Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.
John again used a three-fold structure at the beginning of this section of the text. He described three signs or marks: of the end (1 John 2:18-19), of the believer (1 John 2:20-23), and of living in the light (1 John 2:24-25). 1 John 2:26-27 recapitulate and develop the revelation in 1 John 2:18-25.