Commentary on 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7

Commentary on 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7

Thomas Allen

1 John 2:22 – Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 

1 John 4:3 – and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

2 John 7 – For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

Antichrist is mentioned four times in the Bible: the three verses above, from the World English Bible, and 1 John 2:18, which does not describe the Antichrist. Although Revelation does not mention the Antichrist, many clergymen claim that it describes the identity, actions, and fate of the Antichrist, who is an individual.

Who is the Antichrist? According to the above verses, the Antichrist is someone who denies that Jesus is the Christ and does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Although most clergymen today have the Antichrist appearing in the end times, John states that he is already in the world (2 John 7). Consequently, the Antichrist has been here since at least the first century, when John wrote his letters.

Who fits these descriptions? Both Jews and Muslims do. Neither believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s Messiah, nor confess that the Messiah has come in the flesh. At the time that John wrote, Muslims did not exist. Thus, Jews were the primary target of his description of the Antichrist. (Since only Christians confess that Jesus is the Christ and has come in the flesh, all non-Christians fit John’s description of the Antichrist.)

Some commentators suggest that 2 John 7 refers to Gnostics, who believed that the Divine Christ dwelt in the human Jesus of Nazareth for a period of time. Thus, the heavenly Christ united with the human Jesus at his baptism and departed just before his crucifixion.[1] However, since these Gnostics no longer have any adherents of note and since the Antichrist is around at the end times, these two conditions eliminate these Gnostics.

Most clergymen use Revelation to identify the Antichrist, especially the number 666. Although some believe that the Antichrist is a Jew, almost none conceive the Antichrist as the Jewish ethnicity itself. Nevertheless, according to Halley, the Antichrist in John 2:22 refers to a whole group of Antichrist teachers rather than to one person.[2]

Today, most clergymen assert that the Jews are God’s chosen people. How can the Antichrist be God’s chosen people? Even if they answer, they fail to give a satisfactory answer. If the Jews are God’s chosen people, they must be chosen to be thorns in the side of Christians.

Endnotes

1. William  MacDonald, Believer's Bible Commentary, second edition (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1989), p. 2433. W.K. Lowther Clarke, editor, Concise Bible Commentary (New York, New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1953), p. 929.

2. Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1965), p. 671.

Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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An Interpretation of the 2026 Election

An Interpretation of the 2026 Election

Thomas Allen

The 2026 election was a repudiation of Trump and Republicans for abandoning America-first MAGA (Make America Great Again) and placing Israel before America. It was not an endorsement of the Democratic Party and its agenda.

I am surprised that Democrats did as well as they did at the State level in North Carolina. However, I am not surprised by the Democratic Party's success at the federal level.

Democrats in Congress and in the NC General Assembly should adopt a resolution thanking Trump for giving them their great victory. Without his succor, they would not have had nearly as much success as they did. Most likely, they would not have captured the NC House.

I did not expect Democrats to win as many US Congressional seats in North Carolina as they did. Although I expected Republicans to lose their supermajority in the NC House, I did not expect Democrats to gain such a majority as to fall a few seats short of a supermajority. 

Naturally, Democrats will incorrectly interpret their landslide victory as authorizing them to continue their agenda of destroying the United States with socialism, wokeism, DEI (more correctly DIE), a return to lawfare, flooding the country with aliens, impoverishment with green energy and their climate change program, the genocide of the White race, and the destruction of Western Civilization. If they do, they misunderstand the election. Their extraordinary victory is a protest vote against Trump. Since people could not directly vote against him, they voted against his representative, the Republican Party, or did not vote.

Why would they vote against Trump, i.e., Republicans? They voted against him (or did not vote) because he betrayed MAGA; he has greatly damaged MAGA, if not killed it — much to the delight of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans. Trump attacked many of his strongest advocates who were essential for his 2024 election. He drove some of his ardent backers out of Congress, e.g., Greene and Massie. Moreover, he has protected powerful people by refusing to release the Epstein files. Also, he has failed to prosecute Democratic leaders for the crimes that they committed.

Furthermore, he has failed to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and Israel’s destruction of Gaza. He could have ended them quickly by cutting off aid to Ukraine and Israel. Instead, he has continued to arm and otherwise support them. Worse, he replaced his program to Make America Great Again with turning Israel into Greater Israel. Likewise, many Republicans supported Trump’s refusal to end the wars and his actions that drove up prices, especially his servile support of Israel, or at least they did not oppose him.

He promised no new wars. Yet, in obedience to Israel, he launched a sneak attack against Iran. As a result, prices of fuel, groceries, and other items soared, causing Republicans to lose elections. Since most Republicans supported Trump’s sacrificing the United States for Israel, they deserved what they got.

However, Democrats are not going to solve the inflation problem. Their philosophy of ever-growing government and spending for new radical programs guarantees rising inflation (prices). Moreover, they love war because war destroys freedoms. Wars also add to inflation.

The three constitutional amendments to the NC constitution show that North Carolina voters do not approve of the Democratic agenda. (Two amendments limited taxation; Democrats love high taxes. One makes illegal voting more difficult; Democrats love illegal voting because the more voters, the more democratic the election.)

In summary, Democrats owe their massacre of Republicans to Trump’s and Republicans’ abandoning MAGA and placing Zionism above America. With the support of most Republicans, Trump sacrificed the United States on the altar of Zionism. Nevertheless, Democrats should not view their landslide as an endorsement of their agenda. Except for the hardcore Democrats, most people who voted for them voted to repudiate Trump and Republicans, and not as a directive to the Democratic Party to continue its destruction of the United States. Most likely, Democrats will misinterpret the 2026 election and believe that it has a mandate to continue their destruction of the United States.

Appendix. Roy Cooper

Roy Cooper is the worst governor North Carolina has had since W.W. Holding, the only NC governor impeached (he served from 1868 to 1870).  Not only is Cooper a Yankeefied scalawag, but he also suffers from Dixiephobia and has a severe case of Confederaphobia. By illegally tearing down Confederate memorials and monuments, he showed his hatred of his ancestors, a violation of the Fifth Commandment. Also, he acts like the typical communist: they destroy a society’s past so they can rebuild it in their demonic image.

Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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The United States Become a Kritarchy

The United States Become a Kritarchy

Thomas Allen

The United States’ conversion from a federation of republican States to a kritarchy (rule by judges) began with Chief Justice John Marshall; Chief Justice Earl Warren carried it to fruition. Marshall birthed the kritarchy when he usurped, for the Supreme Court, the power to decide which federal acts and later State acts were constitutional. This usurpation made the Supreme Court superior to the President, Congress, and the States, and its decisions the supreme law of the land, because it decides what the Constitution means, i.e., what is constitutional and unconstitutional.

In 1801, President Adams appointed Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, after Jefferson won the presidential election and his party swept the House and Senate, but before they entered office. Marshall was a Federalist. Federalists wanted to convert the United States from a federation of independent sovereign States (nations) to a consolidated national empire, i.e., make the federal government (the creation) superior to the States (the creators). (The Constitution had established a federation of independent sovereign States.) Additionally, Marshall wanted to make the Supreme Court superior to the President and Congress. To achieve this goal, the Constitution had to be corrupted. Corrupting it, Marshall did. Thus, Marshall became the father of Judicial Review (the exclusive right to rule on the constitutionality of acts of Congress), which is authorized nowhere in the Constitution,

Marshall’s usurpation of unconstitutional power began transferring the sovereignty of the people of each State to the federal government, i.e., the oligarchs who control the federal government. Lincoln’s War and the Fourteenth Amendment completed the process of transferring sovereignty to the oligarchs.

Furthermore, Marshall converted the Constitution into a “living Constitution,” which makes it malleable to the whims of judges. Thus, he began expanding the powers of the federal government and reducing the powers of the States and the people thereof.

Moreover, Marshall interpreted the “Necessary and Proper” clause as giving Congress power to do whatever it wanted to do if the Constitution did not specifically and expressly deny that power to Congress. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court decides how much these restrictions really restrict the acts of the federal government.

Now, the Tenth Amendment places no restrictions on the federal government. Marshall began the process of nullifying the Tenth Amendment. Lincoln and the Fourteenth Amendment completed the process. Although the Tenth Amendment has never been repealed, it no longer restricts the federal government. Nowadays, States retain only those powers that the Supreme Court condescends to allow them. Although the Tenth Amendment remains part of the Constitution, it is as relevant as the “three-fifths person” clause.

The Constitution of 1788 may be the de jure Constitution, but the de facto Constitution that the US Supreme Court uses is at https://tcallenco.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-real-constitution-of-united-states.html. Under the de facto Constitution, the President and Congress may do whatever they want to do, provided that the Supreme Court does not object. Moreover, the States and the people of the States have only those rights and authorities approved by the Supreme Court.

Reference

Walters, Ryan. “Spencer Roane and the Richmond Junto.” March 9, 2026. abbevilleinstitute.org/spencer-roane-and-the-richmond-junto. Accessed March 10, 2026.

Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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