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NASB | 1 John 2:18 ¶ Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 2:18 ¶ Children, it is the last hour [the end of this age]; and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming [the one who will oppose Christ and attempt to replace Him], even now many antichrists (false teachers) have appeared, which confirms our belief that it is the last hour. |
Subject: Will we be here once anti-Christ appears |
Bible Note: Part 2 of 3 “ This is what I understand by his being "in Spirit in the Lord's day." (NOTE: And so Wetstein, Zullig, Dr. S. R. Maitland, Dr. Todd, and B. W. Newton.) I can see no essential difference between [hee] (grk 3588) [Kuriakee] (grk 2960) [heemera] (grk 2250)-- the Lord's day,-- and [hee] (grk 3588) [heemera] (grk 2250) [Kuriou] (grk 2962)-- the day of the Lord. They are simply the two forms for signifying the same relations of the same things. (NOTE: Our English translators have frequently used both these modes of expressing the genitive case of the same noun, both in Hebrew and Greek. Compare (Gen. 28:17) and (Gen. 28:22), where "House of God" and "God's house" mean precisely the same. So "Lord's law," (Ex. 13:9), and "Law of the Lord," (2 Chr. 12:1); "The Lord's people," (1 Sam. 2:24), and "People of the Lord," (Judges 5:11). In all these instances, the Septuagint presents the same forms as the original. So in the New Testament we have the same variety of expression to signify exactly the same relations. In (1 Cor. 10:21), for the same grammatical form in Greek, we have "the Lord's table," and "the table of devils"; in 2 Cor. 2:12, "Christ's Gospel" for "Gospel of Christ"; in 2 Pet. 4:13), "Christ's sufferings," and in (1 Pet. 5:1), "Sufferings of Christ." The same may be seen in (Rev. 11:15), where the kingdoms of the world become our Lord's and his Christ's kingdoms.) And if John was thus mystically down among the scenes of the last day, and has written only what he says he has written, that is "things that he saw;" it cannot be otherwise but that in dealing with the contents of this book we are dealing with what relates pre-eminently to the great Apocalypse and Epiphany of our Lord, when he cometh to judge the world in righteousness. And when we come to consider the actual contents of this book, we find them harmonizing exactly with this understanding of its title. It takes as its chief and unmistakable themes what other portions of the Scriptures assign to the great day of the Lord. It is nothing but Apocalypse from beginning to end. First, we have the Apocalypse of Christ in his relation to the earthly churches, and his judgment of them; then the Apocalypse of his relation to the glorified Church, and the marshalling of them for his forthcoming to judge the world; then the Apocalypse of his relation to the scenes of the judgment, as they are manifested on earth under the opening of the seals, the prophesying of the witnesses, and the fall of Babylon; then the Apocalypse of his actual manifestation to the world in the battle of the great day of God Almighty, the establishment of his kingdom, and the investiture of the saints in their future sovereignties; and finally, the Apocalypse of his relation to the final act of judgment, the destruction of death and the grave, and the introduction of the final estate of a perfected Redemption. What, indeed, is all this, but just what was foretold by all the prophets, by Christ himself, and by all his apostles, as pertaining to THE DAY OF THE LORD? Verily, this book is but the rehearsal, in another and ampler manner, of what all the Scriptures tell us about the last day and the eternal judgment.” Joseph A. Seiss “The Apocalypse” (continued on next post) |