- Insight from Butler's Daily Bible Reading: 1 John 2:12–27—Conflicts. •Conflicts of the past: compliments for the overcomers. •Conflicts of the present: love not the world. •Conflicts of the future: the foe is antichrist. The character of the antichrist (departed from truth and God’s people); the creed of antichrist (deny the Father and the Son); the craftiness of antichrist (seducing people to do evil).