So, the Christians who lived in the last times looked to salvation through Christ who would certainly come in the “last times” (last days) which was the era in which *they* lived. So, the last days was nearly 2,000 years ago during the times of the apostles!
Verified:
1 Peter 4:7 wrote:But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter 4:17 wrote:For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?