Literature

The Last Hour

The Apostle John lived in the midst of a savage persecution. Many of God’s churches were being taken over by traitors. When he wrote his epistles, John thought it was “the last hour” before Christ’s Second Coming. In fact, it was only a type of our time today. Every detail of what John prophesied is now being fulfilled! John’s “last hour” epistles are mainly for God’s end-time Church!

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On May 5, 2001, God signaled the beginning of a new phase in this rapidly fading age of man. This new phase is described in vivid detail by the Apostle John in his epistles. You need to understand this deeply to know how imminent Jesus Christ’s return truly is!

John was the disciple “whom Jesus loved” (see John 13:23; 20:2; 21:7, 20). He was somehow more compatible in certain ways with Christ, and Christ could talk about the truth to John in a more profound way than He could with the other disciples. John was closer to Christ in understanding, it appears, because of this special relationship and his living so much longer than the other apostles. He received an abundance of truth and information from Christ that the other disciples did not—as is evidenced in his writings, his unique terms and phrases. Imagine the conversations between Jesus and John. What did Christ tell him?

1 John 2:18 in the Revised Standard Version reads, “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.” Last hour is the correct translation of the Greek in that verse, rather than last time, as it reads in the King James Version.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: We Are in ‘the Last Hour’ Read
Chapter 2: Christ Is Coming in the Flesh Read
Chapter 3: Fighting the Antichrist Read
Chapter 4: The Eternal Logos Vision Read
Chapter 5: Witness—the Word Nobody Understands Read
Chapter 6: Our Advocate When We Sin Read
Chapter 7: Behold! Sons of God! Read
Chapter 8: The Elder Read
Chapter 9: Gaius Had the Secret of Success Read
Epilogue: From the Beginning Read

About The Author

Gerald Flurry is the presenter of the Key of David television program and the editor in chief of the Philadelphia Trumpet newsmagazine. He is the founder and pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God, chancellor of Herbert W. Armstrong College and chairman of the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation.
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