The "Antichrist"
As
time went on, the leadership of "the Way" became almost entirely Greek.
Those who were Jewish or Hebraic were marginalized and labeled as heretics. As
opposition to the Greek viewpoint diminished, there was a tremendous effort by the early
Gentile “church fathers” to establish Jesus as God,
and by the time his last living disciple,
John, was in his old age (around 90CE) the idea of Yeshua as a divine being had
already begun to become accepted among many Greek "Christians".
This is a doctrine that John calls "not
messiah" or "Antichrist".
1 John 4:1
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesses not that Yeshua Messiah is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof
you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
By making messiah into a god, the Greeks were
effectively making messiah into the opposite of what he was suppose to be.
John warned the people of his time not to turn from their Jewish
roots. Not to make Yeshua into God.
2 John 1:6
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is
the commandment,