506 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 43 - Paul’s Glimpse Of Prophecy - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 43 Paul’s Glimpse at Prophecy - Part 2 II Thessalonians 1:1-2:4 I want to keep it totally neutral, and simply teach the Word as we feel the Holy Spirit has led us to teach it. We’re finding out from every denominational background imaginable that people know so little of the Scriptures. We discussed at the close of the last lesson how Paul comes the closest to bringing in a little bit of the Old Testament prophecy concerning the wrath and the vexation, or the Day of the Lord as we pointed out several programs back. So here in verse 8 Paul is alluding to that Old Testament format of the Day of the Lord, when He will come and take vengeance on them that don’t know God. II Thessalonians 1:8-9 "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" II Thessalonians 1:9a "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,… Being separated from the Lord is what is going to make eternity for the lost so awful. Verse 10. II Thessalonians 1:10 None of Paul’s little congregations were thousands of people, they were relatively, small with most of them meeting in homes. Now then verse 11. II Thessalonians 1:11 The supernatural miracles were that these pagans could come out of their idolatry and their worship of the gods and goddesses and place their faith in Paul’s Gospel. II Thessalonians 1:12 "That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." Now these people didn’t deserve God’s Grace any more than you or I do, but it was the Grace of God that was poured out on these pagan Thessalonians in that they became believers and were transformed and became then a tremendous witness and testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. II Thessalonians 2:1 "Now we beseech you, brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, (now the next part of the verse is a direct departure of him alluding to the Second Coming as all of the Old Testament does. We’re also not talking about Christ coming in wrath and attending judgment, but instead for us. Now reading verse 1 again. II Thessalonians 2:1 "Now we beseech you, brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him." Now verse 2. II Thessalonians 2:2 So Paul had to put up with that, so he’s telling these Thessalonians, "Don’t pay any attention to a forged letter as from us) as that the day of (the Lord) Christ is at hand." The Day of the Lord is the day of wrath, and vexation and judgments and the horrors of the Tribulation, ending with Christ’s Second Coming to the Mount of Olives, Whereas the "Day of Christ" is what we call the Rapture, the resurrection day for the Church. So Paul says,"be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled," What is Paul implying here? The Lord came. Well the Thessalonians were in this same situation, they thought the Lord had come, and they’d missed the Rapture. II Thessalonians 2:3a Because Paul says, "The Day of the Lord cannot happen until: II Thessalonians 2:3b Also the Greek word ‘aphistaymi’ has the little Greek letter ahead of it that indicates the article "the." So the Greek implies "The Departure." II Thessalonians 2:3a "Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day (of the Lord, the Day of Judgment the Day of Wrath. Remember we saw last month in our four programs that back in I Thessalonians Paul told us we’re not appointed to wrath. I Thessalonians 5:9 "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," II Thessalonians 2:3b "and that man of sin be revealed,…" I always have to qualify the word ‘antichrist,’ it does not mean the man who is against Christ, as that is our normal interpretation. But the term antichrist means the "counterfeit Christ, and the world is going to buy that. The True Christ! I John 2:18 "Little children, (remember John like Peter writes primarily to Jews who will be in the Tribulation. Now flip over to chapter 4:3. I John 4:3 Well Satan is! It’s satanic power, and so the antichrist is consequently then called these other terms, and as we see in the last verse we studied in II Thessalonians chapter 2, he’s also called, "the son of perdition." II Thessalonians 2:3b "and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." We can’t just pull these things out of the woodwork, and you just can’t hopscotch through Scripture, but if you’ll come back to Daniel, who the Lord Jesus Himself, called a prophet. Matthew 24:15 So in our next program we will go back and see from the prophet Daniel the very first portion of Scripture that delineates one man as becoming the great world ruler, the man of sin. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible