John 3

Revised Standard Version

(RSV)

Nicodemus Visits Jesus

3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicode′mus, a ruler of the Jews. ²This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

³Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

⁴Nicode′mus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” ⁵

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ ⁸The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicode′mus said to him, “How can this be?”

¹⁰Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this? ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony. ¹²If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”

"Are you aware, before there can be an Antichrist, there must first be a Christ?"

~(Simply Jim: Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~

"I don't understand."

~(Rev. Dr. LaRocca-Pitts: Senior Pastor St. Mark UMC)~

"Before we can even have the word "Antichrist," we have to have the word "Christ" first. Well, we had the concept of a "Christ," first, in the old testaments; a hope, a dream.

Jesus was knowledgeable of the old testaments.

If he was not claiming to be God,

then this would actually make Jesus our first Anti-Christ."

~(Simply Jim: Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~

Then I went on to explain to her, how, the Antichrist, Armilus, Dajjal, cancels each other out bringing me right back to radical atheist.

Then I went on to explain that everything is explicable.

That the great battle between good and evil was not good overcoming evil in the end but the wealthy giving in and agreeing to share the wealth or face losing it altogether.