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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: Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, This verse has nothing to do with the sabbath. I think it makes more sense to view it as John saying that He was translated by the Spirit into that Day of the Lord. And so he is just introducing to us what the whole series of visions had to do with.. THE DAY OF THE LORD .. the prophesied Day of the Lord to come in which the wrath of God is poured out on the world and all that is prophesied concerning the Day of the Lord will come to pass. THIS MAKES IT 100 percent Crystal Clear that what follows is future and begins when the DAY OF THE LORD begins. Because the Day of the Lord is still future, we know Revelation is future. And just so no one would be confused as to what time these things would take place he begins with "I was translated by the Spirit into the Day of the Lord" My paraphrase Actually I really did not paraphrase it because the Greek words hear translated The Lord's Day can be translated the Day of the Lord as well. Just as The Lord's Table and the Table of the Lord. I am not a Greek scholar but Joseph A. Siess has presented this at length in his book The Apacolypse and he has done it in a way that all Greek scholars will enjoy. There is no reference to the either the sabbath or Sunday being called the Lord's Day. When you take a step back and think about it, it makes sense that we messed it up along the way because of our church denominational filters. I think the first church thought John meant the Day of the Lord, and much later someone interpreted it as Sunday and it was repeated that way often until many have never heard it interpreted any other way. But the scriptures no where speak of Sunday or sabbath called the Lord's Day. But we read often of The Day of the Lord or the Lord's Day in that sense. This is what John is saying. I was taken by vision into the "Day of the Lord". May God Bless You as you stay humble to the Word and allow the Word of God to transform you into the image of Christ. |