This is how we know it is the last hour" and "even now is already in the world." the endtimes should have occured 2000 years ago.Good point Bubba.John said, 2000 years ago, that THEE antichrist was already in the world, AND that, in his day, was the last hour, NOT last days, but the last HOUR.In the theological realm and amongst scholars this verse is an embarressment to the bible. How long is an hour. Because the Church world is saying that it still needs to come to pass, yet John must have been senile in his old age.According to the Apostle, 1 day is as 1000 years to the LORD and a 1000 years is as one day. How many years is 1 hour?I am not stupid, I know what John was saying, he wasn't using a literal numerical hour, but was sharing to his readers the season in which they were living, hence the hour.For example Jesus said, "The hour is come and NOW is".Think on this, the Church so believes that an antichrist will appear, they believe it with all their heart, is it possible that that which is believed will come into existance, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen".Notice this, "God gave them their request, but sent leaness to their soul".My people are looking to an antichrist, but they are not looking to me their one true love, their turtledove.Job even said, the thing that I feared has come upon me.Karl Karl