Things To Come

Read II Thessalonians 1:5-2:12

  1. Do you believe that Jesus will come back to earth? How and why?
  1. Do you believe in the antichrist as a real person or is it just a concept of evil?
  1. Do you believe in a real hell? Who goes there and why?
  1. This portion of II Thess. is a quick synopsis of what will take place at the return of Jesus. Why do you think Paul wrote this to them?
  1. Do you find the study of the end times a waste of time or just a nice to know?
  1. Do you think these things will take place in our time?

Bonus question: Who do you think the antichrist is?

II Thessalonians 1:5-2:12

5 ¶ For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,

6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to those who trouble you,

7 and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,

8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

9 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

10 when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.

11 ¶ Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 ¶ Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

3 ¶ Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?

6 And now you know what holds him back, for him to might be revealed in his own time.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,

9 whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,

12 so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.