OUTLINE: I. The error confronting them: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 II. The coming apostasy and the Man of Sin: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 III. Who will be deceived: 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 IV. Gratitude and exhortation to faithfulness: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15 V. Paul's prayer for them: 2 Thessalonians 2:... [ Continue Reading ]
“NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TOUCHING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM” “Touching”: “Concerning” (Con). “AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM”: “Our being gathered to meet Him” (TCNT). The coming of the Lord and the gathering of the saints are regarded as cl... [ Continue Reading ]
“TO THE END THAT YE BE NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN FROM YOUR MIND, NOR YET BE TROUBLED, EITHER BY SPIRIT, OR BY WORD, OR BY EPISTLE AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS JUST AT HAND” “To the end”: The purpose of this exhortation. “QUICKLY SHAKEN”: To waver, agitate, rock, topple or (by implication) de... [ Continue Reading ]
“LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU IN ANY WISE: FOR IT WILL NOT BE, EXCEPT THE FALLING AWAY COME FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION” “Let no man beguile you”: To seduce wholly, to beguile and deceive. “IN ANY WISE”: “Whatever he may say” (Mof). “Paul broadens the warning to go beyond c... [ Continue Reading ]
“HE THAT OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELF AGAINST ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED; SO THAT HE SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SETTING HIMSELF FORTH AS GOD” “He”: The man of sin. “THAT OPPOSETH EXALTETH HIMSELF AGAINST ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD”: “He actually supersedes all forms of religion an... [ Continue Reading ]
“REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN. WAS YET WITH YOU,. TOLD YOU THESE THINGS?” “Remember ye not”: “This little verse has surely been included in the sacred Scriptures to blast forever out of existence any idea that Paul at one time said that the Lord was going to come very quickly, and then that he late... [ Continue Reading ]
“AND NOW YE KNOW THAT WHICH RESTRAINETH, TO THE END THAT HE MAY BE REVEALED IN HIS OWN SEASON” “And now ye know”: They knew, because Paul had taught them previously. “THAT WHICH RESTRAINETH”: “You know now what the restraining influence is which prevents his appearing before his appointed time” (TC... [ Continue Reading ]
“FOR THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS DOTH ALREADY WORK: ONLY THERE IS ONE THAT RESTRAINETH NOW, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY” “For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work”: “The hidden activity of lawlessness” _(Marshall p. 195)._ When Paul wrote this letter the seeds of apostasy where already... [ Continue Reading ]
“AND THEN SHALL BE REVEALED THE LAWLESS ONE, WHOM THE LORD JESUS SHALL SLAY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH, AND BRING TO NOUGHT BY THE MANIFESTATION OF HIS COMING” “And then”: When the Empire collapses, the apostasy which has been brewing will allow the papacy to fully emerge, and claim Christ's posi... [ Continue Reading ]
“EVEN HE, WHOSE COMING IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS” “Even he”: The man of lawlessness. “ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN”: “Will all Satan's influence to aid him” (Knox). “Through the cunning of Satan that this man of sin will come” (Nor). Satan... [ Continue Reading ]
“AND WITH ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED” “And with”: In addition to the false miraculous claims. “ALL”: Every form or type of deception that evil can muster. “FOR THEM THAT PERISH”: Paul is now talking ab... [ Continue Reading ]
“AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SENDETH THEM. WORKING OF ERROR, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE. LIE” “And for this cause”: Because they reject the truth and do not love what God represents. “GOD SENDETH THEM”: We already know that God does not entice anyone to sin (James 1:13) and neither is He the instigator of... [ Continue Reading ]
“THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE JUDGED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS” “That they all might be judged who believed not the truth”: The word “judged” here is being used in the sense of condemned. Being deceived and ending up lost is. just and fair punishment for people who r... [ Continue Reading ]
“BUT WE ARE BOUND TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU, BRETHREN BELOVED OF THE LORD, FOR THAT GOD CHOSE YOU FROM THE BEGINNING UNTO SALVATION IN SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT AND BELIEF OF THE TRUTH” “But”: In contrast to those who do not love the truth, but delight in evil. “WE ARE BOUND”: Compar... [ Continue Reading ]
“WHEREUNTO HE CALLED YOU THROUGH OUR GOSPEL, TO THE OBTAINING OF THE GLORY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST” “Whereunto: To such. salvation. “To the whole program of being saved through sanctification of spirit and belief of the truth” _(Fields p. 213)._ ‘HE CALLED YOU THROUGH OUR GOSPEL”: God does not ca... [ Continue Reading ]
“SO THEN, BRETHREN, STAND FAST, AND HOLD THE TRADITIONS WHICH YE WERE TAUGHT, WHETHER BY WORD, OR BY EPISTLE OF OURS” “So then”: Great truths must have great conclusions or applications. “STAND FAST”: See 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 16:13; Galatians 5:1; 1 Peter 1:27; 1 Peter 4:1). In the co... [ Continue Reading ]
“NOW OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, AND GOD OUR FATHER WHO LOVED US AND GAVE US ETERNAL COMFORT AND GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE”... [ Continue Reading ]
“COMFORT YOUR HEARTS AND ESTABLISH THEM IN EVERY GOOD WORK AND WORD” We must always remember that God loves us (John 3:16; Romans 8:32). If we end up lost then it was our choosing. Notice how Paul ascribes the same qualities to the Father and the Son. The phrase "eternal comfort" infers that heaven... [ Continue Reading ]