1 John 4:1-8
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Berean Standard Bible
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“This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.”
The “antichrist” discussed in end times prophecy circles is never mentioned in the book of Revelation.
John tells the people he wrote this letter to that the spirit of the antichrist is already in the world AT THIS TIME.
He also writes this is 1 John 2, telling them (the people reading his letter – not us) that it is the LAST HOUR. Why do Christians today insist that we are in the last hour when John told the believers who received his letter that THEY were in the last hour?