I live in the rural area between towns. We have a real dairy with a little store where we can buy fresh milk, local eggs, and more. Just last week they were told by their bank that they can no longer purchase so many quarters from the bank. What? Really, it’s a war on cash, push the customers to use plastic for their $3.25 milk? Sadly, the bank board is probably local pinhead politicians, too, and they want that land to build more hideous crackerbox houses since the RE developers fund their campaigns.
OTT It’s okay, we have JESUS - or He has us - so all of these moves have been expected. The rapture will not come until two things, the great falling away and that man of sin be revealed. (2Thess 2:3)
2 Thessalonians 1:7–2:17
No, I don’t believe that the man of sin of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 must be revealed before the rapture can take place; the revelation of the [3] man of sin (and concrete evidence of [3] the falling away) are evidence of the great tribulation. Paul’s purpose in 2 Thessalonians 2 was to assure the Thessalonian Christians that they were not in the great tribulation and they had not missed the rapture – that is why they were so [2] shaken in mind and troubled. Collectively, this shows us that the [3] man of sin (the Antichrist) does not have to be revealed before [1] our gathering together to Him (the catching away of the church).