Questions From Last Week: • Are the dead in Christ in Heaven before the rapture? (See Ecc 12:7 and 2 Cor 5:8) • Is it ok to cremate or will it mess up the resurrection? (See Gen 3:19) 18b even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. • What is an antichrist (not The Antichrist)? • How do they oppose Jesus in our day and age? • How does the presence of these Christ-opposers show us that the final battle is approaching? Mt 24:5, Act 20:29-30 • How does the state of this world show us that Jesus is the Christ? 19a They went out from us, but they were not of us; • What does it mean that some were with us but not of us? • As a church, what are some things we can do to protect the flock from impostors that may be among us? 19b for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. • What is the perseverance of the Saints? (See Ph 1:6, Rom 11:29, John 10:27-29) • In the end, darkness is always by the light. Application: How do we apply these truths to our life today? (1 Pt 5:8-11, Phil 4:6-9, Eph 6:10-18)