18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19 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 they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
( 1 John 2: 18-19)
Many Christians believe that the Antichrist is alive and well on planet earth. They often equate him with the Beast of Revelation, but the the word "antichrist" never even appears in the Book of Revelation. The only place in the Bible where the word "antichrist" appears is in 1 John and 2 John. In context it refers to the apostasy that Jesus warned about. This apostasy was a present reality when John wrote these two small letters. Many antichrist (apostates) had already come. The Antichrist (the apostasy) was happening in their time. This is how they knew they were living in the last hour.
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