Key Words and Phrases: Love, Antichrist, Last Time, Love, Diotrephes
John writes about the love of God being a sign of true faith. John warns the Saints concerning false teachers, deceivers, and antichrists, The presence of antichrist was a sign of the last days.
John confronted Gnostics of his day. Their teaching led to lascivious lifestyles instead of righteous living. Gnostics considered themselves to have superior and secretive knowledge that exceeded their counterparts. The Gnostics would not acknowledge that Jesus came in the flash, John acknowledges that Jesus was the Word made flesh.
Key Versus: 1 John 2:18; 22, 28, 3:2 15, 4:3; 2 John 1:7
Blessings,
Apostle John