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The opponent of Christ
I John 2:18–22
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“It makes no difference what you believe, just as long as you are sincere? This is the philosophy of many people today but it is not what the Bible teaches. Sincerity doesn’t necessarily make something true. Suppose I feel sick in the night and go to the medicine cabinet to … More
John is talking about the last days, the time between Christ’s first and second comings. During this time antichrists (false teachers who pretend to be Christians) will appear. Then finally, just before the world ends, one great Antichrist will arise (Rev. 3:19-20; 20:10). We meet the concept of Antichrist. Antichrist is a word which occurs only in John’s letters in the New Testament. Antichrist can mean either the opponent of Christ or the one who seeks to put himself in the place of Christ. There were false teachers in the church in John’s day and there are false teachers in the church today. John warns the believers that they are in a last-hour-kind-of-a-time. The last hour began in his day and has been growing in intensity ever since (v. 18). The “spirit of Antichrist” is in the world today. It will eventually lead to the appearance of a “satanic superman” whom the Bible calls “Antichrist". John wanted his readers to be on guard against antichrists and know how to recognize them.
Not everyone who belongs to a church is necessarily a member of the family of God. It is possible to be close to an experience of salvation and yet not be a child of God.
Application
The rapture of the Church will be the next event on God’s prophetic calendar. My job is to share His Word while there is yet time.
I John 2:18-22 (English Standard Version)
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
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