The mess the world is in some guy will pop up and say “Hey, I can fix everything” if only you’d do as I say. He’d be so charismatic governments will fall all over themselves to give him the power he needs and I bet it’d involved the UN.
In 2 Thess 2, where Paul is explaining to the folks that they cannot be in the Day of The Lord period because certain things that he taught them would hallmark that time have not occurred. That is not saying that certain things must occur before the Rapture, it is saying certain things will occur before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.
The doctrine of imminence is an aspect best not ignored, since Jesus taught it, Peter taught it, and other Apostles appear to have taught it, even Paul. The meaning of imminence is not to be taken as soon, rather it is a notion that something can happen completely without an announcement or sign of it, as in 'the next thing that will happen sometime from now to then'. The Rapture ends the Church Age that Paul referred to as a dispensation of Grace.
We are told to watch, be alert, anticipate His imminent arrival for us. Paul was not telling the folks to be alert for the arrival of antichrist, he was telling them that they could not be in the Day of The Lord because there are specific things which will happen before that Day is present.
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Exactly!