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1 | the meaning of the rebellion | 2 Thess 2:1 | Jimna | 154468 | ||
Thanks for your reply! Verse 1 states the subject -- with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, So do we agree that the subject is the return of Christ and our gathering back to Him? The next verse continues the sentence as indicated by the comma at the end of the first verse Verse 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. This equates the gathering back to Christ as the Day of the Lord. Yes? Verse 3 continues expanding on Paul's effort to explain the Gathering Back to Christ on the Day of the Lord. Clearly stated is that the apostasy must come first, then the man of lawlessness is revealed. So whatever the word apostasy might mean in this context, it comes before the man of sin is revealed, which comes before Christ returns and gathers us back to Him. Paul says in short, First the apostasy (falling away), then the abomination of desolation, then the gathering back (rapture if you like). I understand what you are saying though that this then would allow us to know the day and the hour of His return contrary to the Gospel. This might be resolved by "but for the sake of His elect that time will be forshortened" leaving us knowing the season, but not the day or the hour. |
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