Actually I have read that.
Excellent chapter. I’ve excerpted it here a number of times. It does explain a lot.
This Chapter in the Bible That You’ve Probably Not Read Explains Everything Happening Today
If it's in the Bible, trust me, I've read it a bunch of times. (At least once/year since at least 2000.)
2 Thessalonians 2
Meanwhile, millions of people are living lives that are substantially less than their potential. This fragile and special gift of life is so short, yet distractions like drugs and sex become so consuming that the real joy of living is unrealized.
I can only imagine that God's grief is massive.
“Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back....”
Has nothing to do with today’s world. Notice, why would Paul insist on telling people things that would happen 2,000 years later, as if he knew.
“Holding” Present participle, happening when Paul wrote.
I read and quote that chapter often, especially from the 1599 Geneva bible.
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“And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.” 2 Thess. 1:7,8. KJV
Paul continues in the same vein in 2:1, speaking of the same coming he had just described.
“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him.”
The “coming” here is the one he had just described. Which is after the tribulation when he comes in judgment (Matt. 24:29-31). Not a secret rapture.
Concerning that “day,” the day of his coming, a day of judgment, he goes on to say:
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” verses 3,4.
The full preterists say the opposite. The rebellion and the antichrist came first, then came the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto him. They have the rebellion, the antichrist, and our gathering unto Christ as past events, not future, Having already taken place about two thousand years ago.
Likewise, the pre-tribs on FR choose to be deceived, which Paul clearly warns against, teaching that Christ comes first (in an alleged pretrib rapture), and NOT THE ANTICHRIST as Paul clearly says.
The apostle Paul says the rebellion and antichrist comes first, and we should not be deceived on this by any means.
At the church I attend, we are in the middle of a 5 week study on Thessalonians II. Prior to that we went thru First Thessalonians.
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Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him...
There's much Jewish commentary since forever about the opening of Genesis chapter 49, when Jacob told his sons to gather around so he could inform them of the 'end times' (the ketz, end).
The problem is... what intel? He didn't seem to say anything about the end times. Thus opinions go along the lines of:
He knew the time was going to very very long, so he didn't want to demoralize them, or
the Shekinah departed from him, or
he spoke in code, concealing the information within the blessings.
Here's a good article on the topic.
It's really easy to get bogged down in the minutia, but the word from the top (Da Capo, so to speak) is
1. And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days:
2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen to Israel your father:
3. See a son...
It's pretty simple really.
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