Spirit of Antichrist

A segment of the complete circle of revelation was needed when Paul was called, and by his doctrine all is told. There is no advance beyond it. John may unfold what was already spoken of, but no further truth is revealed. To go beyond it, and the Scriptures completed by it, is the spirit of error and of antichrist.
John can tell the elect lady and her children that "many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." "Whosoever transgresseth [goes forward], and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." How completely does the Spirit of God pronounce against all advance, all development, and all that would not abide in what was "from the beginning," that is, from the complete revelation of the truth in Christ unfolded through His apostles by the Holy Spirit. John could say again, "He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." 1 John 4:6.
God has cast His people upon the Scriptures in the last days. "I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." Acts 20:32. The Apostle said this to the elders at Ephesus where grievous wolves were entering, not sparing the flock. "Continue thou," he says to Timothy, as to all of us, "in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures.... All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Tim. 3:14-17.