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I Jn 2:18
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
(KJV)
John's first phrase (in bold) is in the singular antichrist tense.
John's last phrase (underlined) is in the plural antichrist tense.
Those who refuse to heed John's first phrase that they had already heard that antichrist shall come show they cannot even read the simple English grammar it's written in. It's because those are listening to false prophets instead of God's Word there.
Paul is talking about a singular false one coming in 2 Thess.2.
Christ is talking about a singular false one coming in Matt.24:23-26.
Christ again is talking about a singular false one coming in Rev.13:11 forward.
Daniel was talking about a specific false one taking away the daily sacrifice and placing the abomination idol that makes desolate, in Jerusalem. And we have already had the pattern of Antiochus IV in 170 B.C. doing that fitting the Daniel prophecy almost to a tee.
The early Church fathers also understood that John was declaring a specific Antichrist that's to come as separate from the many antichrists as "forerunners" of the Antichrist (see writings Polycarp a disciple of Apostle John, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Cyril of Jerusalem, etc.).
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
(KJV)
John's first phrase (in bold) is in the singular antichrist tense.
John's last phrase (underlined) is in the plural antichrist tense.
Those who refuse to heed John's first phrase that they had already heard that antichrist shall come show they cannot even read the simple English grammar it's written in. It's because those are listening to false prophets instead of God's Word there.
Paul is talking about a singular false one coming in 2 Thess.2.
Christ is talking about a singular false one coming in Matt.24:23-26.
Christ again is talking about a singular false one coming in Rev.13:11 forward.
Daniel was talking about a specific false one taking away the daily sacrifice and placing the abomination idol that makes desolate, in Jerusalem. And we have already had the pattern of Antiochus IV in 170 B.C. doing that fitting the Daniel prophecy almost to a tee.
The early Church fathers also understood that John was declaring a specific Antichrist that's to come as separate from the many antichrists as "forerunners" of the Antichrist (see writings Polycarp a disciple of Apostle John, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Cyril of Jerusalem, etc.).