II
Thessalonians 2 A Direct Line to God.
Evidently
there are people in this world that think they have a direct line to God.
Someone in Paul’s time must have written a letter or spread the word that the
Day of the Lord has already come. Paul directly tells them that the Day of
Christ is not at hand. It is easy to understand why the Thessalonians would
believe that because Christians were being persecuted daily. They thought they
were in the Great Tribulation so they believed the day of the Lord has come.
The
Day of the Lord is a phrase that begins with the Great Tribulation throughout
the Milennium. It is the day of judgment. In Acts 2:20 Peter says the sun shall
turn into darkness and the moon into blood before the Lord has come. That has
not happened yet. Jesus will come as a thief in the night, the heavens will
pass away with a great noise and all the elements in heaven and on earth shall
melt away with a fervant heat. That has not happened. Two other things has to
happen before the Day of the Lord. First, there must be a falling away. The
organized church will depart from the faith and the rapture has taken place and
the true church will be removed from the earth and taken up with Jesus. Second,
the man of sin will be revealed. Once he is revealed the Great Tribulation has
already begun. John calls him the antichrist. He will be the one to put the
Roman Empire back together. He will become a world dictator. He will decieve
the world. He will claim to be God and many will believe him.
One
day a “lawless one” will arise and, empowered by Satan will deceive many
people. Those who “did not receive the love of the truth” and who “believe the
lie” will be lost forever. Satan always seeks to deceive, but a ton of truth
with an ounce of a lie is still a lie. Many false religions flirt at the edges
of the truth and sound good. But any religion that teaches salvation by any
other way than through Jesus Christ is a deception. We must hold tight to the
truth so as not to be deceived.
God
has chosen us for salvation. He called us by the gospel and sanctified us in
the spirit and for our belief of the truth. Because we believe, we study the
Word of God. This is the work of God who saves us. He comforts our hearts and
established us in every good word and work.
Please
read the chapter listed so that you can understand God’s Word better.
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you have missed any lessons, you can go to: https://sherrysouthard.blogspot.com. Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.
Dr.
David Jeremiah Study Bible. Through the Bible by J. Vernon McGee.
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