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"Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. ... This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son."

Source

1 John — 'The Spirit of Antichrist'

1 John 2:18, 22 (ESV)

Author

Apostle John

Date

c. 90–100 CE

Credibility & evidentiary value

The only texts to use the word 'antichrist.' John stresses that the spirit of deception is already at work and is recognized by what it denies about Christ — a present test, not only a future figure.

Citation · Chicago

1 John 2:18–23; 4:1–3 (ESV). The English Standard Version (Wheaton: Crossway, 2001).

Used in topics

Theological InterpretationThe False Messiah: The Counterfeit Christ Scripture Warns Of

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