The Last Hour

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour.^(A) And as you have heard, “Antichrist^(B) is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.

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

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