The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

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The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

• Facing the Flame

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Pastoral Epistles
Prophetic Epistles
Prison Epistles
Foundational Epistles
1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus
1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians
Ephesians Philippians Colossians Philemon
Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians
Christ the congregation
Christ second coming
Christ the church
Christ the cross
Ecclesiological
Eschatological
Christological
Soteriological
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Thessalonica ?
ASIA MINOR
GREECE
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A Promise of Relief to those under present
Persecution
Chapter 1

• The persevering faith and love of the
  Thessalonian church (12-4).
• A promise of affliction to those who are
  afflicting (15-8)
• Pauls prayer for the Thessalonians (19-10)

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2 Thessalonians 111-12

• 11 To this end also we pray for you always that
  our God may count you worthy of your calling, and
  fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of
  faith with power 12 in order that the name of
  our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you
  in Him, according to the grace of our God and the
  Lord Jesus Christ.

Glorified
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A Promise of Relief to those under present
Persecution
Chapter 1

• A Dangerous Deception (21-2).
• The Man of Sin (23-12)

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2 Thessalonians 23-4

• 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will
  not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the
  man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of
  destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself
  above every so-called god or object of worship,
  so that he takes his seat in the temple of God,
  displaying himself as being God.

Day of the Lord

• First
• The apostasy
• The Man of sin

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2 Thessalonians 26-7

• 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that
  in his time he may be revealed.
• 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at
  work only he who now restrains will do so until
  he is taken out of the way.

Day of the Lord

• First
• The apostasy
• The Man of sin

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2 Thessalonians 28-10

• 8 And then that lawless one will be revealed
  whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His
  mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of
  His coming 9 that is, the one whose coming is in
  accord with the activity of Satan, with all power
  and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the
  deception of wickedness for those who perish,
  because they did not receive the love of the
  truth so as to be saved.

Day of the Lord

• First
• The apostasy
• The Man of sin

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2 Thessalonians 211-12

• 11 And for this reason God will send upon them a
  deluding influence so that they might believe
  what is false, 12 in order that they all may be
  judged who did not believe the truth, but took
  pleasure in wickedness.

Day of the Lord

• First
• The apostasy
• The Man of sin

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Identity of the Man of Sin

• Roman Emperor Caligula
• Ordered a statue of himself placed in the temple
  in Jerusalem
• Roman General Titus
• Destroyed the temple in Jerusalem
• Roman Emperor Trajan
• Built a pagan temple on the site of the temple
• Roman Catholic Church
• Pope is said to be the Vicar of Christ
• Future fulfillment?

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A Promise of Relief to those under present
Persecution
Chapter 1

• A Dangerous Deception (21-2).
• The Man of Sin (23-12)

• Thanksgiving for Gods gracious choice (213-17)

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A Promise of Relief to those under present
Persecution
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
A Warning of troubles that must precede the day
of the Lord
What we are to believe regarding the future
How we are to live in the present

• A Call to Prayer (31-5).
• A Call to Separation from Unruliness (36-15)
• Closing Benedictions (316-18)

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