Reject the Enemies of Christ

¹⁸ My dear children [2:1], ·these are the last days [^Lit is the last hour; ^Csuggesting urgency, though not claiming the end was near]. [^LJust as] You have heard that the ·enemy of Christ [^Lantichrist] is coming, and now many ·enemies of Christ [^Lantichrists; ^Cfalse teachers; 2:22; 2 John 7] are already here. This is how we know that ·these are the last days [^Lit is the last hour].