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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: Maybe it was Ignatius, that first applied it to Sunday, at least it would be one on good authority as to the dates about 100-110 AD. This is from his epistle to the Magnesians, "Consequently, if the people who were given to obsolete practices faced the hope of a new life, and if these no longer observe the Sabbath, but regulate their calendar by the Lord's Day, the day, too, on which our Life rose by His power and through the medium of His death--" We all know many of the things the Early Church writers had to say revealed that they were no authorities on perfect interpretation, many things hindered the earliest writers such as not even being decisive about which books were canonical, that would take time due to seperation from each other geographically, so if an early church writer is quouted as applying it to Sunday it does not make it the final authority. That could have been their interpretation of what John meant. But that could have been because of a first impression upon reading the words. I am not 100 percent sure it does not mean Sunday but based on the whole bible I feel more comfortable with applying it to The Day of the Lord and just another way of saying it, such as The Lord's Table and the Table of the Lord. The Day of the Lord and the Lord's Day. But I am open. :) |