Chapter 2

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STUDY

• What deception were the Thessalonians under?

• What comes before Jesus returns?

• What is the character of this "son of destruction"?

• How will Jesus kill him?

• Under whose influence is this "son of destruction"?

• What will this person do to deceive those who are perishing on earth?

APPLICATION

• What are you thoughts on the "son of destruction"?  What are you going to do to help the people around you not be deceived by Him?

• If you are saved, give thanks to God for His grace and mercy.

PRUNING ME

    I am just going to copy and paste verses 3-12.  I think everyone should read this passage about Jesus' return.  Before this happens however, there is one who comes to deceive those who are perishing.

³  Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. ⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ⁶ And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. ⁹ The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,¹⁰ and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹ Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹² in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• Leanne