1 John 2:18 meaning and explanation

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

1 John 2:18, Berean Standard Bible

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John, writing as a pastor to a congregation shaken by a recent split, addresses his readers tenderly as children. He says it is the last hour, meaning the final age between Christ's first coming and his return, not a countdown of minutes.

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