Be Ready Gods Timetables II Thess. 2:112

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Be ReadyGods TimetablesII Thess. 21-12
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• The purpose of the prophecy is to build
  character, not to set up the date
• Paul attempted to calm the Christians in
  Thessalonica by explaining they werent in the
  Day of the Lord for certain events have to happen
  before the Day of the Lord
• Rapture of the Church (21, 6-7)
• 21 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
  of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering
  unto Him (Italics bold my emphasis)
• One great event, the rapture that will occur
  suddenly and without warning

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• Once the church is out of the way, satan will
  start his programs on the earth and God will show
  His righteous judgments.
• Satan cant show his man of sin now
• , only he who now letteth will let, until he be
  taken out of the way (7)
• Let means to hinder, prevent, or restrain
• Satan cant do what he pleases or want now
• the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain (Ps
  1710)
• Restrainer is helping keeping everything on
  schedule
• Who is the restrainer who is at work and will
  continue to control evil until he is taken out of
  the way?
• The Holy Spirit
• When the Holy Spirit is out of the place or
  midst, then the mystery of iniquity begins.

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• Revelation of the Anitichrist (23-5, 8a)
• When the restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit
  ends, then the antichrist appears.
• John used antichrist in his writing, but not
  Paul. He used that man of sin (3), the son of
  perdition (3), and that lawless one (8)
• Greek prefix anti has two meaning against and
  instead of. Satan opposes Jesus and wants to be
  worshipped and served as God.
• Description of the Antichrist in the last days
• Peacemaker (Rev. 61-2)
• He will be a peaceful political leader who will
  unites 10 European nations into a strong power
• The rider on the white horse imitates Christ and
  conquers peacefully. He has the bow, but no
  arrow. He will bring a short period of peace (I
  Thess 51-3) before the judgments start

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• Protector (Daniel 9 24-27)
• The prophecy applies to Israel, Jerusalem, and
  temple, not church and announce the time when
  Messiah comesand accomplish certain purposes for
  the Jews
• The word week refers to 7-year period
• 70 weeks 490 years
• 7 weeks or 49 years the rebuilding of the city
  or Jerusalem
• 62 weeks or 434 years - at the end the Messiah
  come the first time and be cut off
• 1 week or 7 years a prince would have a
  covenant with Israel
• Two princes Christ, the Messiah (Dan. 925) and
  Antichrist, the prince that shall come (926)
• The people of the prince that shall come are the
  Romans who destroyed the temple in 70 AD.
  Antichrist belongs to a nation which was a part
  of old Roman Empire.
• A parenthesis between 69th and 70th weeks We are
  living in the parenthesis
• 69th week ended with the ministry of Jesus Christ
  70th week begins with the coming of the
  antichrist

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• Antichrist will protect Israel through the
  covenant for 7 years He will temporarily solve
  Middle East crisis. Israel will build the temple
  in a peaceful time.
• Peacebreaker (Daniel 927)
• After 3 ½ years Antichrist will break the
  covenant with Israel and takes over the temple to
  show that he is God (23)
• Falling away (23b) means rebellion, apostasy
• The man of sin will oppose everything that
  belongs to any religion, true or false
• Persecutor (Rev. 13 15-17)
• The abomination of desolation happens in the
  midst of the week (3 ½ years)
• A period of intense persecution and tribulation
• Matt 24 21 for there shall be a great
  tribulation
• Antichrist will control the economic system that
  the citizens must have the mark of the beast,
  666 so they can buy and sell (Rev. 7 9-17)
• Will anyone be saved during the seven-year period?

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• Rev. 71-8 mentions 144,000 Jews will be saved
  and preach the gospel to the nations
• A great numbers of Gentiles will be saved during
  the great tribulation (Rev. 79-17)
• However, many believers will refuse to bow to the
  beast and have the mark 666 . They will be
  slain.
• Prisoner (Rev. 19 11-21)
• Satan will not be permitted to rule the world
  forever
• Jesus will return in power and great glory and
  put Satan, Antichrist and false prophet into the
  bottomless pit (Rev. 201-3)
• The Armageddon (Rev. 1616)
• Return of Jesus Christ (28-12)
• His return to the earth in glory and judgment. It
  happens at the end of the 7-year Tribulation
  period when the antichrist will war against
  Christ in the battle of Armageddon

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• Meeting Jesus in the air (rapture) differs from
  Christs return to the earth in power and glory
  (Matt 2430)
• The first event is secret while the second event
  is public when the church will returns with Him
  to defeat Satan and his hosts.
• His judgment of the Antichrist (28-9)
• Nobody can beat the antichrist for Satan has
  given him the power
• False messiah will perform power and signs and
  lying wonders (29)
• Satan has always been imitator (2 Cor. 1113-15)
• False Christians who are really the children of
  the devil
• Miracles alone never prove that a man is sent by
  God his message and character must also be
  considered
• Purpose of Gods miracles was to lead people to
  the truth while the purpose of antichrists
  miracles will lead them to believe his lies

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• When Jesus Christ returns, He will judge
  antichrist by the spirit of His mouth and the
  brightness of His coming (8)
• consume and destroy do not mean annihilate
  because Rev. 2010 reveals that Satan and his
  associates will be tormented in the lake of fire.
  
• His judgment of the unsaved (210-12)
• A large number of Jews and Gentiles will be
  saved, but still a large majority will be lost.
  Many will die in judgment God will send on earth
  (Rev. 67-8, 811, 918, 1113) Others will
  perish when Jesus returns and separates the saved
  from the lost (Matt. 25 31-46)
• A person can resist the truth that he finally
  becomes deluded and has to believe a lie
• Lie? An Idea that man is his own god and
  therefore he can do whatever he pleases and
  improve himself by his human efforts (Rom.
  118ff)
• Why lie? Mans pride (2 Tim 2 24-26)

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• God made man in His own image originally, but man
  is making god in his own image
• The people who God will judge will not only hate
  the truth, but they will have pleasure in
  unrighteousness (12)
• The human heart become harder each time the
  sinner rejects Gods truth. However, it makes it
  easier to believe Satans lies.
• Receive the Word of God not as the word of men,
  but as it is in truth, the word of God. (1Thess.
  213)