While the first antichristic passage (1 John 2:18–25) describes a church split in which so-called believers abandoned the Johannine fellowship and likely rejoined the local Jewish community, the second antichristic passage describes a threat in the impending future that is not a schism but an invasion. False teachers are about, and the way they are discerned is also by considering their Christology. In contrast to the first group, however, which refused to believe that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, this second threat probably involved Gentile Christian teachers who refused to believe Jesus had come in the flesh. Indeed, the differences are several: one crisis is largely in the past, the other largely in the future; one crisis involves a departure, the other a visitation; and the first gro…