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Text -- 2 Thessalonians 2:3-17 (NET)
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Context
2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way . For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed , the son of destruction .
2:4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship , and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple , displaying himself as God .
2:5 Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you .
2:6 And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time .
2:7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work . However , the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,
2:8 and then the lawless one will be revealed , whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival .
2:9 The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders ,
2:10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing , because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved .
2:11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false .
2:12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned .
Call to Stand Firm
2:13 But we ought to thank God always for you , brothers and sisters loved by the Lord , because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth .
2:14 He called you to this salvation through our gospel , so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ .
2:15 Therefore , brothers and sisters , stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter .
2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father , who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope ,
2:17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Antichrist |
MAN OF SIN |
THESSALONIANS, THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, I-V |
Reprobacy |
Jesus, The Christ |
Miracles |
Truth |
PAROUSIA |
Sanctification |
Call |
Wicked |
Perseverance |
Trinity |
Contingencies |
TRINE IMMERSION; TRIUNE IMMERSION |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X |
Tradition |
MYSTERY |
Apostasy |
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NET Notes: 2Th 2:7 Grk “the one who restrains.” This gives a puzzling contrast to the impersonal phrase in v. 6 (“the thing that restrains”). The...
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NET Notes: 2Th 2:8 ‡ Several important witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western traditions, as well as many other witnesses, read ᾿Ιησο...
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NET Notes: 2Th 2:12 Grk “be judged,” but in this context the term clearly refers to a judgment of condemnation (BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5...
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NET Notes: 2Th 2:13 ‡ Several mss (B F G P 0278 33 81 323 1739 1881 al bo) read ἀπαρχήν (aparchn, “as a first fruit”...
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NET Notes: 2Th 2:14 That you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. For Paul the ultimate stage of salvation is glorification (Rom 8:30).
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