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Here is where a lot of confusion has come. Understanding what John meant by even now there are many antichrists.
1John2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
John was not writing that there would not be a singular antichrist person who shall come.
Instead, John was emphasizing it.
Them who John was writing to already had heard about that person coming, and understood the concept of the antichrist as someone who will be anointed the King of Israel, coming in his own name - instead of and in opposition (anti) that Jesus is the true christ - the rightful king of Israel coming in the name of the Lord.
John wrote that even now there are many antichrists - which - John was describing as fore shadows of the coming antichrist person - that John AND his fellow Christians were already aware of.
There is going to be a singular antichrist person that the Jews are going to embrace, thinking he is messiah (which them speaking greek at the time of the woman at the well - called christ, christos). And that person will be anointed the King of Israel, but he comes in his own name. Meaning that person is not the person that God approves of nor has chosen to be their King.
Truth is received from the mind of Christ.
1John2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
John was not writing that there would not be a singular antichrist person who shall come.
Instead, John was emphasizing it.
Them who John was writing to already had heard about that person coming, and understood the concept of the antichrist as someone who will be anointed the King of Israel, coming in his own name - instead of and in opposition (anti) that Jesus is the true christ - the rightful king of Israel coming in the name of the Lord.
John wrote that even now there are many antichrists - which - John was describing as fore shadows of the coming antichrist person - that John AND his fellow Christians were already aware of.
There is going to be a singular antichrist person that the Jews are going to embrace, thinking he is messiah (which them speaking greek at the time of the woman at the well - called christ, christos). And that person will be anointed the King of Israel, but he comes in his own name. Meaning that person is not the person that God approves of nor has chosen to be their King.
Truth is received from the mind of Christ.