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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. |
Bible Question: Does your ministry believe that the Antichrist will come before Jesus in this generation ? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Tracy... The only explicit references to the antichrist is in the first and second Epistles of John. He tells us that an antichrist is anyone who denies that Jesus is Christ, deceivers that deny both the Father and the Son (1 John 2:22; 2 John 1:7). Furthermore, John tells us that "even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour" (1 John 2:18). Consequently, since antichrists appeared then and have appeared even in our own day, we may rightly conclude that these things occur prior to the Second Coming. Beyond that, Scripture is silent. There are many prophecy mongers and the like, though, that promulgate a view of some kind of special antichrist -- co-opting the word with a capital A. That opinion, though, is predicated on a dispensational hermeneutic of the church, unknown to Biblical orthodoxy. In Him, Doc |