<p>4:3- see on Jn. 12:42.</p><p><em>And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus came in the flesh is not of God, and they are proved to be of the antichrist; of whom you have heard that it comes, and now is already in the world</em>- &quot;Of God&quot; suggests 'born of God'. The believer is born &quot;of the Spirit&quot;, not of the will of man but &quot;of God&quot; (Jn. 1:13; 3:5). There were false claims of Spirit possession in the first century; as I have noted on 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy regarding the claims made in Ephesus. The Judaist infiltrators claimed to have the spirit of Christ, and even did false miracles to support their claims, in Corinth they were talking in glossolalia, &quot;mumbo jumbo&quot;, and falsely claiming this was the gift of tongues / languages. Those who had been truly born again, of the Spirit, would openly confess the Lord Jesus as Messiah, as a real person &quot;in the flesh&quot;. By refusing to do so, they demonstrated that they were &quot;antichrist&quot;, the fake, imitation Christ. &quot;You have heard that it comes&quot; must refer to the Lord's predictions that there would be false Christs. These false versions of Messiah refer to the ideas being pushed in the Jewish world and spread into the churches by the Judaist infiltrators. They were specifically entering the Jewish world.&nbsp;</p>