_AROUND WHOM WE GATHER_ ‘Our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 It is that conception, so full of both peace and power, of present rest and of the energy of an immortal hope, so pregnant with the suggestion of a co-operation deeper than we can analyse, but which is ruled and manage... [ Continue Reading ]
_MYSTERY MET BY FAITH_ ‘The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ … that ye be not soon shaken in mind.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 The Apostle is here evidently addressing men who had conceived a wrong opinion as to the nearness of the Day of Judgment. He beseeches them by the very event, and by the solemn i... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SECOND COMING_ ‘Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 When will this ‘gathering’ be? It will be at the end of the world, when Christ returns to earth the second time. Visibly He went away, visibly in... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST_ ‘That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:3 The spirit of Antichrist is always in the world. I. THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST IS THE SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION TO ALL MORAL RESTRAIN... [ Continue Reading ]