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1 John 2:24-25 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
24 As for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.
The Second Epistle of John, often referred to as Second John and often written 2 John or II John, is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, the apostle John being the author of the other two epistles of John, and the Gospel of John. This was written in Ephesus about 98 C.E.
2 Thessalonians 2:6-12: Who is the restraint that held back the great apostasy? Who are these ones that have been “at work” since Paul’s day and are still “at work” in our day? Herein these questions are answered and others with two different views.
1 John 4:5 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
5 They are from the world; therefore, they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:4 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
This epistle was written in Ephesus about 98 C.E. John advises Christians on how to discern true teachers: by their ethics, their proclamation of Jesus in the flesh, and by their love. The epistle is divided into five chapters.
Those who love God must live as he wants them to live. They must not go on sinning; rather, they must love their brothers in Christ not just in words but also in deeds.
Christians not only have to battle the Agnostic and atheist, but they must also contend with liberal Bible scholars, and even some moderates, who use higher criticism in their interpretation. It is here that we should also expound a little more on the “criticism” portion of the term “higher criticism” and “textual criticism.” It might… Continue Reading →
1 John 5:4–5 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
4 because everyone who has been born from God conquers the world. And this is the conquest that has conquered the world, our faith. 5 Who is the one who conquers the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Abomination of desolation is thus a symbol for the most devastating activities through which the hostile forces of evil make their attack, whether upon the Jewish people in Maccabean times, upon Jerusalem in the first century AD, or upon the people of God in a final assault of evil at the end time.
