No I didn’t stop too soon. Let NO man deceive you. These verses are very explicit and very clear. There is no possible way to misunderstand unless you just want to hang on to your doctrine vs what is plainly here in Scripture.
I’m going with not being deceived. At least with this. I get deceived enough. No hard feelings my FRiend. I want us all to end up in the same place, Heaven. One thing I’ve learned in the last few years, especially the last year, we need to be ready for our time could be now.
My FReind, you took me up on a relatively minor point about when scripture says this Wicked world ruler will appear. Now you’re answering with an issue about needing to be ready at any time for Jesus appearance. So it seems you’re confusing the subject of our discussion.
The first point, the subject of the discussion about this coming world ruler, is we’re never told to look for him. Rather scripture constantly tells us to look to Jesus and wait patiently for his appearing.
The second thing that you now bring up is, yes, Jesus can come at any time. But if you read 1 & 2 Thessalonians carefully, you’ll see the constant theme of COMFORT regarding Jesus coming and the end times. God does NOT want you to be afraid. If you’re a believer you have nothing to fear - you ARE ready because God has made you the righteousness of God in Christ through Jesus’ death for you on the cross (2 Cor 5:21) and your sins, past, present, and future will never be counted against you (Rom 4:7-8; Heb 8:12, 10:17).
I’ll see you then. :)