At The Last Hour

Intro:

Tenderness of John due to the subject vs. 18

18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Recognition of the closeness of His return vs. 18

Appearance Of An Antichrist vs. 18

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 500. ἀντίχριστος antíchristos

literally an opposer of Christ or one who usurps the place of Christ, found only in John’s epistles and collectively meaning all who deny that Jesus is the Messiah and that the Messiah is come in the flesh

Going Away (Falling Away) Apostasy vs 19

Matthew 24:12-13 12 and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end—this person will be saved.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 3 Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

1 Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 by the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience, 3 who forbid marrying and insist on abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

Our Advantage vs. 20

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 2

20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Presence Of Liars vss. 21-23

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 2

21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because every lie is not of the truth. 22 Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Hold On To What You Have

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 2

24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.