2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
THE MAN OF SIN AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The coming of Anti-Christ before the end:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN OF SIN AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The coming of Anti-Christ before the end:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND, OR BE TROUBLED, NEITHER BY SPIRIT, NOR BY WORD, NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. Paul had naturally included an instruction on the second coming of Christ in the doctrine which he taught at Thessalonica. But it seem... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBER YE NOT THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW YE KNOW WHAT WITHHOLDETH THAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN HIS TIME.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK; ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH WILL LET, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING;... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN HIM WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH, BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. This was not the first time that the apostle had given the Thessalonian Christians instruction concerning the great apostasy: Do you not remember that, while I was still with you, I told you this? He had m... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE ARE BOUND TO GIVE THANKS ALWAY TO GOD FOR YOU, BRETHREN, BELOVED OF THE LORD, BECAUSE GOD HATH FROM THE BEGINNING CHOSEN YOU TO SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT AND BELIEF OF THE TRUTH;... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL COMMENDS, COUNSELS, AND COMFORTS HIS READERS:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREUNTO HE CALLED YOU BY OUR GOSPEL TO THE OBTAINING OF THE GLORY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, STAND FAST, AND HOLD THE TRADITIONS WHICH YE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, WHETHER BY WORD OR OUR EPISTLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF AND GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, WHICH HATH LOVED US, AND HATH GIVEN US EVERLASTING CONSOLATION AND GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE,... [ Continue Reading ]
COMFORT YOUR HEARTS, AND ESTABLISH YOU IN EVERY GOOD WORD AND WORK. After his extended description of Anti-Christ and its attendant warning, the apostle now turns back to his Thessalonian Christians with words of cheer and thanksgiving to God: But us it behooves to give thanks to God always in your... [ Continue Reading ]