The False One(s!)
The presence of false teachers in the church demonstrates that we are in the last days, and the last hour is almost upon us . In his first epistle, John declares it is the last hour, a period elsewhere called the “ last days .” As evidence of this, he points to the false teachers that are disrupting his churches. They are products and instruments of the “ Spirit of Antichrist ” that is active already in the world. And these same deceivers are forerunners of the final “ Antichrist ” who is yet to come.