Antichrists

 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.
1 John 2:18 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.2.18.ESV

Some professing Christians have an unhealthy obsession with who the final antichrist will be. John steers us away from such speculation however. He warns us that there are already many antichrists.

What is John's definition of an antichrist? It is someone who denies Father God and the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. By that definition, Muslims are antichrists, because the worst sin in Islam is to say that God has a Son: the cornerstone of our faith as Christians

Does this teaching about antichrists mean we should hate Muslims? Not at all! We should love them, pray for them, and declare the truth of God to them, in the hope that they come to repentance and faith in Christ.

As Muslims demographically increase and the need for new spiritual birth amongst spiritually dead people increases, so we can conclude with John that it's the last hour. The end is nigh! We don't need to speculate about the final antichrist. We just need to faithfully proclaim the true Christ, until it's too late.

'Dear Father God, please help us to faithfully proclaim Christ until He returns to call us home, in whose name we pray, amen'