That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

The role of messiah, is one who brings Israel OUT of idolatry and back to the worship of the One God.  In essence the belief in “Jesus” (the mainstream Christian view of who and what he was) is a belief that goes AGAINST what the role of messiah is. It is an anti-messiah (or antichrist) belief.

Yet John saw this belief grow stronger

1 John 2:18

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time...
21 I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

In Jewish belief, the “son of God” is NOT “God the son”.  Messiah has never been confused with God.  He has NEVER been considered a deity.

John believed that Jesus was the messiah. 

22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Messiah?  

However, he believed that by making Jesus into a god (and not distinguishing between God and Messiah), those who did

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