Ep 199 - 1 John 2:18-27 PT 3

This is episode three on 1 John, chapter two, verses 18-27. I've entitled it "The Last Hour." In it, we will find John giving his best effort to warn his readers about the spirit of the antichrist. This term is one that most of us associate with the end times, a time period somewhere out in the distant future that we hope to avoid at all costs. But John was under the impression, the divinely-inspired impression, that he was living in the last times. And so are we. They began the day Jesus ascended into heaven and sent His Spirit to dwell among us and within us. So, for more than 2,000 years, we have been living within a period of time that is moving steadily closer to a point of culmination. John told his readers that they were living in the last hour. But Peter would have us remember, "A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." (2 Peter 3:8 NLT). We don't know God's schedule, but we do know that we are living in the last days because of the growing antipathy and animosity toward Christ.