The Last Hour

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour.^(A) And as you have heard that antichrist^(B) is coming, even now many antichrists have come. By this we know that it is the last hour.

²² Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?^(A) This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.

³ but every spirit that does not confess Jesus^[a] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,^(A) which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world.