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Importance of 1 Thessalonians?
It contains Scripture’s most important and extended passage on the Rapture.
What three passages promise that we will escape the wrath to come?
1 Thess. 1:9-10 ♦1 Thess. 5:9 ♦Romans 5:9
This passage speaks of the implications concerning a Pre-trib Rapture:
1 Thess 1:10♦At the Rapture, Christ will Rescue from wrath. - “Even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”♦This “wrath to come” speaks specifically about the coming 7 year period commonly known as the Great Tribulation.
What is the meaning of the word, “prevent”?
Go before or precede
What is the meaning of the word, rapture?
Caught up
Recite Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
7 Things from 1 Thessalonians 4 that are God’s Will For Us:
♦Live in sexual purity♦♦Do not defraud others (cheat or take advantage of another) ♦♦Do not despise others - To despise Man is to despise God♦♦Love the brethren♦♦Do not talk too much♦♦Stay out of other people’s business.♦♦Supply our own needs by honest work.
How can we live in sexual purity?
♦By controlling our bodies♦♦By controlling our desires♦We accomplish this by the second step in God’s Will from 1 Thessalonians 4
We may defraud someone sexually by …
stirring desires which cannot be righteously fulfilled - by seductively clothing, words, or actions.
We are not to sit on a hill awaiting …
Christ’s return. We are to be busy serving the Master and providing for our families and the Lord’s work
How does the doctrine of Christ’s Imminent Return affect the Rapture?
If Christ were not to Rapture the saints until the middle or the end of the 7 year Tribulation then His coming would not be imminent (any moment).
Subtitle of 2 Thessalonians?
The Coming of Christ and Anti-Christ
Author of 2 Thessalonians?
The Apostle Paul
Background and Occasion of Writing of 2 Thessalonians:♦Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians to straighten the Thessalonians out on the __________.
Rapture
Background and Occasion of Writing of 2 Thessalonians:♦Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians to straighten the Thessalonians out on the __________.
2nd Coming
Word hadn’t reached Paul that the Thessalonians were experiencing these three problems.
♦They were continuing to suffer persecution.♦♦They were being Misled into believing that they were now enduring the Tribulation and had somehow missed out on the Rapture. A false letter, purportedly from Paul, claimed that the Day of the Lord had begun.♦♦They were becoming idle because they believed Christ would return at any moment and they were simply waiting until He arrived.
Content of 2 Thessalonians: ♦2 Thessalonians…
Encourages Suffering Saints. Explains the day of the Lord and Exhorts Sinning Saints
Content of 2 Thessalonians:♦Warren Wiersbe writes
The purpose of Bible Prophecy is not for us to make a calendar, but to build character. Paul emphasized this fact in both of this Thessalonians letters…Someone had deceived the believers into thinking they were already living in the Day of the Lord (the Tribulations). The teaching probably first came through a prophetic utterance…and then…by a letter claiming to come from Paul himself…To calm their hearts and stabilize their faith, Paul explained himself…To calm their hears and stabilize their faith, Paul explained that they were not in the Day of the Lord….that day could not arrive till certain other events had taken place. Paul then stated for them the prophetic events that make up God’s time table.
Content of 2 Thessalonians: ♦J. Vernon McGee writes
There was circulating in the Thessalonian church a letter or report, purported to have come from Paul…This false report claimed that Christ had already come…These people were being persecuted…they were suffering…it was easy for them to believe that they had entered the Great Tribulation…
Key Word of 2 Thessalonians?
The Day of Christ
Theme of 2 Thessalonians?
A Proper Understanding of the Day of Christ
Date and Place of Writing of 2 Thessalonians?
AD 51. It was written a few months after 1 Thessalonians from the city of Corinth.
Importance of 2 Thessalonians?
♦It contains one of the New Testament’s 2 most extended and important descriptions of the Anti-Christ♦♦It contains one of the most important pre-tribulational Rapture passages in Scripture.
In the Rapture Christ comes in the AIR while in the Second Coming Christ comes …
to the ground