Sermon: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; "The End Times - Satan's Paradise"
Date: January 4, 2015
Pastor: Michael Howard


Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17

1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered
to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,
2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly
from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting
that the day of the Lord has already come.
3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come
until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the
man doomed to destruction.
4 He 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.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these
things?
6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed
at the proper time.
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who
now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will
overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his
coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works.
He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that
serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are
perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be
saved.
11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will
believe the lie
12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but
have delighted in wickedness.

13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by
the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the
sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings
we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and
by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.



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