2 Thessalonians 2 – Friday, July 18, 2008
2 Thessalonians 2
4 – Anti Christ Exalts Himself Over Everything
4He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
Notes: The anti Christ will go against the concept of grace and will institute a doctrine of works and merit. Basically he will be diametrically opposite and contrary to Christ. Possibly even a female (opposite of a man)…Ha!
10-12 – God Sends Them A Delusion So They Believe The Lie
10…They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Notes: God will partly deny His grace or withhold His light and knowledge to those who refused to love Him. He will harden their hearts and give them up to judicial blindness. You better believe that this is already happening. People call things that are evil (sex, homosexuality, drunkenness) good and call what is good (speaking out against sin) evil.
13 – God Chose Us To Be Saved “From The Beginning”
13But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you[b] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
Notes: Predestination – We are not elected of God because we are holy, but that we might be holy. He choose us before the beginning of the world. He choose or decided that we would be saved by Christ’s death and belief in Him.
16-17 – We Need The Lord To Encourage And Strengthen Us In Actions And Words
16May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
17encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
Notes: Christ must be honored by our good works and good words and true believers, those truly saved, will absolutely do both. In the Lord’s glory we can gain our source of hope for comfort until our holiness and happiness is complete.
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