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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 3 of 3) Considering the Bible as our source and looking no further Seiss has presented a stronger argument for interpreting it as the Day of the Lord. If we have to look outside of the Bible to get one shred of evidence that it is Sunday, so that the only references to The Lord’s Day as Sunday is outside of the Bible then we are on questionable ground. Of course if you take the stand that Early Writers and the Catholic Church is authority enough for your faith then you are comfortable with that. I have to have God’s Word on every article of my faith. So far .. (and I am open ).. Seiss has a stronger biblical basis than those that present their argument for Rev 1:10 applying to Sunday. Now if it were meant here (Rev 1:10) that it meant Sunday, I would only get a lesson that on Sunday John must have decided to pray more than on other days, and this may have been the case with the majority of saints even in the very first generation, but I don’t think it was the case with the apostles, I think they were diligently giving themselves to prayer on all days of the week. This idea that it is Sunday would suggest a more vigorous spiritual activity on John’s part than on other days and as a result he has entered into a “trance” or been taken up (whether in the body or out of the body, we do not know). So it would teach us, that no matter what condition you find yourself, on Sunday you should turn toward God in fervent prayer. I am sure that this has been preached, but I am not so sure that is the correct message of this verse. However if it means that John was translated into the Day of the Lord by the Spirit we then see a foundational truth that enables us to correctly interpret the whole vision to come and all that is written in the book. This seems to make better sense but I am not going to contend for it as the only possible explanation. Let’s just say at this time, taking into account both arguments, I lean toward, The Day of the Lord. May God bless you as you mine the depths of His eternal Word. |