Revelation 10

Revelation 10:2

Trying the Spirits SUMMARY OF I JOHN 4: How to Distinguish the Spirits of Truth and Error. Love a Proof That We Are Born of God. God’s Great Love for Us. How We Secure the Indwelling of God. How Love Is Made Perfect. Believe not every spirit. The last chapter has closed concerning the Spirit, but some are moved by other spirits than that of Christ. But try the spirits whether they are of God. Test the spirit that moves teachers and see whether it be of God. 1 John 4:2 tells how to test. Because many false prophets are gone out into the world. There were many false teachers in that age as well as in ours, and some claimed to be inspired.

Revelation 10:3

Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come . . . is of God. He who confesses from the heart that Christ has come in the flesh shows that he has the Spirit of God. In the flesh. One of the heresies was that Christ had come but that there had been no incarnation.

Revelation 10:4

And every spirit that confesseth not . . . is not of God. If Christ is denied, it is not God’s Spirit, which always speaks truth, but that of antichrist. See notes on 1 John 2:18,19.

Revelation 10:5

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them. The saints had overcome these false prophets, but they were of God, because greater is he that is in you, and the Spirit in them was mightier than he that is in the world, than the evil spirit, that of the prince of the world, which was in the false prophets.

Revelation 10:6

They are of the world. The false teachers. They are not of God. The world heareth them because they are of its spirit and speak of it.

Revelation 10:7

We are of God. Hence speaks God’s message, and those that know God accept the message. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. By the principles given in 1 John 4:2-5 we distinguish between the spirit of truth (the Holy Spirit) and that of error.

Revelation 10:8

Let us love one another. He that is born of God must love because the Father is love; hence love shows that we are of him and know him.

Revelation 10:9

He that loveth not knoweth not God. He who knows not God does not love.

Revelation 10:10

In this was manifested the love of God toward us. Christ is the supremest manifestation. See PNT John 3:16.

Revelation 10:11

Herein is love. Love manifested. The heights of love are shown, not only in sending the Son, but sending him to be the propitiation for our sins; to become a sin offering for us, and to die for us. See PNT 1 John 2:2.