do you see, beloved, how the prophet spake beforetime of the purifying power of baptism?

For he who comes down in faith to the laver of regeneration, and renounces the devil, and joins himself to Christ;

who denies the enemy, and makes the confession that Christ is God;

who puts off the bondage, and puts on the adoption,

— he comes up from the baptism brilliant as the sun, flashing forth the beams of righteousness, and, which is indeed the chief thing, he returns a son [ teknon = child., ed. note in footnote, SrJH ] of God and joint-heir with Christ.

To Him+ be the glory and the power,

together with His+ most holy,

and good, and quickening Spirit,

now and ever,

and to all the ages of the ages.

Amen.

 REFERENCES

NOTE: Material is from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volumes 1-10,  American Edition ( a reprint of Christian Literature Publishing Co. 1886), 2nd printing 1995, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA. ISBN 1-56563-087-4 

Some supplemental information and dates are from: David W. Bercot, editor, A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998. ISBN 978-1-56563-870-9 [ Scroll Publishing www.scrollpublishing.com ]

Digital Copy from: The Master Christian Library Version 8 CD-ROM 2000 Ages Softward, Rio, WI  www.ageslibrary.com

NOTE: This Digital Copy of the ANF does NOT contain any Introductory Notes from the translators and editors, no footnotes, and no elucidations and comments at the end of the books, although these helpful items are contained in the hard copy listed above.

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NOTE: Comments [in green] are from the Order of The GOOD SHEPHERD+; extra words [in black] are in the text from the editors. Color added to pronouns, etc., for clarity.