Last Hour or Last Seconds?

John writes in his first epistle, "...it is the last hour..." (1 Jn. 2:18). So I have to conclude that, if that was true 2,000 years ago when the epistle was written, then with all that's happening around us in the world today we must be living in the final seconds of human history. Particularly when he states, later in that verse, that "even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour."

What is the way in which to identify someone who is operating in the spirit of the antichrist (Messiah-imitator)? Verse 22 - "Who is a liar but he who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son."

This is particularly telling in light of the nature of the heresies that are entering the arena of Messiah's body through "prominent" Christian and Church leaders. When I hear from and read the writings of such men as John Hagee, who has national visibility in the Church world, say that "Jesus did not come to be the Messiah" and that He never identified Himself as such, and that Jewish people, therefore, cannot be expected to believe in Him as the Messiah, I have to believe that Yeshua is about to come back the second time.

I purchased a copy of Hagee's book "In Defense Of Israel" today, in which he elaborates on this heresy. With even just a cursory glance in it, particuarly page 136, the blatant lies and usage of proof texts from the Bible out of context is rife. To blatantly state that the Jews do not need Yeshua to be forgiven and saved since He never claimed to be the Messiah is an outright contradiction of the Scriptures and of the statements Yeshua made about Himself. To say that Jews don't need the true Messiah of Israel is the height of anti-semitism.

These are the last seconds. Think about it!