1 John 4:1 gives us a very important task and it's important to understand the context of the solution it presents. THE TASK: "1 Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world." THE SOLUTION: "2 This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. 3 But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here." This passage specifically calls out prophets. But let's say it applies to anyone who is "prophetic". Is this the ONLY test? Choose below the most RELIABLE source for testing them OTHER THAN if they can confess Yeshua/Jesus came in the Flesh. The context of this passage was aimed at the Gnostics who taught Adoptionism and what is now called the Christ Principle. Both are doctrines current making a very popular reappearance. So what if someone is NOT a Gnostic, but has shown tendencies toward the "prophetic". Choose which answer below is the most reliable means of testing the spirit they are prophesying from.

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If you're a student of the End Times, you will want to add this manuscript to your library and be sure to consult it as you study the timeline of events. HERE

Found in a Vatican "junk box" the Sephardic Catalan Gospel of Mark, like Matthew, may very well prove the Gospels did indeed start in Hebrew. Not just because there are many Hebrewisms that "bled" through into English from the Greek manuscripts, but also because the Hebrew Mark solved a number of contradictions within the Greek manuscripts of the "New Testament". Among those, the Greek Mark claims the Gospel begins in the 1st Century while the book of Hebrews claims the Gospel began in the Wilderness with the Israelis. So which is it? Revelation says the Gospel is eternal (implying past and future)!! Christian scholars have spent volumes of books trying to explain the mental gymnastics they have done to make their Antinomian beliefs somehow fit the idea that the Gospel began in the 1st Century. But the Hebrew Mark solves all of that with ZERO justifications or mental gymnastics required. In life, the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. In matters of eternity, those which do not require human explanation tend to be the correct solutions. Hebrew Mark may very well prove to be the most important of them all because of the contradictions it resolves that were created by the Greek Manuscripts. Enjoy!! Find it HERE

Comparing this to your favorite English version will help you see that Matthew really was likely to have been written originally in Hebrew. A number of colloquialisms and idioms (not to mention Hebrew word puns) bled through into Greek and then into English. But, by tracing those backward into Hebrew, then straight to English, you'll get a more direct understanding of the Hebrew. Greek doesn't always convey the same thing in all circumstances and therefore most of our English versions lack the true context of Mathew's perspective as a 1st Century Hebrew speaker. Check it out HERE