The Great Apostasy

4 Now the Spirit ^[a]expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed ^(A)to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

³ knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, ^(A)walking according to their own lusts,

Deceptions of the Last Hour

^18 (A)Little children, ^(B)it is the last hour; and as you have heard that ^(C)the^[a] Antichrist is coming, ^(D)even now many antichrists have come, by which we know ^(E)that it is the last hour.

^17 (A)But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁸ how they told you that ^(A)there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.