I WISH WE’D ALL BEEN READY

I WISH WE’D ALL BEEN READY

I WISH WE’D ALL BEEN READY
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
STILL Waiting On Jesus – Part 4

vv. 1b–2 “… we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed … that the day of the Lord has come.” (esv)

Mark 13.7 “… when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.” (esv) 

WHAT TIMELINE DO WE NEED?

NOW IS THE TIME OF Restraint

v. 7 “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work …” (niv)

1 John 4.3 “This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.” (esv)

v. 7 “… he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.” (esv) 

v. 6 “And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.” (csb)

THERE WILL COME A TIME OF Rebellion  

v. 3 “… that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed …” (esv)

LED BY A Man Claiming To Be God

v. 4 “… [he] exalts himself … so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.” (esv)

FUELED BY Satan Doing Wonders

v. 9 “… is based on Satan’s working, with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie …” (csb)

EMBRACED BY A World Embracing Deception

v. 10 “… they refused to love the truth and so be saved.” (esv)

Matthew 24.12 “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.” (esv)

v. 12 “… who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 

THAT WILL END ON A DAY OF Resolution

John 18.37 “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth.” (esv)

v. 3 “… the man doomed to destruction …” (esv)

v. 8 “… whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.” (esv)

v. 1 “… the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him …” (esv)