Claim. When spiritually-gifted believers in the Last Days receive the revelation “you are the Lord,” this is God’s recognition that they have reached pre-Fall-level maturity and stand in John-the-Baptist-type mission-position — preparing the way for Christ at the Second Advent in their respective fields. It is not a revelation of identity with Christ. Believers who confuse position-revelation for identity-revelation become antichrists.
Elaboration. Per 2.2.6. Spiritual Phenomena in the Last Days: “In the Last Days, many people will receive the revelation, ‘You are the Lord.’ Often these people will be misled into believing that they are the Second Coming of Christ.”
DP’s explanation: when fallen people are spiritually restored to the top of the growth stage, “they will reach the level of heart comparable to that of Adam and Eve just before their Fall. God gives certain people who are at this stage the revelation that they are the Lord, in recognition that they have reached the level of maturity at which He had once blessed human beings with dominion.”
Mission interpretation: such believers “stand in a position similar to that of John the Baptist… given the mission to prepare, in their particular areas of responsibility, the way for Christ at the Second Advent.”
Antichrist warning: such a person “should understand this phenomenon through the teachings of the Principle. He should not act wrongly, mistaking himself for Christ at the Second Advent. Otherwise, he may end up playing the role of an antichrist.”
Connects to Ch 4’s JtB-as-Elijah-by-mission framework: identity-by-mission is structural; literal-identity claims are category mistakes.
See also. dp-last-days-people-perceive-spirit-world-pre-fall-level-restored