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THE SECOND LETTER OF JOHN
Many believe Second John to have been written near the turn of the First Century by the beloved Apostle John. Surely he was an ancient man by this time and suffered all those ailments, which attack a person nearly 100 years old. Despite these his heart was devoted to the Church he had seen grow up around him in the six decades since the death of his Master, Jesus Christ the Nazarene. He felt two compelling obligations: to preserve the original faith with its doctrine, and, the motivating force of Christianity – love. About four decades before the great missionary of the Faith, Paul, had already warned about those who would pervert the Doctrine of Christ with “different teachings.” In First John, the beloved Presbyter had called his period of time “the last hour.” He knew following the death of all the Apostles and their appointed representatives the Church would undergo a fermentation, a field of wheat with weeds planted among them, until the weeds nearly choked out the wheat.
What would a Christian man – one who leaned against the breast of the rabbi from Galilee – wish to tell the Church before his own death? And do this in less than 400 words?
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