Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

often used the words sin and iniquity interchangeably as though both words hold one meaning; however, the words are different both in the Greek New Testament and in the context of the level of disobedience linked to each word. The common Greek word for “sin” in the New Testament is hamartia and actually means, “to miss the mark.” 6 It alludes to a person shooting an arrow at a target and the arrow going completely off course. Sin takes a person off course, away from God’s Word and God’s will for that person’s life. The Greek word for “iniquity” in Matthew 24:12 is anomia, meaning, “a violation of the law and wickedness.” 7 In the Old Testament a sin was any act of disobedience against the law of God. However, iniquity was a higher level of sin, in that a person could be overcome by a temptation that caused him to fall into a sin (1 John 2:1), but iniquity was a willful and premeditated transgression of God’s commands. Iniquity is the level of continual sinning that eventually leads to a lifestyle of disobedience and eventual perversion. David sinned with Bathsheba, but when he set up her husband to be killed so he could marry the wife who was now pregnant, the sin moved to the level of iniquity. In the last days “iniquity shall abound.” The word abound is the word for increase ; iniquity will be on the increase prior to the return of Christ. The iniquity in the heart could then cause the “love of many [to] wax cold” (Matt. 24:12). The term “wax cold” is from a word that figuratively means to reduce the temperature by evaporation, or to reduce the temperature by