1 John 2:18-25 ESV
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
If Christ is the light of the world, then antichrist would be the darkness of the world. The separation between the two is at the center of creation.
Our choice and purpose is choosing between the two. Choosing Christ is choosing the light of God. That light is eternal life.
Not choosing Christ means remaining in the dark, the shadow of death.
It is the last hour. The choice is ours. The time is now.
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