2 Thessalonians 1:1 I. This Epistle opens with the mention of the same Apostolic group as does the first. Paul was not alone: Silvanus and Timotheus were still with him in closest fellowship of toil and suffering. The Church, too, is described in the same way. Still further, the Apostle gives expres... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Thessalonians 1:7 The rest awaiting Christ's troubled saints is in the fullest sense to be their possession at the revelation of the Lord Jesus. He who is emphatically the coming One is to be revealed. There is a vividness in the word. He is now hidden. But when He comes again, every eye shall se... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Thessalonians 1:10 I. All creation is one great illustration of Jesus. God has laid up everything, if we only see it aright, for the exhibition of His dear Son; so that, faithful to that great idea, when He comes He will come, indeed, to judge the world, but He will come yet more "to be glorified... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Worthy of your Calling. In the former letter to the Church of Thessalonica, the Apostle had dwelt, in ever-memorable words which sound like a prelude of the trump of God on the coming of Christ at the end to judge the world and to gather His servants into His rest. That great... [ Continue Reading ]