John is now the last apostle, living as an old man, writing this letter to his children. He first distinguishes knowing God from doing God’s work on earth. John claims that he does not add new commandments or statutes but emphasizes the most important command – love. This two-fold process involves loving one another and loving God. John also distinguishes between loving worldly things from loving the Father. If we believe and love worldly, earthly things, we take away from loving the One who created them. It is now that we see John start to touch on what would be the final book of the bible – Revelation. Toward the end of this chapter, John introduces us to the Tribulation with what it looks like with periods of intense judgment on the unbelieving world. Within this period, the intensity will be terrible for the Jewish people, but the Deliverer will come out of Zion, saving them. The Antichrist is here now, placing discerning Christians on alert for Christ’s coming. It is at the end of this chapter that God’s true children recognize Jesus as both fully God and fully man with the only way to salvation being through Him. We have a lot to unpack and listen to with this chapter. It may take a few times listening to it to start understanding the importance of love and its place in the upcoming Tribulation. This chapter is the precursor and the preparation of what we know as the final book of the bible – The Revelation of Jesus Christ. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inthefieldaudiobible/message