That is quite a statement. How about backing it up with solid facts.
4 man umbrella - added
Goofy outfits that look religious and worldy? added.
Need I go on?
You will search the scriptures in vain to see any such thing commanded or advocated before 100 ad. After paganism and syncretism crept into the church, sure.
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
1 John 2:19 THEY WENT OUT FROM US, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
That scripture says an Antichrist can come from within...
And considering anti can mean ‘in place of’ and ‘instead of’ it is clear one would have to be pretty close to the real deal to deceive as scripture warns us.
The enemy without is easy to spot..
But strategos and antistrategos need not be on different sides in the Greek..
Antistrategos can also mean second in command under the commanding general..
The enemy within is the dangerous one because it is the counterfeit/ pseudo in the greek(false),